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Trust in nature – and stop raking up your garden leaves
(www.theguardian.com)
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Usually I mulch mow my leaves. This year I just left them whole. We'll see come spring how much the anti-leaf doomsayers are correct or not. "It can kill grass!" they say. Well, I'm not trying to make my yard look like a golf course in the first place, so maybe let's start there.
Golf course lawns are lame and terrible for the environment.
I've actually realised the same.. A month ago, I've bought thousands of flower seeds and just seeded my whole lawn and told my housemate to stop mowing.
Front lawn is already full of small flowers (and in another month, hoping by mid summer), since I went overboard, hoping they've overtaken all the grass.
Also, planning to seed bomb the nature strips around me lol... Going to buy up 20 packets or more of random seeds and sprinkle them around my block
Make sure the seeds you buy are for local varieties of plants! Local grasses, flowers, trees, bushes, even so called weeds as long as they're native to the area! Weeds aren't real, we made it up; there is only native and invasive. All plants serve a purpose in their natural habitat!
Yep. I've been ordering seeds online only listed as native to Australia. Same as the fruit trees and such I have started growing in my yard.
Not sure if they're local to my exact area btw, but native to Australia, apparently yes.