Jan 12, 2017 | Eco-friendly Gardening
Is your Christmas tree lying in your yard, looking sad and dropping needles? Help the environment by recycling your tree. Composting facilities will turn your tree into compost or wood chips. There are a number of options, depending on where you live. Seattle: Holiday...
Dec 23, 2016 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Design, Lawn Care, Nature
Keeping resolutions starts with good intentions. But it doesn’t hurt to have a little nudge in the right direction to make them stick. According to a Pew Research Study published in October 2016, “Three-quarters of Americans say that they are particularly concerned...
Dec 1, 2016 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Video
The rainy season is the perfect time to apply effective microbes (EM) to soils. Beneficial bacteria and beneficial fungi increase biological activity in the soil. This improves soil health, leading to better plant health. Find out more about what EM is and why we use...
Nov 8, 2016 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Landscape Design
Autumn is an excellent time to take a look back at how your landscape and garden performed this year. Take a stroll around your yard and take measure of what worked and didn’t work and what changes you might like to make. Landscape changes As plants grow and mature,...
Oct 25, 2016 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Pest Control, Tree Care
Cleaning up your garden now will make your plants healthier next year. If you can prevent pests, diseases and weed seeds from overwintering, you’ll have a head start next year. And you’ll have less work to do if you can prevent problems before they start. Weeds,...
Oct 20, 2016 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Lawn Care, Tree Care
Fallen leaves are both a detriment to your lawn and a benefit to your garden beds. This is an important topic, so we are updating a blog post from last fall. Many trees provide a wondrous show in the fall, with leaves in hues of red, orange, brown and gold. But once...
Oct 18, 2016 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Lawn Care
After all the rain we’ve had lately, you may see that mushrooms have sprouted in your lawn or garden beds. Should you be concerned? In most cases, the mushrooms are completely harmless, and they provide concrete benefits to your yard and plants. If you have...
Sep 20, 2016 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Video
In Harmony has been using and brewing compost tea for well over a decade. Our state-of-the-art brewers allows us to use active live cultures of compost tea on our clients’ trees and shrubs. Compost tea has shown great benefits for our clients, including...
Jul 22, 2016 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Lawn Care
You hear a lot these days about gluten and how people are shying away from gluten in diets. But did you know that one of the best products to put on your lawn is corn gluten? Corn gluten is an all-natural fertilizer made from a by-product of manufacturing corn starch....
Jul 14, 2016 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Tree Care
We love sea kelp. Sea kelp has been found to improve growth and color of plants and to enhance flowering in some species of plants. Sea kelp benefits plants because it: Contains trace elements that are deficient in most garden soils\ Supplies potassium, an essential...
Jun 23, 2016 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Recommended Plants
One of the best things you can do to honor National Pollinator Week, June 20-26, is to plant wildflowers, flowering shrubs and native plants in your garden. Bees, butterflies and other pollinators use nectar as their primary food source. Choose plants that bloom at...
May 17, 2016 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Lawn Care, Pest Control
Are you seeing mole damage in your lawn? We have good news and bad news. The bad news: It is extremely difficult to permanently prevent or get rid of moles. The good news: Moles are part of a healthy ecological system. If you have moles, it means you have rich,...
Apr 27, 2016 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Lawn Care
When we first met Ann Lovejoy many years ago, we were delighted to find a kindred spirit. Like us, Ann has always believed that a natural, organic-based approach is the best way to make gardens lush and beautiful. So we weren’t surprised when Ann elected to...
Mar 24, 2016 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Landscape Design
Natural areas provide a wealth of wisdom about garden design. While we may not have prairies in western Washington, the design principles apply to our local landscapes. We can learn similar principles from our local fields and forests. There’s a nice essay on...
Mar 22, 2016 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care
Ladd Smith and Ciscoe Morris had a rollicking time talking about the five myths of sustainable gardening on Ciscoe’s KIRO radio show. Share the fun with the podcast. Here are a couple of highlights: Myth #1: One person can’t make a difference. Fact: One...
