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Maintaining your lawn in a sustainable, ecological way helps protect the environment while promoting soil and plant health. A few simple gestures are all it takes to reduce watering needs, limit waste, improve biodiversity and comply with municipal regulations.
Recommended practices for a sustainable lawn
- Cut your lawn to a height of 7.5 cm (3 in.)
- Prevents weeds and pests (aphids, grubs, etc.) from invading.
- Allows deep rooting, reducing water requirements.
- Increases natural resistance to disease and drought.
- Herbicycle – Leave grass clippings in place after cutting.
- Provides up to 30% of your lawn’s fertilizer needs free of charge.
- Retains soil moisture, reducing watering frequency.
- Diverts up to 25% of waste from landfill.
- Use the water collected in your rainwater collector when watering is necessary.
- Spread compost on your lawn to provide maximum nutrients
Make your own compost… an ecological and economical practice!
Encourage biodiversity in your lawn
- Choose a diversified lawn (ecological grass or ground cover) rather than a traditional lawn.
- Promotes plant biodiversity.
- More resistant to drought.
- Requires little watering and fertilizer at maturity.
- Prevents weeds.
- Easily adapts to different soil types and sun exposure conditions.
- Ideal for plots of land with little foot traffic.
- Choose low-maintenance landscaping: native shrubs, woodland gardens and wildflower meadows.
- Reduce the number of impermeable surfaces in your landscaping, and you’ll reduce the frequency of watering.
Eliminate insect pests and weeds
- Use low-impact pesticides and biopesticides
- Effective in controlling insect pests including grubs and weeds.
- Less harmful impact on health and the environment.
- Less toxic for non-target species (birds, earthworms, domestic animals, etc.).
- Easy to use.