Planting Seeds


For projects related to planting sees, you may want to also consider: Bird Feeders, Climate Zones, Container Gardening, Creating Theme Gardens, Garden Designing, Garden Enhancements, Garden Sculptures, Gardening with Children, and Indoor Planting. If you want a few more surprises in your life, buy some wild flower seeds that are indigenous to your region. If you properly sow them in a sunny spot and give them enough water, you will get to see a terrific range of colors and shapes. Plus wild flowers have such a diverse range bloom cycles the surprises continue across the spring and summer. When it comes to grass seed, you have a lot of choices of single variety and mixed blends. Pick the seeds that are best for your soil and climate. To keep the rain from washing out the seeds and to help deter the birds from getting a free meal, you can use straw to cover the seeds. Since straw can add a risk of cultivating weeds, ask for the type of ‘weed free’ straw bales if you are doing it yourself. All straw is not created equal.

Planting seeds is a particularly rewarding experience for children whether the seeds are indoors or outdoors. After several days and possible weeks of watering an area of the lawn that has been seeded, there is often a ‘breakthrough’ morning when you wake up and look out on a sea of thousands of tiny little blade sprouts that have broken through. From the low vantage point of a child’s perspective this ‘wow’ moment is great because the new grass appears as a thin green blanket.

The right home improvement products, techniques, and services:
Contractors, home improvement stores, and specialty shops in your area may not yet have a complete familiarity with the ‘green’ opportunities, products, system integration, and overall savings potential. So, you may get some resistance, since people in general are typically more comfortable recommending something that they are already familiar with rather than something new. To help break the inertia, use the information across this website like our Return on Investment Master ROI Table. Also feel free to post a question in our forum on the message board about a particular need for your home relative to your area. Our team has spent multiple years aggregating research from public and private sector performance reports and from manufacturers and homeowners across the country in order to provide you with the perspective you may need to see the initial payback and long term advantages. Environmental enthusiasts and leading institutions like the American Institute of Architects and the National Association of Realtors, see the value and link into our resources to support their members.

The Green Home:
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Home Improvement Basics:
When it comes to home improvement basics, look for interior home improvements like creating a clean, safe, and healthy home through sustainable ‘green’ furniture, home décor, zero VOC and Interior Paint, plus ENERGY STAR Appliances and Electronics. For energy and utility savings you can focus on insulation and air sealing, windows, doors, lighting and skylights, water saving plumbing opportunities, and high efficiency heating and air conditioning systems. On the outside of your house, look for exterior home improvement opportunities through landscape design and gardening plus solar energy, wind and other power sources. If you are undertaking a major home renovation, an additions, or building a new home, then take the lead to ‘go green’ in as many ways as possible to save money and the environment.

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