A not so green thumb!
I do not have a green thumb. I do not like weeding. I do not like lawn work. I like playing in the grass and nature but I do not like gardening. I never have. I never will. Never. I know, never say never but folks, it just won’t happen. The problem is, I love a nice manicured lawn and if I could make a million dollars telling you this and have someone do it for me, I would. I like a potted plant here and there, some tulips to come up and that’s about it. Every time I get a plant I forget to water it. Then it dies and I feel bad. So what the point? My son planted something in a cup at school and told me to not touch it. I did and guess what, it’s dead. He was not pleased. My yard, however, is huge and we have a ton of landscaping which equal weeds, weeds, weeds. Not cool.
So how the heck will I go earth friendly when it comes to my yard? My hubby likes the big tractors, the bad chemical stuff that kills the weeds and stops the lovely dandelions my sons picks for me. My lovely better half really was a landscaper in another life time. He’s just a natural. I try to tell him, dandelions give us wonderful yellow paint for the sidewalk and I can make many, many necklaces and crowns from them. My cute face and pleading just don’t cut it. I found a company that sells eco-mowers and we’re researching buying one of these. That will cut back on our consumption of gasoline and pollution. If anyone uses an eco-mower, please share your thoughts and feelings on how they operate and cut the grass. We got a lot of tips from the site, Grinning Planet and HGTV had some nifty advice too. Our local lawn and garden center had a few options but after talking to the owner I learned that maybe 20% of his customers seemed interested in “organic” lawn care products. Bummer. So I’m still researching and basically advocating for the weeds and trying hard to not care about a manicured lawn while I lay in the grass with my dandelion crown.
P.S. I’m typing this and the kids and hubby are outside weeding. I'm feeling guilty. Nah, I hate weeding and gardening.
So how the heck will I go earth friendly when it comes to my yard? My hubby likes the big tractors, the bad chemical stuff that kills the weeds and stops the lovely dandelions my sons picks for me. My lovely better half really was a landscaper in another life time. He’s just a natural. I try to tell him, dandelions give us wonderful yellow paint for the sidewalk and I can make many, many necklaces and crowns from them. My cute face and pleading just don’t cut it. I found a company that sells eco-mowers and we’re researching buying one of these. That will cut back on our consumption of gasoline and pollution. If anyone uses an eco-mower, please share your thoughts and feelings on how they operate and cut the grass. We got a lot of tips from the site, Grinning Planet and HGTV had some nifty advice too. Our local lawn and garden center had a few options but after talking to the owner I learned that maybe 20% of his customers seemed interested in “organic” lawn care products. Bummer. So I’m still researching and basically advocating for the weeds and trying hard to not care about a manicured lawn while I lay in the grass with my dandelion crown.
P.S. I’m typing this and the kids and hubby are outside weeding. I'm feeling guilty. Nah, I hate weeding and gardening.
Labels: earth friendly gardening, eco-friendly gardening, Green Moms, home and garden, orgnaic gardening
posted by Green & Clean Mom at
8:00 AM
4 Comments:
Thank you for writing this - we have to be our best shade of green every day and not berate ourselves when, say, our 3 year old really really wants a Thomas cake and we give in so that we can see his face light up with glee when that blue frosting is brought out with candles aglow. We can only do our best, you know?
And my husband just ordered an eco-mower. Hasn't arrived yet but I'm anxious to see how it works.
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We have a smallish lawn and use a reel mower (Scotts) and it works great. My father-in-law has a bigger, but flatter lawn and uses a Brill Luxes (the Mercedes of of reels) and he loves it.
The key to reel mowers, seems to be that you have to stay on top of mowing, as it is a real bugger, if not impossible to mow 5 inch tall grass. And, you want to have a fairly stick free yard -- if you have a tree that drops a lot of branches, they can get caught in the reels and frustrate you to no end. However, if you do a quick rake job prior to mowing, you shouldn't have a problem.
Definitely the best non stinky, planet friendly way to mow! (And get in a little exercise).
I'm with you on hating the weeds but hating the chemicals more. I actually heard something about the synthetic weed killers being better for the environment and made of more natural stuff than regular weed killers.... but I've yet to put anything on my lawn yet. And maaan are we the pride of the neighborhood right now ;)
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