[Arec Barrwin]

He's got a point

[AFreeBird]

In Texas, he’s probably got a point. Does anything other than tumbleweed grow there?

[EternalVigilance]

I traded in most of my lawn on my double lot for potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, onions, asparagus, sugar beets, sweet corn, carrots, squash, melons, etc.

I find that they taste much better.

However, this writer simply comes across as a lazy liberal.

[Califreak]

If we ever get rain again I’m going to try planting clover again.

Needs far less water than a lawn.

Attracts bees for the garden.

The drought and the threat of high water bills made us give up on the lawn which was really a scruffy patchwork of tree litter, tufts of grass and broadleaf items.

I felt like an idiot when I’d go water my sorry excuse for a lawn. Very difficult to maintain under cedar trees.

[EternalVigilance]

And by the way, the little bit of lawn I still have left I never water. First of all, the dang water is too expensive since the DNR’s policies drove our local water and sewage rates sky high, and second, why would I want to encourage it anyhow? :-)

[subterfuge]

No. He never makes a point. Lots of logical fallacies in this piece. In Florida i don’t water my lawn from April through September because it rains almost every day.

The author is just another lefty who never got over having his feelings hurt as a child so his answer is to control every aspect of everyone else’s lives.

[HandyDandy]

I have some of my best trains-of-thought while mowing the lawn. First, I ask myself if I am “mowing the lawn” or “cutting the grass”. I think about all of my fathers lawn-mowers that I’d used while growing up. It re-occurs to me that “good fences make good neighbors”. I think about Ray Bradbury and “Dandelion Wine”. I contemplate the philosophical difference between “Get off my lawn!” and “keep off the grass”. One little snip of that tuft of grass over by that rock can make all the difference between unkempt and well-groomed. It is about cultivation and civilization and landscaping.

[keving]

I don t need another blowhard trying to take away anything that I have or like to do. If I want a lawn so be it. Fu@k this guy.

[tflabo]

Once read a post from a West Texan, “whatever pops up as green I bless it”..... as for my lawn just about the same. It all looks similar when mowed down low, eheheheh.

[sitetest]

I haven’t watered or fertilized my acre in well over a decade. When I moved in, it was better described as dirt with patches of weeds. Today, my lawn looks better than ever. Sure, it still has a lot of weeds, but it’s at least half actual grass, and it’s green from spring till late autumn, and has few, if any, bare spots. And my neighbor loves using his riding mower so much that he asked if he could mow my lawn when he mows his. I said yes.

[Lx]

One hundred and thirty three posts in? I am ashamed of my fellow Freepers.

I couldn't find Clint Eastwood yelling at people to get off his lawn so I found one of John McCaine.

[Political Junkie Too]

Next headline: Lawns Outlawed, Mexican Gardeners Hardest Hit.

-PJ

[texas_mrs]

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.

[wardaddy]

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

[Resettozero]

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.

[mmichaels1970]

In the time it probably took him to conceive and write this article, he probably could have cut his lawn...twice.

[tbw2]

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.

[Svartalfiar]

Lawns are clustered in cities and suburbs.

Really? I know several people that live in rural areas, and they all have lawns. Some over an acre in size. Who do you think buys riding lawn mowers? Definitely not the family in North Dallas that has 20sq ft to mow.. And people who have tons of land often have a small/medium yard, even if the fields are left to wild/farmed.

The other day, I peeked outside the window and found that 70-something neighbor had taken it upon himself to mow our front yard. ...best to retreat quietly from the windows. We wouldn't want to startle him and make him fall.

Well if you couldn't already tell he's a liberal douche, we have confirmation!

In addition to the ecological effects of runoff, which can overwhelm water bodies with excess levels of nitrogen and phosphorous, there's the act of lawn-mowing itself. According to National Geographic, one hour running a gas mower can pollute as much as driving a car for four hours.

If you're smart, you use grass that grows well in your area, and you don't need to buy tons of fertilizers. Plus, you get more runoff from concrete (oil stains), and dirt doesn't soak up water at all. More runoff. And last I checked, all that CO2 'pollution' is what plants crave (not electrolytes!).

Responding to a Wonkblog piece describing lawns (accurately) as a "soul-crushing time suck,"

Hmm.. For some people, maybe. But for a lot of people, there's a meditation-like benefit from getting out and doing the yardwork. I kinda miss it, as much as I hated it when a kid. My mom loved getting out into her garden/front flower beds and working, although she can't do as much now that the youngest is in school so she has a job.

It really amazes me how, instead of writiing a decent article that people can take seriously, most liberal causes like this take a complete tone of superiority and tyranny. Starting with the title. Also, whose kids want to play out in the dirt? I think the dogs would prefer a decent lawn as well!

[spodefly]

I am very much a “Zero Carbon Footprint Lawn” aficionado ...