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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:24:57 AM EDT
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My HOA takes care of my lawn.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:27:55 AM EDT
[#2]
I mow constantly. I keep 21 acres mowed around the house.
I don't need to do that much, but man the place looks great when it's all done. |
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CO, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:29:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By W202fan90: Because an overgrown yard looks like ass? Yep. Freshly mowed lawn looks awesome. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:32:21 AM EDT
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Lay down concrete, paint it green.. |
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NM, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:33:12 AM EDT
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We keep a small irrigated lawn by the house. Mostly a wife thing, her dad was obsessed with a nice yard.
Have a decent sized dirt and gravel area for vehicles that's not fenced paddocks for the animals. Great for the dogs to exhaust themselves in, and stare at the other animals through the fence. Only occasionally mow weeds in the paddocks that none of the animals will eat. |
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NM, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:37:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ClusterNukes: Lay down concrete, paint it green.. House I grew up in had green concrete walkways. Not pained either, stained. 
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:39:07 AM EDT
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It's a Gump thing ............ visible instant progress.
I enjoy it..........do a couple shots of vodka, hop on my tractor, put my buds in and knock it out. Takes about an hour. I have to mow a hill with a self-propelled which takes an hour as well but it's good exercise. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:46:55 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:48:21 AM EDT
[#9]
Moss Lawn for the win!
Thankfully, my yards are completely covered in moss. Soft, green year round, never have to mow. Just blow leaves off. Virtually ZERO maintenance. https://www.thespruce.com/create-low-maintenance-moss-lawn-2152704 
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:51:05 AM EDT
[#10]
 Lawns. |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:52:00 AM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JasonK94Z: My HOA takes care of my lawn. I’m sorry |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:52:41 AM EDT
[Last Edit: MADMAXXX]
[#12]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LibertyShip: Moss Lawn for the win! Thankfully, my yards are completely covered in moss. Soft, green year round, never have to mow. Just blow leaves off. Virtually ZERO maintenance. https://www.thespruce.com/create-low-maintenance-moss-lawn-2152704 https://www.growingagreenerworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MossYard.jpg  |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:52:42 AM EDT
[#13]
Xeriscape is where it’s at.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:56:23 AM EDT
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Some people in my neighborhood are obsessed with lawn mowing. To me, it is a chore like shaving. Glad when it over, but do not think it is something to be obsessed with.
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:57:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bizzarolibe: In what fucking world is wasting 1.5 hours of your time getting grass all over you, literally skull-fucked with pollen, and sweating like a pig while sun beats down on you without mercy (and that’s *assuming* you could get your pos mower to run that day) a “relaxing/good time?” Maybe I fail to understand the mentality because I’ve simply been blessed with 1000 other better things to do than that. I mow because yeah, my yard would like shit if I didn’t and my small children like to play in the yard, but man, and I cannot stress this enough, it is only ever done out of grudging necessity  Come on man, sweating is good for you. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:58:52 AM EDT
[#16]
Because the girls don't like getting poked when they squat to pee.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:58:59 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By onthebreeze: -Fire risk is the big one -Rodents -Insect infestations -Fucking stickers and sandburrs It is a lot harder to maintain a house if it's surrounded by 3 feet of grass and weeds. Ever heard of chiggers? Ticks? All of these reasons. Noone wants the wild to just over take their homes. Except OP. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 8:59:33 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Macchina: Call me a greenie or a lazy Millennial but why the fuck are we still all out mowing our lawns!? Mowed lawns were invented by the English to demonstrate how much extra money they had! We're not wearing powdered wigs or bleeding with leeches anymore, why mow? It takes a couple hours out of my week for no reason. Harms almost all wildlife, especially pollinators. Costs money for gas, oil, parts, new mower every decade. Does absolutely zero good aside from it looks a certain way people decided it should look. I have a few paths at my property up north I mow (we have thorny raspberry everywhere that will grow up if we don't) but it's otherwise natural fields and it's awesome. Wildlife everywhere, honey bees, monarch butterflies on the milkweed, etc. For what? I get we have to mow a ton of stuff, schools, playgrounds, ball fields, etc and that's fine because it serves a purpose. But why can't we normalize just knocking down the lawn once or twice a year? I've literally gotten crazy voicemails from my cranky neighbor once when we had our kid and didn't have time to mow for almost 3 weeks. You'd have thought the house was on fire for how worked up he was about a tall lawn. That's a lot of words. This is an example of the futility of younger generations. Highly "educated" to sound smart when in reality, they just don't work. Cut your grass. You're making the neighborhood like like shit. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:00:02 AM EDT
[#19]
There's a lady at the very back of my area that hasn't mowed her lawn in 8 years. She has mental issues. People have tried to do it for her and she throws a fit.
