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People spray herbicides around their lawn in America? Around their place of living? Bizarre.

salad-tycoon 3y ago
In America, we demand the finest green laws that money and better living through chemistry can provide. A persons lawn is indicative of their status in society and how high functioning they are. Perfect flush and lush green is sought after, many big YouTube channels only discuss how to achieve a better lawn than the jerks down the street. Bonus points for symmetrical patterns mowed into the lawn. So it’s a status symbol. Lots of people do deleterious things to achieve status. I don’t think it’s “weird” but rather maybe a bit dumb Do you eat non organic cereals of basically any kind? Those are loaded with it too.
nerpderp82 3y ago
Biocides!
msrenee 3y ago
Even better, we dump pesticides all over our yards to kill mosquitos, grubs, and beetles. There's signs all over town here advertising spraying for mosquitos with who knows what. There's trucks driving around advertising spraying for everything with more than four legs and even a number of less desirable things with four legs. And then we wonder why our pollinators are all dying off. Agricultural pesticides are bad enough. Covering every last inch of green near our houses with pesticides and herbicides is another nail in the coffin.
- soperj 3y ago
  Not in the USA, people around me are doing "No Mow May" to leave flowers and long grass for pollinators.
  - UncleOxidant 3y ago
    Not in your USA. There are multiple USAs it seems. I did No Mow May last year (on just a small part of the yard) and the guy across the street started shouting at me until June (at which point he just started shouting about other things)
    - nsxwolf 3y ago
      In many towns it is illegal to just let your lawn grow wild.
    - soperj 3y ago
      As in, I'm not in the USA, not as in, this doesn't happen in the USA.
      - UncleOxidant 3y ago
        Oh, sorry, I got a completely different meaning there. I'm increasingly thinking it would be good to be "Not in USA". Cheers!
        msrenee 3y ago
        That's how I interpreted it too. Dang text. My neighbors don't give me any trouble about my yard thankfully. I just try to minimize the number of dandelion seeds I share with them. Collected a bunch of flowers for a friend the other day who wanted to make some jelly with them. I haven't put any chemicals down in the back yard since we moved in and she was talking about how she didn't know what was safe to harvest. Went ahead and got her set up, lol. Keeps the puffballs down and she's got her jelly ingredients. Win-win.
        soperj 3y ago
        No worries. I didn't write it clear enough clearly.
  - msrenee 3y ago
    I've seen ads for "No mow May" here in the US. I can't imagine there will be much buy-in, but it would be nice to see a change in opinion against lawn culture. I personally would rather keep the lawn relatively short (still taller than most "respectable" homeowners prefer) while allowing the violets and clover to have their place in the mix. The dandelions wouldn't bother me if they didn't get so out of hand so quickly, especially this year. I don't want a dandelion monoculture any more than I want a fescue monoculture. The dog traffic in the back yard is hard on the grass and that just gives the dandelions even more of an edge. Now I'm wondering if I should start seeding clover and other groundcover that's more traffic-tolerant. I just think the dandelions will outcompete even the clover. If anyone has ideas for groundcover that will pop up even earlier, I'm all ears. I'd very much like to put a border down for a 10' diameter circle out of my front lawn and dump wildflower seeds in there. They e got mixed that kind of come up as each flower's preferred season comes around. I figure if there's a border, that makes it a garden and not weeds even if my neighbors weren't super chill.
nsxwolf 3y ago
Yes because dandelions make your lawn look like shit.

In America, we demand the finest green laws that money and better living through chemistry can provide. A persons lawn is indicative of their status in society and how high functioning they are. Perfect flush and lush green is sought after, many big YouTube channels only discuss how to achieve a better lawn than the jerks down the street. Bonus points for symmetrical patterns mowed into the lawn. So it’s a status symbol. Lots of people do deleterious things to achieve status. I don’t think it’s “weird” but rather maybe a bit dumb Do you eat non organic cereals of basically any kind? Those are loaded with it too.

nerpderp82 3y ago

Biocides!

msrenee 3y ago

Even better, we dump pesticides all over our yards to kill mosquitos, grubs, and beetles. There's signs all over town here advertising spraying for mosquitos with who knows what. There's trucks driving around advertising spraying for everything with more than four legs and even a number of less desirable things with four legs. And then we wonder why our pollinators are all dying off. Agricultural pesticides are bad enough. Covering every last inch of green near our houses with pesticides and herbicides is another nail in the coffin.

soperj 3y ago
Not in the USA, people around me are doing "No Mow May" to leave flowers and long grass for pollinators.
- UncleOxidant 3y ago
  Not in your USA. There are multiple USAs it seems. I did No Mow May last year (on just a small part of the yard) and the guy across the street started shouting at me until June (at which point he just started shouting about other things)
  - nsxwolf 3y ago
    In many towns it is illegal to just let your lawn grow wild.
  - soperj 3y ago
    As in, I'm not in the USA, not as in, this doesn't happen in the USA.
    - UncleOxidant 3y ago
      Oh, sorry, I got a completely different meaning there. I'm increasingly thinking it would be good to be "Not in USA". Cheers!
      - msrenee 3y ago
        That's how I interpreted it too. Dang text. My neighbors don't give me any trouble about my yard thankfully. I just try to minimize the number of dandelion seeds I share with them. Collected a bunch of flowers for a friend the other day who wanted to make some jelly with them. I haven't put any chemicals down in the back yard since we moved in and she was talking about how she didn't know what was safe to harvest. Went ahead and got her set up, lol. Keeps the puffballs down and she's got her jelly ingredients. Win-win.
      - soperj 3y ago
        No worries. I didn't write it clear enough clearly.
- msrenee 3y ago
  I've seen ads for "No mow May" here in the US. I can't imagine there will be much buy-in, but it would be nice to see a change in opinion against lawn culture. I personally would rather keep the lawn relatively short (still taller than most "respectable" homeowners prefer) while allowing the violets and clover to have their place in the mix. The dandelions wouldn't bother me if they didn't get so out of hand so quickly, especially this year. I don't want a dandelion monoculture any more than I want a fescue monoculture. The dog traffic in the back yard is hard on the grass and that just gives the dandelions even more of an edge. Now I'm wondering if I should start seeding clover and other groundcover that's more traffic-tolerant. I just think the dandelions will outcompete even the clover. If anyone has ideas for groundcover that will pop up even earlier, I'm all ears. I'd very much like to put a border down for a 10' diameter circle out of my front lawn and dump wildflower seeds in there. They e got mixed that kind of come up as each flower's preferred season comes around. I figure if there's a border, that makes it a garden and not weeds even if my neighbors weren't super chill.

nsxwolf 3y ago

Yes because dandelions make your lawn look like shit.