how to landscape yard so as not to cut much grass?

Question

I have a house situated on 3000 sq meters of lawn that I
have to maintain, any suggestions how I can eliminate
some of the lawn in some type of landscape so that I
will not have so much grass to cut. I have trees and small
plants, and the plants are in a plant bed in the front of
my porch, but there is just so much grass to cut all around
the house I want to cut less, how can I do it. TKS.

Answer 1

We are on a little over an acre and have the same problem.

We made several raised beds with rock borders to highlight different areas of the yard. Some beds are kidney shaped and some are rounder. We put mulch (bought in bulk from the nursery) and compost. It also makes it easier to garden and the plants love it. We bought plants that were drought tolerant (went to the Master Gardeners cooperative extension of the University - they give free and friendly advice on all aspects of landscape) I am sure you probably have that in your area or you can talk to them on the internet. It's a funny thing, they don't recommend zero scapes, plants are necessary.

I thought I would miss the grass, but we actually improved the look of the lot.

We planted 22 pine trees with large wells also. That created a "pathway effect". Many pines were facing the north side of our house because we get heavy north winds. The trees will grow up and help prevent wind damage.

In one of the raised beds, we created our very first vegetable garden and now we dont worry about getting ecoli. All our salads are fresh and wonderful. We actually put the garden beds over our sprinklers in our sprinkler system and they are automatically watered.

We put paths through the vegetable gardens by laying down the black weedproof fabric and putting mulch over it. We set up a "sitting area" where we put our garden table and supplies as well as have coffee in the morning. We put our vegetable gardens facing south southwest.

The yard looks fabulous and we still have "green".

Answer 2

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Answer 3

WOW that is some interesting neighbor! Seems like he is obsessed with lawn mowers and a moocher. I suggest that maybe you should say " I appreciate you cutting my grass but i do have a lawn mower and I don't want the money i used to buy it to go to waste" in the nicest way possible. If that doesn't get through to him then maybe you will have to write a letter or be more stern in telling him to not use your stuff or ask for it. I had a neighbor like that where he thought my stuff was his and after a while i got frustrated and told him straight up that i didn't like him always asking for stuff from me in the nicest way i could (which was hard!) and that my family spends hard earned money on the stuff we buy and after that he left us alone. So maybe you need to just tell it to him straight! To bad for him if he thinks you are acting like a b cause he is the mooching off of you and its not considerate for him to do that to a neighbor such as you :D Hope that helps! Good Luck!

Answer 4

My parents eliminated alot of the grass in their backyard by putting pavers down. They have very little grass to mow now but it's not the cheapest thing to do. It really looks great and they had a little pond put in with a waterfall and some fish. Not cheap, but they love it and not too hard to maintain.

Answer 5

One of the things to consider would be to change the type of grass on your property. Zoysia grass only needs to be cut about once a month. My neighbor has this type of grass and I hope to re-do my property soon. I am not sure where he purchased his grass plugs, but most places provide some kind of guarantee on their product.

Answer 6

Try checking out this guy's site, it's found by clicking on "free plant tips" on the left hand side of this site: iBtraveling.com

I've signed up for his newsletters and his last one was about making a garden area. He won't spam you either if you sign up.

Wish you luck!

Answer 7

Xeriscape it, use lots of crushed granite with bushes and flowers intermixed. You can create something that looks good but is easy to maintain. I have it here in Phoenix and love not having to cut my front lawn.

Answer 8

You could create a meandering dry stream bed with river rock. Enhance it with a few ferns if you want.

Answer 9

My favorite thing is to grow a ground cover over the areas I dont want to mow. Ivys are great for that (but I cant remember if it is boston ivy or english ivy I have.... I think boston).

It looks neat! very relaing as well.

Also, there are other plants, the most famous brand being steppables. But you can buy the same plants from other companies for cheaper. Depending on how much you plan on walking through an area, this brand lets you know which ground cover is right. some are for heavy foot traffic, others are for medium or light traffic.

My favorite is irish moss (not a real moss as it flowers). It forms a lovely light green mound and is easy to propagate to make more by way of division. so, an area of your yard could have alot of these mounds on it, like mine. I also like to place it inbetween the brick by my front door. it creeps through them in the dirt on its own.

Answer 10

replace the grass with green gravel