Cyanobacteria Alert Issued for Blackey Cove (Moultonborough)

[FlyingScot]

Originally Posted by ishoot308

When I first bought my island camp, the lot of land was mostly sand and was just washing away into the lake during every rainstorm of high water wake days.

The first thing I did was buy a bag of the cheapest grass seed at Sam’s club and just threw it out over the sand hoping for the best. Well lo and behold if that grass didn’t grow and grow dam well without fertilizer or anything and that was 16 years ago!

To this day that grass or whatever you want you want to call it (it’s green) has held up and held up well and has never seen an ounce of fertilizer or any chemicals whatsoever! I only water it. It has also kept my land from washing away into the lake!

My point is grass does not need to be fertilized to serve its purpose. Yeah mine won’t win any landscape contest but we love it and it has held up amazingly well!

Dan

Agreed! I cannot take credit for planting our "lawn"--grass, clover, weeds, moss, all cut but never fertilized or otherwise treated--but it definitely reduces erosion compared to bare dirt

[John Mercier]

Originally Posted by FlyingScot

Agreed! I cannot take credit for planting our "lawn"--grass, clover, weeds, moss, all cut but never fertilized or otherwise treated--but it definitely reduces erosion compared to bare dirt

Bare dirt is also unnatural.

Laconia primary schools used to be highly dedicated to the basics.
It was understood that most would grow up to work locally in careers that did not require a college education, but required a lot of basic knowledge on agriculture and the trades.

So up until the fifth grade, we did a lot of agriculture which was something most of us were used to... then in middle school to finish off our primary training, they added wood and metal shop, home ec/cooking, and sewing for the full three years.

[Descant]

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