There’s better ground cover that stands up to reasonable wear and tear from activities etc that also improves the soil, unlike standard grasses.
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Also, you can totally have a lawn. It’s a great place to Do Things in your garden, and it’s better than bricks or concrete. I can’t host a bbq in between the shrubs after all.
Just, turn the bits where you don’t Do Things into some other plant than lawn grass. At the very least you don’t really need those corners.
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Right with ya, what I’m doing now. We have a tiny house on an 80’x200’ lot and the back 30’ was already left wild. LOL, now the whole backyard is an impassable mess. :)
I’m thinking clover next year if I can afford it. My 70s elementary playground was mostly clover and we beat the shit out of it, 3 times a day. (For you younger folks, “recess” was a time in the morning, at lunch and afternoon when we ran outside and did whatever the fuck we wanted.)
Ironically, they used to adulterate grass seed to clover to make it cheaper. Now we gotta pay a monstrous premium for clover seed. Go figure.
RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 1 day ago
I have clover in an area where sometimes, maybe once-twice a week, a car parks. It doesn’t hold at all, I’ve been re-sowing it many times, even tried growing it in pots and planting once it matured.
shalafi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Sounds like I need to study on the different types of clover.
stray@pawb.social 1 day ago
In my area we have communal lawns for lounging, soccer, etc. so that individual homes have smaller gardens, and areas not needed for human activity are allowed to grow wild while in season.