Let the Lawn Go

...and the flowers come back

This is where the lawn ends and the no-mow lawn begins

An estimated 80 percent of American households have a turfgrass lawn— that’s a lot of fertilizer, fungicide, and afternoons spent mowing grass. And it eats up a lot of water. Why not let an area of your lawn go natural? It would help the environment and free up some time for you to do other things in the garden. Let the lawn go and encourage the flowers to come back.

Turfgrass roots are shallow - the other plant roots are longer

Want more encouragement? The chemicals that you apply to the lawn reduce the populations of microbes, earthworms, and fungi. These critters maintain the soil’s fertility and keeps it filled with the life that sustains the plants. Over-fertilizing a lawn to keep it green kills the soil beneath.

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