Lawns are useful as a free area where you can do all kinds of activities like sports, social gatherings, religious ceremonies, an area to build large things, and also just hang out and look at all your plants.
I mean, yeah, but it’s also a pretty central part of this yard plan, so the yard is kind of functioning as a pathway here. If you imagine a bunch of lil paths going in various directions instead of plain grass it doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Yeah I think if you got rid of the lawn and just had narrow paths with everything densely planted with “useful plants” then it would feel less like a homestead and more like a jungle.
It’s fine but you can’t really play sports or have a picnic or a barbecue or set up a slip n slide or many other fun activities that lawns are good for!
Also a dense jungle of food-bearing plants like tomatoes is highly susceptible to disease. Tomatoes need a lot of airflow to keep their leaves dry so they don’t develop powdery mildew.
Maybe if you’re using 18th century farming technology. In the modern day we have things like drip irrigation and tractors. Even a 1940s tractor is more than enough for a 1 acre plot.
Keeping a useless ass lawn is the most American fucking thing lmao
Bigger than the pasture but you gotta mow it lmao.
Lawns are useful as a free area where you can do all kinds of activities like sports, social gatherings, religious ceremonies, an area to build large things, and also just hang out and look at all your plants.
I mean, yeah, but it’s also a pretty central part of this yard plan, so the yard is kind of functioning as a pathway here. If you imagine a bunch of lil paths going in various directions instead of plain grass it doesn’t seem unreasonable.
Yeah I think if you got rid of the lawn and just had narrow paths with everything densely planted with “useful plants” then it would feel less like a homestead and more like a jungle.
What’s wrong with some greenery to frolick around in?
It’s fine but you can’t really play sports or have a picnic or a barbecue or set up a slip n slide or many other fun activities that lawns are good for!
Also a dense jungle of food-bearing plants like tomatoes is highly susceptible to disease. Tomatoes need a lot of airflow to keep their leaves dry so they don’t develop powdery mildew.
if you’re subsistence farming you won’t have time for slip n slides
Maybe if you’re using 18th century farming technology. In the modern day we have things like drip irrigation and tractors. Even a 1940s tractor is more than enough for a 1 acre plot.
that increases your operating costs enormously though.
Not really. Drip irrigation is pretty cheap. As are old tractors.
The expensive part is buying an acre of land.
Plant clover. Doesn’t need mowing and puts nitrogen into the soil.
Idk what kind of wimpy clover you’ve got, but the kind around here grows as tall as the grass. Definitely need to mow.
Not if you eat it.
How high do you like stuff before you think you need to mow it? Real question.
oh no, ground cover that’s more than half an inch is so scary
Here’s one that tops out at 6 inches.
What kind of wimpy grass do you have? The stuff near me will grow over a foot if you let it
Mines all mint. It’s wonderful lol
there’s like 300 plants called “clover”, the kind in my yard will get to ass-height if i let it.
Sometimes when people say “you don’t need to mow” they mean “you don’t need to mow except once or twice a season” lol
My lawn is clover for the bees