Healthy Lawns & Gardens

The following pages are designed to help residents grow and maintain healthy lawns without the use of pesticides.

• Mowing
  • Yard Waste
  • Grasscycling
• Watering
• Fertilizing
• Overseeding
• Replacing Sod

  Did You Know?

  Ontario’s cosmetic pesticides ban takes effect April 22, 2009.

  The ban protects Ontario families and children from the unnecessary risks of cosmetic pesticides by only allowing the use of certain lower-risk pesticides for controlling weeds and pests in lawns and gardens.
  Learn more 

• Aerating
• Dethatching
• Mulching
• 10 Steps to be Naturally Green & Grow a Healthy Lawn
• Tips for Flowerbeds and Gardens
• Naturally Green
• Pesticides Ban
• Pesticide Reports

Resources

• Your Naturally Green Calendar  3MB
  The Naturally Green calendar is a guide to the best times to perform lawn maintenance activities.
• Be Naturally Green & Grow a Healthy Lawn  4.8MB (order resource)
  This brochure is a handy reference guide to help you with the basics and keep your lawn healthy using good maintenance practices.
• Ten Steps to be Naturally Green  782KB (order resource)
  This info card is a quick reference to the basic steps to keep your lawn healthy.
• Pesticides Ban  167KB (order resource)
  This fact sheet outlines the new provincial ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides.

Related Links

• Healthy Lawns 
  Health Canada
• Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) 
  Health Canada
• Guelph Turfgrass Institute & Environmental Research Centre 
  University of Guelph
• Landscape Ontario 
• Organic Landscape Alliance  

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