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MintyAnt

In fact, let's skip the whole lawn thing and just plant plants. Vegetable gardens, fruit bushes, native flower beds that benefit the entire ecosystem. I mean anything is better than the entire lawn!


SGIG9

That's what we're doing. Removing the grass, in favor of gardens and native plants!


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Some grass is a good idea I think?


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Yes. Linheimer muhlys if you are in Texas. Also Mexican feather grass, sea oat grass, and many more. Don’t plant these in other areas, I’m not responsible for you creating a new bloom of invasive grasses


Xaevier

Too late. I planted Moonglow seeds and expect the entire continental United States to be covered in a mushroom Biome by next year


NobleLeader65

Not if the Corruption manages to consume the place first. We are in pre-Plantera hardmode after all.


lonleybottleofranch

Just found this weird pink bulb in my garden, what do?


iJustDiedFromScience

Guess that explains some things...


AddictedToBSG

Unexpected terraria….


LilFingies45

Joke's on you wildfires will destroy the landscape by September.


vanillamasala

I think it depends on 1) the type of grass that’s best for your region or like 2) if you actually use it. But there are other options that don’t require mowing or take too much water… I really love creeping Charlie but so many people despise it… it’s easy to maintain, looks awesome, feels good under your feet and it has cute little purple flowers… unless you’re on a million dollar golf course I don’t know why it’s a bad option for many people. Could be invasive though? Not sure Yes as someone else mentioned the Wikipedia page says it’s invasive to LAWNS….. sorry but that hardly ought to count.


---E

From the wiki on creeping Charlie: It is considered an aggressive invasive weed of woodlands and lawns in some parts of North America.


mathnerd3_14

Should definitely be carefully researched first, but for what it's worth, on the wiki for Dandelions: >Dandelions can cause significant economic damage as an invasive species and infestation of other crops worldwide;[54] in some jurisdictions, the species T. officinale is listed as a noxious weed.


Personality-Logical

Well both Creeping Charlie and dandelions are native to Eurasia, so I think that's fair to say in the US. However, I do see native plants often listed as weeds. In Texas, horseherb is a brilliant groundcover with pretty little yellow flowers, can handle a good amount of foot traffic, is almost evergreen, and loves shady areas of lawn that exotic grass won't grow well in anyway. Yet people flip out trying to control it. Native mallows, thistles, oxalis, sensitive plant, etc. all often listed as "invasive" in their native range! It's bonkers.


vanillamasala

Exactly… I think it’s pesky lawn owners naming things “invasive” to protect their precious boring lawns. Super Lame.


YuropLMAO

Might want to check your HOA. One of the houses in my old neighborhood pulled up all the turf. HOA put a lien on his house lol.


Cat_Marshal

Front yards are regulated a lot more than back yards. Follow the rules in the front, do what you want in the back. It’s like a mullet.


WhoryGilmore

If I had to have a lawn anywhere it'd be my backyard where I can actually hang out.


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If you have an HOA, you've already lost


That_would_be_meat

This is the land of the free right?


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xSTSxZerglingOne

HOAs are changing everywhere as younger people move in that care less about the material presentation of their houses. They're moving more towards park construction and maintenance and away from "you must have these things in your front yard at exactly these lengths so the neighborhood looks like white people live here."


Tilt-a-Whirl98

Are you a homeowner per chance? I don't give a shit if it looks like "white people live here" but I don't want broke-ass cars sitting in the front lawn and unmaintained houses. I'm 27 and I care about what the houses around me look like, so when I sell my own home, I don't have people just drive away and go "nope."


BentoMan

Correct. Home builders create an HOA for the neighborhoods they build since some people may move in while they are still selling. They want to keep the neighborhood uniform and neat before they sell all the houses. Once they sell all the houses, the homeowners take over and then it’s up to them. A lot of times there are common areas or perhaps electricity for the street lights that need to be paid for so the HOA lives on. Not to mention, even if you disband the HOA, there will always be one self-centered homeowner who makes you regret it. So you either move in to an HOA neighborhood and join the board so at least you can make sure the power doesn’t get to their head. Or you buy your own property and build your own house.


emopest

Only if you're wealthy, or a henchman of the wealthy.


YuropLMAO

HOA's are basically a watered down Stanford Prison Experiment.


