I got a nasty letter from an anonymous coward complaining about how I keep my lawn.

I dont give two shits about the grass. Bare minimum is all it gets. I also did a round of overseeding with microclover. All the retired boomers in my neighborhood have nothing better to do than dick around with their lawns.

I have every intention of making mine into a meadow or something. Need to figure out what I can get away with.

In the meantime, I will be making a Halloween display that will feature skeletons sitting on top of some pallets (letter writer was mad that I had one leaning against my trash can for a week) with trash cans and a whole bunch of weeds and crap. I also have a spare tire that was used to secure a transmission I bought down to the pallet. I also still have the broken transmission.

The whole mess will be going into the front yard, skeletons will get trucker hats, beer bottles and maybe a banjo.

I can't wait!

Large grass lawns were a sign of wealth and power for the aristocracy and gentry from the feudal system. When they had large numbers of serfs working their small plots of land and paid a tithe to the landowners it meant that their land could be turned over from agriculture to pleasure.

Growing a big, unproductive, biologically inactive lawn is basically saying "I have so many peasants I don't need to grow vegetables" and then morphed into the quasi status symbol we have today for suburbanites to complain about each other's while the planet dies around them.

You think that's bad? Allow me to introduce you to rock yards. I'm slowly getting rid of mine but removing several dump truck loads of gravel is hard work.

Frick. I moved into a house from being in apartments for many years and I have to say, lawn and Garden work, suuuuucccckkksss.

I hate it. I have too much to do to deal with your.... Growth.

Can I replace my lawn with an emo lawn so it cuts itself?

I know this meme comm, but anyone have good resources on how to not be a part of this statistic?

Pumpkins

What? You don't like glyphosate in your everything?

I was walking across some grass recently and noticed I liked how it was soft and spongy. So I look up how to achieve that for the grass sitting area in my garden. Turns out every lawncare guide says this is terrible and you need to fix it.

Plant Clover.

Rarely needs to be mowed. Or seeded. Or anything else. Looks great. Provides a lot of cover for a lot of insect life. It is just superior to grass.

My parents just mow the lawn every now and then and remove thorny plants when they find them. The garden is just wild flowers and weeds. Then they dig a little pond. Since then they have lots of bees and other insects, but no wasps. It’s nice and requires no maintenance whatsoever. If a plant dies, it dies. If it takes over, it takes over. In spring until summer their whole garden is full of daisys. A white garden. The dog loves it and ears the heads off then when he’s chilling.

You know what you don't need to do all that work for? Native plants. Hell, even cover is better than a grass lawn.