Turf acts as a filter for pollution by purifying water passing through its root zone. A healthy lawn absorbs rainfall 6 times more effectively than a wheat field and 4 times better than a hay field. In the heat of summer, lawns will be 30 degrees cooler than asphalt and 14 degrees cooler than bare soil. The front lawns of 8 homes have the cooling effect of about 70 tons of air conditioning. The average home unit supplies about 3 or 4 tons of air conditioning.
Lawns are a good deal.
Keep them up and they'll help you out. Ammonium sulfate fertilizer. Dissolve three pounds of ammonium sulfate in 20 gallons of water and apply this to 1,000 square feet of mulch. The original tests, conducted in California, reported the degree of ignition 2 hours after treatment. Researchers are conducting further tests to determine how long the treatment remains effective.