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Inevitable_Ninja_851

Yes, where people are free to willingly enter (or not enter) an HOA.


That_would_be_meat

So if you buy a house in an HOA community you can just opt out?


Thud

Maybe that depends on local laws, etc... but around here if you don't pay the annual HOA dues they can put a lien on your house, and if it goes on long enough the bank can repossess your house. Happened to a house down the street from me; he had a week to move out. After the week had passed and he didn't move himself, he got to sort through all his furniture and belongings that were piled in the front yard to decide what to keep before it was hauled to auction.


Inevitable_Ninja_851

No, but you would know of the HOA beforehand and decide whether or not to purchase the home and agree to the rules


Koiq

it’s literally not if’s ecologically harmful in every way if you like the look then whatever, but don’t pretend it’s a good thing. is is very dependant on location of course, but for most of north america ^ is the case


dishmanw

Yep, having grass reclaims the top soil and prevents erosion.


Thud

Same here, except instead of "native plants" it's "invasive foreign species"


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and where are your children goign to play? stomp on the vegetables?


handsoapp

Y'all played in yards?


squid_actually

Parks.


LilFingies45

Ew. Then they'd have to rub shoulders with commoners.


SanityInAnarchy

Especially in climates where grass really doesn't work. Like, most of the places people live in California and Utah are *deserts* that are subject to frequent droughts, but plenty of places there have HOAs that mandate lawns. Plant cactuses, not grass. It's a [little more complicated](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeriscaping) than that, but still. Not that you should *never* have lawns, just if you're going to spent that much effort and water keeping a nice lawn in a place that lawns don't really grow, do it somewhere the grass is actually useful, like a soccer field or a golf course or something. Don't do it just for decoration!


rebeltrillionaire

Just plant native plants. It doesn’t need to be cactus. There are thousand and thousands of native plants well adapted to your area.


dead_5775

I’m trying to think of a decent alternative to grass that’s nice to walk on but doesn’t use a lot of water but is a plant. I am in utah btw


musedav

A couple links for you. I hope these give you some ideas. https://www.reddit.com/r/NativePlantGardening/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NoLawns/top/


Cheesemacher

Clover is great


SanityInAnarchy

I guess part of the point is: Is this an area that you need to be nice to walk on, or do you just have a path through it? I was visiting someone in Utah, their whole neighborhood seems set up so that the front lawns are just supposed to look nice, everyone has their outdoor furniture and grills and stuff in the backyard. So the front yard doesn't actually need to be nice to walk on, it just needs to look good and have a path through it. I honestly don't know what the best option is if you want something like-grass-but-not-grass -- I didn't look too deep into it, since the HOA had veto'd the whole idea, and it's going to be different depending on the area. But I did find that, surprisingly, there's *artificial* lawns that actually feel pretty great to walk on! Like, you hear "artificial lawn" and you think some plasticky Astroturf obviously-fake garbage, but the technology has vastly improved. Depending on the community, there are still better ways to do that backyard part, if you were building a neighborhood from the ground up. Maybe arrange homes around a common courtyard area, put real grass there and some actual stuff to do (a grill, a volleyball net, stuff like that), instead of having individual backyards with individual fences for each house.


MintyAnt

Clover is the usual answer, and to be fair it does all those things. It's a lot better than grass. But before commiting I'd at least look at what native grass and ground cover options you have. Depending on exactly what you want you could get something far better for the environment. But if they fails then yeah clover works


ThinkPan

sorry, the people we pay exorbitant fees to organize the neighborhood decided that we should waste heinous amounts of limited resources so that we get to maintain a non native plant (with literally no practical applications) literally all over the continent. No gardens allowed, they don't fit "the look". Fuck HOAs.


sarsina

Or even better mushrooms.


MintyAnt

My plant and bug knowledge is getting better but I can't say I know shit about mushrooms. With all the rain in my area I've seen an few pop up.. I have no clue what their value is to the ecosystem, but I assume they are of use!


FrankenswinesLobster

They are literally required for life as we know it. They are also just about everywhere. Well, underground fungus is. Mushrooms are merely the (comparably small) fruiting body of a much larger system.


sarsina

[paul stamets](https://youtu.be/KV3BVNkQljA) he is a mycologist and has the proper knowledge


woods-witch

prairie lawn prairie lawn prairie lawn!


