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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  ITT lots of people who blessedly have no idea what an HOA is.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Or we know all about them and avoid them at almost all cost.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Ur mom?

    /j

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  • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Benefits of living in bumfuck. Though to be real, I’d never buy or build in a HOA. It’s a choice.

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• tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know this is a meme, but shit like this is why I allow wild growth on my property. First year I owned my home the ground got muddy as hell from the new build since the ground was all dug up and tilled.

  From the second year on I’ve only mowed a path for my driveway and the front walkway and the rest grows wild. Sweetgrass and other native plants anywhere from like 1 to 3 feet tall and the area is high desert (Colorado) so the “weeds” suck up any moisture they can get, no flood, no mud. It’s great.

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  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    How do you deal with native fauna that lives in wild vegetation? Mosquitoes, flies, ticks, etc.?

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I live in a decidedly different environment, but have also let my yard go to native plants (the HoA is mad, but the state passed laws protecting my native plant yard so they can get fucked) and it took a couple years for there to be a bug balance.

      I had a ton of aphids the first year, but the second year the aphid wasps and lady bugs knew where I lived to handle them.

      Nature will balance itself if possible

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    • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      It essentially all takes care of itself, it’s a whole ecosystem. There’s no standing water for mosquitos thanks to the foliage. There’s also lizards, the occasional frog, birds. The deer eat some of the taller stuff. Even with the deer, there’s at least one mountain lion in the area I’ve seen, which I presume helps keep the population reasonable. I dunno, it doesn’t really need any tending, other than to clear a path where I need.

      Aside from that, my neighbor has pine trees, and occasionally pine cones take root and need their root- balls shoveled out. That’s the only big maintenance because I don’t want the big trees on my property. I wouldn’t mind, but for two things:

      1. They always seem to root down near the road on my driveway path or walk-down.

      2. I have solar panels and can’t have them growing up on the southeast side side of the house, and that’s where they tend to fall.

      Besides that, I have to knock down the occasional wasp nest (paper wasps) on the house, but if they nest away from the house I leave them alone. It’s all minimal maintenance. If you let nature do its thing it tends to find a balance. Humans are the ones usually screwing it up.

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Mosquitoes need standing water

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    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Moskitos live anywhere there is stale water, so either clean it or have it wild enough that other insects outcompet them.
      Put your compost pile somewhere you don’t walk past a lot, because that’s where flies congregate.
      Ticks aren’t that mobile, they need some animal to carries them there.

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  • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I love natural growth and we have plenty around (PNW), but that invasive Himalayan Blackberry is constantly creeping back out of the wild edges. We’ve done well enough pushing it back, but it is so pervasive and the animals help spread the seeds. That and the other noxious weeds (Scotch-broom, thistle, tansy, etc) have us quite busy doing our best to remove and keep out. It’s like spitting into the wind if the other land-owners around don’t do it as well. Oh well.

    We also planted tons of native “deer-resistant” plants. They love it. I call it deer salad.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Instructions unclear: lawn covered in bricks and sponges now.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The shape of the roots of the shrubs is somewhat exaggerated. Many do go that deep, but they’re not that wide all the way down. There are only a few types that grow roots that look like that.

  There are also deep root grasses if you want a lawn, but don’t want to ruin your soil.

  thankyourlawn.com/grass-root-depth/

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• Hello_there@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  1. props to crime pays but botany doesn't. Great stuff.
  2. needs a subtle Saddam in the root structure of native plant.

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  ClimateTown just did lawns the other day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLYMjPNppRQ

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Relevant Climate Town-video which just dropped: nebula.tv/…/climatetown-americas-dumbest-crop/ / youtu.be/KLYMjPNppRQ

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We tore our front lawn out this summer. By the time we were working in July the (clay) soil under the sod was brick hard for 18 inches before it got workable again.

  The yard is now 70% native and the area with high sun is drought tolerant. It’s only been a few weeks and already the pollinators are here in force and there’s a pair of morning doves that come by to hang out most mornings.

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• salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Plus lawns are typically domed up to avoid sogginess, causing tons of runoff into the storm drains (including runoff from sprinklers). It’s lunacy.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I work in municipal government, and I have very strong feeling about leaf blowers.

    All these assholes blowing all the great fertilizing trulimmings and dirt off their lawn and into the street to clog up the storm drains.

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bro if ur using a leaf blower to remove leaves from your lawn and not from your driveway you gotta be extra special

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• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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• bigbrowncommie69@lemmygrad.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wonder if this affects ground water as well

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