Anyway it's becoming a forest, quite literally. Her right. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:01:02 AM EDT
[Last Edit: P400]
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:05:43 AM EDT
[Last Edit: housewolf]
[#21]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By millfire517: I mow mine to help keep the rodents at bay Found while mowing last week  Attached File |
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USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:09:31 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Macchina: Call me a greenie or a lazy Millennial but why the fuck are we still all out mowing our lawns!? Mowed lawns were invented by the English to demonstrate how much extra money they had! We're not wearing powdered wigs or bleeding with leeches anymore, why mow? It takes a couple hours out of my week for no reason. Harms almost all wildlife, especially pollinators. Costs money for gas, oil, parts, new mower every decade. Does absolutely zero good aside from it looks a certain way people decided it should look. I have a few paths at my property up north I mow (we have thorny raspberry everywhere that will grow up if we don't) but it's otherwise natural fields and it's awesome. Wildlife everywhere, honey bees, monarch butterflies on the milkweed, etc. For what? I get we have to mow a ton of stuff, schools, playgrounds, ball fields, etc and that's fine because it serves a purpose. But why can't we normalize just knocking down the lawn once or twice a year? I've literally gotten crazy voicemails from my cranky neighbor once when we had our kid and didn't have time to mow for almost 3 weeks. You'd have thought the house was on fire for how worked up he was about a tall lawn. Mowing your yard is clearly different than a vacant rural property. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:11:44 AM EDT
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Working guy mowing the lawn: This sucks
Retired guy mowing the lawn: This is the life |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:14:54 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By millfire517: I mow mine to help keep the rodents at bay |
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OK, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:18:26 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By housewolf: I use a redundant system. Found while mowing last week https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/177202/IMG_9555_jpeg-3200162.JPG Speckled Kingsnake? I live in their range but have never seen one in the wild. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:22:08 AM EDT
[#26]
It's not just mowing; it's mowing, edging, fertilizing, scarifying, aerating, trimming hedges, trimming trees, etc etc.
Lots of work. |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:27:00 AM EDT
[Last Edit: 556Cliff]
[#27]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chida66: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/3918/IMG_3819_jpeg-3199968.JPG Because it’s fun! I wish I felt that way about it, but I spend a lot of time mowing. If I had a small yard like most housing development areas that only took an hour to mow and weed whack it would be no big deal, but mowing and weed whacking my weekends away sucks when I rather use my free time on hobbies I actually like. I've felt the same as the OP on many occasions, even though I like how a freshly mowed yard looks and smells and how it makes it easier to find brass, but man it's not really worth the time and effort. |
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WI, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:27:02 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Boomer: Why do you waste the resources to mow 20 feet around your house? happy wife, happy life 20 ft was a compromise from the 50ft she wanted to nothing that I wanted. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:36:58 AM EDT
[#29]
Originally Posted By Boomer: What’s stopping you? Nothing. I live in the woods. Nice grass doesn't seem to do very well in the sandy soil around me. It only wants to grow in the garden. Lol |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:37:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chida66: That looks pretty sir! On my last trip to Georgia, I felt a bit claustrophobic. Too many tall trees blocking the sky. Just not used to it. My wife felt the same. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chida66: Originally Posted By Jason280: Originally Posted By Chida66: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/3918/IMG_3819_jpeg-3199968.JPG Because it’s fun! Yup.... https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/15608/20240426_100241_jpg-3199972.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/15608/20240426_094616_0__jpg-3199973.JPG That looks pretty sir! On my last trip to Georgia, I felt a bit claustrophobic. Too many tall trees blocking the sky. Just not used to it. My wife felt the same. Yall from west Texas? |
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USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:40:06 AM EDT
[#31]
"Literally the worst"
I'd highly suggest moving out of liberal freaking Michigan. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:41:23 AM EDT
[#32]
There are a lot of benefits. Keeps pests away, especially ticks and snakes. Gives you room to do things. It looks better.
Plus it's not just grass that grows. Trees and brush grow too and if you let them get tall it gets hard to deal with. They can take over a house pretty quick and destroy it. It's kind of insane to think it was only invented to show supremacy. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:41:33 AM EDT
[#33]
There are a lot of benefits. Keeps pests away, especially ticks and snakes. Gives you room to do things. It looks better.
