Last year for Reduce Your Lawn Day, I replaced about 6x6 feet of my hellstrip (the turf between the sidewalk and the street) where my recycling and trash bins go for our weekly collection day. It is a really tough spot to keep any plants alive there due to the bins, daily foot traffic, and bikes/scooters/cars that don't always stay in their lane. I seeded in Red Clover from American Meadows and it took awhile to establish, but now looks great. (Here is a link to what it looked like last year when it was new.) I took the photo shown above this morning. Notice in the background is my two-year-old Reduce Your Lawn Day sign still looking pretty new.
For this year's Reduce Your Lawn Day project, I am seeding another part of my hellstrip with American Meadows' Monarch Highway Native Wildflower Seed Mix. I hope by the end of the summer that most of the perennial pollinator plants in the mix are up and blooming. I'll try to circle back with an update to this post then.
My brother and sister-in-law also shared with me a Reduce Your Lawn Day project of their own. Shown below are the steps they took to put in a new vegetable bed -- from sod removal to leveling the site to the final planting. I think they did a great job!
You can learn more about Reduce Your Lawn Day and its origins by listening to our GardenDC Podcast episode here.
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