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Maintaining a Home

      Landscaping

Maintaining your property is just as important as maintaining your home. Learn more about your soil, garden and lawn

Get to Know Your Soil
This fact sheet provides practical tips on how to analyse soil so that you can select the plants that are suited to the soil you have on your property. Once you have determined the soil conditions, it provides tips on how to amend it, if needed.

Helping Your Trees Survive Storm Damage
Practical pruning advice to restore the health and shape of trees damaged by ice or wind storms.

Understanding and Dealing With Interactions Between Trees, Sensitive Clay Soils and Foundations
Is the size, type or siting of a tree affecting your foundation? Understanding the interactions between trees, soils and the foundation can help you avoid foundation shifting, cracks and other damage.

Low-Maintenance Lawns
Low-maintenance lawns help to reduce the time, costs, water, pesticides, fertilizer and energy used to maintain lawns. This fact sheet describes the benefits and provides practical tips on how to install and maintain low maintenance lawns, including species selection.

Rain Gardens: Improve Stormwater Management in Your Yard
Rain gardens are landscaped areas designed to receive stormwater and allow it to infiltrate into the soil. This fact sheet describes the benefits and provides practical tips on how to install and maintain gardens.

Water-Saving Tips for Your Lawn and Garden
Often water is applied inefficiently, resulting in significant waste due to over watering, evaporation or run-off. Here are some general watering tips to avoid such waste.

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