Transforming Your Lawn

The Lawn Delusion

“Few things are as blasphemous as the challenge of the lawn; people will give up their cars and children before their lawns. Yet lawns rank up there with clear-cut logging and uranium mining as one of the great mistakes of Western civilization...We are not the only victims of the Great Lawn Delusion. The real victims are the involuntarily displaced residents who lived in the place where the lawn is now... we transform a rich, interesting, lively piece of earth into a lawn that has the biological diversity of a shag rug. ”
— Briony Penn, A Year on the Wild Side (2019)
 
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6 HAT facts before you start.

  1. Try and choose native plants. They require less water, chemical treatments and are better adapted for the climate of your region.

  2. Make sure you research what plants would do well in your lawn by observing the amount of sunlight and water your lawn gets.

  3. Although most flowering plants benefit pollinators native pollinators do the best job. Pollinators from our region are specially adapted to regional plants, sometimes exponentially.

  4. Use the leaves you normally compost as mulch to increase the health of your meadow/garden. Be careful when using needles from pine or fir trees as they can increase the acidity of your soil.

  5. Native plants doesn’t only mean flowers, you can replace your lawn with native grasses.

  6. Many of the native plants from the region are adapted to be deer resistant and deer will only consume them as a last resort.