• The grass is the main consumer of water in the garden.
• The grass requires high maintenance: watering, fertilizing, mowing, profiles, windy, scarification, reseeding, control pests and fungi.
• The grass is contraindicated in Organic Gardening.
• There are other alternatives to cover the ground:
- Ground cover plants
- Masses of shrubs
- Pine bark
- Gravel and decorative aggregates
- Floor
• If you are not going to give up, devote a small area, so it is important for his family, perhaps the central area around the pond and a few other areas.
• Avoid implanted into marginal areas or steep slopes (slopes), better put in ground cover plants such sites.
• Choose a mixture of grasses that are resistant to drought.
• Get a little water to the grass roots to go deeper. Do not water so often.
• Less means less use of lawn mowers and trimmers to edge, thus reducing fossil fuel consumption and emissions of noise and smoke.
• grasses are also often treated with insecticides, fungicides and herbicides. Therefore should be avoided.
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