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Beneficial Lawn Care and Chemical Management
Everything you ever wanted to know about your lawn but didn’t know who to ask.
- Environmental impacts of alternative lawn care practices
- Basics for homeowners: Getting started with lawn care
- Basics for professional landscaping or large areas
- Soil, grass and weather
- Starting a new lawn
- Maintaining your lawn
- fertilizer management
- insect control
- water conservation
The program does not require you to follow a particular approach, but allows you to pick and choose, judging for yourself. It covers the full range of approaches, techniques, equipment and technologies available to make lawns beautiful and owners proud. (Created 2002 by Matthew T. Crisler, Mauricio de Gortari, Brian Singleton, and Susan Childress, all of Purdue University; and Alfred Krause of USEPA. )
Audiences:
- homeowners
- gardeners
- landscaping firms
- lawn care professionals
- golf courses
- anyone who cares for both a lawn and for the environment
Download and install the software
- All you need to view the program is a Web browser
- Download Beneficial Lawn Care and Chemical Management - lawn.zip (compressed file, 6.3MB, unzips to 7.2MB)
- Double-click the file to uncompress and install the program. We suggest saving it to C:\Program Files\seahome\lawn
- Start your browser and choose File > Open > C:\Program Files\seahome\lawn\src\title.htm
View the software online
The material you are about to view is a product of Purdue University.
This environmental software program was produced by Purdue University under a cooperative agreement with the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Although this material was prepared in collaboration with EPA, Purdue University is the author, holds the exclusive copyright, and is solely responsible for its content subject to the terms of the cooperative agreemeent. Limitations under the copyright, which allows for free reproduction and distribution of the software, can be found on the program's title page.
EPA continues to work with Purdue University in developing new environmental software and updating older material, and we appreciate being notified of any errors or other issues.
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