On 4/27/2014 11:07 PM, songbird wrote:
if you have children and pets it's much
easier to not worry about having a perfect
lawn and instead just keep it mowed
regularly. saves a lot of unneeded
chemicals too.

often poor and compacted lawns are created
by people who keep cutting and removing the
clippings. instead, cut regularly and leave
the clippings. the worms will eventually turn
them into healthier topsoil.

every time it rains there is a bit of
fertilizer in the rain. you don't need to
feed a lawn if it gets regular rains.

a mixed lawn of various plants is much more
interesting than just grasses and requires no
chemical treatments at all. just keep mowing
and that which can survive such treatment will
be what you end up with. simple, inexpensive
and much less bother.


I endorse all of this. We'd be much better off (and our soils and
waters would be, too) if we went back to the days where all we really
cared about was if it was more or less green during most of the
growing season.

Monoculture isn't natural. Monoculture is an ongoing battle against
Nature's default status of diversity. If you want a weed free lawn, it
will require a constant investment of time and money to maintain that
unnatural environment. Or you can relax, accept weeds, or at least
weeds to a certain degree, and spend that time and money on more
pleasurable pursuits.