The American Obsession with Lawns

[Madison]

Where I live it's colder than warmer
I have lawn or might say grass around the house but it's mainly woods and trees around my place
I have to trim those that I want to stay shorter (I mean cedar trees, oaks)
So yeah, I take care to keep it clean around but I don't go crazy over it

I like my flower garden spots with perennial flowers
I have my vegetable garden too (not huge)
but just anough for myself and be able to put some for the freezer
for the Winter

[carolina73]

When you live on sand then every bit of green is welcome.

[Admiral Ackbar]

I love lawns. There is nothing wrong with something that you love because it makes you feel good, looks peaceful and frankly causes you to get out move around a bit to take care of it.

[Dr. Who]

Apart from being environmentally unfriendly either because they have to be excessively watered or because they must either be endlessly weeded or attacked with toxic chemicals (for weeds or bugs), they are the landscape equivalent of wall to wall carpeting. Unless you need the space for children or dogs to romp around in, a combination of garden, shrubbery and hardscaping is far more interesting to look at.

At any rate, America's obsession with grass-scaping is shared by the Germans: Germans and Americans Both Love Their Damn Lawns - The Awl

[Peter1469]

If I had a yard I would turn it into a large garden for food.

[Dr. Who]

If I had a yard I would turn it into a large garden for food.

Potager gardens are quite attractive, while still producing vegetables and fruit. The trick is using the natural shapes and colors of the consumable plants in a harmonious fashion and adding in florals that actually act to protect your produce. How to design a potager vegetable and flower garden (daviddomoney.com)

[Tahuyaman]

Now your well maintained lawn is a bad thing.


https://www.returntoorder.org/2019/0...logical-crime/

Later, Mr. Botti makes the link to racism. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson planted large lawns at their estates. These lawns were planted and maintained through the back-breaking labor of enslaved people.
The film furthers the racist narrative by asserting that mechanization made lawns available for the “privileged masses” about the year 1870 with manual lawnmowers. Then it fast-forwards to returning G.I.’s from World War II who settled in the suburbs with green lawns – unless they were black. The narrator condemns “a symbol of an American dream that is recognized by most, but only attainable to some.”

[Abby08]

Notice how it's democrats, who are coming up with, "everything that is now racist"?

What's that saying, I often heard during my childhood?

"It takes one, to know one".

[Abby08]

If I had a yard I would turn it into a large garden for food.

I have yards big enough for gardens, my problem is, I could never grow anything........not even the easiest vegetables like, radishes and tomatoes.

[carolina73]

I do have a local friend that decided to go the miniature golf route. He decided to have fake grass put down that was designed to look real.

About 10 grand later it looks terrible and flips over like a cheap toupee in high winds. I want to tell him not to blow the debris off because hiding it is the best thing he can do.