Daily Greenz #155

  Just because your lawn or garden is lush with vegetation doesn’t mean it’s actually green. The EPA tells us that an astounding 30% of the water Americans use is devoted to the outdoors, and more than half of that is used on lawns and gardens. Save water by fitting your garden hose with a low flow nozzle like Niagara Conservation’s 6 Position Hoze Nozzle, $9.95. But saving water isn’t the only way we can make our own backyards more eco-friendly. The millions of pounds of fertilizers and pesticides we apply to our lawns every year have the potential to pollute water when used incorrectly. And pesticides don’t discriminate – they kill all of the insects in your garden, including the beneficial ones.The National Resources Conservation Service
suggests these natural methods

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