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Green Your Life
Green Your Lawn: Top 5 Ways To Green Your Lawn
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Compost! Green your garden with a compost pile. You’ll save space in the landfill and in the process, you’ll create free, healthy fertilizer for your garden. A good compost pile consists of a balance of carbon and nitrogen materials. Carbon materials include leaves, shredded cardboard, shredded newspaper, straw, pine needles. Nitrogens include materials such as grass clippings, manure (no cat or dog feces) coffee grounds and tea leaves. Check out www.mastercomposter.com for more compost ingredients and more. |
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Leave it there! Instead of bagging your lawn clippings leave them on the lawn. The clippings will naturally fertilize your yard. |
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Go Native Texan! Use native plants for landscaping. They require less water and are more tolerant to our climate. |
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Plant a tree! The shade it provides can lower your cooling bills. A single tree can absorb one ton (2,000 pounds) of carbon dioxide over its lifetime. One acre of tree cover can compensate for automobile fuel use equivalent to driving a car between 7,200 and 8,700 miles. |
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Water sparingly! Only water your lawn when it needs it, on average 1 inch every 7 to 10 days. Watch for signs of stress. Bermuda will turn a bluish color or leave imprints when you step on it. St. Augustine blades will begin to roll. Call 214-670-3155 to get a free sprinkler system inspection and find out how some Dallas residents have already saved over 29,000 gallons of water a week! |
