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Maybe that lawn isn’t a good example. I ride an ebike 50 miles on weekends. Went yesterday. I drive through a lot of ritzy neighborhoods. Yes they have big lawns with lots of grass but a lot of their landscape is stuff you put down and leave alone.I dunno, looks like it's turning brown near the street. Place must be in the southwest somewhere. Hard to keep grass green in the summer.
I live on a lake. Big lawn. I wish we’d dump sand on it and make it a beach. How much gas does it cost to rake a beach dingbat?That "lawn" is a ton of work.
My complaints aren't limited to those in the article.Did you read your own article? Basically their only complaint is your neighbor might not like it. Everything else is fodder? In other words, nothing in your article says it not a good idea, unless you hate dandelions. And by the way? They are yummy. Want to lose some weight? Grow dandelions and pick them. Boil the stems, put lemon on and eat them like spinach.
What would you think of mowing (when you are not specifically looking for seed) but take a pass on the weed killers and herbicides? There are lots of native plant varieties that can be maintained at popular lawn height.My complaints aren't limited to those in the article.
Lawns with lots of dandelions are usually infected with several other varieties of undesirable weeds, that have no flowers that are beneficial to bees.
Dandelion and other weed seeds often seed neighboring properties that may not want those weeds, and can result in more use of chemical herbicides.
When those overgrown 'terraces' are finally cut much of the grass and weeds wind up in the street where the storm drains carry them to nearby waterways exacerbating aquatic weed and algae growth.
Finally, allowing grass and weeds to grow above "lawn" height 'scalps' the lawn of the tender grass leaving coarse stems that take weeks to recover.
I sprayed the property I manage last fall with Weed-B-Gone (having put it off for too long). This year I have the best looking lawn in the neighborhood. The grass is thick and lush with only a few dandelions poking up. I pick off the blossoms as they appear. However my next door neighbor has chosen to not mow his lawn, which is now full of dandelions going to seed. I will likely have to spray again next fall as his unkempt lawn will likely seed mine. Even as I write this the wind outside is blowing 20-25 mph, blowing seeds all over the place.
No Mow May is definitely not a good idea, IMO.
Not appropriate for a commercial property like mine. Anyway, the question is whether leaving lawns go to seed is beneficial to bees. I submit that it isn't, at least in my immediate neighborhood.What would you think of mowing (when you are not specifically looking for seed) but take a pass on the weed killers and herbicides? There are lots of native plant varieties that can be maintained at popular lawn height.
I don't do any of that. Whatever grows, mows. And I don't care what grows as long as most of the dirt is covered.Maybe that lawn isn’t a good example. I ride an ebike 50 miles on weekends. Went yesterday. I drive through a lot of ritzy neighborhoods. Yes they have big lawns with lots of grass but a lot of their landscape is stuff you put down and leave alone.
It can be done guys. We can do better than what we are doing now which is stupid. sod, cutting and watering grass. So costly, wasteful, extravagant, ludicrous, you broke asses love your lawns.
None.I live on a lake. Big lawn. I wish we’d dump sand on it and make it a beach. How much gas does it cost to rake a beach dingbat?
That was true on Crypton.
One thing you could do is plant big oak trees in you backyard and in years to come your grass will be shaded and not need so much watering and ultimately less mowing. Or you’ll get a battery automatic lawnmower so you don’t have to do anything. Just set it and forget it.My complaints aren't limited to those in the article.
Lawns with lots of dandelions are usually infected with several other varieties of undesirable weeds, that have no flowers that are beneficial to bees.
Dandelion and other weed seeds often seed neighboring properties that may not want those weeds, and can result in more use of chemical herbicides.
When those overgrown 'terraces' are finally cut much of the grass and weeds wind up in the street where the storm drains carry them to nearby waterways exacerbating aquatic weed and algae growth.
Finally, allowing grass and weeds to grow above "lawn" height 'scalps' the lawn of the tender grass leaving coarse stems that take weeks to recover.
I sprayed the property I manage last fall with Weed-B-Gone (having put it off for too long). This year I have the best looking lawn in the neighborhood. The grass is thick and lush with only a few dandelions poking up. I pick off the blossoms as they appear. However my next door neighbor has chosen to not mow his lawn, which is now full of dandelions going to seed. I will likely have to spray again next fall as his unkempt lawn will likely seed mine. Even as I write this the wind outside is blowing 20-25 mph, blowing seeds all over the place.
No Mow May is definitely not a good idea, IMO.
You should try that. There's no such thing as a free lunch.I live on a lake. Big lawn. I wish we’d dump sand on it and make it a beach. How much gas does it cost to rake a beach dingbat?
I'm worried about you.Maybe that lawn isn’t a good example. I ride an ebike 50 miles on weekends. Went yesterday. I drive through a lot of ritzy neighborhoods. Yes they have big lawns with lots of grass but a lot of their landscape is stuff you put down and leave alone.
It can be done guys. We can do better than what we are doing now which is stupid. sod, cutting and watering grass. So costly, wasteful, extravagant, ludicrous, you broke asses love your lawns.
I pay $200 a month association dues. $2400 a year.You should try that. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
I hear Detroit is lovely.No. So the cities are saying.
recently embraced by cities, including Ann Arbor and Royal Oak, asks that you skip the lawnmower — at least until June.
Liberal cities. Nice cities run by liberals btw. Not all liberal cities are shit holes.
Sounds like they are getting in your pants.I pay $200 a month association dues. $2400 a year.
At least our big rich homes have 1 landscaping company who makes a damn good living cutting all our grass at one time very quickly.I'm worried about you.
It is. You should see it. We‘re going to take the ebikes downtown to belle isle. Google the area ya ignorant fuck.I hear Detroit is lovely.
That’s cheap. Florida same condo as mine, not on the water, $500 a month. You guys worship florida because they pay no state taxes. BfdSounds like they are getting in your pants.
I never cease to be amazed at the world that exists inside your brain.At least our big rich homes have 1 landscaping company who makes a damn good living cutting all our grass at one time very quickly.
You people in you cookie cutter subdivisions should all pay to have one company do all your lawns.
Compare that to each of you idiots buying lawnmowners and gas and wasting your saturdays destroying the planet with your little lawn mowers. They add up. The landscaper can do all your grasses with one or two lawnmowers and you can go back to listening to conservative radio.
We just got new floating docks. Each bat club member had to pay $1400. Thats aside from the $200 a month. I got money.Sounds like they are getting in your pants.
I said that I hear Detroit is lovely.It is. You should see it. We‘re going to take the ebikes downtown to belle isle. Google the area ya ignorant fuck.
