Big Lawns: Bad For The Environment And Racist

[ThatOwlWoman]

I qualify for the backyard wildlife habitat thing but never applied. Just seems like a money scheme to me. There are two baby possums on my back porch as I type. They like to come sit on the rail. Not sure why. Might be afraid of the dark.

Grass isn't evil. Had a discussion with an woodland expert on reddit awhile back about grass vs. trees. He agreed that grassland has to be part of the balance.

Ornamental grasses and wild grasses are lovely things, especially when the wind makes them shimmer and ripple. Plus their seed heads are food for wildlife.

I don't know if they charge now, but when we got the designation, the NWF didn't charge anything for the certification.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I use zero fertilizer on my yard but I use generic grass killer from Atwoods. I kill the grass in my fence lines and around my trees in lieu of weed eating. When I get tired of mowing in the fall I spray the whole yard with it and kill it all.

I’ve never had to use chemicals or fertilizer for a lawn here in Ohio. Just mow and trim regularly. From the middle of October to the middle of April you don’t really need to do anything but rake it in the fall. Dandelions are about the biggest problem. Even then if you mow regularly they’re not hard to control.

 

[Irish Exit]

I’ve never had to use chemicals or fertilizer for a lawn here in Ohio. Just mow and trim regularly. From the middle of October to the middle of April you don’t really need to do anything but rake it in the fall. Dandelions are about the biggest problem. Even then if you mow regularly they’re not hard to control.

That explain it all. Ohio is so boring even disease and fungi stay away from your turfgrass. They hide shivering in the frames of your cars until you pack up and come south to the beach on vacation like all Ohioans eventually do at which they scatter like Mexicans from a car trunk.

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Here's the tricky part for me:

If bees build a honeycomb, that's considered natural.
If beavers build a dam, that's considered natural.

By that standard, aren't all the dumb-ass things that humans do--lawns, nuclear weapons, whatever--natural as well?
All we are is another species.

 

[MAGA MAN]

I have a Cape Cod lawn.
Mow it if it needs it.
Do nothing else.
I live on a salt pond. Anything I put on my lawn affects the pond

End morraine. Below sea level?

 

[countryboy]

That explain it all. Ohio is so boring even disease and fungi stay away from your turfgrass. They hide shivering in the frames of your cars until you pack up and come south to the beach on vacation like all Ohioans eventually do at which they scatter like Mexicans from a car trunk.

Sooo, you've never actually been to Ohio. Got it.

 

[Rune]

End morraine. Below sea level?

Not sure anywhere on Cape Cod is below sea level.

 

[Legion]

What? Nah, she bought an even bigger house in a more expensive area and moved away. We liked the new neighbor better. He was super nice and often mowed his lawn without a shirt on. Well, one of us liked that part. lol

A Story for Every Occasion™.

 

[MAGA MAN]

Not sure anywhere on Cape Cod is below sea level.

How else does a salt pond exist?

 

[Rune]

It is part of an estuary system, connecting via a river to an ocean. It is tidal.

 

[MAGA MAN]

It is part of an estuary system, connecting via a river to an ocean. It is tidal.

So not really a pond. I've water skied on one of those. Good for clams?

 

[Irish Exit]

Sooo, you've never actually been to Ohio. Got it.

Sure I've been to ohio. Sipped tea in Shaker Square and played the hacky sack with some very pierced and tattooed young lads on Coventry. It was where I first learned that there are salt mines in the Great Lakes.

 

[countryboy]

Sure I've been to ohio. Sipped tea in Shaker Square and played the hacky sack with some very pierced and tattooed young lads on Coventry. It was where I first learned that there are salt mines in the Great Lakes.

If Cleveland is the only Ohio city you've visited, I can see how you would have a mistaken idea about Ohio.

 

[Rune]

So not really a pond. I've water skied on one of those. Good for clams?

Unreal soft shell population.

 

[Irish Exit]

If Cleveland is the only Ohio city you've visited, I can see how you would have a mistaken idea about Ohio.

Got my picture taken in front of one your state's many sub-compact wells. They are charming. No really.

 

[Fentoine Lum]

Here's the tricky part for me:

If bees build a honeycomb, that's considered natural.
If beavers build a dam, that's considered natural.

By that standard, aren't all the dumb-ass things that humans do--lawns, nuclear weapons, whatever--natural as well?
All we are is another species.

None of the others you mentioned have the propensity we do to foul our own nests, i.e. the planet, through gluttonously chasing wealth and control of others.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Got my picture taken in front of one your state's many sub-compact wells. They are charming. No really.

The charm of our trailer parks shouldn’t be beyond you then?

 

[Irish Exit]

The charm of our trailer parks shouldn’t be beyond you then?

Don't recall seeing any but then again I see them often enough that they don't really jump out at me anymore.

 

[MAGA MAN]

Unreal soft shell population.

Softies on the Cape? Thought they were north of Boston only.

 

[Rune]

Softies on the Cape? Thought they were north of Boston only.

The furthest South I have found them is the Peconic bay in Eastern Long Island, but they are very abundant in Cape Cod and run North to at least Nova Scotia.