American Reacts to Why American Lawns All Look The Same

American Guy Reacts to Why American Lawns All Look The Same
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[@soqslicer]

america and freedom, ya right., cant even decide how their own lawn looks

[@JacobBax]

sounds a little like??? state control aka communism??

[@jfw413]

How is this not Communism? Politbureau decides on garden usage. No individualism allowed. You shall all conform!!!

[@martinwinther6013]

communism is a form of government where the means of production is owned collectively. dafuq do the length of grass have to do with coop ownership??

[@jensholm5759]

You are right. But communisme also is about sharing childcare, shcools, eduation, transport, hospitals, medicine, even help if you cant work and and descent pension having at leadt a small home, enough food and chothe. We have that in Europe but are not communists at all. Our livestocks and pigs dont eat same grass at the gardens versions or fx playing football or golf. Gardens has 2 kind of grass. One is named famliy. You can use is for altmost anything. many has the for show grass, which is more green even in dry conditions. Less grass and more trees and bushes are very visible in lack of water and bills for it.

[@jfw413]

@@jensholm5759 I know, I know. I was just baiting people bashing communism while allowing this. I'll be voting in June for the European Parliament :)

[@adamknott7830]

See that's the beauty of the market and government, they tell you communism is bad while ripping you off and forcing you to conform to stupid rules

[@AreEia]

This is kinda the funny thing about Americans. They often view themselves as a country seperated from the cultural/historical "shackles" of Europe, and on the forefront of "modern thinking". But even though over much shorter time spans, just about everything concerning modern American life, is built around ideas and "social experiments" over 80-90+ years old, wich seemingly nobody remembers what their origin was :p The lawn thing are just crazy though, and combined with the zoning laws and HOA, they make US suburban life seem like a dystopian nightmare!? Just ecological deserts, with no shops, resturants or venues, were keeping up appeareances and not attract attention seem to be the most important....

[@bearofthunder]

Here in Norway there is a growing awareness about insects, and follwing that it has become a trend to let part of your garden grow wild. You can just let it develop freely, or some people throw branches and other waste from the rest of the garden on it that does not rot and stink, but creates complex structures that humans would walk around so that insects can thrive in the heaps undisturbed. This trend started with knowledge about insects that spread pollen, like bees, and developed from there. But there is a social friction point around this as lawns also here is still for many about how things should look in relation to what it concidered to look nice and probably the effect on perceived property prices. But growing awareness is counteracting this view.

[@Mike40M]

Here in Sweden graveyards are extremely well kept by the church and graves are tended by relatives., but very few goes attends sermons. When visiting Ireland, I noticed that graveyards had high unkempt grass, but almost everybody goes to mass.

[@louneissen1603]

Home Owner Association. The Cult of the neighbourhood you're obligated to join.

[@devilkuro]

I live in France and lawns are not popular despite gardens being everywhere. I live in the southern Alps and villages here are small and compact to account for the rough terrain. The villages are basically lots of homes glued together in a provençal/alpine architecture, leaving no place for gardens. However, most homeowners in those villages do have a garden. How ? Well, areas next to the village were designated when the village was built, were gardens would be created. Each homeowner would have a small patch of land to grow vegetables, put their chickens/goat/donkey etc... So having a lawn there would be ridiculous, in the middle of all those vegetables and fruit trees. My parents do have a garden which is barren right now, but they used to grow tomatoes, green peas, zucchinis, strawberries, basil, mint and salads in there every summer, giving us plenty of fresh food to eat.

[@fairyhollowcreationsmarsde2777]

I’ve done my lawn last weekend then had to do it again today I’m in the uk we’ve had lots of sunshine this week so the grass seemed to grow crazy

[@annfrancoole34]

I've DONE ! You mean you i DID

[@michaeldowson6988]

My city saw the writing on the wall and instituted water use restrictions back in the 80s, so a lot less grass yards; other ground cover plants, flowers, trees and shrubs predominate, and the noise of lawn mowers is relatively unheard of.

