Green and Healthy Lawns Without Fertilizers

Each year throughout most of North America, thousands of pounds of fallen leaves are raked, or collected and find their way either to landfill sites, or burned where permitted. However, for every person who dreads the fall leaf clean up, with all of its raking, or blowing, or bagging should think of how much greener and healthier their lawn could be if they used leaves as natural fertilizer.

Having recently purchased our ten-acre country property with a 1-acre lawn filled with abundant hardwood trees, and 9 acres of mixed forest, I was in need of a new lawn mower. I didn't have the money to purchase a lawn tractor, and, even if I did, it wouldn't do the complete job because of the varying landscape including steep embankments. As well, despite the trend to ease of use with lawn tractors, I enjoyed the exercise of walking behind the lawn mower.

I didn't want to just settle for a regular gas push mower because the lawn was just too big for all that pushing. I also didn't just want a regular cutting blade. Instead, I wanted a mulching blade self-propelled lawn mower to not only make it easier to cut the 1 acre of lawn, but also for it's mulching benefit.

Because we want to live as simply as possible, and with the 3 R's in mind, my mulching mower helps cut the grass to fine pieces thus acting as a fertilizer that naturally breaks down into the earth. In fact, each time I cut the lawn, I'm getting free ground building nutrients. Do you remember all those leaves I talked about - I have a ton of them each fall. So, all I do is cut and mulch my leaves and let they stay where they fall.

As the end of the grass cutting season arrives, and assuming we don't have an early snow that stays, I take one last swing around the entire lawn again merrily mulching my free fertilizer and turf building nutrients. Save money, save your environment, save time leaf collecting, save landfill sites, and get to use free fertilizer - start mulching