General Sustainable Landscape Practices
General Maintenance
Composting: Composting provides benefits to both the environment and the gardener. It reduces pressure on rapidly growing landfills and municipal com-posting facilities, and also produces a valuable resource to use in the garden.
Environmentally Friendly Gardening: Enjoy your garden, and do what you can to help protect the environment that sustains it.
Permeable Surfaces and Low Impact Development: Permeable surfaces consist of a variety of types of pavement, pavers and other devices that provide stormwater infiltration while serving as a structural surface.
Integrated Pest Management
Controlling Pest Naturally with Beneficial Insects: Often the first reaction on seeing a bug is to get rid of it. However, only a small percent-age of insects are harmful.
Disease Resistant Plants: Avoiding pesticides by planting disease resistant plant varieties
Integrated Pest Management Tips: Integrated pest management or IPM strategies provided by Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Lawn to Lake program
Natural Enemies Insect Photos and Description: Learn who these natural enemies are and what they like to eat
Trap Crops and Interplanting: Clever ways to outsmart insect pests.