Every year, as we are buffeted with snowstorms and low temperatures in the winter, people put salt on their walkways, porches, and driveways. Plowtrucks drive by, heavily sprinkling salt across the streets. While salt melts the ice and prevents more from forming on the ground, it can be damaging to your lawn.
When salt gets into the grass and dirt of the lawn, it begins to kill the grass, while taking away the soil’s nutrients. In effect, the lawn is left barren and wrecked. It can take a long time in the spring to remedy the damaging effects of salt before a lawn returns to being vibrantly green and growing properly; and remedying the problem takes lawn-flooding, seeding, and fertilizer. A lawn that is treated this way to remove salt is also more prone to weeds, pests (both bugs, and other animals), and even erosion.
This year, salt as little as needed, while still melting all the ice, in order to keep your lawn vibrant and beautiful year-round.
