5 Sustainable but Effective Solutions for Greener Property Maintenance

Making sustainable choices about your lawn care and property maintenance certainly helps you do your part for a greener, healthier planet. However, it has many other benefits too. More sustainable, efficient property care can save you money. Additionally, using green outdoor power tools, like lawn mowers cordless and electric, tends to be far more pleasant than the alternative. Going green is a win-win for homeowners.

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 Optimize Your Water Usage

Sustainable water usage is one of the principal green property maintenance considerations. With a few simple steps, conserving water and using it most efficiently is fairly straightforward:

• Fix leaky hoses and the leaks around the faucet. For a small leak in the hose, a few tight wraps of electrical tape can do the trick. Rubber hose seals (aka gaskets, hose washers, and O-rings) can work wonders.

• Run sprinklers in the morning to avoid losing water to evaporation in the sun

• Be sure to shut off your sprinklers when it’s wet

• You can probably water less in general, even just once or twice a week. Too much water can be as bad as too little

• Find out what kind of grass you have and whether or not it’s right for your region.

Make the Most of Mowing

Lawn mowing can seem pretty straightforward, but there is a lot of nuance to a healthy lawn. Something like not sharpening your mower blade can result in shredded tops of grass and an unhealthy lawn. Be sure to vary your lawn mowing pattern to avoid wearing dead spots into the grass. Err toward a higher setting for your lawn mower, try to only take off a third of the grass length at a time.

Always Use Green Power Tools

Choose a cordless lawn mower over the old gas burners. The right cordless lawn mowers are just as powerful as their less-evolved gas-guzzling predecessors while being lighter and far quieter. You save money on gasoline and oil, save your person and property from gas and oil spills, and are spared the noxious smoke and emissions. Plus, you’ll definitely appreciate the absence of the bone-rattling vibration. The same goes for pretty much all outdoor power tools.

Aerate Your Lawn

Aerating your lawn ensures that the water you do use is more effectively absorbed into your grass. It does the same for oxygen, nutrients, and even sunlight. Aeration allows all of those critical elements for a healthier lawn to reach your grass’s roots. It’s a fairly simple process that can make a big difference.

Clippings and Leaves

Collecting and trashing those grass clippings and every leaf that touches your lawn may be both unnecessary work and counterproductive. By only mowing one third of your lawn’s length, you can produce a manageable collection of clippings. Like some of those leaves in the fall, they can act as a natural fertilizer. A thicker layer of leaves on the lawn can block light, trap too much moisture, and encourage harmful fungal growth. A few leaves, however, are like natural compost.

About Greenworks Tools

From DIYers and homeowners to professional landscapers, Greenworks Tools offers the yard equipment you need to make your yard the envy of your neighborhood. Greenworks Tools specializes in electric outdoor tools, offering everything from battery lawn mowers to electric pressure washers. Their electric string trimmers, hedge trimmers, pressure washers electric, and other essentials make it easy to get through your to-do list quickly, all without a trip to the gas station. The electric tools offer similar performance and power to their gas-powered counterparts without the hassle and deafening, teeth-rattling noise of gas-powered tools. Whether you’re trimming the lawn, power washing your deck, or cutting firewood, count on Greenworks Tools to help you do the job.

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