Is it all or nothing?
As in, would raking only when it’s bad and leaving some leaves around better than full cleanups?
*No.*
Submitted 1 day ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why are people still moving into areas managed by the HOA? Even considering land value/ safety, it doesn’t seem worth it. It seems likely that some rich white ass hole will jump your fence, punch your kid in the face, and then jump the fence again and call the cops for assault.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Most neighborhoods have HOAs nowadays. It can be hard to avoid.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Entire neighborhoods are built with an HOA already pre-installed by the developers, with no way out of them AFAIK beyond basically dismantling the company that manages the HOA (that you funded by buying into the neighborhood).
Housing is extremely predatory in the US, and that’s not even getting into ever increasing home values being a major part of the stock market.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
lack of choice
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
HOAs, like most everything else in America that sucks, is rooted in racism.
It’s a way of keeping…undesirables…out of the neighborhood. Or at least pressure them to leave.
True “as long as it hurts the other guy more” energy.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
Because one (obviously not all) of the problems that HOAs were created to solve is still around: terrible neighbors. It’s not always an option to pick the best neighbors when you’re looking at a home, and HOAs at least let you quickly see that your neighbor isn’t going to be dumping sewage or old rusted machines in your yard. They also can be a quicker, more accessible route than going through with an individual lawsuit if your neighbor does begin acting like an ass. I’ve had to deal with bad neighbors in rural and suburban settings, and I would honestly pick HOA over that.
I wouldn’t live in an HOA neighborhood if I could avoid it, but I also wouldn’t want to live in a neighborhood if I could avoid it. Give me a large, spacious, well-insulated apartment in an urban area and I’d be happy.
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I couldn’t get a house in my price range without one, unfortunately.
ExtraordinaryJoe@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I’m just lazy and haven’t mowed my yard since spring of 2023. It’s about time to more again and I’ll probably mow over them this week. I hate yard work, probably because I was forced to do it as soon as I was old enough to use a rake.
boreengreen@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Leaves go away by themselves quickly, in my experience. It’s worm food. It also feeds the plants and can act as insulation for roots of shrubbery during cold snaps. Yes, if it is a particular thick and wet layer, it can rot the grass underneath. I have seen green thumb people spread it around their lawn and shove it under their bushes. But I guess if you are going for constant golf course style, you have to buy other nutrient and manage the leaves. But golf lawns are ugly.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
They break up a lot quicker if you run over them with a mower, which can also spread out the bits leaving a tidier looking lawn, thus keeping the HOA happy (maybe)
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
HOAs get a lot of hate, but the last one I lived in actually recommended mowing the leaves instead of bagging them.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
By far the best option. Putting them in bags takes forever, though they can then be reused for compost and the likes.
Not sure what the other commenter is talking about though. Unless they have like a single tree or something, I fail to see how the grass wouldn’t rot. There’s always this one guy in town who doesn’t clean it up and it smells awful down he street.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
I’m doing an experiment. This year I raked a bunch of leaves next to a tree trunk last fall. They’re still there, this spring.
boreengreen@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Sounds like you have a compost pile. The tree is probably alright with that.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 17 hours ago
They like it there and have decided to remain.
emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 18 hours ago
Well yeah, peobably got too cold for them to rot they were refridgerated all winter. Of course i dont know exactly where you live or what the weather is like but give it a couple months.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mom spent 30+ years raking the leaves out from under the bushes. That shit turned into solid clay and choked all of it to death. Entire house and backyard ringed in shrubs, 4-hour job to trim it, all dead.
Old lady down the street obsessively rakes her yard and burns the leaves. Guess what it looks like? No foot or vehicular traffic, still a wasteland.
Another old guy across the street from her does the same. His entire front yard looks like Arrakis.
Artyom@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
Blessed be thy Maker and his water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May his passage cleanse the world.
May he keep the world for his people
Speiser0@feddit.org 22 hours ago
I still don’t understand why keeping the leaves around is such a big topic in lemmy. Why, just why? Where did it come from?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 22 hours ago
it came from ugly ass monocrop lawns
kozy138@lemm.ee 19 hours ago
And from the drastic collapse of insect populations.
And from the fact that 2 stroke engines, most often used in leaf blowers, emit more pollution per hour than a semi truck.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Look I’m just too lazy to do anything about them and I don’t mind them being there.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
You probably don’t have a lot of trees or the smell would keep you up at night.
Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
i feel the same way about mowing the parts of my yard i don’t tread in. something else needs that for habitat.