10 Basic Things To Do On EARTH DAY

WHAT COULD WE DO FOR EARTH DAY?

10 Basic Things To Do On EARTH DAY

1. Grow and maintain your own food and shop local. Help to make preserves from food you grew yourself and give them as presents for Christmas or other special events.

2. Use timers, and mend your irrigation system from any leaks. Accomplishing this saves water, work, and time, and it also decreases weeds and frustration.

3. Place mulch around your garden on the top of weeds to kill them avoiding them from using available water. Passively killing weeds with mulch is less expensive ultimately and gives fertility to your soil as well.

4. Place a mulch bucket in your kitchen and take it to the compost or mulch bin or dump it on top of the weeds in the garden. A good deal of our garbage is in reality a hidden treasure for our garden. Sticks, leaves, avocado skins, carrot tops, egg shells, banana peels, and grass clippings can all be used to assist the soil in your garden.

5. Join or create a home gardening club to make like-minded friends, and have fun with their meetings and their tours of motivating gardens.

6. Put the compost bin inside the break room at your job and label it "coffee grounds." Bring it home everyday and empty it within your garden. Your soil will show its thankfulness with healthier plants.

7. Plant trees, flowers, or shrubs in your yard or garden for beauty, or for some other type of beneficial purpose, like to shade your house and lower energy bills, or possibly to refoliate a barren area.

8. Save yourself some large containers and re-purpose them for container gardening; they require hardly any space.

9. Recycle your paper products. Newspaper, cardboard, and brown paper bags work great as mulch and doubles as a stepping stone (until it decomposes into compost). If you add it onto a weed, it may well kill it without any chemicals or work on your part.

10. Add some beneficial critters to live in your garden. Beneficial soil fungi and bacteria, earthworms, lady bugs, and praying mantises can generally be either purchased online or in the local nursery garden center.

Gardening can aid you to be healthier in a number of ways. It's rewarding and straightforward, and you need not be rich to do it!

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EARTH DAY SPECIFICS

• Earth Day was formally launched in the U.S.A. in 1970
• In excess of 180 countries now observe Earth Day
• Today, about 1,000,000,000 people observe Earth Day to some extent

TIPS ON HOW TO MINIMIZE STRESS BY GARDENING

Relieve & Minimize Stress

As outlined by a short article by Laura Drotleff from Greenhouse Grower Magazine in February, 2016, “Gardening is a stress-buster and offers an ideal break from technology.” She discussed that once our opportunity to focus on our technologies reaches up to a saturation point, we are more vulnerable to blunders, distractions, and emotional stress. She states this attention fatigue is often reversed by participating in a new type of attention, named “involuntary attention”, as opposed to the hassle and stress-filled forced attention necessary to fully understand technologies. These replenishing kinds of of attentions are the type we usually use to enjoy nature. Therefore, relieve and minimize stress by gardening.

Reduce & Minimize Stress Through Gardening

She goes on to proclaim, “Gardening may be even a more effective stress buster than other leisure activities.” She noted a study carried out in the Netherlands (as reported by CNN) which contributes to our understanding of precisely how much gardening plays a role in our peace and contentment. Groups of students that had just finished a stressful task were then divided into one group that did some recreational gardening and another group that did some recreational reading. The group that gardened were then found to have “lower levels of cortisol, the stress hormone.” Objective proof that gardening reduces stress! An excellent illustration of how gardening helps relieve stress would be the story of my mother. When my father was in his late 70s he had a huge stroke, which left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life and could not take care of his garden (that had been legendary). My mother’s life utterly changed from having the role of wife to now having the role of full-time nurse as my father was totally dependent on her. My mother learned to love my father’s garden as it became her sanctuary as well as a place of solace. Her garden was thought of as holy ground, and she was the new master of it. Though she continued to grow similar vegetables my father grew, she offered the garden her own master’s touch by mixing roses, irises and daisies in between the mounds and rows. After my father died, the garden went on to help my mother by giving her the chance to cope, conquer depression, and giving her strength in body, mind and spirit.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Alfred Austin

Help Stop the Zika Virus - The Green Way

In accordance with the CDC, in May 2015, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) issued an alert relating to the initial confirmed Zika virus infection in Brazil. The CDC says that essentially the most frequent symptoms of the Zika virus illness are fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis (red eyes). The illness is normally mild, with symptoms lasting from quite a few days to a week. Serious illness requiring hospitalization is uncommon, nevertheless the babies delivered from infected women can have really serious outcomes ranging from permanent birth defects to the death of the baby. And you can find reports that it may lead to Guillain-Barr syndrome in infected persons (a paralysis situation, similar to Polio, which could be short-term or permanent, from time to time even fatal).

