Groundcover Revolution: How to use sustainable, low-maintenance, low-water groundcovers to replace your turf - 40 alternative choices for: - No Mowing. - No fertilizing. - No pesticides. - No problem!

The Groundcover Revolution is a movement to replace traditional grass lawns with low-maintenance, eco-friendly alternatives. Over 23 million American adults have already converted part of their lawn, and the book provides information on how to choose the right plants, remove the lawn, and care for the new groundcovers. It also includes 40 in-depth profiles of plants that are perfect for replacing a grass lawn, with options for sun, shade, dry and wet sites, and various climates.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 23 February 2023
Publisher: Cool Springs Press

Are you sick and tired of spending your weekends mowing, trimming, and edging your standard grass lawn? Then it's time to join the Groundcover Revolution and say goodbye to your monotonous lawn! You're not alone in your desire to ditch the lawn and replace it with something more beautiful, diverse, low-maintenance, pollinator-friendly, and beneficial for Earth's climate health. Reducing the lawn is one of the biggest trends in homeownership, with countless homeowners seeking an eco-friendly alternative to a traditional turfgrass lawn. In the past few years alone, over 23 million American adults have converted part of their lawn to a natural landscape, and now they're looking to do even more.

The biggest challenge to adopting this new ideal of the perfect lawn? Knowing how and when to replace your turf and which plants are the best ones for the job. Groundcover Revolution is here to provide you with all the answers you need (and some you didn't even know you needed!). Those answers include:

How replacing a lawn with groundcovers reduces resource consumption on a significant level.
Why groundcovers require far less long-term maintenance than turf after establishment.
The many additional benefits of groundcovers, including erosion control, a reduction in chemical usage, a boost in biodiversity, and mitigation of climate change as a carbon sink.
The ways groundcovers overcome challenges such as tree roots, compacted soils, poor drainage, and dense shade.
The step-by-step mechanics of how to get rid of your lawn, how to place and plant groundcovers from seeds, plugs, or transplants, and how to care for your new "quilted lawn" once it's in place.

Also included are 40 in-depth profiles of plants that are perfect choices for replacing a grass lawn. There are options for sun, shade, dry, and wet.

So why wait? Join the Groundcover Revolution today and transform your yard into a beautiful, sustainable, and low-maintenance landscape that's not only good for you but also good for the planet.

Weight: 582g
Dimension: 234 x 192 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780760378151