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Don’t need chemicals when clover fertilises for me
lawns need to die out so bad
I’m gradually swapping my lawn for clovers. More resilient to weather, doesn’t need a lot of water, stops most weeds from growing and make those pretty white-purpleish flowers when blooming.
And I don’t put any chemicals.
Where I live we have dichondra
Make sure you test your water for dihydrogen monoxide contamination. That chemical can ruin gardens.
I know you are joking, but one of the paradoxes of plant care is water. The roots need enough moisture that they can carry water and nutrients to the plant, but too much causes them to suffocate.
That chemical can be very deadly. If enough of it gets into your airway, it can cause asphyxiation.
And a lot of chronic health problems if it gets in your lungs
I heard it’s in everyone’s body already nowadays
Every cancer patient has been exposed to it at some point
Try to use native clover if you can. Otherwise, you’re replacing high-maintenance, non-native with low-maintenance, non-native and possibly invasive.
In England, orange coloured people put down green plastic lawns.
In America an orange guy puts up a tacky golden ballroom.
I heard he already lost interest in this project.
…and bulldozed the Rose Garden.
I’ve seen convincing speculation that he’s actually building a data centre
Why are they always orange?
They confuse being tanned with being attractive. And being orange with being tan.
They are gyarus.
I assume they like the contrast between their skin and their white Audis.
Part of my lawn is plain old bright green weed free grass, and part is for the bees, bugs, and vegetables. And that’s how I like it.
And I like to look at it from my car, while eating a hamburger, during weekly meetings of my HOA which is chaired by me and other landlords.
Edit: Possible only some of these statements are true.
There’s one guy with a mansion on our otherwise modest street who does this. Everyone else just lets nature run its course and mows/weedwhacks a bit as needed.
As a result of his year round chemical use, the only plants that still grown on his self created desert are the hardiest of weeds like thistles, nettles and ivy. It looks like a fallout zone.
Germany has laws to regulate and reduce the pebble lawns by now. It’s the only way we know to fight things but it works!
I just wish I didn’t have crabgrass everywhere out back. It looks awful and does nothing to actually retain soil, and as a result my backyard is lumpy AF.
Look into native groundcover species for your local area, to see what might have a fighting chance against the crabgrass, and plant that. And let it get a little bit longer, a lush carpet you can stroll through rather than a mat you can tread on. You’ll still be pulling out some crabgrass tufts, but many groundcover plants don’t need mowing at all, or at least less than grass.
Many of the houses in my New Mexico neighborhood have “pebble lawns”, as you called them. I live in the desert, so probably all of them should, but my house is one of about half of the houses in the neighborhood that has a patch of lawn of about 120 square feet, the rest is rocks. It’s an HOA neighborhood, and the front yards were planned and installed when the houses were built, sprinkler system included. I don’t have much say over the yard, but I don’t need to maintain it, either.
I’m happy enough with my HOA, they mostly maintain the yards, and keep people from storing crap in their front yards, like rusted cars, etc. They aren’t nearly as Draconian as I’ve read about other HOAs. I’ve never had a problem with them, but I don’t let my house go to shit, either.
The problem is that you only ever hear about the awful HOAs because people who live in good ones don’t bitch about it at every opportunity.
My main issue with them is libertarian, but consider this-
You have a reasonable HOA. A couple shits move in and get on the board, then enforce their absurd will onto everyone. No more reasonable HOA.
My petty ass would campaign to become chairman and dispose them.
NO NO NO … they don’t vax their kids because of “duh kemikals”
