I got a nasty letter from an anonymous coward complaining about how I keep my lawn.
I dont give two shits about the grass. Bare minimum is all it gets. I also did a round of overseeding with microclover. All the retired boomers in my neighborhood have nothing better to do than dick around with their lawns.
I have every intention of making mine into a meadow or something. Need to figure out what I can get away with.
In the meantime, I will be making a Halloween display that will feature skeletons sitting on top of some pallets (letter writer was mad that I had one leaning against my trash can for a week) with trash cans and a whole bunch of weeds and crap. I also have a spare tire that was used to secure a transmission I bought down to the pallet. I also still have the broken transmission.
The whole mess will be going into the front yard, skeletons will get trucker hats, beer bottles and maybe a banjo.
I can’t wait!
Large grass lawns were a sign of wealth and power for the aristocracy and gentry from the feudal system. When they had large numbers of serfs working their small plots of land and paid a tithe to the landowners it meant that their land could be turned over from agriculture to pleasure.
Growing a big, unproductive, biologically inactive lawn is basically saying “I have so many peasants I don’t need to grow vegetables” and then morphed into the quasi status symbol we have today for suburbanites to complain about each other’s while the planet dies around them.
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It depends on how far back you go. Maybe an actual historian could chime in on dates, but by at least the 18th century one of the distinguishing hallmarks between “real rich” and “fake rich” was whether sheep, and the like, were what maintained your lawn or if you had dedicated human labor to scything and weeding.
You think that’s bad? Allow me to introduce you to rock yards. I’m slowly getting rid of mine but removing several dump truck loads of gravel is hard work.
Ugh we have people doing that in our neighborhood and it’s godawful. I think they think they’re “xeriscaping” but this is Arkansas and the incredibly hot sun makes those rocks too hot to touch or stand on (for my doggo), kills the plants that are planted near it, etc. But they aren’t going to admit their mistake and undo it.
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I have yet to find a way to explain to my dog that he must not veer off the sidewalk lest his paws get burnt.
I love the assumption there though
I’m gonna guess you live in either Bella Vista, Holiday Island, Cherokee Village, or Hot Springs Village.
I could be wrong but if you have a rock yard in Arkansas, the odds go way up that you live in one of those four places.
Frick. I moved into a house from being in apartments for many years and I have to say, lawn and Garden work, suuuuucccckkksss.
I hate it. I have too much to do to deal with your… Growth.
Can I replace my lawn with an emo lawn so it cuts itself?
Depending on your local regulatory environment, you can replace your grass lawn with a clover lawn which has the following benefits:
- clover is more drought tolerant than grass and does not need to be mowed
- fixes nitrogen for the soil like legumes
- supports local pollinators and provides habitat for other ground level insects
A clover lawn however does still require maintenance and It is not a catch-all solution to a no effort lawn. You will have other weeds growing that will get very tall very fast as they aren’t competing with anything and you do still need to water a clover lawn or you will end up with more tall weeds.
Other than that, slay.
I do find it more enjoyable to take care of a biodiverse lawn with animals in it than the traditional grass lawn, even if the work were equal.
Fair enough! I’m going to be filling my back yard spots with clover as well next season, hoping to help with my dog eliminating her favorite pee spots haha
Ive let a bunch of natural stuff grow and its maybe a half dozen different ground cover type things. I’m not really a gardener, but my cat and dog like it at least and I started seeing squirrels and such playing back there too.
I need to plan to plant clover next spring too now you mention it. I saw some seed mixes that include small flowers too, I’m not sure if that makes sense where I live yet but its interesting for sure.
My current grass is patchy, I’m certain there’s little or no nitrogen. I’ve been meaning to pick up a small bag of clover seeds and at least augment my lawn with them to make it a bit more green at least.
I’m fortunate that I was able to get a battery electric mower for my home shortly after moving in. So there’s no inconvenient gas fetching and mixing, just a pair of bigass fuck off batteries that live on the charger between mows.
The real problem is that we have a garden in the back that I want to set up as a vegetable garden and I just haven’t had time to do the work and it’s currently over run with weeds. I’ll get to it eventually. I’m planning on killing everything currently in the garden with some kind of weed killer, not sure what yet exactly, but I’ve seen some places recommend a soap/brine mix that seems effective. Then cover it with that black landscaping/gardening fabric so shit doesn’t grow for a while, if that’s successful, build raised beds and fill them with fresh, untainted soil and grow veggies there… It’s going to be a project and I have no idea how I’m going to find time or money to do it, but the way things are going, I can’t afford not to do it.
Anyways. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. I guess?
Yes you put a specific amount clowers around and they make the grass grow slower.
Moss has started to grow in my yard and I love it. It’s green and furry and doesn’t grow tall
Plant Clover.
Rarely needs to be mowed. Or seeded. Or anything else. Looks great. Provides a lot of cover for a lot of insect life. It is just superior to grass.
Except it’s not, for anyone who has dogs or actually uses their lawn it’s extremely fragile, and will create a mud pit in any climate that has wet winters.
Small price to pay for never having to maintain grass. No mowing, edging, fertilizing, etc.
My parents just mow the lawn every now and then and remove thorny plants when they find them. The garden is just wild flowers and weeds. Then they dig a little pond. Since then they have lots of bees and other insects, but no wasps. It’s nice and requires no maintenance whatsoever. If a plant dies, it dies. If it takes over, it takes over. In spring until summer their whole garden is full of daisys. A white garden. The dog loves it and ears the heads off then when he’s chilling.
This is exactly what I’ve been trying to do in my yard, but my damn mono-lawn neighbor keeps “maintaining” my yard for me… might be time for a fence.
