• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      2 years ago

      They all seem obsessed with plastic grass now which is even worse.

      My garden is mostly weeds. Haven’t cut it in 15 years. I pretend to be a trendsetting wild gardener, but really I’m just a lazy bastard.

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      Did you sue? I’d have been livid enough to try to sue. IANAL, but at a minimum I would hope that would be trespassing.

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        Some places have bylaws on maximum lawn height and you can actually be fined for letting it go. That’s how insane people are about lawns.

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        I mean that’s probally overkill, that person was either OCD or was thinking he was doing them a favor. That sounds like a great way to have a pissed off neighbor and a potentially hostile neighborhood

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          I’d feel a little different (still pissed) if it was a next door neighbor who extended their mow. But to cross the street and change someone’s property without permission is already hostile to me.

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        By the letter of the law it probably is, but if they hadn’t expressly been told not to it won’t go anywhere.

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      I went out of town for two weeks and he rode over and mowed my lawn.

      This happened to me too. grillman are so violently obsessed with inch-high fuzzy green rectangles of obedience that they’ll sometimes invade your property to make more of them, overriding any of their own pretenses about the sanctity of private property in the process.

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          In my case, it was deliberate aggression because I had told him, in person and to his face, that those were protected native plants and I had a legal right to have them on my property.

          But grillman “did me a favor” with a disgusting little smirk when I confronted him about it later. He even implied that I got nothing to prove what he did because I don’t have the surveillance state shit that he has on his side of the fence.

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      It seems like people used to suburbs see that as the pinnacle of life but of course that’s not true.

      In my experience rural areas get it because they are farmers and beekeepers with an understanding that working with nature is the way to go

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      I get it as a dog owner with only a courtyard. But he goes on long hikes in the bush and big walks a few times a week. It’d be nice to give the little fella a patch to hang on while I’m at work. And I mean a patch—I hate mowing and any yard work motivation in me is for citrus, chilli, and grapes.

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      i never understood why american front yards dont have fences. just a barren wasteland of green from the curb to the front windows. fence your garden in!

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      That guy was an asshole for doing that to you. I wonder if that might be considered trespassing. Dunno if you can have any civil remedy served to you, or if it’s even worth it, but still sucks.

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      do you have kids? they love playing outside. barefoot. and a nice lawn is a paradise for bare feet. not to mention the actual process of mowing (electric mower) is very peaceful and good for my mental health. super therapeutic.

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        Sure, but we also want those kids to have food when they grow up, don’t we?

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            Or you can have a clover lawn, which is nice for insects as well as kids.

            Kids don’t dislike long, unkept grass either, as long as you keep the thistles out.

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              seems pretty naive to think that it’s joe homeowner that’s the problem, and not insecticides and fertilizers from mega farm corporations like monsanto. let me know where to mail my apology letter lol

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      How tall did the grass get? Did it pollinate, and if so, was it noticable for allergies? Were you still able to walk through it?

      I’m wondering what sort of plant you could let grow where you could still walk through easily. Maybe clover?