20 Forgotten Lawn Tricks The Amish Use To Keep Their Gardens Perfect
The $105 billion American lawn care and garden industry depends on you never learning what the Amish documented 150 years ago. Setting your mower deck at 3.5 to 4 inches instead of the lowest setting drops weed pressure by over 50% with no herbicide applied. A single toad living under an upturned clay pot eats up to 100 insects every night. A colony of 12 Purple Martins consumes an estimated 2,000 flying insects in a single day. Here are all 20 methods, how they connect, and why the whole system starts with 2 adjustments you can make before noon on Saturday. CHAPTERS 0:00 The $105 Billion Industry and the Lawn at 3.5 Inches 0:29 #20: High Cut Mowing 0:52 #19: Collinear Hoe Weeding 1:47 #18: Newspaper Mulch Paths 2:40 #17: Aromatic Herb Borders 3:41 #16: Morning Hand Picking 4:47 #15: The Toad Shelter 5:48 #14: The Martin House 6:49 #13: Wood Ash Barriers 7:43 #12: Diluted Urine Feeding 8:54 #11: Trench Composting 9:52 #10: Returning Grass Clippings 10:46 #9: Board Press Seeding 11:34 #8: Fork Aeration 12:35 #7: Deep Weekly Watering 13:38 #6: Rotational Rest Mowing 14:32 #5: Ground Cover Replacement 15:28 #4: Spade Cut Bed Edges 16:24 #3: Dry Laid Stone Edging 17:16 #2: Winter Mulching 18:14 #1: The Rotation Plan 19:14 One System Not 20 Separate Jobs
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