Hard-Pressed Owners Cut Back on Lawns
Sales of fertilizer and insect and weed-control products fell 15 percent last year after topping out in 2007 at $13.6 billion, according to a survey from the National Gardening Association.
“When housing sales fell, lawn care was one of the first things to go,” said Allen James, president of Responsible Industry for a Sound Environment (RISE), an advocacy organization funded by the pesticide and fertilizer industry.
Bruce Butterfield, research director of the National Gardening Association, says mowing conservatively – maintaining grass at two or three inches – goes a long way toward keeping it healthy without spending a lot of money.
Source: The Wall Street Journal, Neal Templin (06/18/2009)
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