Is Your Lush, Green Lawn Killing Mother Nature?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. I'll never understand this notion of poisoning the landscape

If you have an infestation, it's from an imbalance.

I mow my yard, but that's it. Rain provides the water, critters and rotting grass and leaves provide the fertilizer, and the bugs have been battling since before we stood upright. There are some ironweeds that don't get mowed because they have pretty blooms in summer. Also some poke is left to run wild -- it's already much taller than I am and spread out to about 10 ft in diameter -- because my grandson likes to do battle with the dead stalks late in the fall or early winter. If something interesting pops up, I can mow around it until I see what it becomes.

A lawn without some wildness in it is boring.