Summer residents and owners of private houses waste time every winter on three completely useless activities. It is impossible to justify such a pastime even from the point of view of useful physical activity.
Critical comments relate to work on the land plot. We will tell you more.
1. Stop sprinkling salt on your paths
Sometimes there is simply no other quick way to deal with icy paths in the yard. But before you get down to business, you need to remember where the melt water will go. Constantly fighting ice with salt can harm flowers, lawns, trees, shrubs, not to mention the composition of the soil and its beneficial inhabitants.
It makes much more sense to use sand or ash.
2. Stop trampling down the snow in the tree trunk area.
Snow is a natural insulator, but you don't need to trample it down. In addition to maintaining the temperature, you need to make sure that the roots receive the necessary amount of oxygen, and a dense layer of snow only harms this.
For the same reason, you shouldn't trample on the lawn all winter. Where paths were laid in the snow in winter, "bald spots" may appear in the spring. And if an ice crust forms, the grass may freeze or suffer from fungus.
3. Stop dumping snow into snowdrifts
Snow piles in the yard will take a long time to melt in the spring, and will also flood the entire area with melt water. It is much more useful to take excess snow to the vegetable garden or to the garden, leaving it under the trees.
