Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

Between watering your lawn every day in the summer and buying lawn care tools and supplies, you can end up spending quite a bit on keeping your yard looking good. Here are some tips for saving money on lawn care without giving up your pretty green grass:

Save water

If you use an automatic sprinkler system that’s set to a timer, you’ve probably rolled your eyes a few times when you’ve seen it going off right after a rain (or even while it’s raining). Obviously, the yard doesn’t need extra water then. To eliminate wasteful watering, spend $12 to buy a Rain Check gauge. This device ensures your sprinkler won’t water an already wet lawn.

Make your own fertilizer

Spending money on high-priced fertilizer? Why not make your own? You can use the organic byproducts from your own lawn and kitchen scraps. Start a compost pile in a corner of the yard and toss leaves, vegetable parings, and non-meat leftovers into it. Next year, you’ll have enough rich compost soil to fertilize a good-sized garden.

Save on mulch

Don’t spend $3 or more a bag for mulch. Instead, call your municipality’s streets department. They usually have road crews that remove fallen trees and grind them down into mulch. That mulch is free for the asking.

Don’t spend too much on sod

When you’re planting a new lawn, use seeds or plugs, since they cost half as much as read-made sod.

Source: Cut Your Spending in Half: Without Settling for Less : How to Pay the Lowest Price for Everything