Lawns

[madrasahs]

Originally Posted by Lakegeezer

I don't understand your opinion. Lawns help prevent erosion into the lake. They are a good place to sit and walk in your bare feet. What is the problem with a lawn as long as you don't use fertilizer? The one at our place is a bit scraggley, but so what? I believe it has a positive impact on the quality of the lake.

Soils around Winnipesaukee are generally poor. Fifty years ago, rainwater washed little in the way of nutrients into the lake.

But a lawn gets its start in a bed of rich loam and the usual spraying and fertilizing "maintenance" greens it -- wastefully. Maintaining the nitrogen and phosphorus in the loam to keep lawns "green" will eventually make the lake green.

"Scraggly" lawns? Whatever floats your boat.

Come to think of it -- it may very well come to "whatever floats your boat".