Carbon Cutter

If you have a small lot, trash your gas and electric mowers. Push mowers have advanced in the last few years and are remarkably easy to push. The walk will do you good.

Waterwise

Water your lawn only when it needs it. You'll know when your lawn needs watering by the colour of the grass. The blades turn a bluish green when they need water.

Herbicide Alternative

Use hot vinegar to get rid of the weeds in your pavers. Boil the vinegar in your kettle (to clean the kettle), add a tiny bit of salt and dish soap.

Take the kettle outside and pour the almost boiling vinegar on the weeds in your pavers.

Voila! In minutes, your weeds are toast.

Gin or vodka will do the same thing but take a bit longer. The same with Coca Cola!

Ants Hate Cinnamon

Sprinkle cinnamon along their path. You can also mix the cinnamon with some dishwashing liquid to make a sticky paste that can be spread along entryways.

Mulch, Mulch, Mulch

Mulch does many things:

1. It controls weeds in your garden by blocking out the sun needed by weed seeds to germinatre
2. It insulates the soil keeping the root zone cool in hot weather.
3. It looks neat and tidy.
4. It reduces water loss from the garden
5. It improves your soil as it decomposes.
6. It protects the soil keeping it from becoming hard and dry.