One way to go green or live green without making too much of a sacrifice or change in your lifestyle is by taking care of your lawn in the right way. When I say “the right way” I mean in a way that not only saves and protects the environment, but is also healthier for your lawn to begin with anyway.

I need you to look at lawn care in a different way than you are used to. I need you to look at you nice lawn but see it three years from now. You see, let’s assume your lawn is in terrible shape right now, well, you can’t just expect that it will be perfect and green in less than one season. In fact, if you follow my lawn care schedule, you will be able to get your lawn healthy in just about 3 years and you won’t destroy the environment or your soil in the process.

What I espouse is a system of lawn and garden care known as “Integrated Pest Management.” IPM is a philosophy whereby you only eliminate pests (such as weeds and insects) in areas where their numbers require treatment in order to protect crops. In this case, our crop is “grass.”

The good thing about grass is that it is forgiving and can take a lot of stress so IPM techniques work really well. We start out with some heavy but targeted pesticide usage and scale that back as we use good, organic fertilizers to thicken and stabilize the turf. It sound complicated but it really is simple and works well. Get the book here.