GNOME Healthy Landscapes™ enables you to:
Get Informed:
- - Gnome provides you with a sustainable landscaping information package and a site inventory questionnaire to capture pertinent details about your property.
- - Gnome orders a Maine Dept. of Agriculture soil analysis to get a base line on soil health.
- - Together, we chart a course of action based on our findings.
Build Healthy Soil (soil fitness):
- - Eliminate the use of hazardous chemical fertilizers.
- - Introduce compost and mulch to return valuable organic material to the soil providing micro-organism habitat to stabilize nutrient levels and to increase water-holding capacity and reduce erosion.
- - Compost, over-seed, and aerate lawn.
- - Compost and mulch beds.
- - Mow at a height of 3.5 inches.
Recycle Your Natural Resources:
- - Compost yard waste and kitchen scraps.
- - Leave grass clippings on lawn/use a mulching mower.
- - Collect and reuse water – Install a cistern.
Sustain Your Landscape:
- - Plant Exchanges:
- – Replace water-intensive/high maintenance plants and perennials with drought tolerant species.
- – Replace invasive species with natives that require less maintenance and fewer resources.
- - Use plants that offer edible landscape opportunities such fruit trees, vegetables, and herbs.
- - Use plants, where appropriate, that attract birds and butterflies, and promote bee colony maintenance.
- - Reduce lawn size by enlarging bed areas. Eventually reduce lawn size to an area easily mown with a push reel mower.
- - Install a drainage swale to improve the channeling of water to control percolation and long-term site recharging.
Call us for more information at (207) 781-2955