{"id":97122,"date":"2025-06-13T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/?p=97122"},"modified":"2025-06-12T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:00:12","slug":"yardscaping-is-your-lawn-truly-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/?p=97122","title":{"rendered":"Yardscaping-Is your lawn truly green?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reprinted with permission from an enewsletter published by Maine Representative James White.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

An attractive, carpet-like lawn adds value and enjoyment to any home; however, these benefits can come with a cost to the environment.  Lawn care practices can impact water quality.  At risk are lakes, streams, and eventually the ocean — the send point of all watersheds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pursuit of the “perfect” lawn now drives many homeowners to use an unprecedented volume of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, fertilizers, and herbicide-fertilizer combinations known as weed and feed products.  This offers little or no benefit to turf.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By applying horticultural knowledge instead of pesticides and fertilizers, YARDSCAPING practices can create quality turf that delivers recreational and eye-pleasing benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

YARDSCAPING\u00a0is not about using good chemicals instead of bad ones.\u00a0 YARDSCAPERS, conversely, put\u00a0to work horticultural principles that deliver robust turf and landscapes that demand less of any product! \u00a0You can too by following the practices outlined in the publication\u00a0Is Your Lawn Truly Green? \u00a0Sage Advice from Top Northeast Experts (PDF)<\/a>. For more information about Maine YARDSCAPING, please click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An attractive, carpet-like lawn adds value and enjoyment to any home; however, these benefits can come with a cost to the environment.  Lawn care practices can impact water quality.  At risk are lakes, streams, and eventually the ocean — the send point of all watersheds. The pursuit of the “perfect” lawn now drives many homeowners … Continue reading “Yardscaping-Is your lawn truly green?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,218],"tags":[59,206,586,585],"post_folder":[505],"class_list":["post-97122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-resources-for-granges-and-grangers","tag-agriculture-2","tag-grange-advocacy","tag-lawncare","tag-yardscaping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Walter Boomsma","author_link":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/?author=2122"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"An attractive, carpet-like lawn adds value and enjoyment to any home; however, these benefits can come with a cost to the environment.  Lawn care practices can impact water quality.  At risk are lakes, streams, and eventually the ocean — the send point of all watersheds. The pursuit of the “perfect” lawn now drives many homeowners…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1arC1-pgu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97122"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainestategrange.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=97122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}