• easily3667@lemmus.org
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    6 days ago

    Ok but if you did before 10 am you might not wake up motherfucker

    Another fun way to deal with assholes is to get a bunch of medium rocks and throw them into random places in the yard.

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    If you must have a lawn (e.g. HOA, personal preference), I strongly recommend doing away with this nonsense and go electric. Better yet, stay ahead of battery obsolescence and get a plug-in model, provided your yard is small enough. No more gas, oil changes, clogged filters, re-gapping spark plugs, and no more dislocating your shoulder trying to start the damn thing. Just keep the blade clean and sharp and it’ll run for a decade at least.

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      Just get a Makita or some other power tool company that lets you use the same battery for your drill, mower and a bunch of other things. Make sure it’s a reputable one where the ecosystem will be around a long time.

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        Monocultures such as lots with nothing but one kind of grass choke out local wild life. It is more beneficial to your local biome to have a variety of native plants taking up this place.

        Also, immaculate green squares of grass with maybe a couple ornamental bushes are very boring and last century. Why spend time and money nurturing a sterile cookie cutter lot around your home when you can have a colorful, useful lot that nourishes you as well as local plants and animals?

        Depending on where you live, grass lawns are often very wasteful when it comes to water usage as well.

        This is all a moot point if you have a draconian HOA that will fine you for not having a lot that looks exactly like your neighbors. Maybe try to not move to a place like that.

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          The only reason we have them at all today is because they are mandated by obligatory setback distances for houses. We could be building our porches a metre or two from the sidewalk, the only reason we don’t are these stupid laws.

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            Man, the suburban house I grew up in would have been so badass if it had been surrounded by a multi tier porch fortress rather than a lawn.

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      6 days ago

      Creeping thyme is so much nicer. Bee-friendly, mosquito repellant, smells nice, and you can eat it.

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    7 days ago

    All this electric mower love in the comments and I’m looking at fixing the carb on my 20 year old gas mower because the arm broke off my electric after 2 years.

  • punksnotdead@slrpnk.net
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    7 days ago

    In an assumption that those reading the comments here are lawn cutting folks, please consider not cutting your lawn at all, or if that’s not feasible at least reducing how often or how large an area you do it to. Nature cannot survive the onslaught of every home on the planet having a perfectly neat 10mm tall patch of grass and nothing else. We need diversity.

    See the sidebar here for more information: https://slrpnk.net/c/nolawns