Get rid of your lawn.

ThinkSayMakeDo · May 27, 2010

Grow stuff you can actually use. Gardens can be just as, if not more aesthetically pleasing than a lush lawn full of green grass. Plus it'd save you mad loot on your produce, spice, and herbal remedy expenses. If you're concerned about where your kids or critters will play...fuck, they love dirt more anyway. Perhaps it could seriously reduce much of the carbon emissions let off by millions of lawnmowers a year. And it will make you a better person.... Concerned about neighbors? Either say 'fuck you! neighbor!' or(more preferably) show them that they shouldn't want to look at grass.
Well 'A man can dream...a man can dream.' Silly Finglonger.
What are your thoughts?

akgrown · May 27, 2010

Unfortunatly for those who live in more surburban areas telling the Home Owners Associations to Fuck off is not so easy. I dont own a house but I have friends who do and their HOA's got em by the balls.

Sr. Verde · May 28, 2010

akgrown said:
Unfortunatly for those who live in more surburban areas telling the Home Owners Associations to Fuck off is not so easy. I dont own a house but I have friends who do and their HOA's got em by the balls.

Home owners assosciations are a good idea, but the people running them are the fucking neighborhood order nazi people.

My buddy was threatened with a fine if he didn't change his window screen mesh to silver rather than black. He spray painted it and did a horrible job but they cant say shit.

Then two more friends couldn't paint they're outside walls a certain shade of green, it had to be a different shade of green in order to go with the house.

...... · May 28, 2010

lol I dont have a lawn but there is a patch of grass in the back of my house.

If my neighbor did this I can already see all the bad ass kids and crack heads stealing/vandalizing it.

I like the idea though so if I ever move to a nicer place I will probably do it.

Sr. Verde · May 28, 2010

...... said:
lol i dont have a lawn but there is a patch of grass in the back of my house.

If my neighbor did this i can already see all the bad ass kids and crack heads stealing/vandalizing it.

I like the idea though so if i ever move to a nicer place i will probably do it.

get the thyme get the thyme, grab that asparagus too! Shit hes coming ima stay back for those strawberries! Runnnnn!

poplars · May 28, 2010

this is a good idea. . . . . I don't have any association that would actually stop me from doing this . . . . I'll have to think on it because the lawn I have is huge.

regardless . . . . it would look much better a village of various bushes shrubs flowers etc. . . but that's a hell of a lot harder to maintain.

gives me something to think on.

jhopkins34 · May 28, 2010

I've seen a few houses around my area starting to do something similar, but instead of a vegetable garden they just took out all the grass and added different shrubs and flowers then they put a nice mulch all around and it looks real nice. I'm kind of a grass man myself though but I have a pretty big yard so over the last 10 years I've taken out some grass to add different gardens around the yard, and I do have a nice small vegetable garden, not sure how it will work this year though cause I may have planted to much too close together, but whatever I take every year as a new learning experience.

tnrtinr · May 28, 2010

Can anyone say erosion?

poplars said:
I don't have any association that would actually stop me from doing this . . . .

Your city may have a lawn / mowing requirement. Most have some regulation for the sake of property values.

My friend went out of the country for a few weeks and hired a kid to mow his lawn. The kid never mowed and the city mowers came by and charged him something ridiculous like $250 to mow his small yard.

ThinkSayMakeDo · May 28, 2010

Yeah, HOAs kinda fuck all this. I've got the same bullshit nazi neighbors who are part of the association. Just cost me $1200 in tree removal that made my house look fucking empty, but it lit up the whole yard and provided me with much mulch to lay on some beds. I'm planning on just slowly making garden after garden, maybe eventually make a path between all them with pavers or something. I bet if you were to look in your HOA guidelines you could find something to allow you to do this.

Sr. Verde said:
get the thyme get the thyme, grab that asparagus too! Shit hes coming ima stay back for those strawberries! Runnnnn!

hahaha.

ThinkSayMakeDo · May 28, 2010

How would this be any more erosive than grass?

mconn333 · May 28, 2010

gardens are nice but i think the grass is much nicer

poplars · May 28, 2010

tnrtinr said:
Can anyone say erosion?

Your city may have a lawn / mowing requirement. Most have some regulation for the sake of property values.

My friend went out of the country for a few weeks and hired a kid to mow his lawn. The kid never mowed and the city mowers came by and charged him something ridiculous like $250 to mow his small yard.

I pretty much live out in the middle of nowhere. a lot of people out here don't even have lawns. so there'd be no objection to me getting rid of mine.

Get rid of your lawn.

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