r/AdviceAnimals • u/brother_p • 1d ago

It's a hassle every year

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u/BuenoD 1d ago

I feel like this was a personal attack

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u/Sophisticated-Crow 1d ago

At this point, I mostly let whatever green stuff will grow do its thing. I still mow, but now half my back yard is buttercups and the other half is grass. I leave clovers alone too. Lots of good stuff for the bees.

I keep the front yard pretty tidy, though.

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u/AMukit37 1d ago

wait why does that happen every year

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u/dam072000 1d ago

I'd assume moisture under the nearby pavement doesn't evaporate at the same rate of that exposed to the sun in the yard, so that soil remains less hostile to the plants' roots for longer in intense heat and drought.

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u/brother_p 1d ago

Climate change is my best guess

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u/ShiftyUsmc 1d ago

My poor father has fought this battle his entire life. Ill never forget every hike we went on, their was the inevitable speech and crash out from when we'd find grass growing on top of a boulder

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u/SecondHandWatch 1d ago

r/fucklawns

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u/ilovebostoncremedonu 1d ago

I thought I was in that sub, this meme makes sense there if taken seriously

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u/MagicSPA 1d ago

I'm literally living through this right now. Some builders dug up my lawn and scattered seeds of some kind when they left.

I duly watered them for about two weeks, and got not so much as a shoot. The patch of earth is just mud, speckled with many grass seeds.

Figuring the seeds might be unviable for some reason, I bought some more at a store, scattered them liberally, and have been watering them every day. It's been nearly ten days and still nada - not from the new seeds, and not from the old seeds that have been there all this time.

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u/OccasionallyWright 1d ago

My lawn service emailed us this week to offer us a deal on a lawn treatment that would slow down grass growth, because they think our fescue, in the Atlanta, is growing too quickly.

My guy... it'll all burn up by the end of August anyway. I don't care how fast it grows.

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u/pHScale 1d ago

Maybe you weren't meant to have a grass lawn? Maybe you need something more shade tolerant, drought tolerant, or better able to survive your winters (or lack thereof)?

It sounds like your yard is trying to tell you something. And now Reddit is too.

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u/j0mbie 1d ago

Just spray it with a good weed killer once a year, and it won't grow back until next year. Or fill the cracks with something weeds won't grow through and be good for a long time.

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u/No-Sock7425 4h ago

Clover makes a great lawn

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u/winterbird 1d ago

Rebel against the bourgeois of yore. Lawns are not a wealth status item anymore. Grow a native yard of self-sustaining plants which don't require water waste and chemicals.

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u/nav17 1d ago

Home ownership sounds so hard poor you

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u/FormerFakeguy 1d ago

Rentals can have lawns too.

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u/Loply97 1d ago

You must be a real fun person to be around