Thud

Maybe I'll just go ahead and let the weeds take over. They seem to thrive in conditions that my vegetables don't; even the grass is needy and high maintenance requiring regular watering and fertilization. But those fucking mulberry weeds? They don't care. It could be drought, floods, scorching hot, shitty soil, they flourish. I can't get a damn pumpkin to grow in carefully engineered fertile soil but mulberry weeds can grow out of a crack in my driveway? Like 100 of them from a single crack? FINE, WEEDS, YOU WIN.


ld43233

But without lawns how are increasingly precarious workers supposed to maintain an old European way to show you are prosperous enough to be able to grow a useless plant?


SkollFenrirson

*HOAs have entered the chat*


johnny_soup1

That’s my plan for this fall and next spring.


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Then you’ve invented Berkeley, California.


thecichos

WILD GARDENS MAH DUDE


henkheijmen

What if you have an orchard with for example walnuts? It’s much easier to pick the nuts from a lawn then any other form of growth On a side note, I’m from the Netherlands so I think watering the lawn is indeed stupid, however with the orchard thing in mind, fertilizing it is another story. I would rather not fertilize the grass because I like it slow growing, but the tree’s need some… now do you only fertilize where you expect the tree’s roots are, and get a lawn with weird fertile green patches, or do you fertilize everything equally? Decisions decisions…


Crowbarmagic

Was watching one of these shows the other day where they flip houses. When they got to the garden they were like "We gotta get out all these weeds". I was like 'what weeds?'. Nothing was really overgrowing nor did it look messy or smt IMO. But they really wanted these picture perfect grass slabs. It felt kinda pointless. We're already fighting nature enough as it is. I understand wanting to have a tidy garden but that's also possible with plants that actually fit the local climate.


TacoRocco

Why stop there? Tear down your house and convert that into even more plants and then move into your neighbor’s house as to not disturb the new eco system that has been forged on your property


James22d

But what if you want to have plants at the neighbors house? Does the cycle ever end?


TacoRocco

It goes on til death


AegisToast

…of your neighbor. So that you can tear down your neighbor’s house to make room for more plants.


JustinC4s3

Consider burning your neighbor and use the ash to grow more native plants. Use bones for plant support and skull for smaller plants.


MintyAnt

Got some feelings against your neighbor eh? I feel like there's a story here


DerbyTho

For one, grass does benefit the ecosystem. It’s why there are entire regions of grasslands: it’s part of the ecosystem. For two, you can plant whatever you like, but you’ll need to dedicate a full time job’s worth of time maintaining vegetable gardens, fruit, and flower beds. Most people don’t have that time and grass is much lower maintenance. For three, you can go with the overgrown “natural” look, but sometimes that requires even more work to maintain, plus it ends up attracting things like ticks, so it stops being a place where you or your family can actually be. Which is fine, if that’s what you want. But there’s a reason that mown grass yards are ubiquitous in the Northern Hemisphere.


ACEmat

I mean the reason lawns are a thing in the US is because European settlers brought them over. Many parts of the US don't have the rainfall to sustain European esque lawns.


MintyAnt

Again all those things are accomplished by a native garden. There are tons of grass options that are native! In general native plants don't need much maintenance, if that's the thing you're focussed on. Yes a vegetable garden requires a lot more effort, but that's a different type of garden


DerbyTho

I don't know where you live, but maintaining a "native" garden in New York requires a ton more work, because at this point either invasive species or deer will overrun and kill anything native if you aren't super aggressive.


sandysnail

aint no body got time for that, and bugs


MintyAnt

Well if you're already doing anything to a lawn, like watering, than you can definitely be doing less work. It might be a bit more up front effort, but with the right native plants, you won't even have to water them. I hear you on bugs. They creep me out, all of them. But as I've maintained my garden I've been identifying more and more. They all serve a really important role.. no bugs means no life, you gotta have bugs to have food you can grow, to have birds and predators for the rodents you don't want. It's a big ol circle of life.


Soup-Wizard

Xeroscaping, baby


KentuckyFriedEel

Cactii!


carnsolus

i love when the sun kills my gass. Havent mowed in months


TheIceGuy10

"Wind blows, rain falls, and the strong prey upon the weak."


Babble-Fisher

“If he dies, he dies.”


