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Going 'green' in the garden

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What does it mean to "go green" when it comes to gardening?

The simplest way to explain it is you work with nature instead of trying to control it.

Skip the man-made fertilizers and pesticides, but what will the neighbors say if your lawn doesn’t look velvety green?

Instead, rely on the existing ecosystem, the living organisms in the soil, plants native to Ohio and simple strategies that box out weeds.

Coming up on this hour of All Sides, Ohio’s Garden Sage Deb Knapke explains how to "go green" in the garden.

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