Natural mosquito control avoids toxic chemicals. You can still use (make!) mosquito repellant sprays—along with a lot more uncomplicated tactics.
Lawn and Garden
7 ideas for a sustainable, low-maintenance backyard
A sustainable, low-maintenance backyard is a place of beauty that benefits nature. It’s a great place to relax and entertain guests.
How to transform your ordinary lawn to a beautiful biodiverse lawn
A biodiverse lawn has healthier plants and soil than an ordinary lawn. It can also be less expensive and easier to take care of. Here’s how to grow one.
Lawn alternatives for a more sustainable yard
In most parts of the country, the standard turf yard is not a sustainable lawn. What attractive lawn alternatives need less water and fertilizer?
The many benefits of outdoor solar LED lights
You don’t need to invest in an entire rooftop solar system to take advantage of solar energy. Just get some outdoor solar LED lights. You can get lights with a built-in solar collector or lights with a solar panel you can mount at a distance. In that case, if you want to put lights in spots that don’t get much sunlight, you can mount the panel in a spot that does. There, it can enhance the beauty of your lawn and garden.
How to make compost at home
You can buy bags of compost, but why? It’s so easy to make compost at home. Gardeners call compost “black gold.” It creates rich humus that provides nutrients for plants and helps soil retain moisture. And it can divert as much as 30% of household waste from landfills.
What to compost at home
Do you garden? Then you need compost. You can buy it at the garden store, but why pay for what you can easily make yourself? Unfortunately, composting is not as easy as piling up all the organic matter you can find. Only a commercial composting operation can handle some of it.
Reusing greywater: benefits and problems
Greywater is used water coming from almost anywhere in your house except the toilet. Water mixed with human excrement is called blackwater. Therefore, if you wash diapers, you discharge blackwater from your washing machine for that load.
Your eco-friendly lawn and garden
If you live in a house, you have a yard to take care of, whether you own or rent it. Americans have a love affair with a lush grassy yard. In fact, counting parks and golf courses, we grow more grass than any other irrigated crop.
