Goodbye Lawn! With Jeanne McRight

Looking to get rid of your high-maintenance lawn? Replacing existing lawns with native plants is a great way to save water, time and energy PLUS provide much-needed habitat and food for local wildlife. We dive into the benefits of replacing existing lawns with locally native plants and leave you with practical tools to help you transform your lawn into an easy-care, pollinator-friendly space where native plants thrive.
Our presenter is Jeanne McRight, Founder and President of Blooming Boulevards, an Ontario, Canada-based non-profit whose mission is to “Create networks of residential boulevard gardens that serve as a corridor for native pollinator population movement, enabling bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects to reach each other.”

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Blooming Boulevards is a great resource. It has helped me tremendously on my gardening journey

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I tried the cardboard technique and it actually works. After string trimming the grass really short in early Spring, I held sheets of the cardboard down with logs or rocks and then covered it with some peat moss to help speed up the rotting process. Planted some fleabane, coneflowers, joe pye, & blanket flower plugs directly into the area after about a month. All plants survived and are doing great. Make sure your cardboard overlaps a few inches or weeds will sneak through.

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Disappointed that any gardener would use even a drop of roundup. It kills the microorganisms in the soil.. and gets into the water table/water for humans… Also please understand that LIVE compost is the best. Compost tea can be added to compost to make it alive. Watch Elaine Ingram’s videos. Loretta Stagen.