Month: August 2017

APPENDIX to ‘Beautiful Green Grass?’

QUOTES AND DATA FROM MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES (compiled by Pat Newman, landscapeanswers.net) According to the government’s National Centers for Disease Control (CDC):  Americans alone churn through 75 million pounds of pesticides each year to keep the bugs off their pea pods and petunias. When those chemicals get into waterways, fish ingest them and become diseased. Humans Read More …

BEAUTIFUL GREEN GRASS?

by Pat Newman, landscapeanswers.net   Ahhh.  Soothing, beautiful, carpet-of-heaven, green GRASS!   Yes, it’s beautiful, but it can also be dangerous.  Dangerous to our kids. Dangerous to our pets. Dangerous to birds.  Dangerous to small animals.  Dangerous to the Chesapeake Bay and rivers and streams everywhere.   So let’s consider rethinking glorious green grass for Read More …