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The Do's and Don'ts for those bordering a green-space:Don't dump yard debris/waste into the woods. A healthy alternative to dumping, as well as a cost effective means of producing fertilizer for your garden would be to construct a compost pile. The following link is a great place to start as it provides a series of simple steps to guide one in the art of composting, which can be as easy or complicatedóbasic or advancedóas one would wish. http://www.mastercomposter.com For those in the Portland area Metro Recycling Information is available to answer composting questions:
Don't plant non-native invasive plant species in your yard. Doing so may likely lead to the spread of such plants into the local green space and result in catastrophic events such as those documented in Forest park . To learn more of English Ivy and the effect it has had upon Forest Park click upon the following link: To learn more of environmentally healthy plant alternatives for your yard please see our northwest plant equivalents page.
Don't use herbicides or pesticides known to be harmful to the local environment Some popular chemical herbicides and pesticides used to eradicate unwanted ìweedsî and ìcrittersî may prove to be more destructive than beneficial. To read more upon the harmful effects of specific herbicides and pesticides and some alternate choices please see our herbicide and pesticide alternatives link from our home page.
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