SneIrish's No Mo' Grass Front Lawn garden
Garden Type: Frontyard | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Combination | Established: 2009 | Organic
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DH hates to mow the grass in the front lawn, and so it tends to get a bit out of hand before he finally gets around to it. After we extended the front beds, the small strip of grass in front of the bed on the south (left) side was really too small for the rider mower which then meant that he had to bring out the push mower. Not gonna happen! I really don’t like grass anyway; what’s the benefit after all? So I offered a solution. Why not plant a nice ground cover? This could eliminate the grass and need to mow, at least starting on the south side between the Gnomeville bed and the driveway and its perimeter of Hosta and extended to the area around the Colorado Blue Spruce. He liked it! We discussed and settled on Ajuga. Very pretty, a fast grower and no maintenance. YaY!
So we started in the summer of ‘08, planting plugs of Ajuga spaced out in that area. Problem was at first – well two problems actually… We couldn’t pull out all the grass right away because we would have one big mud pit washing the soil away into the driveway every time it rained. And of course, DH wants instant gratification – translation, full coverage and not having to weed. We had to let the grass grow at first. I would use the weed wacker to keep it under control somewhat during ‘08. Then came the rains of ’09… we couldn’t mow and couldn’t wack. The Ajuga was beginning to spread but not quite far enough yet. We added more plants, and DH actually weeded out a large 5 foot section at one point. But the weather won out. By the fall of ’09, the Ajuga is spreading and can finally be seen growing taller than the grass, not to mention all underneath the grass. We have high hopes for ’10 for an extensive amount of coverage.
An outdoor organic garden located in Swansea, MA, United States, SneIrish's No Mo' Grass Front Lawn garden currently contains 7 plants.
This is a Frontyard garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 6b. It has mainly Combination soil and receives Partial Sun light.Photos
Plantings
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Ajuga tenorii - Carpet Bugle 'Chocolate Chip'
Ajuga reptans
Transplanted on 29 Jul 09 I traded some plants of the Scabiosa I pulled o...
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Ajuga reptans
Transplanted on 16 May 09 I got a good sized rooted division of this Ajug...
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Ajuga reptans - Carpetbugle - 'Black Scallop'
Ajuga reptans
Transplanted on 24 Oct 08 Paul is planting Ajuga around the outside of th...
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Ajuga reptans 'Caitlin's Giant'
Ajuga reptans
Transplanted on 05 Sep 08 At the end of season clearance on Sept. 5, 2008...
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Ajuga reptans, Bronze Ajuga 'Metallica Crispa'
Ajuga pyramidalis
Transplanted on 21 Jul 08 I bought DH four quart plants of this Bronze Aj...
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Ajuga reptans
Transplanted on 17 May 08 DH bought two plants of this Ajuga at Frerich's...
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Ajuga reptans - Carpetbugle - 'Black Scallop'
Ajuga reptans
Transplanted on 16 Jun 07 Planted Black Scallop, June 2007, under the Rho...
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Comments
JimMarconnet wrote:
This is quite a project! Thanks for sharing info about it.
Posted on 03 Sep 12 (10 months ago)
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