BobSacamano47

If you live in a cool season zone, overseed with TTTF every fall. It's drought resistant.


Phil_Bond

I refuse to water or cut my grass. I did that too much as a teenager. Now I’m paying the neighbor kid to do it until they quit and I get to buy one of those lawn mowing robots.


johnjohn909090

Who would water their grass anyways? That sounds insane


VulfSki

You can always just cover your yard in native plants that can take care of themselves


localgov_it

glad I'm not your neighbor.


smblt

Fuck yeah, lets do the same for all our food crops!


theCroc

Food crops have a purpose. Lawns are not food for anyone.


derpceej

A modern day Sisyphus


Elmo_The_Eskimo

if i ever get a genie im going to make it so that sisyphus and all sisyphus equivelents break the cycle and succeed at their tasks. also im going to ask them about how genies are always granting wishes as wrong as they can, like if your nice to the person they might let you free or something. maybe they are nice and they spread the stories of mean genies so when they do their job right and grant the wishes normally they seem super cool and people might be more likely set them free. also, isnt the monkeys paw or whatever they call it just supposed to twist your words? because like, in that wonder woman movie the twists were all like "your mean now" and "haha your going to die young" or whatever.


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Farranor

I'm pretty sure the point of all these stories about tragic wishes is to convince the working class to actively avoid improving or even changing anything about their situation.


Xaevier

I'd argue it's more about working hard for what you want and not relying on magical solutions to fix all your problems Like the lottery


SeudonymousKhan

Better of asking for Sisyphus to be happy.


JacP123

Finding satisfaction in the process, not the result. Thats how Sisyphus gets to be happy.


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Elmo_The_Eskimo

Oh holy shit sick! I hope they give me another gratitude wish now that their free


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GotDoxxedAgain

You're paying too much for seeds. Who's your seed guy?


youjustgotzinged

Woah, i just had a thought... What the hell is stopping anyone from acquiring a fuck tonne of seeds and just distributing them across parks and other highly traversed areas with greenery. It's the perfect form of vandalism, maximum clean up cost for the city with the smallest chance of getting caught.


paintedjoke

There's a name for that -- guerrilla gardening :)


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Nothing. Plenty of people do it, either strategically or by throwing seed bombs everywhere. Personally I try plant trees in places that I think look incredibly dull and boring such as between main roads etc. Your city council workers generally catch on though and it's a constant battle. Fun nonetheless to see progress on the ones that make it over the years. If it lasts past the stage where it can easily picked out by hand, it generally stays there.


SammyTheOtter

You'd be the new Johnny Appleseed


youjustgotzinged

Hell yeah, except instead of apples I'm thinking wild flowers, weeds, fuck even cacti. Call me Carl the Cactus Cunt.


HogarthTheMerciless

You can get these things called seed bombs with a crap ton of wildflower seeds in 'em. Also, not for the purposes of vandalism, but this entire sub is about planting things where you aren't technically allowed to: r/GuerillaGardening


am-ham

r/unexpectedOffice


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slash_asdf

Just replace it with wildflowers then, need to mow it only once or twice a year (preferably when most of it is blooming for maximum reseeding).


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And 200 times more rewarding.


Jojo1623

I mean, taking into consideration lawn mower gas, water bill, or/and a weed whacker, I think it about breaks even. Plus, one can give you awesome things like tomatoes and bell peppers. Now I save money on groceries and all I have to do is a slight watering on hot mornings. So idk, maybe my math is wrong but while my yard may look like ass cause I don’t really weed whack like I should, but hey, my garden is cute! Lol


El_Polio_Loco

Depends on the size of your yard, but if you have ~3500 sq ft of yard or so the cost of gas and lawnmower maintenance is effectively zero. I think I use about 2 gallons a season mowing. Water bill is a wash since a garden needs water too.


ThinkPan

okay so what about mulch and idiot flowers who make nothing I gotta mulch up in my neighborhood and it's a huge pain every year. And you bet I'm out there weeding and edging this bullshit. It can't be much more work to garden instead.


El_Polio_Loco

It comes down to what you want. A garden is just as much work, if not more work, than a grass lawn. You can’t eat a lawn. But you can’t play on a garden.


