It’s the time of year where my neighbors with perfectly manicured lawns do their fall treatments. In addition to applying their monthly poison weedkiller, they aerate, seed and fertilize their laws. I am quite familiar with the process. My wife insisted we do this every year. She was obsessed with having a weed free, beautiful lawn. Nowadays, I have a natural lawn. It’s not as uniform and immaculate, but it is poison free. It seems silly to me to spend extra time and money to make my grass grow faster so I have to mow it more frequently.
The worst is that a few of my neighbors have spread manure all over their lawns for fertilizer. It smells awful whenever I walk past their lawns so I know they have to smell this anytime they enter or leave their their homes. Wiggles, of course, loves fresh manure. It’s a tasty treat to her. Since I can smell these yards before we get close to them, Drag Wiggles to the other side of the street so she cannot dig into the mess.
Manure is better than poisoness chemical fertilizers. At least it’s natural and biodegradable. But unless I start growing my own food, you won’t catch me making my yard smell bad on purpose.