A Greener Grass Saves Money

 

People are starting to become aware and change their practices to obtain a healthy low maintenance lawn. Pearl's Premium Ultra Low Maintenance Lawn Seed needs watering once a month.
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From hybrid cars to Michelle Obama’s organic vegetable garden, everyone’s going green—except when it comes to their lawn. Even though September and October, and again April and May are prime grass-planting seasons in New England, some green lawns are not green at all. If a grass can be greener and save on irrigation bills, it’s worth looking into.

“Grass is the biggest crop in the United States,” said Debbie Cook of Greenscapes Massachusetts Coalition, a public-private partnership dedicated to protecting and preserving water. “How we’re handling grass is absolutely the wrong way.”

Grass that’s been over-treated by chemical fertilizers can become impermeable to water, she said. Water that can’t reach the soil has to go somewhere, and that often washes lawn care chemicals down the street into the sewer and into ponds or lakes to grow invasive weeds. Small amounts of fertilizer may end up in the drinking water supply.