Environment & Energy
Related: About this forumAmerica's love affair with the lawn is getting messy
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) LeighAnn Ferrara is transforming her small suburban yard from grass bordered by a few shrubs into an anti-lawn a patchwork of flower beds, vegetables and fruit trees.
It didnt happen all at once, says the mother of two young kids. We started smothering small sections of the lawn each year with cardboard and mulch and planting them, and by now the front yard is probably three-quarters planting beds, she says. Every year we do more.
Her perennials and native plants require less upkeep and water than turf grass does. And she doesnt need herbicides or pesticides shes not aiming for emerald perfection.
For generations, the lawn that neat, green, weed-less carpet of grass has dominated American yards. It still does. But a surge of gardeners, landscapers and homeowners worried about the environment now see it as an anachronism, even a threat.
https://apnews.com/article/environment-gardening-white-plains-b2a0c7ab8940f93e872a90d86ea9c6f4
barbaraann
(9,151 posts)IMHO, lawns are a critical part of raising a child even though they do take a lot of water.
bucolic_frolic
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is urine. Otherwise we import fertilizer (potash I think) from Russia. There was an experiment being run in I think it was Brattleboro VT a couple years ago to fertilize vegetables with urine. Collection system, spray tanker and all. Don't know the result.
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)not bad as it was before. But if I did that I would plant a few trees or bushes first. I'm thinking everyone should have an apple or pear tree out back. for food.