I have written about the subject of lawn conversion or lawn transformation to a fare thee well on this blog site (Click Here, If You Must)

Other homeowners have also used the sheet-mulching technique (in whole or in part) over the last year or so. The recent article in the Argus reporting that the City of Petaluma had agreed to allow a group of volunteers to "transform" the turf area around the Cavanagh Center caught my attention. Sheet-mulching on City property? Wow!

So, I packed up my gear and visited the site each day. The volunteers managed to pull it off in spite of the temperatures--particularly on Sunday..

The volunteers were all hard workers but one in particular caught my eye. Kelli Loux really got into it...

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One thing that should be kept in mind is that sheet-mulching is merely an inexpensive and natural way to get rid of a lawn. Once it is in place there are no set rules as to how it is to be landscaped. The sheet mulching merely provides you a new soil base.

Of course, you want to put in low water plants. You can even do a food garden if you want. In the alternative, you could put in a bunch of low maintenance grasses or succulents and be done with it.

The point is that we must get away from lawns because of their water usage.

ADDITIONAL LINKS

• >For an additional perspective on the event at the Cavanagh Center, see my post to The Petaluma Spectator-Petaluma Gets Its Sheet (Mulch)Together (Click Here)
• >For a Petaluma 360 Photo Album of the Cavanagh Center lawn conversion project. (Click Here)

If you would appreciate a touch of humor or irony, check out this article where I demonstrated how some people just don't get it...and never will. (Click Here)