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reduce maintenance
One reason many people want to shrink their lawns is to relieve them of the burdensome chores associated with mown turf -- the cutting, edging, trimming, fertilizing, aerating, and raking that a perfect lawn seems to demand. You can decrease lawn-related labor significantly by using ecologically sound lawn care and by replacing your turf with fescues or other slow- and low-growing grasses. There are also many styles of non-lawn landscape that are less dependent on human labor. Naturalistic landscapes in particular can stay healthy and beautiful, and even improve over time, with very little maintenance.
lawn care
planting
watering
clover in lawns
fescue lawns
prairie maintenance
perennial edibles
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Clover Improves Your Lawn
Clover makes your lawn healthier, easier to maintain, and more stylish.
Perennial Edibles: Growing a Low-maintenance food garden
Reduce your personal energy "footprint" and your garden chores by growing some of your own food in a perennial garden.
Alternatives to the Traditional Lawn
Transform some of your lawn to native grass and wildflowers--here's expert advice on planting and maintenance plus regional plant lists.
Discover Your Garden's Microclimates
Understanding your garden's microclimates can help you choose the right spot for a plant on your first try.
How Much Water?
In a roundabout way, your plants need exactly the amount of extra water you give them.
Through Nature's Eyes: The look of a low-maintenance landscape
Four signs of a healthy landscape that clash with our standards of beauty...
Grandma's Fool-Proof Wet Planting Technique
Simultaneously give your plants a head-start in life and recapture the childhood joys of playing in the mud.
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Native Grass Lawns
Use native grasses to replace lawns--as short turf, grassy
wildland, or mixed with flowers in a meadow or prairie.
My Love for Fescue Lawns
Learn more about low-maintenance alternative lawns from fescue lawn pioneer Miriam Goldberger.
EDGE Your New Beds
How to edge a smothered, or soon to be smothered, planting bed.
Lawn Care Tips from a Pro
A landscape designer and former golf course superintendent explains basic lawn care steps that are easy on the pocketbook and friendly to the environment.
Golf Courses Shrink Turf
When golf courses shrink their lawns, they benefit both economically and ecologically, and so do their communities.
Ongoing Maintenance and Rewards of a Prairie Garden
A prairie community thrives with leisurely, low-tech maintenance that deepens your sensory connection to the land.
Water's Edge Lawns are for the Birds
Do you know an organic, low-maintenance, non-violent way to keep Canada geese and mallards off nearby lawns? We do.
5 Native Grasses for a Luscious Lawn
Introducing five native grasses that, used in appropriate sites,
will help you create a healthy, easy-care lawn.
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