i always thought lawn shit was funny and depressing. my parents would get shit for doing the bare minimum all the time, but come winter, all the lawns looked the same, including the ones meticulously watered, fertilized, and cared for. they refused to water and fertilize it because it was wasted money, instead preferring to do backyard gardening. theyd mow and pick weeds out by hand to save money. dont blame them at all.
ive seen some in unincoporated or non-hoa parts of cities but almost all housing is in suburbs with insane hoas that expect you to pluck grass down to 2 inches with your anus every saturday. and these hoas are usually set up by the corporations that build the housing in the first place who rentseek via hoa fees. so even if you 'own' your property (you probably dont because you took a loan out for it and pay rent via interest to loaners) you still pay 'rent' to the HOA. if you dont pay the fee or follow the rules they can levy fines on your house. and the rules can be supremely inane and if the hoa board doesnt like you personally theyll just send people to spy on you to look for minor infractions to fine you on. these people tend to do this for fun and arent paid.
whats sad is praires and wildgrass looks so good and often greener than any lawn with literally zero work being done on it. whenever i drive around with my bf i always point out how lush they look :deeper-sadness: we saw this one vast field that looked soft and neon green almost the other day and had lots of winter blooming flowers
and the sadder thing is we could just choose to plant wild grasses that only grow to certain heights and leave it at that rather than importing foreign grasses that look like shit. but that also means you must be OK with some weeds which is bad apparently
my parents got fined once over having 'weeds' growing in their flowerbeds that werent classified as weeds by anyone with a brain and was able to fight against the fine in a small claims court lmao. they won because the HOA didnt show up. they were just flowers for pollinators (to attract them to the garden) that were out of season.
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i always thought lawn shit was funny and depressing. my parents would get shit for doing the bare minimum all the time, but come winter, all the lawns looked the same, including the ones meticulously watered, fertilized, and cared for. they refused to water and fertilize it because it was wasted money, instead preferring to do backyard gardening. theyd mow and pick weeds out by hand to save money. dont blame them at all.
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ive seen some in unincoporated or non-hoa parts of cities but almost all housing is in suburbs with insane hoas that expect you to pluck grass down to 2 inches with your anus every saturday. and these hoas are usually set up by the corporations that build the housing in the first place who rentseek via hoa fees. so even if you 'own' your property (you probably dont because you took a loan out for it and pay rent via interest to loaners) you still pay 'rent' to the HOA. if you dont pay the fee or follow the rules they can levy fines on your house. and the rules can be supremely inane and if the hoa board doesnt like you personally theyll just send people to spy on you to look for minor infractions to fine you on. these people tend to do this for fun and arent paid.
AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE :joker-amerikkklap:
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whats sad is praires and wildgrass looks so good and often greener than any lawn with literally zero work being done on it. whenever i drive around with my bf i always point out how lush they look :deeper-sadness: we saw this one vast field that looked soft and neon green almost the other day and had lots of winter blooming flowers
and the sadder thing is we could just choose to plant wild grasses that only grow to certain heights and leave it at that rather than importing foreign grasses that look like shit. but that also means you must be OK with some weeds which is bad apparently
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my parents got fined once over having 'weeds' growing in their flowerbeds that werent classified as weeds by anyone with a brain and was able to fight against the fine in a small claims court lmao. they won because the HOA didnt show up. they were just flowers for pollinators (to attract them to the garden) that were out of season.
a weed is a plant in the wrong place there cannot by definition be a weed in an area you have elected to let grow wild