The grass is finally green, the sun is out, and the last weekend of May is coming up and so does the planting season in Edmonton. Of course I have already seen the first people wasting drinkable, clean tap water on their lawns. And I am waiting to see all those signs spring up again when people hire a "Green something"-company to treat their lawns with fertilizers and herbicides. Since every gardening company's goal is to make your garden look green and flourishing they represent this in their company's name. But I doubt that many of these companies apply biodegradable "green" substances to the lawns. The fact that they put signs up advising passers-by to keep off the lawn after the substance has been applied makes me personally suspicious. For those of you who do not hire help - well done, because gardening is good for you, especially if you don't use poisons - it's time to think about exactly what to throw on your beds and grass. Native plants are never wrong, vegetables will feed you and if you have children you should not even care about how green or yellow your grass looks, it's being run over frequently any way, hopefully. Children need nature and a garden is a great start. More about this, in another post.
By the way, you might end up fitter leaving all those motor-powered garden tools in the shed and doing one or the other job manually.
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