Posted on 09/30/2015 8:49:25 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin
Yep, they are nasty and persistent buggers. I wound up putting clear nail polish on my shins to suffocate them. Then I had reddish discolored patches on my shins for quite a while afterward.
I do the yardwork at my home and since we married 18 years ago I’ve turned a dusty barren yard into a beautiful green lawn and my husband has gone from being a person who never gave it a second thought to a person who takes a lot of pride in the appearance of our home and yard. It keeps the area much cooler. I went over to an elderly next-door neighbors home the other day and was shocked at how much hotter her back yard was. We do have a private well, however, or it would be too costly to water. We haven’t had a vacation in over 5 years and we both work 50 - 70 hours a week, so this is my (not) guilty pleasure.
Point my ass
The whole developed world has lawns as do rich folks in the developing world
Does this guy travel beyond Dallas and Tarrant counties
Okay, I’ve finished mowing, trimming, and weed-eating for today, even around my stink tree.
What is it I supposed to do now? Oh yeah: read the article.
Consider your source (CNN)...
There are lots of factors in Bee decline...pesticides, removal of natural food sources, removal of habitat, GMO crops, etc.
When our neighbors have their lawn treated, we have to shut up the hive for several days to keep the bees from the chemicals. Not only are the chemicals harmful, but the loss of natural bee food sources like dandelions and clover (which people hate in their “perfect” yards, but Bees love) are destroyed.
My pack of 8 dogs ensures that plenty of holes are available to break an ankle or capture the lawn mower. It's so much better when covered with snow. The big 80 lb chocolate lab puts her head down in the snow and shoots a rooster tail of snow like a big snow plow. Fun to watch and she enjoys it.
bwahahahaha!
In the time it probably took him to conceive and write this article, he probably could have cut his lawn...twice.
That’s just unnatural...
Then make many municipalities change their laws prohibiting a front yard from being as much of a food garden as the back yard.
Change the rules in many jurisdictions that say you can’t have astroturf or a rock garden in front of the house.
>>.S. Wasting water is a stupid liberal concept that somehow water is wasted. Water goes nowhere. It is all still on the planet.
Where does your water come from? I work in the water utility industry. If your drinking water comes from wells, then it is not replenished instantly by rainfall. We get a lot of rain here and our public wells get dangerously low in the summer. When the water level drops, seawater encroaches. When seawater moves in, it does not get pushed back out later.
Of course it stays on the planet, just like it stays in your house if you drink a glass and fill it back up with urine. Do you drink pee?
>>Liberals believe in purpose for the greater good. Welcome to liberalism.
No. I understand the water cycle. It has nothing to do with the greater good or liberalism.
I am very much a “Zero Carbon Footprint Lawn” aficionado ...
How much more attractive his front garden, with a bounty of vegetables, then the neighbors’ waste land. He certainly made attractive raised beds. Good on that family.
I agree. I love my lawn. As does my neighbor on one side, his is well-manicured. As a matter of fact, he mows mine as well as his (always beats me to it, and says he's using the mower anyway on his). On the other side is a slovenly liberal who has a weed and gopher infested front yard. Most of the neighbors on the block keep up their homes. Not so with the liberal jerk. If he sees flowers growing on our border, he snips them and leaves the stems. His back yard is worse, a barren hole-infested wasteland. Nice lawns are good for the kids, and good for drawing smiles. Something lost on liberals, who are usually ugly with a temperament to match.
Curious...can you provide more info about this pic? who? what? where? when?
I have a small patch of "lawn" ( about 60 x 40' ), that I am running an experiment on. After purchasing an extra 1/2 acre parcel of land right behind my house, I spent much labor tearing out the brush that was there, left the trees, mulched most of it, and in that 60x40 space, I was going to plant my Perfect Lawn. I researched the different kinds of grasses, I graded out the land, added some ammendments. Spent hours and hours of hard labor doing that. So while deciding what kind of grass to use, Nature had other ideas. Crab grass and other ground cover sprouted and started spreading. At first, I did my best to dig that out, but then, I decided to let Nature show me what grew there best.
Sure enough, I have a beautiful "ground cover" lawn in that spot, that is nicer than the crappy Bahia lawn on the rest of my property. Its a mix of crab grasses and various clovers. I mow it fairly short, and it looks damn good considering the price. I dont water it, I do occasionally remove whatever looks like a "weed". Fairly slow growing as well, again compared to the awful Bahia.
The grass around that rock would have to go!
The anti-lawn zealotry is in full cry here in southern California due to the drought. Brown, weedy, and dry is what the natural vegetation in SoCal looks like. It isn’t a good look.
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