Is Your Lawn a Chemical Dumping Ground?
Frederick, MD, April 16, 2009 --(PR.com)-- With Earth Day celebrations right around the corner, many people are taking the opportunity to examine the impact their day-to-day activities have on the environment. And because the month of April also happens to be National Lawn Care Month, going green right outside their doorstep is a natural place to start.
“It really doesn’t matter whether a homeowner is taking care of their lawn themselves, or hiring a lawn care service to do it for them. The fact is you can get a lawn healthy and green without using harmful pesticides that many feel they must depend on,” says Phil Catron, owner and founder of NaturaLawn of America, the nation’s leading organic-based lawn care provider.
For starters, homeowners can switch to a lawn care service that uses organic-based fertilizers and natural controls as opposed to a company with a chemical approach that not only harms the earth’s soil and waterways, but can negatively impact human and animal health.
Testing a lawn’s soil before applying any fertilizer or control material is also critical for protecting the environment. A soil test will determine what nutrients are available or lacking in a yard and without knowing this information first, anything that gets added over and beyond what is needed will get washed away in runoff—a problem that can create algae blooms in water systems and kill off wildlife. Look for a lawn care company who insists on conducting a soil test before treatment or purchase a soil kit yourself to mail away for results.
“Our goal at NaturaLawn of America has always been, and will always be, to give people a great looking lawn all while protecting the health of the environment and the people living in it. We take our job so seriously that we even hold annual training sessions for our competitors on safer lawn care techniques,” expresses Catron. “If we have been able to reduce the usage of petroleum-based fertilizers by over 12.5 million pounds and prevent over 5 million gallons of petroleum-based pesticides from entering the environment in just five short years, then imagine the positive impact homeowners could make by switching their approach too.”
Simple practices like mowing grass high can also have a significant result. Grass that is thick and tall will naturally crowd out weeds and prevent the need for using pesticides. And because we only have this one planet to live on, let Earth Day be a reminder that there are many practical ways we can try to protect it—starting at home.
Headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, NaturaLawn of America is a national franchise company. It currently has 67 locations servicing environmentally concerned customers in 23 states. For more information, please contact NaturaLawn of America at (800) 989-5444 or visit them on the web at www.NaturaLawn.com.
For More Information
Theresa Smith
NaturaLawn of America
Phone: (800) 989-5444
marketing@naturalawn.com
www.NaturaLawn.com
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“It really doesn’t matter whether a homeowner is taking care of their lawn themselves, or hiring a lawn care service to do it for them. The fact is you can get a lawn healthy and green without using harmful pesticides that many feel they must depend on,” says Phil Catron, owner and founder of NaturaLawn of America, the nation’s leading organic-based lawn care provider.
For starters, homeowners can switch to a lawn care service that uses organic-based fertilizers and natural controls as opposed to a company with a chemical approach that not only harms the earth’s soil and waterways, but can negatively impact human and animal health.
Testing a lawn’s soil before applying any fertilizer or control material is also critical for protecting the environment. A soil test will determine what nutrients are available or lacking in a yard and without knowing this information first, anything that gets added over and beyond what is needed will get washed away in runoff—a problem that can create algae blooms in water systems and kill off wildlife. Look for a lawn care company who insists on conducting a soil test before treatment or purchase a soil kit yourself to mail away for results.
“Our goal at NaturaLawn of America has always been, and will always be, to give people a great looking lawn all while protecting the health of the environment and the people living in it. We take our job so seriously that we even hold annual training sessions for our competitors on safer lawn care techniques,” expresses Catron. “If we have been able to reduce the usage of petroleum-based fertilizers by over 12.5 million pounds and prevent over 5 million gallons of petroleum-based pesticides from entering the environment in just five short years, then imagine the positive impact homeowners could make by switching their approach too.”
Simple practices like mowing grass high can also have a significant result. Grass that is thick and tall will naturally crowd out weeds and prevent the need for using pesticides. And because we only have this one planet to live on, let Earth Day be a reminder that there are many practical ways we can try to protect it—starting at home.
Headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, NaturaLawn of America is a national franchise company. It currently has 67 locations servicing environmentally concerned customers in 23 states. For more information, please contact NaturaLawn of America at (800) 989-5444 or visit them on the web at www.NaturaLawn.com.
For More Information
Theresa Smith
NaturaLawn of America
Phone: (800) 989-5444
marketing@naturalawn.com
www.NaturaLawn.com
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