LAWN = YAWN: 10 Ways to Create a BIODIVERSE, DYNAMIC LAWNSCAPE

LAWN = YAWN: 10 Ways to Create a BIODIVERSE, DYNAMIC LAWNSCAPE - Ep. 262

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Ай бұрын

Lawns have both pros and cons, but we're not really "lawn people" per se, so we're constantly experimenting with different ways to convert our lawn into more dynamic, biodiverse spaces on the land. We've compiled 10 techniques-many of which we've done or are in the process of doing-to help spark new ways of thinking about the "lawnscape."
Special thanks to ‪@EspomaOrganic‬ for partnering with us on this video.
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@RichardPallardy Ай бұрын

Great example of what I've tried to tell people: gardening is painting in 3-D. It's like the melding of painting and sculpture. Really beautiful. Well-done you guys.

@wimhance6541 Ай бұрын

The grasses in the lower meadow are already beautiful. You have a nice balance between more formal plots and wilder areas. It's all managed landscape, but there's such a range of mood and atmosphere. My God, you've worked hard. 💪

@gasperkanoni8838 Ай бұрын

You two are making real wildlife resort fo wondering animals and self seeded plants💪🏾🙏🌈🐉 greetings from 🇸🇮 slovenia We have native grass lawns all over the country and it looks amazing with all of the herbs an annual and perennial flowers ❤❤❤❤

@Myglowtips Ай бұрын

Thank you so much, that your videos are a decent length of time. One can really enjoy a cup of tea or coffee, sit back and savor the visuals, information and even admire the stunning style of Summer Rain.

@emkn1479 Ай бұрын

Love a balanced approach. No, lawns aren’t very well suited to our climate, and agree with all the points you make, but I see so many birds foraging for food in the lawn. Clover and violets in my lawn feed insects. I don’t think merely having a lawn is the issue, it’s more the overuse of inputs to maintain it to an unrealistic standard. And for those trying to maintain a lawn with minimal inputs, letting it grow long and then cutting a lot of length at one time can actually make it less resilient. So we have areas we mow and leave other areas grow all season. I’m slowly adding more plants I grow while also trying to beat back invasives…unfortunately we don’t have a wide variety of native flowers hiding in the lawn…just a very few. I’ve just decided that it’s going to be a lifelong endeavor/project. Trying to reclaim our land and add native plants to combat aggressive natives, feed wildlife, and offer a more appealing look. The invasive weeds like to take over. On another note, why can’t dry granular fertilizers be in PAPER bags?! 😭 There are a few brands doing it, but nowhere near enough.

@Fellowtellurian Ай бұрын

So impressed! Keep planting my little squirrel friends!

@nicholcleminson8984 Ай бұрын

Love what you are doing, learning even though my property is a fraction of yours !

@erichowe1954 Ай бұрын

Thank you for the time you took to make this video! I always enjoy watching and you’re so well spoken. Your property is my DREAM! One day. Take care! 😊

@timgarner1957 Ай бұрын

Little less yawn! Love it.. great ideas.. love the work and effort you've put into the landscape! It's really starting to show..and it's only been 3 years! Thank for inviting us along!

@srantoniomatos Ай бұрын

The way you are doing it is perfect. And beautifull! One great advantage: very good compost material.

@paulnee4156 Ай бұрын

This whole endeavor has provided me and my wife ideas for enhancing our 3 1/2 acres bordering the Pacific Ocean. 1 acre is dunes with introduced dune grasses. Not sure what would be beneficial but it's worth doing the research to possibly add interest and variety in the dunes. Wildlife abounds here. Blacktail Deer, Black Bear, Racoons, Douglas Squirrel, Bald Eagles, Vultures, Osprey, Ravens, and both Anna's (year around) & Rufous Hummingbirds not to mention the numerous shore birds and gulls. Leaving a half acre lawn between the house and dunes to play with .Part will be several 4' x 8' raised beds but the rest is open to whatever. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us. It's much appreciated and inspiring.

@FireflyOnTheMoon Ай бұрын

Really nice to hear voice over from Saunder. I would be interested to hear about tick pressure in NY state and how you deal with it yourselves. In meadowlising could you leave the first mow to August? Better for wildlife. Investigate micro-clover. It's much better for lawn replacement

@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst Ай бұрын

Micro-clover is great for people who just want a low maintenance grass substitute, but for those who are little more into the whole Native Meadow thing, there are many other options. My yard has Beach Wormwood, Wild Strawberries, Pussytoes, and Native Opuntia, among others. It's not done yet, but eventually I hope to have a no-mow pollinator oasis.

