Go Green in Your Lawn and Garden This Summer

Looking for tips on how to save time, money, and the planet while disposed to your backyard and garden this summer? Check out EPA's new GreenScapes display at the U.S. Botanic Garden's summer exhibition "One Planet--Ours," which opens to the accessible on Saturday, May 24. EPA's alfresco display showcases backyard and garden affliction practices that are simple on the ambiance and on your wallet.

-- Summer is the absolute time to amalgamate a blooming deride with a blooming lifestyle. By afterward these simple tips, homeowners can save time and money, and advance the bloom and actualization of their backyard and garden.

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·         Mow consistently and leave the clippings on the backyard - the clippings will recycle into "free fertilizer."
·         Water deeply, but infrequently, to anticipate backyard ache and save water.
·         Mulch annual and vegetable beds with admixture or grass clippings to conserve baptize and ascendancy weeds.
·         Identify bugs afore you spray, annihilate or barge - a lot of bugs are acceptable bugs, not pests.
·         Consider burying built-in copse and plants, abnormally ones with berries, fruits and flowers to allure birds, butterflies, and added wildlife into your yard.

For added advice on greenscaping, analysis out EPA's GreenScapes Web site. It includes a melancholia tips agenda on mural aliment and a announcement that provides cost-efficient and environmentally affable solutions for all-embracing landscapers and homeowners.

EPA's GreenScapes affiliation affairs is advised to advice bottle accustomed assets and anticipate decay and abuse by auspicious companies, government agencies, and added entities to accomplish added holistic decisions apropos decay bearing and disposal, and the use of the land, water, pesticides, and energy.

EPA's GreenScapes Seasonal Planning Calendar: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/green/homeown/calendar.htm

GreenScaping: The Easy Way To a Greener, Healthier Yard: http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/green/owners.htm

More advice on GreenScapes: http://www.epa.gov/greenscapes