[@christinestromberg4057]

You could replace the grass with native wild flowers, which will feed insect life. Trees too. Fruit trees would be good. If your soil is good for it, clover or pink thyme grow low and need no mowing. Check out your soil type. You're right, it was royalty that first grew lawns, rather than vegetables, as the poor folk did. There's another idea, a vegetable garden but it takes more work.

[@winterlinde5395]

Yes! That sounds lovely!

[@peterinbrat]

We let our lawn go five years ago. Thank God there's no zoning or HMO to harass us.

[@charlottehardy822]

I live in the UK and we’ve had to mow our ‘lawn’ (lots of clover,daisies and dandelions in there too) three times in two weeks 😂

[@heliotropezzz333]

I recently learned that lawns are great for absorbing carbon dioxide and emitting oxygen, more so than other plants. They also draw up water to help prevent floods. I have had a lawn since we bought our house decades ago (in the UK), in the back garden, and it's never cost me a lot to maintain. It's good exercise, as I hand clip and then use a manual mower whenever it seems to need it. I never use chemicals in my garden and also grow lots of plants around the lawn.

[@archiebald4717]

Birds need lawns! As for native Americans, yes the settlers did give them smallpox. In return, native Americans gave syphilis to the settlers.

[@mamasplayinhookie3131]

That's been proven false. There are syphilis graveyards in multiple locations throughout Europe that predate 1492. One being ancient Rome. Native Americans had a different form of syphilis that came from communal living and caused a rash.

[@ispbrotherwolf]

Remind me again how free USA is 🤔

[@user-yu9uw8wo9o]

I'm afraid I wouldn't last 10 minutes living in the US. My garden, front and rear have gone back to nature. My neighbour cut the grass down on my drive because I couldn't actually get the car on to the road, the grass was so high. But I like it that way. Everyone else around here has beautifully manicured gardens or pebbles so the wildlife lives in my garden

[@eileendaly13]

I live in a suburban town in UK where most houses have front lawns and people try to keep them well cut.But there is no law to insist that lawns are cut often.Our local council has a majority of Green Party members so all public lawns and areas must not be cut before May to preserve wild flowers and give bees ,butterflies and other wild life a start in life.Good idea but is looks messy.Some councils have just planted wild flowers where road verges once were.

[@sytax1]

well, in germany we have this year a campain startet by several institutes to not mow your lawn in may just for the insects to have a place to live. its up to you if you are doing that. greetings

[@ingegerdandersson6963]

Why not do a garden with flowers, bushes and trees. So much less work if you choose plants thats right for your climate

[@doposud]

I just realized how often you have to hear lawn mower going on in US suburbs BTW: infront of the House you could get rid of the grass and cover it with foil and plant just few bushes that you can shape in any form and cover the ground with wood bark When it comes to back yard , i definitly would recommend to grow something you like - it will taste much better and it is something you can be proud of. It will take some time to hydrate the flowers etc ... but most job is at the start and the end , since you can save some work with the front it should be win.

[@md92.]

There are two types of clover suitable for gardens. The dwarf one that grows up to 10cm and the very dwarf one which is a shorter and denser species. They are aggressive towards weeds. Thanks to the reduced number of annual cuts (2-3) they are a low maintenance species. The best time for sowing is late spring or late summer and early autumn. Find out a little and maybe you can solve it. In Europe I have never heard of neighbors complaining about the lawn not being cut, if someone would do that they would be considered crazy hahaha.

[@helenroberts1107]

I’d dig up all the grass in the front and plant loads of veg n fruit.

[@SOFTCOCOGIRL]

Great idea the food forest in your own garden. Make from the front a native flower garden for polinators

[@Phiyedough]

In Hungary they have rules about cutting grass and it caused me a huge amount of extra work when I lived there as my place had 1.5 acres of Christmas trees and I had to cut the grass round each one.

[@rubinvdkamp8240]

Here in the netherlands the coverment let the gras grow whit wild flower to save the natuur

[@kevartje1295]

In the netherlands you might not have a big front yard but you can do with that little piece of land whatever you want (unless your weeds reach the neighbors, dont let that happen, they will not be happy). We have a beautifull piece of fake, plastic grass in the front yard. Gotta rake up leaves from surrounding trees once a year and thats it, no mowing, nothing.

