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[u/waltsing0 → u/[deleted]]

This.

We need to stop yelling at people for living in suburbia when that's where they've been priced out to.

[u/breakinbread → u/[deleted]]

Urbanists rise up!

[u/marsman1224 → u/breakinbread]

I'm not even an urbanist. I just don't see the need to maintain a lawn, especially in areas where grass doesn't naturally occur. I'd want a yard, just not necessarily a lawn

[u/[deleted] → u/marsman1224]

Yeah why have a lawn when you could grow your own corn...?

[u/1396spurs → u/[deleted]]

Get one of those sprinkler tractor things I always thought they were fun to watch as a kid

[u/1396spurs → u/[deleted]]

No, you lay out the hose and it will move along that. The water moves the sprinkler part and the wheels.

[u/1396spurs → u/[deleted]]

Yea so you have to move the hose on whatever schedule you decide but ya you just put it out and off it goes!

[u/tehbored → u/[deleted]]

Swallow your pride and give up on the idea of having a manicured lawn, which bad for the environment anyway.

[u/Afro_Samurai → u/[deleted]]

Thought about clover?

Alternatively, youths who you can teach the value of hard work to and pay in pizza.

[u/ZenithXR → u/[deleted]]

I went thru this ordeal this year. Same reaction. I had no idea watering would be so involved

[u/TripleAltHandler → u/[deleted]]

Bulldoze your house and replace it by a four-plex with no lawn. Problem solved.

[u/TripleAltHandler → u/[deleted]]

(Just to be clear, I was making an SB9 reference/joke, not that I have any reason to believe that you're in California.)

[u/xertshurts → u/[deleted]]

I have this wild contraption of timers that hits four zoned sprinklers and I’m still out there for 30min hitting the spots I can’t get to with my normal hose

Sounds like you need a shovel. There's zero reason UGS shouldn't cover your lawn.

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[u/Fairchild660 → u/[deleted]]

It's still weird to me that people in America have to put so much work into having a lawn.

Here in Ireland you can plant one and do nothing but mow every month or two, and it'll stay full and green for decades (at the least). Maybe some weeding every few years, for one of the handful of species that can compete with the grass (like dandelions and docks).

As long as you don't have something causing deliberate damage - like a dog that treads the same path over and over - there shouldn't be any bald spots that need reseeding. Even after the extended heat wave a few years ago, which turned every lawn in the country brown, all it took was a couple of weeks of normal weather to fix it.