My neighbour brags every year about spending $400 a month watering his St Augustine, then asks me what my secret is since I never water my full sun lawn and it’s lush all summer.
The answer he never believes is that the secret is controlled neglect. Anything that survived the summer and winter gets a month to grow in the spring to put down roots, then it gets mowed every other week at the second to highest deck level.
That means that my lawn is almost completely comprised of local species.
My neighbour brags every year about spending $400 a month watering his St Augustine, then asks me what my secret is since I never water my full sun lawn and it’s lush all summer.
The answer he never believes is that the secret is controlled neglect. Anything that survived the summer and winter gets a month to grow in the spring to put down roots, then it gets mowed every other week at the second to highest deck level.
That means that my lawn is almost completely comprised of local species.