{"id":808,"date":"2017-05-13T15:57:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/?p=808"},"modified":"2017-05-13T15:57:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T14:57:02","slug":"lawn-care-thats-a-bit-more-environmentally-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/2017\/05\/13\/lawn-care-thats-a-bit-more-environmentally-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawn care that&#8217;s a bit more environmentally friendly\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_3041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/img_3041.jpg\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-807\"><\/a><br \/>\nLawns &#8211; environmental disaster areas. Most of us love a nice lawn but the price to the local environment can he high. The use of high nitrate fertilisers on a large number of lawns amounting to a massive acreage of high nitrate feeds effecting ground water and the organic processes of soil lowering the soil ph to a level where it effects the natural the natural recycling of dead organic matter spells out an environmental disaster.<br \/>\nThe way forward is to use more organic slow release fertilisers to maintain a more balanced approach to lawn nutrients combined with a careful monitoring of the lawn soils pH Its still possible to create and maintain a great lawn with this more balanced approach as the picture below shows one of our&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now our free lawn service for our MyGardenTeam members which provides lawn care up to 75 square metres is taking a bit more or a balanced approach with the use of slow release fertilizer and the closer monitoring of soil pH and bacteria levels in the lawn soil<\/p>\n<p>The picture shows a MyGardenTeam member using our more environmental lawn care option to achieve great results&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawns &#8211; environmental disaster areas. Most of us love a nice lawn but the price to the local environment can he high. The use of high nitrate fertilisers on a large number of lawns&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/my-garden-team\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}