@christinelarkin8054 Ай бұрын

Guinea keets love ticks, don't scratch like chickens. They like to graze

@PrismaticFarm Ай бұрын

I started with 30 guineas for tick control. Over the course of a year we have lost over half of them to predators unfortunately

@Tminus89 Ай бұрын

Didn't know Zegge/Carex was so useful, I will reconsider putting some in then :) Getting more biodiversity in my garden is something I keep striving for

@kathymacomber5115 Ай бұрын

I just found one of our native tree frogs.. it comes from being organic and allowing some very natural areas

@Myglowtips Ай бұрын

Lawn is beautiful, therapeutic and is nature‘s own carpet. I do not understand people who do not like lawn and cement everything.

@sandragoerlich7134 Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, you guys accomplish a lot is looking so beautiful and peaceful!

@Myglowtips Ай бұрын

Summer Rain looks so beautiful, hair and skirt blowing in the wind. Would love for her to start something where we can purchase the style of clothes she wears. They always looks high end with a boho twist, so comfortable but never boring.

@samuelferrell9257 Ай бұрын

I never noticed how tone your arms are, way to stay fit!👊💪

@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn Ай бұрын

Another captivating video!

@Fellowtellurian Ай бұрын

IYKYK

@tamsyngardner9308 Ай бұрын

Wow all looks so beautiful ❤

@emkn1479 Ай бұрын

I am also solarizing a large patch of my field (with clear plastic) to try and combat stiltgrass. I removed most grass and roughed up the soil beforehand, anticipating sowing native seeds in the fall. Should I try to disturb the soil as little as possible when seeding so as not to bring up more stiltgrass seeds? How deep does solarizing kill dormant seeds?

@SeekingBeautifulDesign Ай бұрын

On cardboard over strong established lawn, perhaps with perennials "weeds": When doing cardboard overlaps as you showed, the weeds will sometimes push between the cardboard despite the overlap. Sometimes things get shifted by feet and gaps open. As well, the bare area you leave right around the potted plant often grows. I've taken to using the center of a large piece of cardboard and digging out the smallest hole in the cardboard needed to fit the plant through (or sometimes fit the cardboard over). Dig the hole, place the cardboard, plant the plant (or put the cardboard over the planted plant). Now you have a contiguous set of cardboard around the plant. Also, if you can get a truckload of chips dumped where you want to kill lawn, you get the effect with no effort. Even if you did distribute the pile quickly, you'd just have to avoid spending much effort getting the last bits off and you'll have your kill. If it takes you a year to move that pile or take a worldwide vacation, automatic kill. Always nice to get others (truck driver) to do your work.

@gasperkanoni8838 Ай бұрын

Just beautiful like in our country❤❤❤

@kimberlycrisler6834 Ай бұрын

Love these updates and what you are doing there!!!

@charlesbale8376 Ай бұрын

Really enjoyed the meadow/lawn tutorial. I am always looking for tips and tricks on attracting pollinators and wildlife.

@cefcat5733 Ай бұрын

Yeah, the high grass beds, around the paths, are cool. The shimmer thing is heavenly. You have the best, of tame and wild, side-by-side. It all looks great. You can almost feel and breathe the botanical family humidity. I think that Sander should begin to design, with your help and build a beautiful, long, smooth, weather-resistant bench, to sit on, while viewing the water birds.Maybe the sides could be higher too and wider, so that 1 or even 2 people could relax, with their legs/feet along the bench, backs leaning on the sides, look across, at each other, or next to each other and ponder the scene. It could even have a roof. But, you can see much better, than us and plan, for the reality and drone perspective. It shouldn't block the view either. A beach basket, for people to sit in, would be a cozy thing too. Does your friend weave baskets that big? Just kidding. It should maybe keep the rain out too, so that the seats don't get so wet. I like the splashes of Poppies, even where they landed. Were those bushes, with white flowers and bees, lilacs? Things are coming together, aren't they? Much success.

@chetmyers7041 Ай бұрын

23:05 A small black dog, or perhaps a rabbit dashes from left to right across the curving path leading to the pond. It can be seen bounding in the tall grass on left.

@Gin0827 Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@joansmith3492 Ай бұрын

lovely, lovely gardens!

@savedsole3848 Ай бұрын

Gorgeousness

@Gin0827 Ай бұрын

Thank you for educating us on naturalizing and creating meadows. I provide so much for songbirds and do not use chemicals so they can feed on insects and caterpillars. I have problems going out in my yard and being eaten by mosquitoes, ticks and flies. Do you have recommendations to reduce bug pressure for me while allowing birds plenty of habitat for fledglings?

