If you have a lawn, check out Out of fashion: Green lawns at USA Today.
The chemical 2,4-D is a primary ingredient in many common home-use herbicides and I always figured that it must be safe. This morning, I was disturbed to find this on OSHA’s Occupational Safety and Health Guideline for 2,4-D (DICHLOROPHENOXYACETIC ACID):
Personal Hygiene Procedures
If 2,4-D contacts the skin, workers should immediately wash the affected areas [...]
My venture into natural lawn care has produced a beautiful lawn, far exceeding my expectations. Let me tell you what I have done and then relate a funny (but true) story from Wednesday evening.
I had a soil analysis performed by the University of Missouri extension and, while waiting for the results, I applied some [...]
We have several “tufts” of tall-grass around the edge of our patio. Last year, I tried letting it go au naturel, which is a technical term meaning: I let it be and didn’t tend it at all. I didn’t like that. It looked scraggly pretty much all the time. So this year, I went back [...]
I’ve got over 7,300 square feet of grass outside my house. Who knew? Not me, that’s for sure!
Yesterday, I picked up a bag of Concern Weed Prevention Plus from Worm’s Way in Olivette, MO. I did that because, almost a year ago, our lawn care company stopped showing up to care [...]
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