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People on here always talk about how lawns need a bunch of fertilizer to work, but that never made sense to me because we've never done that around here. But then I learned that's because everyone just has clover growing along side their grass.


Anyway I think shaming people for their lawn is a bad idea. I think killing your lawn will only catch on if it's presented as a way to make your lawn cooler. You're not a bad person for having a lawn, but you could change it into something so much more interesting by including native flora.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

www.healthyyards.org is the link in the image. I'm not affiliated with it in any way, I just hate when people put links in images and you can't click on them. Almost as bad as texting someone a QR code. Motherfucker, what am I supposed to do with that, get another phone to scan it?

[–] brown567@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

Heal thy yards

[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Screenshot, share to binary eye, done 🥳

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Kind of amazing that people still need to be convinced to wear helmets while riding.

You'd have a hard time convincing me to ride without one.

[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Same, but it's actually a charity I started recently to fundraise to buy bikes (and helmets) for teenagers who sign up for a cycling club at local high schools! There's a bunch of kids who are interested in the club but can't afford their own bike. Cycling is pitifully rare here in the US so I'm hoping to improve that in a small way 🙏

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In that case, masterful self plug.

Where are you located in the US? I think I have a few unused bikes.

[–] beveradb@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! South Carolina - details on https://helmetheads.club/ if you're actually interested in supporting, anything is appreciated!

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We have one that barely has any grass left. We are surrounded by meadows and there is so much just random plants growing. Don't tell me our lawn is bad since the obly difference between it and the surrounding meadows is that we mow ours.

[–] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure the mowing is the exact problem. Can't remember if it's solved by using an old school push-powered mower or something

Edit - after looking into it, seems like push mowers don't help because Americans eating meat will cause as much pollution pushing a mower as using gas? Not sure

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why is mowing the issue? If you just leave it be it grows too tall.

[–] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Would you prefer I cut it with a scythe? I already do that with a particularly steep part of the grass

[–] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think I trust the studies saying human power is worse tbh. Cultivating food uses CO2, cows eat plants before we eat them, the plants drink CO2 from the air. Lawnmower takes power out of the ground and injects pollution in the air. Scythe has to be better

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

An electric mower runs on sunlight (at least mine does), at some point their batteries will be recyclable. They have to be better than both

[–] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Electric is definitely about as bad as gas for mowing a lawn. The gas you're not using is just being used by someone else, if not more, because you're helping subsidize the petrodollar economy by paying orders of magnitude higher cost for batteries+motors+solar power than you would pay for a push mower or probably even a gas-powered mower. But you also have to factor in the other environmental damage from manufacturing and shipping the batteries and solar panels which you make it really difficult to avoid by demanding the mower be electrified, whereas if the mower was push-powered it would be up to suppliers whether they feel like wasting their fuel shipping it across the planet or just manufacturing it with materials found closer to you

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Solar power systems pay for themselves in four years, and typically last week in excess of 20.

It doesn't make sense to think they have more energy or material in their construction than they make, as then they would be more expensive

[–] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 23 hours ago

Any petroleum used in their production is subsidized by the petrodollar economy, though

[–] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought a push mower might help but some studies say it might be worse. I guess the recommendation is to plant something other than grass that naturally stays good to walk on, maybe? I'm still learning about this myself

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Half the grass behind the house is dead anyway and was replaced by moss naturally. The issue is the moss would dry out faster and die in the summer. The current situation is probably the best

[–] jared@mander.xyz 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 9 points 4 days ago

Because of bullshit HOA rules.

[–] dumbass@aussie.zone 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because I'm also on a lot of cocaine and I've cleaned the entirer inside of my house to surgical standards.

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