lawns
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As a former employee of the pesticide industry, this point wasn't lost on me when we bought our house back in '90. Within a few years, I had grubbed up all of the lawn, front and back, and replaced it with a Japanese-themed strolling garden (and our front hill is now planted to English ivy, an issue in itself). Now, nearly 20 years on, I have no cause for regret, especially on Saturday mornings when I see many of our neighbors out slavishly mowing their lawns.
Mark Lipton
p.s. The Dandelion King lives next door to me, bless his soul.
Doug Padgett
Doug Padgett
I'm deeply devoted to this lazy perspective on lawn care, but I like to garden Of course, we never had much lawn in our current row house abode, but what little we did have is mostly gone now and replanted with the kitchen (and flowers) in mind. I love the perspective of a California nursery called Mountain Valley Growers--they offer "alternative lawn" sets of various spreading and mounding herbs as stand-ins for grass. Not very practical in DC's climate, but serves as decent ground cover in some places. Hate English ivy--both neighbors' yards are full of the viney pest.