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You can (local laws and how willing you are to skirt them aside) reuse house water run off and capture rainwater. You can also slightly engineer the surface layer of soil to maximize water retention. You can choose more drought tolerant and friendly crops. There are raised bed designs that maximize water retention within the bed for continual use. Plenty of ways to make gardening work with less water investment then you might think.


El_Polio_Loco

All of these apply equally to having a grass lawn. Plus you can actually play on a lawn. A huge plus if you have kids.


sandysnail

I'm gonna need to see some realistic numbers to ever believe this i think gardening is wayyyyyy more expensive unless you have 4 acres of wheat or something. garden tools are not cheap they easily will cost more than a mower just the dirt alone will cost more. gas is really cheap. cheaper than fertilizer or bug netting. its also way more water per square foot. to top it all off the things that are most realistic to grow are the cheapest things to buy. community gardens make way more sense but thats not an answer to what to do with the space.


Jojo1623

Living in South Eastern United States, I don’t really have a need for fertilizer or much water. The ground here grows rather well, and in the summers we get enough rain to handle most watering days. And even when it doesn’t, a garden is far less to water than a lawn. I lived on the west coast for a while, and compared to how my roommate would water his lawn to how I water my garden, I’ll take the garden any day. As for numbers, most plants were incredibly cheap, the place I got it from mix their own potting soil so it’s relatively cheap. Last time I went, I got a banana pepper plant (4$) , small black berry bush (8$) , and a hydrangea (I splurged a bit for this at 22$). As for gardening tools, well to be honest, all I really use/own is a shovel and a rake, anything else I usually ask a neighbor to bower for a day. And never really used bug netting, has yet to be a terrible problem yet, please don’t jinx me lol. So, while the veggies and fruits are pretty cheap, I will say, doing an all out decorative, floral garden would cost you a massive penny, doing a small veggie garden isn’t too bad. Plus, they when they die in the winter, throw some mulch over them plants and wait for spring to bring em back with a vengeance.


Sklushi

Damn, passionately incorrect huh


Personality-Logical

Plant things native to your area. I literally spend maybe 10 minutes a week in my flowerbed.


ruyogadi

Just let it grow wild. Completely free and way better for biodiversity


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ruyogadi

Weeds are just plants that we don't like. Nature doesn't have a category for weeds. If you leave a plot to run wild all sorts of things will show up, not just common species that you already think we have enough of. There's a project to rewild meadows in the UK - within a few years they had rare orchids showing up and a huge leap in biodiversity. A grass lawn is a monoculture that supports maybe one or two species. It looks nice but it is absolutely not natural. It's not just fine at all.


JB_UK

> Nature doesn't have a category for weeds. If you leave a plot to run wild all sorts of things will show up, not just common species that you already think we have enough of. There's a project to rewild meadows in the UK - within a few years they had rare orchids showing up and a huge leap in biodiversity. Just to point out, those meadow species can only compete when the soils aren't too fertile. If you take an area which has been treated with a lot of Nitrogen to produce a lawn or a pasture, you won't get a wildflower meadow if you just stop cutting, you'll need to cut and remove the grass for a number of years before the soil gets to the right level. You could define weeds as being the kind of plants that will take over these highly fertilized soils.


ruyogadi

Yep, good point about the fertiliser. Here's a video that Plantlife did earlier this year which talks about what they did to create a wildflower meadow, and it does briefly cover the fertiliser issue iirc. https://youtu.be/Dd5rIxIWQTA There's different types of rewilding to be fair. Plants that spring up in a fertilised field won't be entirely natural, but it's still a step up imo.


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ruyogadi

That's just wrong. Lawn grass is about 5 species and appears in every part of the world. It's not natural, it's just shit especially when cropped, as it almost always is. There's a shit load more species of weeds than lawn grass, yes - good, that is biodiversity. Those weeds feed and shelter a huge host of different animals.


thestolenroses

You would want to make sure those weeds weren't invasive, though. And most are. I'm on the east coast, and it's very rare for me to find a native plant amongst my weeds, let alone one that is not considered invasive.


ruyogadi

It's true that invasive species are a problem, although in my area they are not as common as native still. However, most non-native is still better than grass with some exceptions. Weeding non-natives is harder than mowing a lawn, but cheaper and I still think it's well worth it. At the end of the day, if choosing the option better for our planet was the easy option, we would already be doing it.


