Yard care practices to enhance the habitat in your yard
Planting principles, tips, and tricks to help ensure that removing invasives and planting native plants will produce the intended result–a yard that you can enjoy and that supports biodiversity.
Removing invasives and planting native plants are key actions in creating native habitat in your yard, as explained in Remove Invasives and Plant Natives. But wait! There’s more!
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Getting started can feel overwhelming. Take it in baby steps by first setting priorities and observing conditions in different parts of your yard.
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Keep in mind a few basic principles when deciding what to plant where in order to increase the quality of the habitat in your yard.
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The stunning landscapes that you see in public gardens and photos take considerable work to develop and maintain. With much less effort, you can have a yard that provides habitat and that the neighbors find attractive. The key is to incorporate “cues to care” that trigger positive responses in humans.
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You can make your biodiverse yard low maintenance–but not no maintenance. Use new, more ecological ways to approach yard maintenance tasks throughout the year.