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The How-to Guide: Six Steps to Becoming a BayScaper

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Welcome to the BayScaper How -To Guide, a comprehensive collection of the standards of ecologically based landscape practices that qualify properties to be designated as BayScapes. The Guide is available also in hardcopy simply by emailing gary.fish@maine.gov or calling the Board of Pesticides Control at 287-2731. 

Discover the BAYSCAPER in YOU! Why BAYSCAPE?
Step one: Start with a proper foundation Step two: Watering
Step three: Mowing Step four: Thatch and Soil Compaction
Step five: Fertilization Step six: Common Sense Pest Control
Does Your Professional BAYSCAPE? What Healthy, Quality Lawns Need

Bookmark this page now and visit us again soon. We expect this resource to begin budding along side everything else green in Maine this springtime. 

Meanwhile, why not learn more about  Friends of Casco Bay at www.cascobay.org. Or visit the Board of Pesticides Control Links Page or the Low Input Lawn Care Page .

BayScaping has now grown into a statewide movement—YardScaping.

NEW! Master YardScaper Training

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