https://earther.com/lawns-are-an-ecological-disaster-1826070720
ban lawns
>“I’ve heard lawns compared to a biological desert,” Windhager said.
>“That’s really unfair, because deserts can be very diverse places.”
holy shit ahaha
Also this is completely true and gives me great justification as a Texan to shit on Californians for their water crisis and the causes thereof.
Going for a more natural look just plain looks better too, most yards are disgustingly sterile.
You're referring to pecan/other nut farms, right?
Because if you're referring to anything else you're wrong.
Other than the fact that most of our water is used by farmers trying to grow whatever the hell they want in the desert, we have limits on non-drought resistant grasses and most areas have introduced one or multiple incentives to make lawns more ecologically friendly.
Not my lawn. I’ve never watered it, only cut it perhaps once per fortnight or even once per month because I have a slow-growing variety of grass, never used fertiliser or chemicals except for applying weed’n’feed about twice over the past five years, and I only ever mow it with a classic manual push mower.
It’s absolutely ridiculous how obsessed some people are with maintaining their lawns.
In my neighborhood you get harassed by the city and people who don't even live on my steet if your lawn isn't anything other than pristine
Tell them to fuck off. It’s not their lawn
I've always dreamed of turning my entire lawn into a vegetable garden.
When you get down to the square footage of even the smallest lawn, you could potentially save thousands of dollars every year on grocery shopping by just growing your own food.
Do you live in a wealthy area or something? I've never heard anybody complain about anybody's lawn.
Sad thing is that people might snatch some stuff because they're dicks
It's not always that easy. Often there are city ordinances that lawns must be maintained to a certain extent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrbbZ9_Sb68
It's already a movement and this guy has a lot of information regarding that. What sucks is that most of these lawn people poison all their land so you trying to grow your vegetables might start with removing like 2 feet of topsoil.
Whitest suburb in Minnesota, i get people who walk around my street for some reason and have some kind of misplaced entitlement. Otherwise the property value is on the middle high end.
most modern subdivisions are hounded by 3rd party HOA groups to enforce code on people's properties. So say if your grass doesn't grow right or has dying spots, you are required to remove and replace them. Same with keeping the same flowers/mailboxes/trashcans all uniform in the entire neighborhood. Modern lawns are fucking disgusting how much water they need to be green and stay that way. IMHO if a subdivision wants to have lawns like that, they should be required to maintain their own rainwater collection system to keep them watered. Such a massive waste of drinking water to just make it prettier, esp in areas that have little drinking water already.
fuck HOAs
I actually have been wanting to replace our lawn with native california plants since they're drought resistant and improve the biodiversity of the area.
I'm just not looking forward to stepping onto a snake.
what if you put up a fence.
would that help?
A part of me thinks that someone will still try
There is always that one fuckin' person
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107231/88783725-4369-4119-9aed-1666b232a68c/image.png
Non-lawn yards are 10000x better anyway.
My front lawn's covered with pavers, sand, and native plants. Payed for itself after a few years in water costs too (it actually wasn't that expensive, just took a lot of work)
Wish I could replace my entire lawn with a rock garden ringed with moss, but the HOA would throw such a bitchfit. Lawns in general seem like the kind of petty bullshit NOBODY should give a fuck about unless you intend to use it on the regular. Too many people want to live in cookie cutter houses with identical lawns and the only difference is a very, very slight shade difference in housepaint. Suburban nightmare, right there.
That would be a great thing.
There are tons of poor people around that can be better off with a free meal just plucked from the vine.
Obviously if they come into my backyard that would be an issue, but the front lawn for most neighborhoods are free access to anyone.
Unsurprising, you're pretty much just growing a monocrop endlessly, which we've know for ages is a good way to mess up any land.
Since my city goes into pretty much a drought for 4 months of the year and is too wet to mow for 3, I've been considering xeriscaping my parent's place for a while, done well they look infinitely better and doesn't need as much care or water as a lawn.
Its not so much that lawns are bad, but unnatural lawn practices are bad. There can be a win win here with beautiful healthy lawns.
Live in country, can confirm, nobody gives a fuck out here. My lawn looks like it hasn't seen a lawnmower in several years and nobody comes knocking on my door bitching about it.
We've never really put anything into our lawn. I occasionally water it during the hotter months (helps with the dogs and their piss, full of nitrogen which can kill the grass)
I'm thankful I don't live in an area with a HOA
Where I live, an unkempt lawn is actually cause for a fucking public nuisance ticket in the range of $50-250 + court costs. If your grass is over 7" tall, you get a ticket, and believe me, the cops will break out a ruler and check if they don't like you. It's not even a Homeowner's association problem, it's a town ordinance. Luckily, our lawn is very low maintenance and never needs watering, and we mow once a week. Anyone else live in an area with bullshit lawn care laws?
We don't even really have a lawn. Just various species of weeds, grass, and other plants that existed there long before we even moved to our current home. We have no time or money to turn it into a "real" lawn, and even if we did we wouldn't bother with it. All we do is mow it twice a month from late spring to early fall and that's it.
couldnt you just get that shit astroturfed?
I too live in a city where that is a thing. I can't even plant bushes or trees in my front yard without permission from the city. Even though it's MY land.
Are home owners associations a North American thing? I don't think that I've ever heard of anything like that in Australia
Yes because white people needed to do everything they can to stop darkies from living in their neighborhood
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