Natural yard full of native species > gross manicured yard
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i hate insects tho?
Clip dragonfly models to wire rods. Scares the ever living crap out of anything that flies. https://www.getyourbug.com/
That's fair, but you don't gotta invite them in. And I will remind you that "outside" is kind of their domain, not ours 😉
All that said though, a rock or sand yard is still vastly better than a manicured lawn which serves basically no purpose other than to take in resources (mostly water) with no real output. Hell, even if you paved over your lawn with one big slab of concrete that would still probably be ecologically better than the waste involved in maintaining a manicured grass lawn!
Slabbing is much worse, holds heat and cold and prevent groundwater absorption. Crushed lava rock over sand and gravel would be a good idea though, nice and solid to walk on but drains out no problem.
Listen to this person, not to me, as it sounds like they actually know what they're talking about 👍
I gotta disagree there. My yard even when mowed is a haven for all sortsa critters. Lizards, squirrels, and birds prance around by day, and at night you can find hundreds of varying spiders and wasps hunting smaller insects. Rocks might afford some of that but just about nothing would be happy with plain sand backyard. Then again, I live in an area with lots of rain and no shortage on water.
I try to mow pretty high and I let it grow for a few weeks between, but unfortunately I cant just leave it be due to my hoa.
Have you tried aging past 8 years old?
That's great if you don't have ticks, snakes, ants, termites, and mice.
See my reply to the other commenter
My landlords HOA would bitch at me if my grass was slightly too long.
My landlords HOA
🤢🤮
That's how I feel every time I have to mow the lawn even though I'm renting from them.
Free labor for them.
Is it in your lease that you need to mow the lawn? Here, it's the landlord's responsibility unless you specifically agree to it.
My lease has two things. Mow the lawn AND abide by any HOA shit, so I had to mow the lawn to their standards and do the random bullshit they came up with. My garbage cans were in front of my house for 9 months and then all of a sudden it was a problem. Fuck HOA's and land bastards
That second one is the real killer.
Well defined and constrained responsibility: No problem.
Open-ended obligation to people you don't know: Bottomless pit of potential despair.
Well, if you decide to move out you can be a prick your last few months there and a violate every HOA rule imaginable. Might try to take away your deposit but could be worth it.
In my case yeah. Sucks but me mowing the lawn is still cheaper than hiring a company to do it.
So I pretend to be Hank Hill once a week.
"Who needs drugs when you could mow a lawn?"
Hank Hill has such a small mind... He could do both, and still refer to both as "grass" if he wanted!
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check with local state and native plant groups – there’s several cases where native plant species are protected even from HOAs
Or you can go the complete other way and plant knapweed lmao
for California, the Monkeywrench Collection
Peppermint Candy Flower (Claytonia sibirica)
(Intentionally, in places where they're beneficial)
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You forgot scythes
Or goats.
Every year, we dump wildflowers in three spots on our property, and every spring, I spread clover seeds the entirety of my lawn.
Each year, the clover takes over more and more, and with that, you get a short lawn that is drought resistant and bee friendly.
How do you do this? I am interested. We have drought problems here.
If you’re in the US, I have gotten good results/ seeds from ptlawnseed.com. They have a bunch of different options and tell you what works well in your climate zone!
I just looked up what type of clover grows well in my climate, then every spring, I order a 5 lb bag and just walk around throwing that everywhere. Add some water and let it go nuts. Once clover is established, it starts to spread on its own, but I like to give it more friends to speed up the process. Plus, bunnies love it, and with bunnies comes bunny poop. It's one of the best fertilizers you'll find. It's a work in progress, but once it's completed, I'll have to mow like 2 times a season, I won't have to worry about weeds, and it doesn't need fertilizer. Clover is an incredible plant and I can't wait until it's completed.
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We're on step 3 for the back and 4 for the front (kind of, it's not really wild but it's all native xeric plants) and I gotta say, highly recommend it. We have so many pollinators. I have to gently shoo them out of the catmint before I prune it because there are so many in there.
Legit, we've got about an acre in the back yard, and I was working toward this for most of it. Can't do the work required now, so it's gotten less native than it used to be, but at one point, it was all plants native to my region, and they are still dominant. The rest of the yard is better set up for my crippled ass to handle, so I can pull out invasive species as needed. There's a section maybe twenty feet in a rough circle plus a corner where it's "grass", but it's mostly random clover with dandelions I can't be bothered to remove every year. The chickens have been keeping anything else from setting in compared to yard B.C. (before chickens).
It'll eventually get taken over by random plants, I'm sure. It'll be as I age out and cripple out of the work involved, since getting my kid to do a damn thing ain't happening lol. But for now, me and the chickens have a nice area to walk around and putter.
When you realize that most of what you're looking at around you is invasive species: 눈_눈
The vast majority of invasives take a foothold in already disturbed land. Natural ecosystems tend to be more resistant.
Native species look bad and I will not let the opps gaslight me into thinking its nice
Ok buddy.
I had a fairly large yard backing up on forest on three sides in the back, two in the front. I decided at some point that mowing was just stupid and gave up on it. I was thrilled with what happened in the back - it was just like this. Flowers started growing, including some I'd never seen before there or since. Birds came and started nesting in the middle of the long grass. The front, I gave in and mowed it a few times.
I lived across the street from this retired military guy who literally mowed his lawn every single day, riding mower on like half an acre. You couldn't even tell the difference between where he had mowed and where he hadn't gotten to yet. This guy had a bumper sticker "Never seen a FLAG burned at a GUN SHOW!!", whatever that meant. They invited me over to their backyard a time or two where they drank Busch Lite and grilled hot dogs over old furniture (seriously). Nice, but well, hmm. Anyway, he drove his mower over and mowed my front yard a time or two when I was out of town.