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Lawns have grown increasingly controversial as people have continued to question the environmental impact of maintaining a largely decorative, resource-hungry field of grass for aesthetic reasons. But folks still love their lawns, continuing to spend tons of money and many hours fertilizing, aerating, mowing, weeding, and otherwise caring for them. Because lawns require a lot of maintenance to look like the lush field of green you see in your dreams.
If you’re going to put that much effort and money into your lawn, you want to make it count—which means not making simple mistakes that can actually hurt your lawn and make all your hard work futile. While most of the lawn mistakes people make are obvious if you think about them for a moment, some mistakes are counter-intuitive, and might even seem like good ideas at first. If you’re doing and of the things listed here, stop immediately, because you’re doing your precious lawn more harm than good.
