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Grass lawns for pleasure were invented on a wet rock in the North Atlantic, and even we here have to stop watering them during drought conditions (aka hosepipe
by walthamstow 1y ago
Grass lawns for pleasure were invented on a wet rock in the North Atlantic, and even we here have to stop watering them during drought conditions (aka hosepipe ban). It baffles me that people have them in parts of the USA.
- bluGill 1y agoGrass lawns grow very well without any added water in most of North America. It will go brown in dry conditions, but as soon as it rains it comes back. Of course as a large continent there are deserts where a lawn cannot grow without constant watering, but the vast majority of North America is plenty wet for a lawn to grow. A significant minority wants green grass year round and those people water their lawn. It is not a majority though.
- beej71 1y agoWe don't live in such an area (we live in the high desert), but a lot of people around here have lush, green, watered lawns. It's the opposite of the places where people have to fight encroaching plants. :) About 6 years ago we let our lawn die off (it was at it's EOL anyway; the soil beneath was sand). We replaced part of it with rough pavers spaced 2-3 inches apart and we let the grass and whatever else grow in the spaces, and keep it mowed. It's not as nice as a lawn, but it's greenery. I do have to water it, but it takes a tiny fraction of the amount a lawn would take. The hypothesis is that the pavers prevent evaporation, trapping the moisture in the soil. I was inspired by the hearty, unwanted plants that would always manage to grow between the pavers with zero water.