Going “green” in your yard means a lot more than the color of your lawn. In fact, you may not always want your lawn to look so green! Check out these ideas to green your landscape in healthy, sustainable, environmentally friendly ways.
Spring has Sprung. A season of rebirth begins with the equinox. On this day, the sun shines directly on the equator, making the day and night almost equal. The equinox is the point at which the sun crosses the celestial equator from south to north. Spring is the season for new beginnings: farmers start planning their planting season, flowers and plants start to bloom, and many animals come out of hibernation.
Achieving and maintaining sustainable landscaping encompasses many areas and different criteria, one of them being the use of Native Plants within the landscape. Chelone Glabra is one such plant that is a native species of our growing area.
Michael Kolenut, owner of Lincoln Landscaping Inc. of Franklin Lakes has been certified as an Accredited Organic Land Care Professional by OSBORNE ORGANICS, LLC
There have been many studies done about the benefits of gardening with children with regards to a child’s development. Along with the fun of getting dirty, gardening helps children learn valuable lessons about patience as they wait for vegetables to grow, responsibility as they see how necessary their care is to the garden, and even loss when flowers die at the end of a season.
Compost Tea, in fact, is all the rave for gardeners who repeatedly attest to higher quality vegetables, flowers, and foliage. Compost tea is an aerobic water solution that has extracted the microbe population from compost along with the nutrients. In simple terms, it is a concentrated liquid created by a process to increase the numbers of beneficial organisms as an organic approach to plant/soil care. Very simply, it is a liquid, nutritionally rich, well-balanced, organic supplement made by steeping aged compost in water.
Organically Grown Lettuce grown in raised beds filled with quality compost. High quality compost comes from a carefully tended compost pile with the right mixture of brown and green matter, water, and oxygen. When all is working optimally in a pile it will reach high temperatures of 120-150F. The high heat will kill most pathogens and weed seeds, but the beneficial mycorrizhae will survive. There is a natural “cooling off” period and then the compost is “finished compost” or “humus” and can be put to use.All varieties are heirloom, some dating back to Thomas Jefferson. While leaf lettuce was eaten during Greek and Roman times, heading lettuce did not appear until the late 1500’s. Lettuce, a member of the daisy family, first became popular table fare back in Greek and Roman times.