Lawns & Gardens Under Our Care
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Toronto’s annual celebration of all things green turns Yonge Street into ‘green street’ with more than 100 exhibitors of green products and services, local food, live music, and more. Please join us on July 16, 2011 at Yonge-Dundas Square. -
June 26, 2011 - Recycle your rain water
Install a Rain Barrel and Recycle Your Water
If you’ve wondered if there was a simple way for you to contribute to using water responsibly, then you should consider installing a rain barrel. All of the water that runs off your roof and down through your down spouts, is essentially wasted water. Unless of course you have your downspout drain into one of these elegant water barrels like the one featured above. It is an urn-style rain barrel with planter, and includes a drain hose with shut-off valve, and even gives you a small area at the top to plant some flowers. You can use this water to water your gardens or even wash your car. It makes for a great addition to your garden and we can install one for you on your next service.
We very much did not want jurisdiction over rain barrels and even large cisterns. We’ve got a backlog of 6,000 or 7,000 water right applications, and the last thing we want is more people thrown into that backlog. Plus, we don’t want to regulate people if we don’t have to.