Dennis Gorelik (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dennisgorelik) wrote2018-12-01 10:54 pm
dennisgorelik) wrote2018-12-01 10:54 pm
Lawns
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543502
gambler:
Lawns are one of the most ridiculous human inventions I have ever observed. You take normal self-sufficient grass out, then reseed with some sort of crippled grass that needs constant fertilization and watering. To make things worse, you mandate it to be unnaturally short, so people have to constantly mow and use herbicides to keep the normal grass out. And all of this is made mandatory for some reason. Aside from creating grass mono-cultures, this is just a gigantic waster of time and resources that doesn't produce anything in return.
damontal:
Well people enjoy their lawns.
tropdrop:
Do they?
Our whole neighborhood remained indoors 97% of the time because most days in the summer had temps of 95-100F. Every house nevertheless diligently watered their lawn, multiple times a day, to keep up a perfect shade of green. The one house that wouldn't would be shamed relentlessly until they straightened their act.
Our neighborhood did not "enjoy" its lawns. It was collectively petrified into maintaining them to avoid public scorn.
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This is the story of my neighbourhood (in Florida): most of people outside -- are lawn maintenance workers. We pay to keep our lawns in a good looking shape.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18543502
gambler:
Lawns are one of the most ridiculous human inventions I have ever observed. You take normal self-sufficient grass out, then reseed with some sort of crippled grass that needs constant fertilization and watering. To make things worse, you mandate it to be unnaturally short, so people have to constantly mow and use herbicides to keep the normal grass out. And all of this is made mandatory for some reason. Aside from creating grass mono-cultures, this is just a gigantic waster of time and resources that doesn't produce anything in return.
damontal:
Well people enjoy their lawns.
tropdrop:
Do they?
Our whole neighborhood remained indoors 97% of the time because most days in the summer had temps of 95-100F. Every house nevertheless diligently watered their lawn, multiple times a day, to keep up a perfect shade of green. The one house that wouldn't would be shamed relentlessly until they straightened their act.
Our neighborhood did not "enjoy" its lawns. It was collectively petrified into maintaining them to avoid public scorn.
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This is the story of my neighbourhood (in Florida): most of people outside -- are lawn maintenance workers. We pay to keep our lawns in a good looking shape.
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I guess tropdrop exaggerated a bit.
Only some neighbours (who really want to show off their lawn) - water every day or more.
> We water twice a week.
We (and most our neighbours) water 2-3 times per week.
But watering even 2 times per week - is a distraction.
I would rather not have that distraction and let the grass to be brown time to time.
But Natasha (and most of our neighbours) are ready to invest time, effort, and money into maintaining evergreen grass.
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Because we still need to maintain that partially programmed sprinkling system:
1) We need to cancel (skip) sprinkling in case of rain or for some other reasons.
2) If sprinkling system breaks - we need to fix it (and cancel automated sprinklink before sprinklers are fixed).
For example, if one of sprinklers does not close back after sprinkling, then lawn mower may cut a sprinkler's head off. If left untreated, then during next sprinkling time there would be sprinkling fountain.
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Regarding the rest - well, yes, it does require maintenance.