The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) suggests that gardeners should avoid using chemical-based weed killers and pesticides .

If liming is not part of your lawn care contract, you must add lime to the lawn yourself. Regularly scheduled sprays of preventive pesticides are usually not the best way to control diseases and ...

Montgomery County, MD, imposes ban on pesticide use on private commercial and residential lawns; contractors search for new lawn care approaches and products. Lawn care contractors operating in ...

Pesticides used for purely cosmetic lawn care pose significant risks to public health and the environment. Numerous studies highlight the dangers these chemicals present, particularly to children ...

Within two days of armyworms invading her yard, Julie Kocher's plush green lawn, which she said used ... fields of grass and crops quickly, and pesticides become ineffective once the worms are ...