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THE BEST WAY TO GREEN YOUR LAWN

The best way to go green with your lawn is to remove most of your grass and plant flowers, trees, and bushes. Having less lawn and more plants eliminates the need for as much energy as you normally use on your lawn. It also enhances the asthetic beauty of your lawn.

You are using up a lot of energy cutting your lawn with your electric or gas lawn mower. If you use chemicals on your lawn you are polluting the air you breathe. If you rake up your grass and put it in the trash you are wasting potential nutrients for your soil. The grass could be recycled into compost.

In an attempt to keep perfect lawns that have no insects or weeds, we spray our lawns with harsh chemicals. You don't have to do this. You can have a beautiful scenic environment in your yard that is both environmentally safe for the air you breathe and resistant to the wrong kinds of insects. And you can easily hand weed your garden once all the right plants are growing there.

PLANNING YOUR LAWN

Why have a boring lawn when you can have a vibrant, colorful, and exciting lawn that is a lawn garden. Fill your lawn area up with beautiful flowers, trees, and shrubs.

To do this you must have a plan. To develop a plan, sit down and draw a map of your yard. Decide where you are going to plant which flowers. Decide where you are going to put shrubs or trees. Decide if your shrubs are going to be flower shrubs or leaf shrubs.

The best tree to grow in your yard is a fruit tree or more than one fruit tree. All fruit trees have beautiful flowers in the spring and will make a decorative accent to your yard environment. Fruit trees can also give you bushels of fruit - fresh fruit from your own garden. Can or freeze your fruit for the winter or eat your fruit directly from your tree.

I remember living next door to a family from Italy. The only thing that grew in their yard was beautiful rose bushes and wine grapes. I enjoyed the vines of grapes hanging over into my yard. There wasn't a stitch of grass growing in their yard and they regularly cultivated their rose bushes and grapevines.

That is one way to design a yard that serves a useful purpose - both beauty and food.

There are many books and magazines that tell you where to plant what and what plants to plant to keep away certain insects and what plants will bring the insects you love like butterflies and other beneficial insects.

Bees are very beneficial and are responsible for the pollination of most plants. Bees help to make a better

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