How to Get Your Lawn Off Grass
By: Carole Rubin
Millions of people on the planet don't have access to safe drinking water. Those who do, find that privilege increasingly at risk due to pollution, the population explosion, and global warming. Yet we will pour 38,000 litres (10,000 gallons) on a lawn over a summer, just to keep it green.
Let that sink in.
Add to this fact that the run-off from chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides has seriously compromised ground water supplies everywhere in the United States and Canada. While most of us would say that we tend our green spaces for spiritual and emotional health, few realize how seriously we endanger our physical health by doing so.
How to Get Your Lawn Off Grass invites us to replant those spaces with gorgeous native ground covers, flowers, shrubs, trees and grasses that will need no chemicals, no mowing and no water. Rubin provides step-by-step instructions to make the conversion easy and inexpensive as possible and colourful photographs to prove that native gardens can rival any ornamental exotic garden for beauty and colour. This book is a poke with the reality stick, a spark to the imagination and a valuable addition to twenty-first century gardening literature.
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