How Grass is Ripping You Off

This is one of our peaceful pockets ideas, which are easy, earth-friendly ways to save money. You can have a cheaper and beautiful yard with a less watering and maintenance. Your pretty, frugal yard can create community, feed the hungry (including your family), use less water, and  save you time and money on maintenance.

How to Use 75% Less Water on Your Landscaping

How would you like to save money on your landscaping, create community, and help to solve food security? Why not turn your lawn into a garden? This article shows a case study where one homeowner cut his landscaping water usage by 75% by focusing on his garden rather than his lawn.

Our main focus for outdoors is producing food, so we are putting more of our time, money, and water towards fruit and nut trees, berries, herbs, and a vegetable garden.

Luckily all of these have flowers and foliage will add beauty to the landscape. Elderberries make a great evergreen hedge and provide immune supporting berries, for example. Many of our herb choices are very beautiful, such as Echinacea, soapwort for washing, and roses with large edible hips.

Using Less Water Landscaping with Kids and Pets

What about outside the garden beds or in play areas? You can save money on watering and maintenance by re-seeding your lawn with Dutch White clover  (which grows up to 8 inches tall) or embracing other plants that do better with less water in your area. Here is an article all about the pros and cons of a clover lawn, but in a nutshell:

1. It stays greener, even with dogs.


2. It's softer under your feet.


3. It actually improves the soil by fertilizing itself.


4. You don't have to fertilize it, spray it, water it much, weed it, or mow it.


5. It doesn't mind poor soil or weeds.


6. Beneficial insects love it.

We moved into our country home just a few months ago. Though the old homeowner took good care of the property, they had different ideas than we do. Most of the acreage is clay. This means that every time the snow melts, or the rain comes, it's muddy.

You have to be careful not to create holes where the mud grabs your shoes, or the weeds might grow there. Our solution for this problem? Planting low-water Dutch White clover in the "yard" area and clover/alfalfa mix in the rest of the acreage for livestock feed.

Bettering the Yard by Working Less

By planting a clover lawn, we are improving the soil, preventing weeds, and creating a lawn that's greener more of the year than grass.  Since it's so low-maintenance, we will be able to focus on our garden, our livestock, and other projects, while still having a nice place for our kids to play. Plus it's much nicer to look at than mud with weeds.

By planting water-wise clover and a garden which helps feed your family, you can save time and money. You can even help create a sense of community and feed the hungry from your excess. You can improve your soil and enjoy a greener lawn for more of the year. Here's to beautiful low-water landscaping.

For how to save water, more money and time watering, check out this post.

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