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Shopping guides for gardeners

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Discover consumer resources for gardeners including reviews of lawn and garden products and coupons for natural supplies and plants at 35 local retailers.

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 the guide

Natural gardening coupon

Metro partners with garden supply retailers to provide a $5-off coupon on a total $20 purchase of compost, native plants or hand-weeding tools.* You can receive your free coupon by attending a natural gardening program or you can download the coupon here. Download the coupon

Once you receive your coupon, you can use it at these retailers:

Ace Hardware, Forest Grove, 503-357-3164

Ace Hardware, Milwaukie, 503-653-2223

Bark Blowers, Tigard, 503-248-2275

Beaumont Hardware, Portland, 503-281-4406

Best Buy in Town Landscape Supply, Hillsboro, 503-645-6665

Boring Square Gardens, Boring, 503-663-9797

Bosky Dell Natives, West Linn, 503-638-5945

Buffalo Gardens, Portland, 503-288-0220

Clackamas Compost Products, Clackamas, 503-557-1028

Concentrates Inc., Portland, 503-234-7501

Cornell Farm, Portland, 503-292-9895

Dennis' Seven Dees, Cedar Hills, 503-297-1058

Dennis' Seven Dees, Portland, 503-777-1421

Dennis' Seven Dees, Lake Oswego, 503-636-4660

Drake's Seven Dees, Portland, 503-256-2223

Echo Valley Natives, Oregon City, 503-631-2451

Farmington Gardens, Beaverton, 503-649-4568

Flat Creek Garden Center, Gresham, 503-663-4104

The Garden Corner, Tualatin, 503-885-1934

Garden Fever, Portland, 503-287-3200

Gardener's Choice, Tigard, 503-684-2727

Hughes Water Gardens, Tualatin, 503-638-1709

Landscape Products & Supply, Hillsboro, 503-846-0881

Larsen Farm Nursery, Wilsonville, 503-638-8600

Linnton Feed & Seed, Portland, 503-286-1291

Livingscape Nursery, Portland, 503-248-0104

Mt. Scott Fuel, Boring, 503-663-1414

Mt. Scott Fuel, Portland, 503-774-3241

Naomi's Organic Farm Supply, Portland, 503-517-8551

Pistils Nursery, Portland, 503-288-4889

Portland Nursery on Division, Portland, 503-788-9000

Portland Nursery on Stark, SE Portland, 503-231-5050

S&H Landscape Supplies & Recycling, Tualatin, 503-638-1011

Schedeens, Gresham, 503-665-4730

Urban Farm Store on Belmont, Portland, 503-234-7733

*Requires minimum $20 total purchase before discount. Eligible products include organic soil amendments, organic fertilizers, hand tools, low-toxicity pesticides, herbicides and fungicides that meet national organic standards, organically grown plants and native plants. Additional exclusions may apply. Expires 12/31/10.

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Grow smart, grow safe 2.4M Adobe Acrobat PDF
Natural gardening coupon 146K Adobe Acrobat PDF | Published July 15, 2010

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