Benefits From the Lawn

Lawn care is a task that is well worth the thought and effort that is put into it. You get out of your lawn what you put into it, just like anything else in life. Most of us do not dream of spending great amounts of time working on our lawns but rather spend most of our down time enjoying the lawn. Lawns provide us with beautiful scenery and a soft ground on which to walk or even play on from time to time (frequent walking and standing on lawns can ruin some lawn grasses that do not tolerate trafficking).

Lawns also provide oxygen and filter pollution. This is very beneficial especially in cities, where pollution is a more serious threat. Lawns do not rid cities of air pollution all together but they do help somewhat. The oxygen from lawns contributes better air quality around the home, especially sense homes bring in air from the surrounding area. Along with the oxygen that grass releases it provides moisture as it transpires water vapor from its leaves. We also need this humidity to aid us in maintaining good health. Most of the airborne benefits from a lawn, of course, take place at ground level but the affects can and are felt at higher altitudes.

The color of a verdant lawn naturally gives us a sense of calm and peace as we look at it in reflection. It is in our makeup to feel a sense of pleasure when we look and gaze at the greenery of the natural world. Although lawns are in a not so natural state they do move us in ways that concrete and other hard materials do not. While a well maintained lawn is a beautiful sight a neglected one detracts from whatever it surrounds. Some turf grasses are light green in color and others are a dark green. Even people who may not particularly like the color green enjoy gazing at a lush green lawn.

The home and pantry of many creatures is considered the lawn. Little creatures above and below ground have dwelled in lawns sense the development of lawns. Some insects, bugs, and other earth dwelling animals feed on both roots and dead blades of turfgrass. Some of them can damage the lawn and others do not. Sometimes the damage is due only to an overpopulation of a certain kind of bug and not because of the bug itself. So lawns provide food for animal life. How neat! In most cases, as long as the population of grass eating bugs does not get out of hand you and the bugs can coexist happily together. In fact the bug population also feeds the grass. This occurs when bugs die and decompose, as the grass roots absorb the nutrients that decomposition provides.

When a lawn is cut or mowed the cut grass clippings that fall to the ground provide nutrients and moisture as well to the existing lawn. It is the way the natural world recycles. We can learn much from the natural world around us because there is wisdom to be found there. When we allow small (no longer than one inch) clippings to lie in the lawn this provides fertilizer that one would otherwise supply by other means. To achieve this, the lawn may need to be mowed over more than once to cut the clippings small enough or a mulching mower may be used. When this is done the proud owner of a beautiful lawn will be rewarded with a lush and healthy lawn for years to come. He or she can hold their head up high because of the benefits and dignity that a pristine lawn contributes to them.