By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer
Nopalito Native Plant Nursery has begun offering customers a 5-15 cent store credit for used plastic pots. Maybe this policy is easier to enact by a nursery that propagates its own stock, but I'd sure like to see this become a common practice. I feel guilty throwing away old plastic pots, but there are only so many you can keep.
As long as I'm mentioning Nopalito, might as well mention a great class coming up there:
What To Do With The Lawn', with landscape architect & contractor Owen Dell, author of Sustainable Landscaping for Dummies.
When - Saturday March 13th, 2010
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.
Where - Calvary Christian Fellowship Church
4221 East Main Street (Next Door to Nopalito Native Plant Nursery)
Ventura, CA 93003
Description - The average 1000-square-foot lawn will cost more than $50,000 to maintain
over a 20-year life span. Lawns are the most consumptive and least interesting
part of the garden. They offer nothing to wildlife, use more fertilizer in the United
States than is used in the entire Third World to grow food, necessitate the use of
highly polluting mowing equipment, relentlessly deplete our limited water supplies,
and demand constant attention for very meager rewards. Fortunately there
are many alternatives to the traditional American lawn. What to do With the
Lawn explores new and exciting options for turf areas. The class will cover design
ideas, organic ways to remove an old lawn, alternative low-maintenance
meadows, organic lawn-care tricks and tips, how to install new plantings and
irrigation, and much more.
Admission - $10 Pre-registration; $15 At the Door (805) 844-7449
