BCMG Lawn Alternatives
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This Lawn Alternatives garden plot will educate the public about the reasons for reducing the negative impact of lawn maintenance through technique demonstration areas, signage, and educational handouts. BCMG will demonstrate methods for removing turf grass areas, and provide several low-to-no maintenance alternatives to replace areas where turf grass has been removed.
The techniques demonstrated in this plot are: turf removal, native grasses, trees with groundcover, decking, paths, shrub islands, rain gardens, and water features.
Shortly after beginning the Lawn Alternatives demonstration area in August 2024, we approach our first winter with areas in place demonstrating smothering turfgrass, mulching to kill turfgrass, native grasses in a bed of woodchips as an ornamental alternative, and we've planted a Winter King hawthorn tree, Crataegus viridis, surrounded by a groundcover of creeping phlox, phlox stolonifera, using paper sheet mulch to reduce weeding until the groundcover gets established.
The Maryland Extension provides ideas and strategies for reducing turfgrass lawn areas on their Lawn Alternatives page: https://extension.umd.edu/resource/lawn-alternatives/
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