Here’s ten water-saving recommendations for Santa Barbara Area gardens: #1 Zone or Cluster Plants with Similar Water Requirements By grouping plants with similar water needs, you not only can keep water to the minimum requirement, but you also don’t risk drowning plants that require only scant amounts
Read more →Americans love their lawns, but not the work needed to keep them lush. In fact, just 7 percent of adults prefer working on their lawn to other chores and activities, according to a Consumer Reports survey. Sixty-two percent said they’d rather cook, one third said they’d rather
Read more →Natural wonders abound, including the nearly miraculous complexity of a healthy soil ecosystem. In a totally natural system, the living plants growing at the site continually deposit organic material onto the surface of the soil as they shed their leaves, flowers, fruits, and even branches. Eventually, they
Read more →Wondering why you should convert to organic lawn care? Here’s a great article from Organic Gardening explaining how you can have a thick healthy lawn without polluting water, harming wildlife, and endangering the health of your family and pets. Americans spend so much money and time on their lawns,
Read more →This new “social energy” app will hopefully shine the light on energy efficiency. Facebook, Opower, and the National Resource Defense Council are partnering up to raise consumer awareness about energy efficiency. To do that, they are currently working on a “Social Energy” app, which would allow people
Read more →If your iPhone runs out of battery quite often when you are nowhere near a power source then you may find the iFan helpful. The little fan-like device is attached to the iPhone to power it with wind energy. The fan looks like a conventional PC fan, with the
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The “Chemical-Free Lawn” Project – Environment Canada Be a good neighbor! Don’t poison the soil, the water or the people in your neighborhood with chemicals. Weed & Feed and other chemical fertilizers and pesticides are not necessary and there are natural lawn care steps you can
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Summer is over and the cool weather is here, Depending on which region of the country you live in, your lawn and garden will have different needs over the next few months. Here are some useful tips that you should consider this November: Core aeration: Consider having
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