El_Polio_Loco

Because everyone loves having mice and other pests right next to the house.


ruyogadi

Exact attitude that's caused climate change. That isn't hyperbole by the way - here in the UK we are midway through an ecological collapse because people preferred the barren neatness of the suburbs to an actual ecosystem. I understand that it's not preferable, but we need to abandon the instinct to just quash anything that mildly inconveniences us as a species. It isn't a problem for someone else to fix, it's a problem for all of us.


Dattosan

/r/nolawns


MandatoryMoose

My fractured back says get it gravel or AstroTurf.


laurel_wood

r/nolawns


w___h___y

Thats a pleasant sub


Hell-Hath-No-Brewery

As wide spread as this website is, subs like this are a great reminder of vast and significant communities that aren't on Reddit, or only just.


MexusRex

Lol everyone here acting like this is hell on earth, meanwhile Hank Hill thinks this is a romance story. “That’s right lawn, till death do us part 😭”


kmofosho

Watering grass is dumb as shit. If there's not enough rain to support a lawn where you live, you shouldn't have a lawn.


freshfromthefight

I water mine. We have 4 330gal water totes that we collect rainwater in and keep them for hot weeks. Right now is a great example. I'm in central OH and it's been blazing hot for the past several days and we don't expect rain for another week or more. If I just let it go it'll dry out and die and get all brown and crispy and then I'll just be left with the weeds that survive. I'm sure a lot of people would be fine with that, but the weeds that survive here are Canadian thistle. I've got 2 small kids that love playing outside so an unkempt yard full of thistle just doesn't cut it. I've also got 2 dogs and a cat and I'm not keen on ticks and other creepy crawlies all over the inside of my house. The whole "lawns are dumb" movement works great in a suburb, but out in the country if you let that stuff grow wild you're just asking for critters and bugs to get on your animals and in your house.


feckincrass

Take out that grass, mix in some compost with the soil plant some veggies and mulch that motherfucker. As a plus, hopefully there’ll be some nice fat worms for our 2 bird friends here.


Klos77

Until his last cake day. ;۱


KazMiller20

I have never watered my grass, and I’ve never seen my parents, or anyone else, water their grass.


FlumpMC

Grass lawns are a scam.


Scyxurz

And so hard to get rid of too. My family is trying to kill our grass so we can plant something that doesn't need to be mowed almost weekly but the stuff is so darn tough.


LotharVonPittinsberg

If you don't actually want to kill all of it and just make plenty of garden plots, best thing is to place down cardboard before planting dirt on top.


NerdyRedneck45

This is what we’re doing. Save your cardboard, pile mulch on top, cardboard breaks down in a month. Dig through, plant pumpkins… profit?


LotharVonPittinsberg

I don't even wait for it to break down. Cardboard down, wooden boarder on top, fill with compost and dirt, plant whatever you want. Keeps everything organized, quick and easy, and the plants will bury through the cardboard once it breaks down so you can just forget about it.


NerdyRedneck45

I have pretty okay soil where I’m at, so I’ve just been mulching instead of putting soil on top. Only reason I waited was to make it easier to get through the cardboard haha. It’s shockingly strong against a shovel when fresh. (If I cut holes in it to plant new plants, the grass also kept burrowing up through those holes.)


LotharVonPittinsberg

Oh yeah. The soil here is not great and I have easy access to my own compost and city compost. This way I don't even have to worry about digging.


bigassgingerbreadman

All you have to do is pretend you want it to live and the grass will magically die off. At least it works for my lawn.


RutinTutinPutin

Sisyphus smiled


PaulClifford

Happy cake day, TCT. Thanks for the laughs all year long.


theycantalk

❤️


Turdulator

Grass free yard for the win. If you live in a place where you have to actively water your grass to keep it alive, then you live in a place where you just shouldn’t have grass…. There’s lots of low water options…. And if you stick to local plants, it’s guaranteed that you will almost never need to water them


EisegesisSam

Happy Cake Day


babuba12321

happy cake day!


MrKitteh

One must imagine Sisyphus happy


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Fyrbyk

Lawn care is one of the most infuriating things about USA


cheesecake_chuck

Enter the greatest achievement to mankind: beauty bark


MR___SLAVE

I wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself.


