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In Reply to: Riding Lawn Mower posted by www.records on May 5, 2007 at 19:23:17:
Unless you live where rain-fall alone will sustain it, you shouldn't be using water to sustain one.IMO lawns are a waste:- of time, effort, water, thought, mowing time, one's hearing, petrol, and fertilizer. And they even manage to waste rain by letting go of it.
Find out what your egion'susual native grouncover is, grass or not, and plant it. otherwise ......
Try mulch, maaate! and spend the time and effort and $$$ saved on growing food.
You never know, we all might need to know how.
WarmestTimbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio ScroungerAnd gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
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the region's usual ground cover is Maples and Cottonwoods. Don't think I could mow them! Probly bend the blade on my mower. :-OGod waters my lawn with rain. Otherwise it's on it's own. Don't need no stinkin Sevin Dust neither. I have the mower set to cut the grass to 10cm and that chokes out the crab grass, dandilions, etc. I'm all for doing it the natural way like you suggest.
Chemicals eventually end up in the water table or the Chesapeake Bay, which is very close by. Not good.
cheers,
roN
My new home could easly suport grass lots of rain in S WI but what a waist of time and cash keeping such a beast one of the largest source of polution is lawn sourced.I use rain gardens a pond catchs rain over flow.Wild flower prarie, mulched areas, garden areas, walking trails that are mulched.Planting a orchard that will be mulched so I dont need to trim. I still get to greatly enjoy my yard I can eat and fish take a nice walk etc and I dont spend much time taking care of this maybe 2 hours a month max...Before with a 3rd of the land, took 2 hours a week to mow weed trim etc...Time is money, think of the gass saved, equipment costs, I just sold my honda mower..No pesticide- herbicide etc another cash savings and good for the earth.Screw the green lawn its killin us slow
Good for you Kloss! What are you planting in your orchard?
Since I like to DIY time for wine,plus planting a few apples, cherrys, plums,pears, honey berrys arround a 150 plants ouch will take me 2 years to plant it all, still working on my pond fish are jumping this spring.Have to finish my water tanks that collect rain water.When I built the place I set it up for passive solar active solar and wind turbine will cost me $28000 for alt power but at least my homes sited roofs wired for this just need the cash maybe next year I can scrap it together.
I have a small apple and and pear orchard and one peach. I hope to start making cider this fall and maybe eventually perry. The brother of a good friend of mine just planted quite a few grape vines in SW Wisconsin. If you are in extreme eastern Wisconsin you might have a chance of growing Asimina triloba (Pawpaw).
Sounds like a nice setup Kloss.
My lawn survives on rainfall alone. No watering. If it dries up and dies, so be it. It comes back next year. I do spray twice in the spring to kill the weeds and apply an insect killer (we have 3 dogs) to kill fleas, ticks and ants.I am not sure what the local ground cover is, but in my neighborhood a natural yard that was not mowed would soon get me in trouble with the local gov't. So I really have little choice about having a lawn, unless I made it a rock yard.
..... A pic of about 20% of the lawns around my home. Never been artificially watered and never been fertilized.Most people cut their lawns way too short. About 65mm-70mm is usually ideal.
Australia has heaps of fresh water. Unfortunately State & Federal Government of both persuasions choose not to spend the money to store it & divert it as it is a long term project that will take several terms of government to implement. (absolutely no incentive for pollies to act)
Greater Sydney alone uses about 50 million gallons per day of fresh drinking water to flush piss & shit into the ocean. One of these days a pollie with balls will actually make some hard decisions about water use in this country. While ever all levels of government take advice from the public service nothing will change.
Sox can solve the problem in a heartbeat. No consultation, no experts, no environmental impact statements, no working parties, no costing whatsoever.
It simple and easy to do but takes lots of money that most mouths don’t like to part with.
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