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How To Design A Natural Northwest Garden

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This page provides earth-friendly info about gardening and yard care. For similar info and programs for farmers in King County, please visit our King County agriculture page.

Grow Smart Grow Safe - a Gardener's Guide - Learn clever, time-tested tricks of ecologically-friendly gardening. The guide provides least toxic options for your yard and garden to limit your exposure to biologically reactive chemicals, and avoid wiping out good insects, hurting bird life, or polluting the water. Also, learn how to distinguish the good from the bad by looking through the Good Bug Guide, and keep a calendar of natural yard care practices from page 14 of the Natural Yard Care Guide (443Kb Acrobat)

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Gardening - natural yard care
Cultivate a healthy and beautiful garden while saving money on water and chemicals, and build healthy, carbon-rich soil that thrives with life. To reach a real person to ask about yard and garden care, call the Garden Hotline at 206-633-0224 or email help@gardenhotline.org.

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Hazardous Wastemobile picks up garden chemical waste-- find out when the Wastemobile will be in your neighborhood or call 1-888-869-4233 for a schedule. Everyone prefers a clean, safe environment, so why not try safer alternatives to toxic garden and household chemicals?

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Rain barrel info and resources for the Pacific Northwest
How to set up rain barrels to water your plants while reducing your water bill, and where to buy them. Using rain barrels helps reduce stormwater runoff, recharges groundwater, and leaves some water in tapped rivers so aquatic creatures can live there.

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Identify noxious weeds where you live. Aggressive exotic plants can produce immense numbers of long-lived seeds and may overwhelm native species, degrade habitat for wildlife, stick, stab and poke, and may even poison livestock or burn your skin. To help eradicate invasive weeds, King County provides a Web site with Noxious Weeds Identifications and practices for control of select weeds, and we're available to answer your questions at the Noxious Weed line, 206-477-9333.

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Rainy days were made for gardeners to watch Yard Talk, a natural gardening show on King County Television (KCTV) that teaches viewers how to easily care for their yards and gardens in a way that's good for people, pets and the environment.

  • Local food video: episode 15 of Yard Talk
    Program promoting the benefits of local food and providing tips and tricks. Covers a variety of subjects from backyard gardening to farmers markets and local farms. 18 minutes, 44 seconds.

Watch Yard Talk, with Greg Rabourn and Doug Rice

1 Million Trees
Learn about native trees, how to plant them and get grants for large scale tree plantings.

Gardening - WSU King County Extension
Join the Master Gardeners program or find master gardener resources, peruse gardening topics for Western Washington, schedule presentations or get tips on pesticides-- world class, face to face.

How to build a rain garden
Rain gardens filter pollution from stormwater and support unusual native plants, and WSU has set a goal for register 12,000 rain gardens in the Puget Sound basin - from WSU Extension.

Greening your Shoreline
A tool for lakeshore property owners on Lake Washington and Lake Sammamish to improve shorelines for people and salmon.

WSU King County Cooperative Extension - Gardening

How To Design A Natural Northwest Garden

Source: https://kingcounty.gov/services/environment/stewardship/nw-yard-and-garden.aspx

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