Fall top dressing and over seeding
It’s been a great fall for overseeding. Long and warm, I’ve been reseeding since September and I still have one property to finish.
thegreenerside approach to lawn care:
1) encourage implementation of low maintenance fescues
2) offer dwarf white clover as an alternative, to crowd out existing weeds, to build soil fertility and as a low water option
3) phase out lawns slowly or completely and reintroduce native perennial beds, or edible gardens, or orchards…
In terms of a multi year strategy, any of our work that is done on the lawn now, builds up the fertility for NOW AND LATER, so that if a client does want to make the switch over to another landscape, there is already a good basis in the ground. At that point several discerning questions can lead us and the client on to their next dreamscape: raised bed trellised vegetable beds, mulched medicinal perennial flowers beds, native fruit and nut orchard…
By the way, the fall is THE best time to top dress with compost, peat-less triple mix and especially, WORM COMPOST. I will post a comment on the advantages of worm compost soon as it truly is superior! The cool thing is you can all make this premium organic plant food from the scraps of your kitchen, in your house, odour and fly free!
Until next time…
Chris
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