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Drop in garden and kitchen waste..shovel rich compost out. This efficient, attractive bin recycles kitchen & garden waste into rich, useful soil conditioner and natural fertilizer. It is made from 100% recycled type 5 plastic. The trapezoid shape and air vents encourage vertical airflow with a chimney effect. Lid protects against rain and snow, while keeping squirrels, birds, insects, and other pests out. The bottomless design enriches the ground directly below the composter, while ensuring the proper moisture inside. Holds 90 gallons of garden & kitchen waste, which can produce up to 12 cubic feet of compost or 9.6 bushels..This composter is made from type 5 plastic (Polypropylene), which is not as widely recycled as other types. Reusing Polypropylene creates a market incentive for recycling a type of plastic that often ends up in landfills. |
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No...We haven't changed our name to Go-GreenGardening. We are still Progressive Lawnscaping, and we still offer the same top notch landscape service we have since 1990. Go-GreenGardening is our new online garden store featuring a variety of eco-friendly garden and landscape products. Many are items that our customers have requested over the 19 years we have been in business. |
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September 2009 Newsletter |
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* Keep watering if the weather is dry. Plants still need water in the cooler weather, just not as much. * Fall is a good time to plant many of your foundation plants: container grown and balled-and-burlapped plants. Be sure to dig a good sized hole, and plant it at the same depth that it grew at the nursery. Water well and add a layer of mulch to help retain moisture and help guard against large fluctuations in soil temperature. * Assess your landscape and garden while full and decide what you want to change for next year. * Applying mulch to your planting beds will keep soil temperatures more steady and help the soil to retain moisture. And it looks good too! * Remove spent annuals and fill empty area with mulch, or * Buy and plant pansies. They will bloom throughout the fall adding color to your landscape. You might even have some return for you in the spring!! * Bring houseplants moved outside for summer, indoors before night temperatures fall below 55. Check soil for insects and repot with fresh soil if necessary. * Clean birdfeeders and birdbaths. Also, set up bird feeding stations. They will attract birds throughout the winter and liven up your garden. The birds will appreciate them too!! * Have your lawn aerated by Progressive Lawnscaping. * Re-seed bare spots or do a complete lawn renovation. * Buy spring flowering bulbs to plant in late September. Plant at least 4-6 weeks before the ground freezes for good root formation.. Be careful to not plant too early, this could cause bulbs to sprout top growth before winter. * Divide Hostas...you can easily expand or share your garden. **see tips section for advice on dividing hosta** * Set up your home recycling center. |
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Professor Kippenburg Aster A strong grower and heavy bloomer! Professor Kippenburg is an excellent garden flower and excels as a cut flower as well. Very hardy, tolerant to light frost, provides color late in the season when flowers are scarce. Plants grow 18 to 20 inches high, spread 12 to 18 inches, and stay covered with daisy like 1 to 2 inch flowers of lilac purple accented by gold centers. Flowers late summer/early fall to frost.
Design Tips: Blossoms are a magnet for butterflies and birds. Aster Professor Kippenburg makes an excellent container plant or front of the garden feature. Looks great with ornamental grasses, as borders, or in massed plantings for dramatic garden color. Cut stems for indoor bouquets.
Maintenance: Like Mums, Asters require long days for vegetative growth and short days for bud initiation and development. Require moist, well-drained soil. Wet winter soils are more damaging than the cold weather. Very easy to grow, tolerates some light shade but prefers full sun which keeps it shorter and more compact. As with Mums, pinch to keep compact and bushy. Pinch spring to about mid July. Divide every few years to maintain vigor. |
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Progressive Lawnscaping can extend your outdoor living space by creating a fire pit to keep you warm on those cool fall nights. We can install most any size, shape and style you desire; wood burning or gas. Add a seating wall, or small water feature to make it a place to entertain friends and family. |
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Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Collecting used bottles, cans, and newspapers and taking them to the curb or to a collection facility is just the first in a series of steps that generates a host of financial, environmental, and social returns. Some of these benefits accrue locally as well as globally.
* Recycling and composting diverted nearly 70 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2000, up from 34 million tons in 1990-doubling in just 10 years. * Every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees * Up to 50% of landfill space is taken up by paper. * The energy we save when we recycle one glass bottle is enough to light a light bulb for four hours. * As much as 90% of recycled glass can be used to make new glass bottles and jars. * By recycling one aluminum can, you can save enough energy to run a television for three hours * By recycling a 1-gallon plastic milk jug, you can save enough energy to burn a 100-watt light bulb for 11 hours. * Each year, U.S. landfills receive roughly 130 billion beverage containers * Recycling conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals Every little bit counts! Recycling is not about all or nothing ...one person, one family CAN make a difference. Start recycling TODAY!! |
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Dividing Hostas to Expand Your Garden
Early fall is a great time to divide Hostas. To divide a Hosta, start with a clump that is at least three years old, which is the perfect size for division. As a rule, the larger and more dense the clump, the less divisions that are possible. On fast growing Hosta, three or four year old plants produce the largest and best divisions, while slower growing plants or old mature clumps that are eight or more years old, produce the most dense... |
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September SaleMaxi Compost Bin Sale Price: $94.99 + shipping Use Coupon code: MAXI at checkout to get the special price of $94.99. Order from our website at: www.Go-GreenGardening.com. Or call our office at: 317-780-6619. Offer expires: 9/30/09 |
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Do you have a dog run, kennel or perhaps a small backyard where you can't grow grass because of dog traffic and dog urine? Progressive Lawnscaping can install Artificial Turf to this problem area. or email: progkk@aol.com
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Call us at: (317)780-6619 or email: progkk@aol.com |
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