Don't put all of America in one basket. I realize you probably really meant the USofA but I can tell you that Canada is not too far off ;) We have the same 'ev

Don't put all of America in one basket. I realize you probably really meant the USofA but I can tell you that Canada is not too far off ;) We have the same 'everything is lawn' problem. I too am fighting crab grass hell in the front but that's more of a 'I can't really grow trees or anything else on the septic field' problem. Where I am specifically we have a lot of trees. Forest community. There are so many lots here where the only sunny places are the septic system and the pool. Loving it! I do get your frustration though. Even with all the above said, of the immediate neighbors I can see in all four directions only one is really doing it right if you ask me. I always see everyone put out the bags of leaves in fall for example and I really don't get it. Compost them! I do it and one other neighbor does. The rest as well as most of the entire neighborhood just puts them out by the curb. At least only one of those neighbors waters the lawn regularly and the rest just leave it out to get brown, so there's less peer pressure to not be the one house with a brown septic field lawn ;) What I didn't dare yet is to just sow a bunch of meadow flowers and not mow, coz all the neighbors do mow and there are bylaws too.