This Fall, rather than raking and blowing those autumn leaves off your lawn and garden why don’t you just mow them into your lawn and leave them in your garden.
It is best to mow them when they are dry – the leaves will disintegrate into leaf dust which filters down into the grass and out of sight. Worms will then take over, and in a matter of days pull all the leaf chips down into the ground thus providing composted organic nutrients to the lawn.
Next spring the result will be a healthier lawn – obtained without adding commercial fertilizer.
The other benefit garnered from feeding your worms is added soil porosity that the well fed worms will develop in your soil.
When NEORSD [1] finally comes to their senses and puts in a storm water tax program like Ann Arbor’s [2], those worm holes in your lawn and garden are going to be money in the bank. I’ll bet that Ann Arbor continues to refine its storm water soil percolation strategy and begins to distinguish lawn and soil surfaces not only by their appearance, but by their actual rainwater infiltration performance.
I think our lawns eventually will be perc tested - (percolation tested) just as septic fields are now perc tested. – and the better the performance of a lawn in absorbing rainwater, the less storm water abatement tax you will pay on your property.
So why not start this Fall in developing a more absorbent lawn?
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Links:
[1] http://www.neorsd.org/
[2] http://li326-157.members.linode.com/blog/jeff-buster/ann-arbor-promulgates-smart-tiered-stormwater-tax
[3] http://li326-157.members.linode.com/system/files/mow+your+leaves.jpg