Precautions we really should take:

1. Pregnant ladies, or men and women who could turn out to be a parent, really should keep away from places known to be active with Zika. At present, the list of recognized nations with actively spreading Zika is 22 and growing.
2. Steer clear of mosquitos.
3. Eliminate mosquitos.

In addition to the 22 present nations that are active with Zika, the United States has regions with established populations of the mosquitos (vectors) that are known to carry Zika. They're illustrated inside the image map below.

*These maps have been created by the CDC utilizing currently accessible information and facts. Mosquito populations might be detected in regions not shaded on this map, and might not be regularly found in all shaded places.

Because the Zika virus mainly spreads via mosquito bites, one of the very best methods to avoid the illness will be to stay clear of mosquito bites. The CDC advises the public to cover ourselves with layers of clothing, together with long-sleeved shirts and long pants or netting, also to apply insect repellents following these basic guidelines.

• Comply with the product label directions.
• Pregnant and breast-feeding women ought to only us EPA-approved repellants.
• Reapply insect repellent as outlined by the repellent.
• Stay clear of spraying repellent onto the skin below clothes.
• Apply sunscreen before applying insect repellent if you're working with each.
• Children under 2 months old cannot use insect repellants.
• Youngsters over two months old: Do not apply insect repellent onto a youngster's hands, eyes, mouth, and cut or irritated skin. Adults: Apply insect repellent onto your hands and after that apply it towards the child's face.

We can also lower the probability of the Zika infection by getting rid of mosquitoes in our proximity either ahead of they hatch or immediately after they completely develop.

Ahead of mosquito season, cover, dump, modify or treat large water-holding containers with long-lasting larvicide.

Soon after mosquitoes have already grown into adulthood, traps and poisons would be the most typical approaches. Also, the avoidance and destruction of their habitat close to your property may also help to decrease your exposure.

The Placer Mosquito Control District advises us to stay away from mosquito habitats such as areas with heavy underbrush or standing water.

The World Clinic advises: Prevent tall grass, weeds and shrubs as adult mosquitoes make their dwelling there; and pay attention to drainage about the house. Keep grass cut short and shrubbery well-trimmed around the yard, so adult mosquitoes will not hide there.

From the Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley: Trim back tall weeds and bushes. These offer homes for adult mosquitoes. In case you limit these, you can minimize the amount of adult mosquitoes.

In line with Wikihow: Mosquitoes aren't likely to lay eggs in tall grass, but they have a tendency to sit in tall grass for rest and hiding. Keep your grass as short as you possibly can and cut it as frequently as possible.

And from Mosquitoworld.net: Cut the grass and trim the bushes. For the duration of the day, mosquitoes prefer to rest in tall grass or amongst shrubs within a moist, shady spot. Keeping the grass short deprives them of a resting location.

If tall underbrush is within close proximity to you and must be trimmed, and a lawnmower or even a line trimmer is not sensible, then maybe a basic hand tool would be much more beneficial. Consider working with either a machete or perhaps a Bush Hook or a Brush Axe or another type of brush clearing tool. These low-cost and simple to make use of hand tools have been created specifically for clearing patches of weeds and underbrush swiftly, specially in challenging and crowded or slanted situations. They're not very common nowadays, but fortunately, Nursery Enterprises carries a lot of different types and sizes of brush-clearing hand tools.

• Woodman Pal's Brush Axe
• Ditch Bank Clearing Tool
• Bush Hook With Single Edge Blade
• Brush Hook With Double Edge Blade

Even though nobody can assure that we'll not be impacted by Zika, we can however, lower the probability with these commonsense measures. When you think that you simply could possibly have already been exposed and infected with Zika, then please speak to your medical professional not merely for your personal welfare, but also on behalf of those around you.

Below are some useful posters and illustrations from the CDC which can be relevant in your efforts to eradicate mosquitoes.

Free Easter Cards – Downloadable & Printable

Click on the pictures below to open the FREE Easter cards that are downloadable & printable. Included in each Easter card is a Nursery Enterprises coupon to start your spring gardening!

Free Easter Cards – Printable & Downloadable

Celebrate Easter and spring with these Free Easter Cards that are printable from home. This is a great time of the year to enjoy gardening. With spring upon us, now is the time to beautify your yard and dig into your garden. Enjoy our Easter gift to you of a Nursery Enterprises store wide coupon that is located on the back of each of the free Easter cards that you can print and download. If you are looking for a quick gift, our name your price Gift Certificates are perfect as a gift you can add to your free Easter card for your favorite gardener.

These cards are PDF files and can be printed on normal 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper. Just fold these cards into quarters. You will need Acrobat Reader to open these files.