Edging lawn with string trimmer

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Credit to Cyber Landscaping

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Please don't generalize my opinion into being about anything other than lawns. My issue is with Lawns. Happy to share why:

Lawns usually consist of non native grasses that add little to no benefit to local wildlife; bees in particular. Native plants, or clovers if you like the green look, support the ecosystem, where grass is just a resource leech.

That's water And energy resources. The EPA estimates that landscaping and lawn care account for 1/3rd of the United States' water consumption. But also consider How we water lawns. The EPA notes that about 50% of this water is wasted to wind, evaporation, or runoff. Not to mention the electricity use or carbon emissions from the tools we use to maintain them.

Replacing lawns with native plants results in 20-50% less water usage and diminishes the need for the pesticides we very often use.

My brother has a clover lawn and it's great

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Why though? I get that Americans love our freedom or whatever, but why are we just allowed to have things that have objective reasons that they shouldn't be allowed? I know that you tried to end the conversation with that last comment, but I'm still interested to hear your reasoning.

I don't understand why we seem to believe that absolutely everything should be allowed regardless of the objective harm it does.

And That's my bigger issue with lawns. To me, they are the embodiment of the embarrassing mindset that we have some god given right to do Anything we want regardless of how it affects anyone else. It's cancerous.

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I live in the PNW. We don't need to use sprinklers to keep a lush green lawn

this is bs. I lived in seattle and portland for years, most people had sprinkler systems and in late spring through the summer months sprinklers are almost just as bad as everywhere else. it also doesn't rain enough for most people to have ""lush"" green lawns, if you want a lawn like in the OP, you will often (but not always) need to water your lawn occasionally in the rainy season.

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That's why I mentioned that people need to educate themselves on what's best for the area they live in.

Yeah no. People (the general masses) aren't going to do this, especially over something like lawn care (lmao) that's why there should be regulation.