Fight Climate Change in Your Own Garden

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Help Slow Earths Warming by Reimagining Your Lawn

Our in-house gardening experts bring you this series of tips and actions you can take in your own garden, whatever its size, to help combat climate change.

Americans spend millions of dollars annually cultivating our lawns and using harsh chemicals to keep this non-native plant weed-free- often harming wildlife, pollinators, and sometimes even pets in the process. If you love your lawn to much to part with it entirely, consider feeding it with compost, instead of synthetic fertilizer, and switching your mower. While a push or ride-on lawn mower is convenient-especially for large swaths of grass- it burns fossil fuels every time you rev that engine plus it creates noise pollution. A battery-powered mower is a much better ( and quieter!) alternative. You could also try a push-reel lawn mower and hand-tools which use no fuel or power but your own and help you stay physically fit.

Image showing 8 layers of mulch: 1. Loose, moistened, aerated soil with added amendments (greensand, other minerals) 2. Cut vegetation (grass, weeds) 3. Nitrogen rich layer (manure, kelp meal, blood meal, compost starters, fresh food scraps) 4. Wet cardboard or newspaper with 6" overlap 5. Repeat nitrogen rich layer, weed free. 6. 6" - 12" brown material (leaves, dried grass, straw, coir) 7. 3" compost. 8. Mulch layer (straw, more leaves, coir mulch)

If all this seems like way too much work (we get it!) then consider reducing the amount of traditional lawn in order to mow less! So for example, mix meadow grasses with wildflowers to help pollinators and support biodiversity. "There are also new, low-mow grasses you can buy", say Cynthia Faith, a certified horticulturalist at our Hadley, Ma garden center. "Or you can plant white clover- a nitrogen fixer which supports pollinators with its flowers and spreads nicely with very little fertilizer input- as an alternative to a lawn. Creeping thyme is another nice alternative, which smells good and has pretty flowers"

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Trees are the most efficient of plants when it comes to draining carbon dioxide from the air, with long-lived shrubs coming in second in their ability to sequester carbon. Long-lived woody perennials, like peonies, and ornamental grasses like pheasant’s tail (with extensive root systems) are also good options. But you can think of every plant— no matter the size — as a tiny carbon sink.

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