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Eight organic landscape products at your local feed store
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Frustrated trying to find natural products at boutique nurseries and big-box retailers that have a patchy (kinda like your July lawn) selection of organic products...
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Thirsty front lawn? Get smart about conserving water outdoors
By Kate Nolan Green Right Now Using less water at home is a snap indoors if you have the cash. Just install modern low-flow toilets, a state-of-the-art washing machine and dishwasher and a conserving...
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Please feed the butterflies
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now We feed birds in the winter. But Americans have not been as aggressive about feeding butterflies in the summer. As butterflies lose ground to agriculture and global...
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Let’s talk dirt: Organic additions, sweat can enrich the hardest soil
By Harriet Blake Green Right Now Count yourself lucky if you live in a part of the country that has rich organic soil. Dirt in the Midwest and Mid Atlantic states tends to be easy to work with, while...
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Cornell professors offer advice for helping trees survive heat
By Brett Kessler Green Right Now This year is well on its way to becoming the hottest year the world has seen since scientists began record-keeping in 1880. According to the National Oceanic and...
View ArticleConservation Department Selling Seedlings
The Missouri Department of Conservation has a great deal for you, if you're working to increase the number of trees on your property. Frances Main, Resource Forester with the Missouri Department of...
View ArticleThinking about food at the holidays: Why not grow some of your own?
From Green Right Now Reports This week, as you express your thanks for the good food on your table, you also may want to discuss how you can assure the future of healthy food. Roger Doiron, founder of...
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Recycle your Christmas tree
From Green Right Now Reports Every year the holidays bring the same debate: Is it more eco-friendly to use a live fresh-cut evergreen or a reusable faux tree? And the answer is that the most...
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Drought-stricken trees need water during the winter
From Green Right Now Reports The Texas Drought Map for Jan. 10, 2012 shows continued dry conditions across the state. Yellow areas are rated "dry" and red areas are listed as suffering "extreme" or...
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NRDC attempts to head off ‘weed and feed’ pollution
From Green Right Now Reports Just in time for weed-and-feed season, the Natural Resources Defense Council has filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to stop the...
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5 reasons to quit using weed-and-feed chemicals
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Ah, spring. You can smell it on the air — that bracing ammonia odor wafting off your neighbor’s lawn; the acrid stench at the local home store, where the first six...
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Healthy Stuff.org (and your mom) says don’t drink from the garden hose
From Green Right Now Reports We all watch for snakes in the garden. You don’t want to be caught unaware. Garden hoses made of PVC may contain unsafe chemicals or lead. When it comes to chemical...
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DIY drip line irrigation – an efficient way to water your home vegetable or...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Drip line irrigation is a great idea for gardeners who want to save water and grow plants successfully. Our drip line system, set up at a community garden. By...
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Natural ways to reduce mosquitoes in your yard
From Green Right Now Reports With the U.S. in the grip of possibly the worst outbreak of West Nile Virus ever, people need to do all they can to avoid getting bitten by the Culex mosquito that carries...
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Keep trees healthy, prune them now; they’ll thank you later
Winter is the best time to prune trees, while they’re still dormant. Yes, it’s cold for you, the tree trimmer. But pruning in the winter is kinder to plants. It discourages sap flow from the cuts,...
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Save nature and free time — install a Pocket Prairie
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now So you’d like to go native this year, reclaim your front yard for nature and escape the servitude of mowing, weeding and fertilizing. (Photo: LBJ Wildflower Center)...
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Five safer ways to evict rodents — without poisoning them, your kids, pets or...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Some familiar rodenticides may be scurrying off the market as the EPA tries to improve the safety of pest poisons. In recent years, the agency has asked all makers...
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Let Lady Bird help you pick natives for your garden this spring
From Green Right Now Reports Lady Bird and LBJ in the wildflowers (Photo: The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.) Lady Bird Johnson, remembered for her love of Texas’ native flowers and for saving...
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What you need to know about seeds
From Green Right Now Reports Seed Savers Exchange offers a catalog of seed sources. Home gardens appear to be an unstoppable 21st Century trend, with people growing all types of edibles at every scale,...
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Austin remains at Stage 2 water restrictions
From Green Right Now Reports The city of Austin remains at Stage 2 watering restrictions. This is a conservation level at which residents may water twice a week on specified days. Water experts,...
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