Lawn Craze

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here's a comic about the lawn craze.  Some further thoughts ...

It goes a lot farther back than postwar suburbs.  Lawns started as a status symbol among European aristocracy.

Advice to stop watering, fertilizing, mowing, etc. or to replace lawns with something else is great -- if it's legal.  In many areas it is not, and people are fined or even evicted for being unwilling or unable to keep their lawn in a manner pleasing to others. Such laws are bad for disability and bad for the environment, but those are things fewer people care about than power. Check the local level of tyranny before trying to solve lawn-related problems.

Comments

Re: Ideas for lawns:

[rhodielady-47.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you'd be interested in something called Buffalo grass.
I'm told it makes a good lawn grass but doesn't need to be mowed that often.
:^)

Re: Ideas for lawns:

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I believe that's one of the low-water, low-mow, native grasses that we have considered. It's expensive. But I really want to buy a bag and try it on bare patches to see how it does here.