Organic lawn care for the cheap and lazy
A love letter from myself to the best web page I have ever read, a 'how to' for the rest of us.
A long time ago, before I even had a lawn, a mower, or intentions to source either, I was working for a gardening company who put me working alone without any gardening experience. And before they had a mower, or had booked me on any lawns, or seemed to have the organisational capacity to organise either, people had started asking me how to fix their lawns.
I really had no idea. I am a self taught gardener, assisted by a smattering of advice from Kaye Reardon of Grow From Here (someone who has probably taught half of Wellington how to garden by now, but also has no interest in lawns). So I went online and I came across this website.
Organic Lawn Care For The Cheap And Lazy.
I won’t bore you with what is already an easy, quick read. I printed it out when I found it, and read it at least once a day for a year. I cannot recommend it enough.
I blindly passed on the recommendations from the above blog. I didn’t really mind if it was inaccurate, I explained that this was decent-sounding advice, and I don’t do lawns. I never received negative feedback on this issue, but I don’t recall receiving any feedback at all! Thankfully when I did start to ‘do lawns,’ I discovered that the information was as successful as it sounded.
Aren’t we all supposed to hate grass?
Contrary to popular opinion, I really don’t mind lawns. You know what part of a garden has universal use and interest? Lawn areas. You know what is easily maintained by anyone with half decent mobility? Lawn areas.
Lawn areas don’t have to be grass, though. And I am thinking about lawn a lot because I posted a photo on our Instagram, which sparked a number of enquiries- can I make their lawn as lush as this one?
This lawn is beside the sea. It has no irrigation, just salt spray half the time. It has an owner who has told me I can do whatever I like at his property. And… it is mostly not grass.
This lawn flowers for 10 out of 12 months of the year. It is actually-
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