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Many gardeners today have made the switch from chemical-based to organic green lawn care products. There are many reasons to why you should switch to organic lawn care. Switching is not difficult to do at all; it’s really just a matter of making up your mind. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits to you by doing so.

Good to the Environment

Switching to organic lawn care fertilizer is one of the most beneficial reasons to switch. It is much more environmentally friendly. Chemical-based products are damaging your plants and the environment every time you use them. Organic lawn care fertilizers protect the environment and help keep the world you live in healthy and clean.

Good on your Budget

Why would you use something that is: a. not good for the environment and b. more expensive? Going green is more cost-effective to you! For the most part, organic lawn care products are the same price if not cheaper than their chemical-based competition. Over a period of time as your lawn care adds up you will see how much you are saving yourself.

You are also improving your soil structure by using organic. You are just juicing up your lawn with unsustainable top growth through synthetic fertilizers. A lawn is only as good as its soil underneath it. So, get your soil tested. The results will provide you with answers to what the soil needs, so that you can put money into the materials necessary. You will be able to develop a fertilization plan around what the soil is deficient in. There are many organic fertilizers out there that provide many of the same nutrients as chemical fertilizers. It will save you money in the long run.

Good and Safe

Organic lawn care is safer for you to use. When using chemical fertilizers you have to be careful and worry about spilling it or having your children or pets around it. But, organic fertilizers are completely natural and you will never have to worry about the damage chemicals could do.

Less Waste

One of the biggest problems with chemical lawn fertilizers is their “kill everything” approach. They will often kill things like unwanted dandelions and ants, but they will also kill helpful organisms such as earthworms, bees and beneficial microorganisms. If your lawn was made of up 50% weeds, then you would still poison the soil in the remaining 50% with unnecessary chemicals. With organic lawn fertilizers, there is no concern for toxic runoffs.

Bio-Degradable

Man-made chemicals are much harder to dissipate, and often form more potent by-products in the process. Chemicals react with our planet in very unnatural ways; therefore organic products are better for the earth.
Organic fertilizers are widely available and are not hard to find in stores so this is nothing to have to worry about if switching to organic lawn care.

If you would like more information on how to implement an organic lawn care google natural lawn fertilizers for a variety of natural organic lawn care tips and strategies.

Author Bio: Eric Winston is a lawn expert with BUR-HAN Lawn Care, a Vancouver organic lawn care company. For more great tips please visit their website at http://www.bur-han.ca

Absolutely without question it just seems that we tend to collect a lot of us., and our lives also create a law to waste. This fact is never more obvious than when you are packing up all of your closets and cupboards and drawers getting ready for a big move. In this year alone, more than 4 million Canadians will pack up their entire households for a big move. If you’re among all of those people that are can I be transitioning this year, please consider the environment and choose as many environmentally friendly options as possible.

Moving environmentally friendly doesn’t mean that you have to get horses and wagons and wrap all of your furniture up in old dusty blankets and pack all of your boxes with old newspapers and transport everything across the country in three months camping along the way.

Environmentally green moves just mean to be an aware of your environment and choosing methods which are the least harmful to it. Environmentally friendly moves are a growing trend in the moving industry. It generally involves rethinking traditional methods for moving which have always been a big waste such as tossing away boxes made of cardboard and dumping bubblewrap and plastic that you use for moving your belongings. Green moving just means to rethink how you’re doing everything and look at your move through environmentally friendly glasses. It’s about making choices that you can rest comfortably with knowing that you did your part.

In the first place try not to accumulate so much stuff. When you really think about it less is better for the environment anyway, if you make that kind of a choice it also means that you have less stuff to move. The last things that you have to move also mean the last diesel that the moving trucks will have to burn to get your stuff there. Environmentally friendly moving can also be thought of in terms of how you’re going to live at your new home.

You probably want to consider holding a garage sale, or listing your items on craigslist or through websites such as eBay or giving away items to the neighbors and friends.

Most moving companies offer used or recycled cardboard cartons. Make sure your moving boxes are constructed of recycled materials. Take advantage of companies like ferguson moving and storage which offer environmentally friendly choices.

Slowdown on that bubble wrap. Most of the time bubble wrap is not necessary and you can use newspaper for the same items at a much lesser cost and its environmentally friendly. I’m not suggesting that you have to use newspapers, but recycled white newsprint instead. Old newspapers make everything dirty including your hands in everything you catch not a great choice when you’re trying to clean the house for the new owners or unpacking at your new home and then having dirty hands that you might touch the walls of the counters and have additional cleaning that will be required. Another choice is to also use up old sheets and towels for packing material these often make great stuffing areas for empty cavities that you have inboxes. These cavities must be filled anyway so items in the cartons will not move during transportation across Canada.

You also want to check out environmentally friendly products for cleaning when you’re moving out of your old house.

Ask your movers if they have environmentally friendly choices that you can select from. Ask if they’re moving blankets are made from 100% cotton which has been recycled and if they rent plastic packing crates.

Author Bio: Lorne W. MacInnes is a managing partner of Ferguson Moving & Storage Ltd which is one of the oldest Vancouver movers in the moving industry and is an expert in the Vancouver movers relocation sector. http://www.fergusonmoving.com

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