Kill Your Lawn - 27th Lawn Killed
Added 2024-02-02 00:48:36 +0000 UTC
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I just purchased some off a friend who did a bulk purchase online. They're not very much money.
Anthony J Malone
2024-02-29 19:59:46 +0000 UTCDo you know how to make those paper tubes for growing plants? I was trying to make something similar but I dont know how to keep the paper to stick. Any tips help, happy to see another lawn dead.
Adrian Gonzalez
2024-02-08 04:19:59 +0000 UTCGreat work! I hope you show us how it looks post planting. Smothering *definitely* works too. It does take more time and require materials, but it’s also less noisy and gassy. I use cardboard and compost now, but when I smothered my lawn in Virginia in the late ‘00s, I used to dumpster dive for newspapers at the recycling drop-off center. Mondays were best, because there were heaps of clean, still-tied bundles of unsold Sunday Washington Posts. Fairfax County also took all the leaves and brush from curbside pickup, made composted leaf and wood mulches, and dropped big piles of both at community gardens. I used leaf mulch for planting areas and wood mulch for paths, with log borders. It took about six months for my yard to go from scraggly lawn to a rich, hyper-diverse quarter acre. One thing I like about that approach is that by going more slowly, you start to notice all the native volunteers mixed into the lawn and can rescue them — I got a lot of nice cedar trees in the VA yard that way.
Margaret Garigan
2024-02-02 13:36:23 +0000 UTCIs there a eutrophication problem in the US? I'm from NW-Europe and in almost every garden we create/manage native flower beds or meadows there is a nutrient "problem". The soil is too rich in NPK, which ultimately results in homogeneous vegetations (not necessarily non-natives, but native grasses like H. lanatus, A. elatius that start dominating on certain soil types with nutrient saturation). We tackle the nutrient saturated soils by mowing and removing biomass. This reduces nutrient levels over time, and results in a more biodiverse plant community as it becomes more a competition for space between a myriad of plant species instead of one or two species profiting from the availability of all those nutrients.
Aard Bewoner
2024-02-02 11:51:06 +0000 UTC