@Dirt-Fermer Ай бұрын

A pond with mosquito dunks or mosquito fish and then for ticks just keep checking yourself and wear long legged clothes and tuck in your shirt and tape your pants ankle to your boots

@emkn1479 Ай бұрын

There is a trapping method that Dr Doug Tallamy recommends. Add straw/plant debris to a bucket of water and let it sit, the released gas will attract mosquitos after a few days. They lay eggs, you put a mosquito dunk in, all the larvae dies. That’s the gist. Google it for more detailed instructions. And I’ve heard that nematodes applied to the lawn can help reduce tick populations. Maybe there’s something like that for fleas too.

@lindylou3519 Ай бұрын

Lawns are beneficial & gives the landscape a nice restful place for the eyes.

@ContemplativeSoul Ай бұрын

The lawning of America has gone far beyond being beneficial due to its oversaturation

@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst Ай бұрын

Please tell me more. In what ways are lawns beneficial?

@cefcat5733 Ай бұрын

I'd say that the Japanese Maples are mascots. 💕

@rebeccaz789 Ай бұрын

Beneficial nematodes are helpful for the lawn in Florida. I don't know why it is not a more prevalent solution!

@bjrockensock Ай бұрын

Wow! What an opening drone shot! I really want to know what is behind that row of thuja on the far side... is that a grove of evergreens behind? Can you show us what's back there?

@ecocentrichomestead6783 Ай бұрын

I should send you a picture of my "lawn". You'd be sooo jealous! 😂

@gasperkanoni8838 Ай бұрын

If you build a sand mound with som branches and a brunch and other litter you will bring in more reptiles to nest in that mounds. And if you have turtles in the pond you just made a mound of dirt on a side of a laje and they will nest allso. Ehat about amphibians dobyou have them? O im so curious 😂😇🥰🦾❤️❤️❤️

@mikeymopar1171 Ай бұрын

Have you ever tried chip drop service they will come to your house and drop wood chips off for free see if they have it in your area

@Tminus89 Ай бұрын

Don't you have a lot of grass seedlings coming up in your borders? The house next to me is currently empty, the grass grew out and was blooming for a while before it was cut back last week. I've been removing so much from my own garden, more grass than all other weeds combined

@sleepersix Ай бұрын

Wherer do you get all the money for this?

@rjaquaponics9266 Ай бұрын

Most municipalities might mow your Meadows and hand You a bill. One person's meadow is a zoning board's worst nightmare. Be careful for what You wish for. Signage might be needed. Beautiful Meadows!

@SimonHaestoe Ай бұрын

Wow, it's cool how much youve got a hold on what youve done 💪btw, the view - towards the house - at 27:13 should become some kind of Merch..! It really captures something a lot of nature romantics want to capture with the exception that it looks natural..! It isnt staged and that's rare asf 👍👍both the combo of the wildness and seeing home, the different colors, and also the contrast of the absolute order - of the straight pathway - surrounded by the wild ⚡ "In from the wild" ✨

@janelleryan7869 Ай бұрын

It would be great if a chemist actually created something that kills only ticks. No other life, included life in the soil.

@christinelarkin8054 Ай бұрын

Rocks have minerals!

@mariagamboa6249 Ай бұрын

💚💚🤝💚💚

@20cameron1 11 күн бұрын

It would be much better to do all native. It’s so disappointing to see someone talk about diversity and then plant mostly what’s not native: that does not benefit the pollinators and wildlife.

@christinelarkin8054 Ай бұрын

Realize people, electric is not environmentally friendly. Mow high, it won't need as much water. A lawn is one of the best carbon eaters, no need for fertilizer if you let the clippings go back onto it, it's great for mulching! The only negative lawn is one that's a monoculture and chemically fertilized.

@ambulocetusnatans Ай бұрын

I have 2 questions for you please. What is an environmentally friendly alternative to both electric and gas? And can you think of another type of landscape that could hold even more carbon than a lawn?

@christinelarkin8054 Ай бұрын

@@ambulocetusnatans the info is out there, do your research. Turn off the TV. go out and really look! And listen. Get outside of the city walls(prisons)

@ambulocetusnatans Ай бұрын

@@christinelarkin8054 I knew you were either going to have a friendly conversation or you were going to avoid the question. Since you avoided the question, that tells me everything I need to know. In my experience, when somebody says "do your own research", it means they have no evidence for their assertions. Just so you know, I haven't watched TV in over 20 years, and I work outside in the country. I think you need to put the phone down and get off of social media.

@christinelarkin8054 Ай бұрын

@@ambulocetusnatans good for you! You answered my question. You know everything!

@ambulocetusnatans Ай бұрын

@@christinelarkin8054 Well, thank you. I'm glad I could help you see reason. Keep an open mind and learn some Critical Thinking skills, and i have confidence that one day you may even surpass me.