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Comments (14)Despite the original posters overly extensive post, with certain questionable content, the central point is still quite vaild. We as a nation spend more money on grass than on any other crop. That by itself should be reason enough. Read up on the history of lawns and you'll find that they were orginally created as a means of demonstrating wealth (aka, I have this big area and I can afford to do nothing with it except grow grass I can't eat) Regarding the comments of junegem13 and zachslc, you might want to read up on the legal history of this movement. As it turns out, most weed laws (ones based on hight, not on noxious weeds) are unconstitutional. Nonetheless, if you are in a city or subdivision and decide to do a wildflower meadow where there is not an reasonable ordinance, then you should notify your neighbors and the city about why you are doing and the legal preceedants. The EPA has all this information. Regarding property values, that was the original complaint neighbors made against one landowner when she converted her lawn into meadow. When they were unable to demonstrate an actual decrease in property values, the city ordinance was ruled unconstitutional. Afterwards, the neighbors decided if they couldn't beat her that they'd join her and replace their own yards with meadows. Property values in that one neighborhood are now some of the highest in the city (Specific names and places, are available if you want them). Time and time again, lawn alternatives done correctly have shown to raise values, not lower them. In Charlottesville, VA local government is working on an ammendment to exclude native meadows from our weed ordinance. Other cities are doing the same very quicky, especially since the weed ordinance as written by many localites constitutes a legal liability to local governments....See MoreSpring is Not in the Air, but...
Comments (32)We are having March-like weather here. Was warm the last few days, except for the blustery winds out of the south. It got up into the low 70s yesterday and by late afternoon, the wind died down a bit. This morning, it was still warm - around 58, with a gentle breeze and overcast skies. I could smell rain - the smell of wet dirt, so I knew it was raining somewhere close by. I thought it would start at any time, but it never did. About an hour ago, the wind turned around and started coming straight out of the north, so it is cooling down now. Darn! We are supposed to get rain, maybe thundershowers. (I hope, I hope!) Many of the fruit trees and flowering shrubs are budding out. I can see white on the cherries, yellow on the forsythias & pink on the peach buds. Last night I noticed buds coming out on the Lady Banks rose, for crying in a bucket! WAY too early old girl - you better watch out! The Naked Ladies are up, their little round leaf noses poking up through the soil a good two inches or more. Some of the daffodils on the south side of the house have been up for weeks and are already making bloom buds> Even the Paper Whites are up. This is way too early for them to be acting like that. If spring has come a month early this year, then I need to get my cabbages and broccoli in the ground, and I haven't even started my seeds yet! Crazy weather - crazy. ~Annie...See MoreQuotes About Not Mowing
Comments (1)'U' are preaching to the choir here......See MoreNonmowing Grows in Popularity
Comments (26)I think I said the implication was quite clear. In any case, absurd rules were made to be broken. I think the growing conditions in coastal new england must be fairly similar because most of our common weeds are imports from southern england. Also most of our garden crops, and we grow them at the same time of year. In some other parts of north america such is not the case. In northern scotland it probably isn't the case either, is it? The town I live in was settled in the 1600's by people from Tisbury, england. My lawn is tiny, less than 100x100, and I am not allowed to keep a cow, nor goats, nor sheep. (strangely, we are allowed to have any number of large, troublesome dogs). Nevertheless, even small patches of grass do need to be cut at some point, or else they will become small patches of brush and brambles. So even there in irrelevant england you will be reaching for some sort of cutting implement, and I am guessing it will likely be powered by an engine of some sort? A small, rarely-used poorly-maintained motor can do some champion polluting in a short time. I believe that is part of the point of that aggressive manifesto. As I said, the basic thrust of it is valid (and applicable everywhere). But of course, since it was posted by an american, and other americans have read it here on your UK forum, you mustn't concern yourself. Good day....See MoreRon Taggart
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