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Create an Allergy-Free Garden - Get rid of any plants that attract mildew, rust or aphids. Plants grown in the wrong place will fail to thrive: shade plants grown in the sun, or sun-loving plants grown in the shade, may attract insects or disease. Buggy, mildewed plants produce molds, and molds produce allergenic spores. Cut these plants down, dig them up and replace them with plants that thrive in your garden conditions.
Hire gardeners or landscapers who understand the principles of creating allergy-free landscapes and gardens. If your favorite gardener doesn't yet understand this, encourage him or her to read up on the subject.
If your entire yard is shaded by trees, consider thinning the trees or removing some to let in the light. Fresh air and sunshine will cut down on molds and spores.
Cut back male trees such as "fruitless mulberries" in winter. You can, in effect, give them a sex change - just graft them with wood from a female tree of the same species. (Separate-sexed trees and shrubs - called "dioecious" - will either be all male or all female; the females are pollen-free and actually trap and remove airborne pollen, while the males produce tons of pollen. Male trees are by far more common now in urban landscapes; this is one of the main reasons allergies have become so common in cities.)
Keep your lawns well fertilized and mow them often. Lawnmower blades should be sharp; dull blades rip off the grass and the exposed surfaces are subject to disease - thus, mold and spores. Also, sharp blades put less stress on the grass, resulting in healthier lawns that are able to choke out allergy-causing lawn weeds.
Love the look and smell of a garden? Can't do either because the pollen has blurred your vision and clogged your nose? Try an allergy-free garden.
by eHow
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Create an Allergy-Free Garden
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