The only most important thing you can do in your home to save the earth is to remodel it. This reduces energy loss and reduces fossil fuel consumption.
Much cheaper is the second most convenient thing you can do with your property to save the planet. Go to your hut, get a spade, get out there and kill your lawn.
Finely chop it, dig it up, and tear the grass.
Are you upset? Let’s approach like this. Imagine for a moment that the concept of lawn does not exist. And you have to explain it and lawn maintenance to those who have never heard of it.
You might say something like this:
Somewhere over time, it was decided that large patches of domesticated grass should be installed in every home in the western world, even though no grazing animals or outdoor sports are planned. ..
This is called your lawn.
To achieve perfection on your lawn, you should use only a single type of grass plant. The thinner the leaves of this variety, the better the lawn. Only one kind of herb. Not many combinations as it can occur naturally.
Of course, other grass and plant types will begin to appear within the particular grass type you have selected.
It is a natural way for seeds to be blown away. So you will need to punch them out. To eliminate these other types of plants, it is necessary to apply expensive industrially manufactured poisons on a regular basis during the life of the lawn. We call the plants that naturally sow your lawn “weeds”, and the poisons we kill them are called “herbicides”. And we’ll use it quite a lot — almost £ 10 million a year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (2012). One-half to two-thirds of what we use is a chemical called glyphosate, which some argue that it causes cancer in humans. Keep putting it in the soil.
The next thing you need to do is make sure that the single homogeneous grass variety you choose grows as vibrant and lush as possible. Therefore, it is necessary to apply artificial fertilizer many times. Again, as long as there is a lawn, regularly.
They damage the environment by artificially increasing certain elements in the soil at the expense of other elements. The use of artificial fertilizers deteriorates the natural soil environment by killing large numbers of healthy microfauna species in the soil. That is, many types of micro-animals, such as amoebas, protozoa, and nematodes, that naturally breed in normal soil and aid their function. If the soil is rainforest, you are killing most of its creatures.
The longer you use it, the more fertilizer you will need. And, as intensive farming has been proven worldwide, it’s also a great way to ultimately destroy soil.
Since the selected grass varieties are artificially sprouting, you would never want it to mature and bloom for the benefit of insects, pollen maters, and the plant itself. In fact, the herb should be cut to a uniform level within 1-2 inches from the ground. All blades should be cut to exactly the same height. To do this, you will need a specially designed machine that runs on electricity or gasoline.If you have a lot of grass, you will need a self-propelled version of a larger vehicle with a two-stroke engine
Every week, you need to use a machine to mow the grass to maintain a height that hugs a particular ground throughout the growing season.
To mow and maintain the lawn, you need to keep adding poison and fertilizer until you are too old. And then you’ll have to force a young relationship or otherwise hire an entrepreneurial teenager who doesn’t want to do it for you. So why do you have to do all this?
Well, it looks good.
And that’s how we justify the lawn.
But of course you don’t have to do that. And stopping it will bring many benefits to the planet.
In the context of today’s climate change threat, the concept of lawn as a component of someone’s house, used solely for the show, is as anachronistic as burning coal.
Just like remodeling a house and buying an electric car, killing the lawn, or at least the excess lawn attached to the house, is just one thing we all have to do.
And in addition to saving the earth, you will also save a considerable amount of time in your life.according to Professional landscape architect magazineThe average sucker spends a full two months of their life mowing the grass.
So what would you put there instead? You can wild the lawn and plant plants that are commonly used for the lives of birds, bees and insects.
Gravel floors interspersed with flowers are an option that requires less maintenance, less damage, and looks smarter. And even maintenance-free plastic lawns have proven to be a better option for environments without poisons, chemicals and mowing in the long run, even though they are damaging to the environment through their manufacture. There is a possibility that You can set up a raised floor to grow salads, Brassica and vegetables.
Some homeowners not only put flowers and gravel beds in their yard, but also take some or all of the public lawn managed by Congress out of the house.
And some homeowners of urban real estate are planting meadow flowers in these lawn spaces (see above).
Meanwhile, some councils have begun to leave grass patches in public parks and greens in the estate to grow fully on honeysuckles, daisies, buttercups, nettles and more. It looks great and everything is beneficial. Nettles feed caterpillars that make butterflies.
I’m not talking about kids getting rid of all the grass around your house to play, but talking about using it more for nature, or at least to kill it. ..
Over the last decade, we’ve seen wildflower seed packs, “bee hotels,” and birdhouses fill supermarkets and gardening centers.
So killing your lawn has never been easier. The alternatives are: By maintaining the spread of fine grass, you are helping to fill the future outlook of our planet under your patio.
Next week: What to do about the golf course.
