Review of week 13 – Ecologically Friendly Gardening

Aerating grass adds oxygen to the soil
Aerating grass adds oxygen to the soil
For this week’s bettering yourself exercise, ecologically friendly gardening, I began by working on my grass. Over the winter it suffered with the frost and foot traffic, resulting in a lot of bare patches and weeds in it.

The sun came out this week, and it was perfect gardening weather, so I hired a company to aerate the grass. This naturally added oxygen to the soil without using fertilizer.

The arerator pulled plugs of grass out of my yard that resembled wine bottle corks, leaving tons of holes in the grass. The dirt plugs started breaking up, and I over-seeded the yard with grass seed to fill in the gaps, then sprinkled it with water.

However, the single most ecologically friendly action I took this week, was buying a push mower. It cuts low and makes the grass look nice after I cut it, and it is a great workout, and requires no gas or electricity to mow the lawn, and I let the mulch (or grass clippings) stay in the grass to fill in the gaps.

Push mowing and leaving the mulch in the grass helps fill in the gaps
Push mowing and leaving the mulch in the grass helps fill in the gaps