Natural Yard Care

Keep your landscape and environment healthy.

We promote low impact landscape design and maintenance.

Natural yard care emphasizes:

• Proper plant care and lawn management.
• Wise water and fertilizer use.
• Proper plant placement.
• Healthy soil conditions.

Watch our natural yard care webinar from spring 2022:

• Rain Gardens: Plan, prep, plant, maintain, with Robb Krehbiel.

View our natural yard care webinars from Spring 2021:

• Goodbye weeds! Designing yards for less work, with Liesl Zappler.
• Lush lawns nature’s way. Break your lawn’s addiction to chemicals, with Ladd Smith.

View our natural yard care webinars from Fall 2020:

• Low maintenance landscapes, with Bill Peregerine.
• Work less, better looking yard, with Ladd Smith.

Do your part.

When you use natural yard care, you help the environment—and get a healthy, beautiful yard.

Five steps to natural yard care:

1. Build healthy soils.
2. Plant right for your site.
3. Practice smart watering.
4. Think twice before using pesticides.
5. Practice natural lawn care.

Resources

• 5 steps to Natural Yard Care
• Puget Sound Rain Gardens
• Northwest Natural Yard Days
• King County Native Plant Guide
• UMass Soil Testing