• @robolemmy
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      7 months ago

      I ignored mine for over a decade and it quietly turned itself from grass into a naturally low-growing ground cover that looks like clover. It never needs watering and the only mowing needed is to chop down the stray weed here and there. It’s quite nice.

      Edit: I should add that the plant that took over is native to the area.

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              7 months ago

              Native plants conducive to your ecoregion. Kill your lawn isn’t an end, it is a beginning to a more sustainable, ecologically beneficial mindset. Takes much much less time to maintain, looks gorgeous, and you’ll see birds, butterflies, moths, bees, frogs, toads, etc that you’ve never seen before. When you work with nature instead of against it, it just clicks.

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                  7 months ago

                  There is more than native grasses. Ticks are a result of mismanaged habitat, I don’t have any in my yard despite them being around. I have dogs, no fleas ever either. If you don’t want to do it, fair. But those aren’t legit reasons.