Healthy Lawns & Removal
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Landscape professionals and scientists collaborated to develop these natural yard care practices to make it easy to have a healthy, beautiful lawn in the Pacific Northwest without pesticides, fertilizer runoff, and without wasting water. Includes how-to videos.
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General guide to having healthy lawns and gardens from Thurston County’s Public Health and Social Services.
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From Thurston County Environmental Health.
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Offers resources on maintaining a chemical-free lawn.
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Ecolawns are an alternative to perennial grass lawns that includes using a minimal inputs ground cover that can sustain typical lawn activities.
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Topics in this free publication include starting a new lawn, grasses to plants seeding recommendations, lawn maintenance, disease, insect, and weed control.
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Learn how a little water deep in the soil profile does more for grass than too much water in the surface inches.
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Find and plan the plants for your lawn and garden with this powerful resource from the Elizabeth C. Miller Garden. Includes watering guidelines, lists of drought tolerant plants (in the sun and the shade -there are lots of ideas for shade plants!), as well as lists of good pollinators, plants with striking foliage, power line-friendly trees, and much more.
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Get tips for choosing fertilizers and the best time to fertilize northwest lawns, vegetable and flower gardens, and berries with this printable pdf.
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Learn more about this chemical which is an essential plant nutrient, but also a potential pollutant from the WSU Extension Home Garden Series.
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Professor Linda Chalker-Scott dispels common myths with science-based information about fertilizers, compost and mulch ingredients, trees and shrubs, how plants work, pesticides, soil amendments, and more.
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Simple guide on how to begin sheet mulching.
