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- nolawns@slrpnk.net
- greenspace
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11787771
[alt text: Text that says, “People [say] 'I never see butterflies or lightning bugs in my yard. Their yard: (colon)”. Below the text is a photo of a birds-eye view of a large house with an equally large yard. The lawn is covered in standard turfgrass (probably Kentucky bluegrass) that has been recently mowed.]
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I’ll never understand how people think their ugly ass lawns look good. Overgrown landscape are so much better looking.
There’s a lot of small towns and cities that really embrace the natural landscape.
It’s a shame that all the new towns start by slapping down a disgusting piece of lawn. Makes the whole place look cheap and old fashion.
1950’s nuclear america style
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Create habitat for lightning bug larvae. Set aside parts of your yard to go undisturbed, leave the leaf litter there year-round, leave a couple logs out to rot, plant a few woody perennials there to provide some shade and retain moisture. You can do this and still also retain some lawn, if you want to.
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Turn off the lights outside your house. You don’t need that floodlight on all night. Get a motion sensor if it’s important enough to you. The artificial light disrupts their mating cycle, meaning the next generation in your yard will be smaller or non-existent. Reducing outdoor lighting also helps migrating birds find their way more effectively and allows you to see more stars.
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Never use pesticides, ever. Also tell your neighbors about how yard treatments intended to kill mosquitoes are much more effective at killing lightning bugs and bees than mosquitoes. The company selling you a mosquito treatment will straight-up lie to you about this.
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I can heard the lawn mower disturbing all neighbors every other day from here.
Why subject you and those around you to such a torture when you can have native plants and landscape that barely requires any maintenance.
And if you want it as a hobby, plant tomatoes or something, at least you’lm have something to eat for all your work.
Why subject you and those around you to such a torture when you can have native plants and landscape that barely requires any maintenance.
HOA compliance
Friendly reminder that HOAs require their council members to be elected. You can run for HOA president and potentially change many of these policies
A lot of HOAs resist change by requiring an absurd supermajority of votes to actually change anything, sometimes unanimous. Granted, if you can manage to get everyone together to amend just that one part of the charter, the rest of the change comes much easier