How to rewild your yard, including sustainable grass alternatives for your lawn, rewilding or ‘ungardening’ tips, and a tour of our “wild” yard.
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Timecodes:
00:00 Intro
00:34 What is Rewilding?
00:56 Why Grass is Bad
02:16 Rewilding our Yard
03:19 Vegetable Gardening
03:41 “Un-Gardening”
04:10 Better Grass Alternaives
05:33 Leave the Leaves
05:57 Other Rewilding Tips
06:54 Outro
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21 Comments
Clover lawns feel so soft on your feet ❤😊
Me and my so just signed a tiny rowhouse with a small yard and a glassed in porch. I love bugs so will try to rewild at least a part of the lawn. I will also try to attract birds for the cats to sit on the porch and stare at.
I love this! We have dandelions that I refuse to get rid of because the wild bunnies eat them when they are yellow. My new neighbors are struggling with removing knotweed, which is super invasive and pretty impossible to get rid of at this point without heavy machinery. The bees love it though. I'm hoping they replace it with something else that flowers, assuming they are successful in their endeavors. 😬
What a lovely video 😊 Such beautiful pictures of your previous yard!
A great video! I would love more content something like this in the future ❤
Oh I looove this! There is no need for grass lawns ❤ so excited to see an example !
Looks beautiful!
3:55 I'm triggered
I just learned that creeping bell flower is an invasive species. It is interesting that un-gardening and re-wilding don't necessarily mean neglecting it entirely. It seems equivalent to a "no makeup" make up look.
Lawns aren't even that good looking… don't know why people are so obsessed with it. This video needs to go viral.
Those ponds could do with some native aquatic plants though. Keeps the water clean naturally~
Absolutely beautiful yard. Was your whole yard able to be rewilded or did you have some city grass to maintain as well?
I'm always wondering about this American habit of watering grass, my yard is one of these wild fields and it looks way more pretty, without any watering. And I have this one friend who relies on Food Pantry, has lovely flower beds and waste that space instead of growing her own veggies, as much as I love her, this is something that always confuses me. Would love to see your gardening project! Also from where you get your seeds, I was passionate about exchanging seeds, but this is very tricky as you have to be aware of biodiversity, so it's not good to send seeds outside of your country.
I feel so lucky to live in a neighborhood that prioritizes native plants. I have tried to plant mostly native plants in my garden or pollinators. The previous owners of our home had already put in clover and I love not having to mow my lawn!
I'm from Hamilton but just bought a house in rural Newfoundland. I'm moving as soon as I can sell my condo. The house only really has a front yard, but it's in southern Newfoundland and the climate is similar to Ontario. What I'm thinking of doing is growing food crops in most of my yard, so I can donate any surplus to the local food bank. I invest in stocks and if I ever earn enough I'd love to get a small plot of land there, because land isn't that expensive, and build a geothermal community greenhouse so people in need can have fresh food all year.
I absolutely love this concept, especially since my least favorite childhood chore was mowing the lawn. Just as an aside, if you are planting edible or fruit producing plants, also research what wildlife is nearby. I suppose in a city it isn't as much of a problem but if you live more rurally you may attract larger wildlife (like black bears) who also want a tasty snack 🙂
Hi Verena I was curious could you do a video on compsoting? Thank you the video. It was inspiring.❤
Your yard was amazing! Can't wait to see what your new yard ends up looking like. If I ever have a yard I definitely want to do this.
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This is so great! Would love to see what you do with your yard at your new place!
I've been trying to work on this for 5 years in my yard, but it is trickier than I thought. I had a lot of moss growing in the back and was trying to let the moss take over huge chunks, … but it doesn't seem to spread as easily as I thought, considering it was naturally growing there.