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It's naive to think maintaining a yard is just walking your property once a week with a push mower. If you have a tree canopy, as most older homes in Georgia d
by cptskippy 5y ago
It's naive to think maintaining a yard is just walking your property once a week with a push mower.
If you have a tree canopy, as most older homes in Georgia do, then you have to contend with the debris from the trees (e.g. fallen limbs, leaves, pine needles, pine cones, acorns, etc). If you want the lawn to look nice you need to do edging, weeding, watering and fertilizer=. In Georgia most homes have "pine islands" that have some sort of ground covering like mulch or pine straw and contain plants ans shrubs you need to maintain.
- 1123581321 5y agoI don’t think it’s naive. I don’t live in Georgia but I have mowed, trimmed and maintained yards of similar size and obstacle count many times. That list of additional chores doesn’t take long, especially if in the yard weekly so only incremental upkeep is required and no rarely done parts are difficult (large thorns, lots of sticks or walnuts, difficult edging etc.) I don’t doubt a slow person or a meticulous lawnhead could fill the time, to be clear, but that same level of effort and speed should be applied to measuring the difficulty of maintaining a forested plot in order to make a useful comparison.
- cptskippy 5y agoDoing a halfassed slap job in a half an hour each week while your property slowly deteriorates is not the same thing as maintenance. Also mowing a lawn at full sprint is going to quickly deteriorate your equipment.
- 1123581321 5y agoI didn't downvote you but that's a bit silly. I assure you your lawn equipment can handle brisk walks for years.