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> If we let our lawns die, we'll see more property damage due to soil erosion. Replace them with native plants.
by jogjayr 10y ago
> If we let our lawns die, we'll see more property damage due to soil erosion.
Replace them with native plants.
- shitgoose 10y agoNeighbours will complain and city will fine you. So better let the fucking lawn die. /sarc
- CydeWeys 10y agoA lot of cities in the US that are experiencing severe drought have prohibited watering lawns. So they won't fine you for letting them die, just the opposite -- they'll fine you if they catch you watering your lawn to keep it green.
- shitgoose 10y agoCity will fine you if you let wild plants grow instead of grass. So you will be fined either way - you have no option but let the lawn die.
- driverdan 10y agoWhat city will fine you for not growing grass?
- selectodude 10y agoLarge swaths of Orange County.
- shitgoose 10y agoWe got fined for grass being too tall (Toronto). I assume if we don't have grass at all it will be the same thing.
- chrissnell 10y agoXeriscaping a lawn in an attractive way is significantly more expensive than laying sod or grading+seeding. Simply letting native weeds grow takes years and you're left with massive erosion problems in the meantime. In many locales, regulatory agencies will crack down severely if your yard is producing erosion run-off because it clogs sewer lines and clouds streams. A lawn of native weeds also looks pretty bad. Xeriscaping is a fine option and when done right, it looks gorgeous...but doing it right is beyond the means of the average homeowner.
- justinator 10y agoreplace most of the lawn with gravel.
- CydeWeys 10y agoIt's actually way cheaper to simply pave a yard on a new construction house with gravel than to sod it and install an irrigation system, which is essentially required in the kinds of deserts I'm talking about. I know if I were buying a new house today, one of which had several hundreds of dollars per month in required water costs to keep the lawn alive, and one of which did not, I'm going with the latter one every time. Especially because you know the lawn is going to die on the former anyway at some point in the future when more severe water restrictions come into play and watering your lawn is (rightfully) prohibited.
- jdblair 10y agoWe've done all three to our yard in Oakland, and its great. We xeriscaped most of our yard, with plants fed by drip irrigation. We put in a small patch of grass (about 300 square feet) with a sod called "native no-mow" that is literally that: it gets long and we don't mow it. We do have to weed it occasionally. The rest is covered in gravel. The project wasn't cheap, but it wasn't that outrageously expensive, either, especially not compared to the cost of housing. We have to irrigate some, but nothing like what a lawn would need. And we have a nice outdoor space to hang out and entertain in, way nicer than concrete.
- eggy 10y ago
- rs999gti 10y agoOr weeds. I've noticed parts of my lawn that got infested by chinch bugs died off but were replaced by weeds. The weeds were a combination of dandelions, clover, and other east coast weeds. I mow over the weed patches and they look just like cut grass. I wouldn't mind a whole weed lawn if the HOA and my partner didn't care as well.