[@alicetwain]

My grandfather was very much a communist (he was actually the one stalinist in the family, while the rest of us are communist and very antistalinist). He loved gardening! After WWII (he fought in a partisan unit here in Italy) he stayed for a few months in Genova, where his unit ended, and he used up his time helping clean up and replant the local parks which had been devastated by combat.

[@user-yu9uw8wo9o]

Clover's good for bees

[@LeperMessiah2]

Save up and buy a robot cutter that runs batteries (and returns to charging stations when needed) Just put GPS markers around the property. Here in Norway it's become a common thing

[@johnveerkamp1501]

plant tree's

[@tubekulose]

I just checked it out: 90°F equals 32.222...°C. So the next time we know 90°F is about 30°C. 🙂

[@captainbaguette5621]

European here, i really can’t think how you’re gouvernment choose how you decorate YOU’RE House that YOU pay

[@puarterquonder]

So the thanksgiving turkey will be replaced with the thanksgiving baby?

[@brigidsingleton1596]

I used to live in a top (4th) floor flat - fir 18 years!! When mived to this ground floor flat (for health reasons, and just as well because now I can only mobiluse via my wheelchair!!) but of course, for 18 years I had no personal use of "my own garden" ("yard" to you Americans!) so never bought any gardening tools / equipment... When we oved here (my daughter and I, and at that time, our two cats) I bought a few longhandled tools - as I was alreadyusing an indoor wheelchair I had bought (in 2011) but they were poor quality - I discovered too late - and they bent in use. Since then, my front and back gardens - fortunately not huge, but big enough, have become ivergrown, a real couple of "wildlife gardens" which is home to a family of foxes, feral cats, pprobably small animals like voles etc and of course a large selection of wild garden birds can take their various food types from berries, seeds, worms, insects etc from whatever grows out there!! The birdsong which greets me every morning and night-time is pleasant too... We have heard and seen: Robins, Blackbirds, Great Tits, Crows, Magpies, Gulls, Pigeons, Doves, Parakeets, Sparrows / Dunnocks, etc...!! I doubt our gardens would attract quite such a variety of wildlife if they were tidy and frequently mown etc!! I doubt my neighbours approve but if they dont like it, they can do what our last neighbours did before their family grew and they needed to move away to a larger house... They sent their sons to mow our "lawns" for us - because they could see me in my wheelchair and took pity upon my plight. The new neighbours are not so pleasant nor as communicative...and as they dont talk to me, I dont talk to them...and anyway, the only places I go nowadays are to my frequent, regular hospital appointments due to my failing kidneys (& other health issues, heart, blood, etc!) Ss rhe saying goes (thanks Thumper's Mum?!) "If you can't say somethin' nice... Don't say nothin' at all"🐇🐇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇬🇧🖖

[@winterlinde5395]

I love your garden! Imagine how boring it would be otherwise, looking out of the windows!🌸🪲🪹🌺🦋🐭🐞🐇🐰🌼🐝🦊🐌🦎🐛🐦‍⬛🌾🕸️🕷️🪱🐦‍⬛🦔🪺😊

[@erikbehaeghel]

32 c is 90f yes that is to hot Charlie

[@eve7093]

When i moved into my new house in the Netherlands, the former owners didn't do much about the front yard but park there car in it. I cared more about my back yard at that time, so i just let the front yard go, and because of that some people thought it would be normal to let there dogs go do there 💩 in it 🤬

[@anotherthez7598]

Do you know about Arizona? It's F crazy!!

[@damenster]

Why are you not allowed to have your guarden as you want it? For me is a guarden with only grass the same as a guarden with only tiles, pretty lifeless.

[@knottyal2428]

Why do so many US homes have a modest size house on a giant plot of land? Because land is cheap and plentiful, but who has the time and energy to maintain the land, or use it productively? Then cheap gasoline allows power grass mowers to be run. Along come the town council and the HOA to tell everyone to conform and keep the lawns cut, or else! Welcome to the land of the free, I don't think!

