Since lawns are bad for the environment, what do you think lawns should be replaced with?
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I might add some of the suggestions
Since lawns are bad for the environment, what do you think lawns should be replaced with?
Optional poll if you want, since this place doesn’t have polls,
https://submatrix.net/article/Polls/CYL6qLm7eL
I might add some of the suggestions
Letting what naturally grows without adding water grow.
It takes a LOT of work for most people to go from lawn to native plants. Disturbed earth will grow invasives first. I’ve got an unwatered 10x20 space that I hand weed, carefully preserving natives and desirable volunteers. If I don’t stay on top of it, it’s all burr clover, Himalayan blackberry and puncture vine in no time. I had hope that if I could reestablish natives it would settle down and be maintenance free, but it’s been too many years to keep that dream alive.
This generally doesn’t work in suburbia.
Its called a meadow yard or some such.
Theres one on my street, been like it for a decade or so. Its just weeds and Kikuyu from the neighbours.
A residential block is always going to need to be manicured to keep undesirable plants out.
My mom always just mowed whatever grew in the yard and called it “grass” and that’s all I have ever done. Mow the weeds, who cares? They get nice flowers, the bees like them. Except bull thistle. We dug that up with prejudice before it could flower. But as far as lawn, that is just a mowed space where I grew up, and I did grow up in a suburb, though not a house farm sort of development, not an HOA situation. And it’s just a mowed space where I live now too. Maybe 1 house in every 10 has the literal Grass Lawn, with the chemicals and monoculture. 9/10 have a mix of whatever.
Mowing removes undesirable plants as they don’t have a chance to flower. It’s the same thing.
When I had a house with a shady yard, it was mostly moss. It won’t take a lot off foot traffic but it doesn’t even need mowing.