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Green Tip Tuesday: Greener Gardening For Spring
The snow has melted and it's time to get busy in the yard. This year, why not try to be as green as possible in your garden-growing? With help from TreeHugger and others, we've compiled a list of easy, money-saving green gardening tips.
- Are slugs destroying your flowers and other plants? Use beer in shallow bowls or sprinkle crushed egg shells or oat bran on the ground to get of the slugs before resorting to more costly and harmful chemicals.
- If you've got aphids, ladybugs are considered one of the best -- and most green solutions out there. You can even buy them in bulk to release in your garden! And of course, ladybugs are very earth-friendly. If you don't want to buy ladybugs for your garden, try attracting them by planting "fennel, dill, cilantro, caraway, tansy, wild carrot & yarrow... and scented geraniums."
- Watering your lawn or plants at night or in the early morning means less water evaporates, which is good for your plants -- and your water bill.
- Try to pull your weeds, rather than spraying with weed-killer. Hey, as an added bonus, all that bending will be a great work-out!
- Last but not least, compost, compost, compost. It's free, it's waste-reducing, and it's great for the earth. In next week's Green Tip Tuesday, we'll be talking more in-depth about the particulars of composting, so be sure to tune in.
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