[@Rudi_Wolff]

1:43 _"I mean I can look out the window right now, it almost looks like it needs mowed. Give it like two more days it needs mow. I mowed it two days ago and probably in two days it's going to be like a foot tall and it it's going to need mowed again. Just a waste of gas, waste of time, waste of hours of my time"_ Or just buy a robot lawnmower... saves gas (as most are electric), saves time. Or get cows/sheep they eat grass too.

[@Rudi_Wolff]

10:10 _"... and it sucks because like I said, I couldn't even allow the front yard to go back to nature. I couldn't do it because it wouldn't matter, the neighbor across the street would just come over and mow it anyways"_ Put up a fence? Shoot him? It's gun-loving america..

[@winterlinde5395]

@@Rudi_Wolff😏 I would be so pissed if somebody came here uninvited to mess with my property.

[@jackofalltrades5761]

Get a goat or a couple of sheep.

[@winterlinde5395]

Geese work, too. 🪿

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@winterlinde5395 Geese also act as "guard 'dogs' too" - but watch out - they tend to nip your behinds!!

[@jackofalltrades5761]

There are plenty of free mowers who post on KZbin.

[@peterinbrat]

American lawns basically didn't exist 100 years ago. It's not like gas mowers have always been around, esp riding ones.

[@qualitytraders5333]

"It's my yard and I do with it what I want." Well, that's not how modern society works. In the gated compound I live there are written rules. Anybody buying property here has to sign adherance. The idea is that your anti-social behaviour cannot depreciate the value of my property. If you neglect to paint your house you'll receive a invitation to do so and that's only the beginning of a procedure on part of the HOA.

[@winterlinde5395]

In my opinion modern society has grown more individualistic than ever. Back in the day English lawns (as we say in Germany) have been a mutually accepted optimal solution. Now we know a lot more about ecosystems and there are many views on what we love about our gardens. So I think everyone should be free to do whatever they want with their own property. That said, we have clashes between neighbors, too. One of the most memorable Allianz TV ad for legal costs insurance in the 80 was about a cherry tree branching over the neighbors fence. I still know the lyrics 😊

[@winterlinde5395]

Or you give the food waste to your chickens 🥚 😊 I will try it with strawberries, woodruff and wild geranium. All plants that are accepted by the neighbors not to be weed. They cover the soil, bloom and hopefully the strawberries will grow some fruits 😋. Maybe you find equivalents for your region. Also: there are these people who are putting effort into bringing back the all American prairie plants. You could participate and make it known to your neighbors that you patriotically work on that! Good luck 😉 And apple trees 😃

[@winterlinde5395]

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[@winterlinde5395]

The channel name is NativeHabitatProject

[@manueltapia1859]

Part of me imagine was a political move and was right!!! Why the necesity of have a non useful and non native grass and waste too much water to mantain??? Thank God here in México you can decide how your yard and backyard will look and what plants 🎉🇲🇽

[@anotherthez7598]

Why dont't you plant some food, trees!?

[@oliheg9230]

what a 1. problem...mowing the yard! Unbelievable!

[@coot1925]

I believe the correct terminology is "the grass needs mowing again" not "the grass needs mowd again" Come on dude, if you proclaim that you speak English then speak English. 😂😂😂

[@peterhoz]

You need a robot mower. That'll remove the chore. You'll need to edge (trim), and do the trees, but you won't need to mow. Plus it can be set to run daily in the growing season, and it'll always look better than your neighbours'!

[@ChristiaanHW]

i think a porch pirate would steal those (robot mowers) before they even had a chance to mow the lawn once.

[@Elated_Llama]

FREEDOM!!! Now cut your grass every week or risk fines or jail time... Did you have a choice to opt-out of mow the lawn requirements? No, not really... but trust us, these homes are the pinnacle of freedom! Also, on top of the lawnmower you will require a car as well, because you have no choice if you want to get around. Oh, and you have a choice in your utilities providers, with each utility you have a choice of at least... 1 provider... often also a maximum of 1. Unsupervised children? This is a case for child protective services! Got in an accident? Off to the nearest hospital you go... the nearest your insurer will pay for that is ofcourse... When vehicles and devices break down, the manufacturer has a right to ensure they are the only ones who can fix it. Boy am I glad to be free Far far from America.

[@anotherthez7598]

You keep falling for that crap...