Will prices change your lawn mowing habits?

[myrdale]

Watering bans is what actually made that idea come to mind. GA is in a drought and they will come take away your children, arrest you, then beat you severally if you so much as glance at a sprinkler. Err ok I jest but they have had a ban on outdoor water use for over a year now and do threaten fines.

[maat55]

I'll just grin and bare it. I don't water my lawn so that may help.

[cschin4]

I would like to see some leeway into the mindset of how one "must" maintain their yard. When we were in England, they didn't have postage stamp grass lawns but instead their lawns were covered with wildflowers, weeds and whatever else grew there. It was kind of refreshing and looked pretty.
This year my daughter was upset because her daddy mowed down her "pretty flowers" which were the dandelions. Funny that we consider them a weed. But, if they didn't grow naturally and were hard to cultivate, then they would be highly prized and wanted in the flower community!
Why can't we let our lawns go natural if we choose too? It is our property yet we allow govt to tell us what we can and can't do on our own property so in reality you don't own anything.
As for us, we mow but I am just letting it go a few days longer to save a few bucks.

[myrdale]

[QUOTE=cschin4;174795]Why can't we let our lawns go natural if we choose too? It is our property yet we allow govt to tell us what we can and can't do on our own property so in reality you don't own anything.[QUOTE]

You can, and people do. IMHO though your yard/house is the only thing a person traveling by will see and know about you. I am not suggesting you spend $1000's maintaining it or that you be overly concerned about what people think of you. But atleast keep it in good order. There are quite a few houses I've driven by in my life and though "What trashy people" because they never took the time to mow the yard or pick up their trash in it.

As far as owning land, I honestly don't believe we do. The government can take what they want for roads, development, etc. Also you pay land tax (rent) which if you don't pay they take your house (evict you).

[Mamaw]

I live in a community with certain restrictions one of them being how high the grass grows. Because I am handicapped I pay a grandson to mow. But we try to stretch the days. It is realy the crabgrass that makes it look worse than it is.

[aida2003]

Nope. We do what we have to do. Besides we're in drought here, so it's more a 'growing' hay than grass ...no need to mowe anything.

[simpleyme]

a 'natural "lawn would turn to hay and tall weeds then the city would fine us
we do not live in a picky community but just choosing not to do any yard maintenance at all is not an option I am sure

[sounderella]

Watering bans is what actually made that idea come to mind. GA is in a drought and they will come take away your children, arrest you, then beat you severally if you so much as glance at a sprinkler. Err ok I jest but they have had a ban on outdoor water use for over a year now and do threaten fines.

Being a Georgian....I can attest they will do this LOL. However in my area they warn you once, then give you a $1000 fine. We have slow growing grass so it probably gets done every 2 weeks. We have 1 ac so it's not a tremedous spend of $. However, some of the neighborhoods around here have homeowners associations and you can't not cut your grass regardless if gas prices are high or not....they'll come after you with torches and pitch forks.

[PrincessPerky]

I do wish they would ban lawn watering, though. It drives me nuts every night when I go out walking and see how many of my neighbors are wasting hundreds and thousands of gallons of precious water on their lawns. We have never watered our lawn and it always looks just fine.

What drives me batty is the people watering their driveways!

We have restricted watering right now, so this summer I haven't seen much, thankfully. But other years...blood boils.

Last month I watched automatic sprinklers come on...in the rain!

[PrincessPerky]

I would like to see some leeway into the mindset of how one "must" maintain their yard. When we were in England, they didn't have postage stamp grass lawns but instead their lawns were covered with wildflowers, weeds and whatever else grew there. It was kind of refreshing and looked pretty.
This year my daughter was upset because her daddy mowed down her "pretty flowers" which were the dandelions. Funny that we consider them a weed. But, if they didn't grow naturally and were hard to cultivate, then they would be highly prized and wanted in the flower community!
Why can't we let our lawns go natural if we choose too? It is our property yet we allow govt to tell us what we can and can't do on our own property so in reality you don't own anything.
As for us, we mow but I am just letting it go a few days longer to save a few bucks.

I agree, I have found that you can get your lawn certified by the national wildlife foundation, and they have some legal pull to allow more natural lawns, but I never really went into the paperwork of it.

wildlife habitat

Seems like too much work to me....ok so the whole natural thing appeals to the lazy in me.....

[disneysteve]

What drives me batty is the people watering their driveways!

We have restricted watering right now, so this summer I haven't seen much, thankfully. But other years...blood boils.

Last month I watched automatic sprinklers come on...in the rain!

I just don't know why people need to water their lawns at all around here. We don't live in a bad climate area. Our lawn, trees, shrubs and flowers do just fine without us wasting water on them. The natural rainfall is more than sufficient to keep everything growing. And if we do get a prolonged dry stretch, the grass may get a little brown - SO WHAT?

[tripods68]

I have to keep watering our lawn everyday, and trimming it weekly. Otherwise our neighbors might think our house is in Foreclosure. Then well get people knocking in to our doors all the time wanting to buy it or sell it for us.

[JBinKC]

My habits have definitely changed. Last year, I made my yard into an edible landscape.

[Simpatico]

We're doing the opposite; soon, I will *start* mowing my grass, though I've always tended to let the natural growth go wild. I live in the country on several acres where I have the freedom to do this. A weed eater has been my sole yard equipment for eight years.

Now, with a tractor and a lawn mower I will be tending the area. Nothing fanatical, just keeping it under control.

Edit: typo

[simpleyme]

I have to keep watering our lawn everyday, and trimming it weekly. Otherwise our neighbors might think our house is in Foreclosure. Then well get people knocking in to our doors all the time wanting to buy it or sell it for us.

I had to laugh at that but I know that you really are not kidding
when I took over outside maintenance at work I finally had to add pots of flower as I keep it so clean outside people kept saying that the place looked abandoned I doubt abandoned business are kept immaculate but enough people said it I added the flowers