Maintaining your lawn

With the hot sun pouding on your lawn as you sit and watch your crass turn a burnt yellow here are some suggestions i have pulled;

It Takes Water and Money to Keep Grass Lawns Green
Besides hogging public water supplies—over 50 percent of U.S. residential water usage goes to irrigate lawns—a 2002 Harris Survey found that American households spend $1,200 per year on residential lawn care. Indeed, the booming lawn care industry is more than eager to convince us that our grass can be greener—and then sell us all the synthetic fertilizers, toxic pesticides and leaky lawnmowers to make it so.

Groundcover Plants and Clover Require Less Maintenance than Grass Lawns
According to Eartheasy.com, which offers online insights on a host of environmental issues alongside books and green products for sale, there are many alternatives to a carpet of monochromatic grass for one’s property. They recommend groundcover plants and clover, which spread out and grow horizontally and require no cutting.

Some varieties of groundcover are Alyssum, Bishops Weed and Juniper. Common clovers include Yellow Blossom, Red Clover and Dutch White, the best suited of the three for lawn use. Groundcover plants and clovers naturally fight weeds, act as mulch and add beneficial nitrogen to the soil.