GardenSmart Oregon: a guide to non-invasive plants
Beautify your garden with native alternatives to common invasive plants. Provided by OPB.
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Shopping guide for gardeners
Sustainable living › Natural gardening › Shopping guide for gardeners
Discover consumer resources for gardeners including reviews of lawn and garden products and a guide to natural and organic products in the Metro area.
Grow Smart, Grow Safe
Like others in your community and beyond, you may enjoy the beauty and bounty that a garden offers but wonder about the effects of garden chemicals. It's a pretty serious issue. Insecticides, herbicides and other such chemicals can harm people and pets and pollute the environment. Many garden products developed in the last 60 years contain toxic ingredients that fight nature rather than work with it, altering a garden's natural balance.
Grow Smart, Grow Safe can help you garden with nature. With environmental and health ratings of 600 pesticides, fertilizers and soil amendments, this publication offers a comprehensive guide to lawn and garden products. The easy-to-use tables organize entries into categories that help you find lawn and garden products least hazardous to your pets and loved ones, wildlife, lakes, streams and groundwater. In addition, tips from regional experts offer simple ways to reduce pest problems without toxics and safely grow a productive, healthy garden.Download
Natural gardening shopper's guide
This 12-page booklet contains information on natural and organic products and where these products can be purchased in the Metro area. Download
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- Grow smart, grow safe 2.4M Adobe Acrobat PDF
- Natural gardening shopper's guide 1.1M Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published March 13, 2008
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Related Internet links
- Regional Coalition for Clean Rivers and Streams
(http://www.cleanriversandstreams.org)
- Soils for Salmon
(http://www.soilsforsalmon.org)
- Oregon Tilth
(http://www.tilth.org)
- Beneficial Insects
(http://apps01.metrokc.gov/govlink/hazwaste/house/yard/problems/goodbugs.cfm)
- Growing Gardens
(http://www.growing-gardens.org )
- Naturescaping for Clean Rivers
(http://www.naturescape.org )
- Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
(http://www.pesticide.org )
- Portland Community Gardens
(http://www.portlandonline.com/parks/index.cfm?c=39846)
- Regional Water Providers Consortium
(http://www.conserveh2o.org )
- Washington Toxics Coalition
(http://www.watoxics.org )