I’ve noticed some people treat their lawn like a carpet. If there is 1 leaf, that’s clutter that needs to be picked up. If a tire touches their grass, it’s like you got oil on their rug. They’ve usually manicured their lawn into 1 species monoculture grass with zero weeds and zero bugs. Which because of this lack of diversity, it is now incredibly fragile.
For many people, their yard is like a room of the house. And they expect people to treat it with a living room level of respect. They’ve put a lot of effort into creating this fragile monoculture grass, and they’re protective of it.
Maybe you can tell from the way the question is phrased, but I view the outdoors as different than indoors. If someone misses my driveway and leaves a mark in the grass, I don’t care because I know the grass will grow back eventually. If leaves fall on my yard, I don’t pick them up. These problems tend to solve themselves. At least that’s my view. But I’ve noticed a lot of people see it the other way.
It’s weird whatever trend is going on now.
My parents just got new neighbors who destroyed the entire garden, paved it over and just sit there, talking, smoking, giggling, playing music, like it’s their living room.
Some other new neighbors further down the road bought a house with a beautiful garden and killed everything to replace it with tiles and gravel. They’re never even outside.
People actually complain when leaves from their neighbor’s trees fall onto their property.
And it’s as if people don’t remember how it was in the 90s and before. They freak out when there’s a bug. The world used to be full of bugs before. And it’s the people who have nothing but grass who actually water their gardens.
I do what I can with the little balcony space I have. It’s messy but it’s green.
No. Lawnbrained is weird like carbrained. Lawns are a wasteland. Kill your lawn today!
Also, while we’re on the subject:
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https://wiki.slrpnk.net/nolawns:thelearningcenterI used to have a neighbour that would wash his driveway on a weekly basis. It was coated asphalt. It wasn’t “nice”. Nor was it ever dirty. Oh, but it had a giant ugly orange traffic cone at the end to deter people from pulling in and turning around.
I used to constantly fight with two different relatives because they insisted on putting all their yard trimmings into a paper bag before putting them in the giant rolling bin. That gets tipped into the truck on collection day. Why? “So the can doesn’t get dirty.” I don’t understand why a GARBAGE CAN that SITS OUTSIDE ALL THE TIME ever needs to be kept pristine ON THE INSIDE.
People like to create work for themselves that I will never understand. I’m certain I do the same thing and leave people shaking their heads.
my parent does this for the green bin, why go to all that trouble to remove spoiled food from a container, and then clean the container and put in the recycling bin, and the food into the green one. sometimes even keeping said container… one day he decided to keep rotting fruits/citruses in those plastic soup containers(likely got lazy of removing fruit scrappings) you get from restaurants lying around, very trashy looking, he thinks it will be fertilizer, but i never seen him use it.
What is a yard but a third bathroom? I don’t clean it either
one of our neighbors never did theres before they moved away years ago. it allowed too much weeds to grow in the yard attracting pests, the weeds grew to 6ft plus , although it also attracted birds we would get unusual insects invading our house because of thier neglect.
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The less I do to the yard, the better it looks to me. I like having some areas mowed but I like having stuff live in it even better.
You could look into native gardens.
This is a way of planting native plants that support local species, it needs less care - and just a joy to behold.Ive spread a bunch of seeds in certain areas and let grow what will. I only pull certain plants which I’ve identified as space hogs (bittersweet.) Not all the plants that come up are native I am sure, but the bugs don’t seem to notice. My whole philosophy is to do less work and let the plants do what plants do.
Front yard needs to be trimmed or I get letters from the city. It gets trimmed once a month… or two. Or three. Whenever I feel like I might get a notice.
Backyard grows to 1m+ every summer and dies every winter, only to become a lush jungle each hot season. Love looking out there.
Nah dawg, that’s just a slice of wildlife that I get to modify. I mow the front, and just cut the tall shit with the string trimmer every couple weeks. Working on reducing grasses and increasing natives. Gonna make this bitch biodiverse as fuck.
Definitely not, in fact it’s my biggest pet peeve. I hate when people (or HOAs) get chemical bullshit sprayed all over their lawn, which they then scalp with their lawnmower every week, and then it always dies anyways around mid to late summer once it starts getting hot and dry. Meanwhile the people who don’t give a shit about their yard always have green grass. It’s almost like thicker vegetation and biodiversity are good for the environment. Like who could have ever guessed?
I maintain my front lawn at the absolute bare minimum to not get fined by the HOA. I don’t even irrigate anymore and let it turn uneven brown in the summer. We are in perpetual drought restrictions and it’s against the law for HOA’s to fine for brown grass. So no, I treat it as an outside space that I don’t even use, since I’m not an outdoorsy person and avoid the sun as much as possible.
The lawn for those people is a signifier of wealth. ‘I’m so wealthy I can afford to spend absurd amounts of money on maintaining land at the level it would take to harvest a crop from it, but I do not harvest a crop from it.’ Idiots imitating boomer age idiots who were imitating mid-century idiots, who were imitating old-world, old-money assholes.
No, the yard is outside.My lawn is fairly wild though and a good portion of it is edible
and a good portion of it is edible
Just don’t eat anything near the road
It’s almost entirely in the back yard. Good advice! Stuff near the road can be filthy from vehicles.
Not like that, no. But we do live out there to some extent, have a nice back deck and garden. Not the sort of lawn that is the monoculture carpet and no, we don’t rake, want bees & butterflies, dragonflies, lizards, snakes, all sorts of other creatures use the yard and no, perfect is not the goal.
To be fair, I’m not that crazy about the inside of the house, either.
ive always seen the lawn as a burden forced upon me by rich people, which is what it is. back when i had a house with a lawn i pretty much only mowed to avoid conflict with the city/nosy neighbors. i basically never used it for anything so it was literally just a thing that cost me time and money. my preference will always be whatever is the lowest maintenance option, which would usually be local plant species. id still probably do some kind of mechanical treatment every once in a while if i started to get trees or woody shrubs growing.
backyard is a cool place for kids to play, set up tents, pools, swings, play ball catch etc. If you’re not in such a family situation, lawn might be wasted on you. I feel like if i was DINK, i’d try to make it a veggie garden. Cucumbers are 1€ here. Bet i can grow em cheaper. Remaining lawns grasscuts are perfect fertilizer.
If you live in a city parks support doing most all that and you don’t have to maintain it at all.
lawns are very polluting, water intesive plants, most people around my area have ripped it up and use succulents mostly, also kinda expensive hobby too. our nextdoor neighbor has hired people to mow the lawn, and stuff. depends if one is a hoarder, they much dump whatever stuff they buy out into the yard and forget about it. plus lawns like that use pesticides, herbicides to keep pests and weeds away.
I don’t have a lawn atm, but last time I did I made a very low key campaign to replace the grass with clover.
I relate to this so hard.