Plus it's not just grass that grows. Trees and brush grow too and if you let them get tall it gets hard to deal with. They can take over a house pretty quick and destroy it. It's kind of insane to think it was only invented to show supremacy. |
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WI, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:41:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ewald: Tallgrass prairie is the native habitat for a large portion of the Midwest. Fire is natural part of tallgrass prairie ecology. If every suburbanite completely stopped mowing their lawn, a simple grass fire would burn down entire cities. I'm calling BS on the guy from Wisconsin who said he has no ticks or chiggers. Unless he's nuking his yard with old school diazinon or the like, he has bugs. That's what I don't get. People who feel the need to dump a bunch of chemicals on their yards. BTW, my backyard is managed prairie.  Call BS all you want, no chiggers in WI period. Ticks, not many in the southern 1/2, especially when the place is managed like you mentioned, prescribed burns. I get maybe 2-3 ticks /yr and they all come from the wooded areas, not the prairie. So yes, no ticks or chiggers in the prairie. Not only is the prairie around the house burned but the woods are too. Fire is like any tool, used properly its no big deal. No pesticides used on my place. Yes I have lots of bugs, dragonflies, butterflies, bees, wasps and countless other forms of life that support Birds and so on. Unlike mowed lawn that supports very little to nothing. when the Prairie clovers are in bloom you can hear the bees from inside the house there are so many.  Leafy prairie clover, a federally endanger plant that grows in my prairie. |
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NM, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:42:48 AM EDT
[#35]
What year were you born op? I'm going with lazy millennial.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:44:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By whiskerz: Sand spurs suck as do woods fires to be in reality a sandspur farm. It was insane. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:44:54 AM EDT
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I only mow around the house. The rest of our place is bush hogged, hayed or grazed
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:46:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By K5FAL: Speckled Kingsnake? I live in their range but have never seen one in the wild. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By K5FAL: Originally Posted By housewolf: I use a redundant system. Found while mowing last week https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/177202/IMG_9555_jpeg-3200162.JPG Speckled Kingsnake? I live in their range but have never seen one in the wild. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:48:56 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Rustler: There are a lot of benefits. Keeps pests away, especially ticks and snakes. Gives you room to do things. It looks better. Plus it's not just grass that grows. Trees and brush grow too and if you let them get tall it gets hard to deal with. They can take over a house pretty quick and destroy it. It's kind of insane to think it was only invented to show supremacy. Snakes are not pests, they are living vermin control devices. |
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:51:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CharlesUFina: Very surprised by all the lawn hate. Anti lawnitism I wrong !!!! |
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NPL
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:54:35 AM EDT
[#41]
HOA's hate him.
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WV, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:55:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dano556x45mm: Anti lawnitism I wrong !!!! Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dano556x45mm: Originally Posted By CharlesUFina: Very surprised by all the lawn hate. Anti lawnitism I wrong !!!! Some rabid anti-lawnites.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 9:59:39 AM EDT
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One famous comedian said.
"I can tell that I have been married too long when I started giving a fuck what my lawn looked like".
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:08:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MADMAXXX: One famous comedian said. "I can tell that I have been married too long when I started giving a fuck what my lawn looked like". It has nothing to do with marriage and has everything to do with home ownership but I get the joke. 
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:20:24 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Macchina: Harms almost all wildlife, especially pollinators. Get both! You can have both a nice lawn and flower beds with native wildflowers to support pollinators. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:21:49 AM EDT
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If I had my way I'd have a 50' wide band of pea gravel around the house and nature could have the rest.
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:24:03 AM EDT
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Tall grass gives varmints a place to hide. It will lead to more mice in your house.
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VA, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:25:37 AM EDT
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GBPSE
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:25:47 AM EDT
[Last Edit: dangerranger61007]
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By cavedog: Do you want small furry critters chewing on your soffit/facia? Because that is how you get small furry critters chewing on your soffit/facia. This. You really should mow around your house. IDGAF what it looks like, but I wouldn't be happy about having a 2 foot tall lawn if I lived on small lots. I wouldnt want want mice and ticks. A lot of people with at least a couple acres just mow a small portion around their house and let the rest go. I'll agree that mowing a large 3+ acre lawn is silly and a wasteful, letting it go to meadow is much better. |
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Posted: 4/28/2024 10:29:17 AM EDT
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OP is right, lawns suck, waste of water and resources.
So happy we own our own place now, no more mowing for me, oh we have a huge yard front and back and sides, but i'm about to rip that shit out, every bit of it., It will all be garden and orchard space with berry bushes and herb areas and flowers and such. Fuck grass. |
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