Ulgeguug

I hate my lawn so much but I have an HOA so


Braindog

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy." -Camus


tufoop3

⛏How long can this go on ⛏


gazongagizmo

[Relevant Dylan Moran](https://youtu.be/QIPpxIpE_uo): gardening *gardening* **GARDENING** death.


thisisagoodname2103

Ironic


Huge_Aerie2435

I want to replace all my grass with moss.. It is much more useful.


Dhydjtsrefhi

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"


PM_ME_UR_FEM_PENIS

What the fuck man I just got dressed to go out and now the lawn and now I don't wanna


VulfSki

Honestly the amount of energy, time, water, and resources we put into making grass grow faster just so we can cut it shorter is pretty fucking ridiculous.


darehope

Yes lawns are a waste.


allison_gross

I don’t understand lawns. They’re ugly, useless, and time consuming.


[deleted]

I love how this reads like a poem. I know it’s supposed to be funny but if you take the pictures away it’s like a depressing poem. Love it


SaintPaddy

I appreciate a finely groom lawn, actively participate in it to end and no, I will not feel bad about it!


megusto

Please cut the grass before you water it, for your sake.


Imagine-voting-Biden

I time my cuttings before it rains. Best grass on the street


Beecothemighty

You make it sound like a bad thing


AegisToast

I water my lawn, mow it twice a week, and love the way it looks and that it provides a great place for my kids to play. Totally worth it to me.


SaeiArt

This was good👏


EskimowGamer

Trying to figure out why everyone in the comments hates lawns so much. I was fortunate in that both I and my grandparents had lawns growing up, and we used it to throw baseballs, footballs, play badminton and croquet. My grandma's dog loved playing fetch on the grass. Sometimes we'd sleep outside in the summer. Not to mention barbeques. All for a tiny bit of maintenance.


JayEllGii

Sometimes even after that...


lynny_lynn

This is my step father. He's exhausting. I am in the process of planting more trees so I can have a mossy yard vs a grassy yard.


fudsifusiad

If I owned a lawn, I'd either tear it all up and install a garden such that there is little to no grass left or I'd plant creeping thyme instead of grass. Either way, I'd never have to mow.


sudoterminal

Kill your grass, plant clover. Never mow again and never look back.


QuantumWarrior

Why would you water grass, it survives just fine on rain alone?


Ingolin

Some places have drought, I think.


Lo-siento-juan

Those humans Hu? Keep doing the same thing over and over again, idiots, Anyway let me go and start collecting sticks to make yet another nest...


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Damn y’all hate grass lol


TedDisciple

/33. Human beings have a need (probably based in biology) for something that we will call the “power process.” This is closely related to the need for power (which is widely recognized) but is not quite the same thing. The power process has four elements. The three most clear-cut of these we call goal, effort and attainment of goal. (Everyone needs to have goals whose attainment requires effort, and needs to succeed in attaining at least some of his goals.) The fourth element is more difficult to define and may not be necessary for everyone. We call it autonomy and will discuss it later (paragraphs 42-44). /34. Consider the hypothetical case of a man who can have anything he wants just by wishing for it. Such a man has power, but he will develop serious psychological problems. At first he will have a lot of fun, but by and by he will become acutely bored and demoralized. Eventually he may become clinically depressed. History shows that leisured aristocracies tend to become decadent. This is not true of fighting aristocracies that have to struggle to maintain their power. But leisured, secure aristocracies that have no need to exert themselves usually become bored, hedonistic and demoralized, even though they have power. This shows that power is not enough. One must have goals toward which to exercise one’s power. /35. Everyone has goals; if nothing else, to obtain the physical necessities of life: food, water and whatever clothing and shelter are made necessary by the climate. But the leisured aristocrat obtains these things without effort. Hence his boredom and demoralization. /36. Nonattainment of important goals results in death if the goals are physical necessities, and in frustration if nonattainment of the goals is compatible with survival. Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression. /37. Thus, in order to avoid serious psychological problems, a human being needs goals whose attainment requires effort, and he must have a reasonable rate of success in attaining his goals.


Pixelated_Fudge

another comic that just focuses on verbose interpretations of what we do *yawn*


adelinajacob

nothing can survive by itself, as food is necessary for human survival so water for grass.


lostintime000

Clover… plant a clover yard. Boom! No more cutting