The Professional Lawn Care Association of America has recognized April as Lawn Care Month. Since you will probably spend many hours laboring to keep your lawn beautiful, we want to share some positive effects that your lawn will have on the environment.

Front lawns of just 8 average houses have the cooling effect of about 70 tons of air conditioning, while the average home-size central air conditioning unit has only a 3 to 4 ton capacity.

With up to 90% of the weight of a grass plant in its roots, it makes a very efficient erosion prevention device, also removing soil particles from silty water.

Turfgrasses trap much of an estimated 12 million tons of dust and dirt released annually into the U.S. atmosphere.

2,500 sq. ft. of turfgrasses help purify water entering underground aquifers by its root mass and soil microbes acting as a filter to capture and breakdown many types of pollutants and releases enough oxygen for a family of four to breathe.