Lawns Hub

Thinking lawns is thinking green. And in that area, sharing some thoughts on my mind today.

Lawn care products pollution can be a scary look at a potential problem. The tendency to urbanize has pushed people closer together and created situations where this massing can produce any number of effects, among them, unfortunately, a tendency for lawn care products pollution. Frequent uses of machines generating gas-powered carbon monoxide emissions spew from those gas powered machines we all love to maintain our lawns and gardens with. Pesticides and fertilizers can also create a witch’s brew of poisonous run off, especially so when irrigation practices include over watering. Mowing for an hour is the pollution equivalent of driving a car 20 miles. Spreading 40 pounds of a petroleum-based fertilizer is the equivalent of pouring 2.5 gallons of gas on your lawn.

These represent some scary facts when one considers the sheer volume of thier usage. Having said all that, you often need to drive 20 miles. 2.5 gallons of gas will get a normal car about 40 miles. These are all actions within a certain reason and are only alarming when considering a vast and compressed scale of usage. Help is on the way for these things as remedies are appearing, especially considering herbicides and pesticide usage,factors which I have not yet dealt with here but which could well be far more dangerous in terms of soil and water contamination.

There are abundant examples where we can do better. And I, for one, feel we will gradually become less dependent on these inorganic methods, especially when one considers the number and quality of folks now bending their backs into the science of finding alternatives. Some of the more promising findings yet involve genetic manipulation of grasses and more drought-tolerant plants and crops. These can also be made more disease and pest-resistant.