3 ms·
I very much agree about the turnkey nature of a turf grass lawn. Everyone knows how to do it, and everyone knows how to take care of it. But for example, the
by mturmon 11y ago
I very much agree about the turnkey nature of a turf grass lawn. Everyone knows how to do it, and everyone knows how to take care of it.
But for example, the outfit called "Turf Terminators" (they convert your front yard for free, and pocket the ~$4/sq.ft. rebate) has been churning out travesties like this all over LA:
http://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/WsdchuaR6H96tnC2LEZ9Rg/o.jpg http://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/WsdchuaR6H96tnC2LEZ9R...
Not enough people know that it's possible to do much, much better with a zero- or low-irrigation landscape.
- roflchoppa 11y agoi recall something posted here on ycombinator about kids having lung diseases from playing on turf football fields? It's due to the rubber in the turf getting kicked up into their lungs, and into their cuts.
- sbov 11y agoYeah, from my friend's experience, if you want a terribly Xeriscaped lawn you can get it from just the rebate. And the ones who provide a good Xeriscaped lawn bumped their price up by the same amount of the California rebate. So you can get a terrible one for free, or a good one for the same overall price as you had to pay before the rebate was introduced.