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How well you take care of your lawn may indicate your personal hygiene.

This is obviously not true across the board.

I have a neighbor with perfect teeth and a couple guys she calls friends and her lawn is dirt. She seems to be doing OK, I guess, but she could care less about her overgrown shrubs and dirt hill lot.

And for the environment, providing soot and dust to the air is about as much action that takes place on her property. She’s not contributing to potential benefits, environmentally and appearance wise. It’s not helping my property value any.

More than likely, it’s decreasing the value of my place. I need to have a talk with her. An intervention is long overdue.

We all know the process of photosynthesis–I don’t want to recap 8th grade science, but to get the most out of your lawn, you have to work with what you have been given.

Riding the tide is much easier than fighting the ocean. That’s easy to say. Reaching the shore is one thing, learning how to get there without losing sight of your towel and umbrella is a different feat.

My neighbor, Sara will be her name, is doing everything right to create a perfect environment for a rich, green lawn to strive. But it’s not what she is doing, it’s what she isn’t doing.

That sounds elitist but it’s quite simple. It’s not hard to get green grass, but getting green grass with nature’s guidance is even easier. I’m not asking to find your center or chi.

I’m just asking you to consider a new way of looking at the damage that occurs when thriving lawns are manicured improperly, and examine the environmentally sound ways of caring for your piece of countryside to decrease negative impact on what has been thriving long before you were here. It’s not a secret.

Nature will do the work for you. The key is to not negate what nature has given you.

Realistically, Sara does not care to mow her yard. And really, it’s dirt so it would be pointless to start.

It all begins with Soil. But let me jump back a few feet and get you dialed in.

Why don’t you take what you’ve learned, and you volunteer to care for her yard?

She might even pay you, I don’t know. (see Title, repeat)