Using Tru Green and neighbor says it’s affecting her lupus and asked us to stop

[Anonymous]

I'll never understand some Americans' obsession with lawns. And yes, having your house look like a golf course is a uniquely American standard.

[Anonymous]

Stop it OP. Why do you want chemicals on your lawn for all living things to touch, ingest, inhale? This includes you. In case that’s who you only care about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are at the end of a culdesac with a woodsy area behind us in which lives turkey, deer, opossums, groundhogs, rabbits, turtles, and many types of birds and other small mammals.

Our lawn has been allowed to go natural for more than a quarter century now - there is some grass but it is mostly a variety of weedy plants and clover and mossy patches under the trees. We mow it every other week during growing season to keep it manageable although we do no mow May.

Our neighbor just redid his lawn this summer, it is a perfect uniform green of a weird shade - almost a bright algae green color. He spends hours and hours spraying it with various things and mowing it to within an inch of its life.

But I use the word ‘life’ generously because his lawn is sterile. Nobody goes on his lawn. Our lawn will be covered with robins and other ground feeding birds, and groundhogs, rabbits, deer, etc. but his lawn just feet away - NOBODY lands on his lawn. There is nothing but sterile neon green monocultured grass and beyond that, death. No bugs, no seeds, no other life.

I just don’t see the perspective of people who think *that* is more attractive than an abundance of life and woodland creatures.

Cool story, bro

It's not a "cool story", actually. I know you're trying to be cute but if everyone has that sterile lawn, devoid of life and diversity, the entire food system would collapse. No bees and other insects means no birds, no fruit. And on and on. So I find your glib, cutesy remark to be ignorant and offensive.

[Anonymous]

Get a full body Tyvek biohazard suit and face mask.

Get a generic spray container and stick a huge biohazard and skull and crossbones symbol on it.

Spray plain water on your plants everyday using this.

Let us know how they react.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:" In 2020, the non-profit organization Beyond Pesticides sued TruGreen over its claim to offer "environmentally friendly, sustainable lawn care services that use no chemicals that may cause cancer, allergic reactions, or other health or environmental harms"—statements that Beyond Pesticides asserts are false and deceptive. TruGreen uses glyphosate, classified as probably carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, as well as a weedkiller with a label warning of "irreversible eye damage" and "allergic reactions," and a neurotoxic insecticide, according to Beyond Pesticides. "

https://www.ehn.org/pesticide-free-lawn-care-2654774400.html

Please stop using it.

[Anonymous]

Op here with an update! Well, we stopped using regular Tru Green service and now don’t use anything on our lawn at all, and when we weed, it is by hand or with a home made vinegar spray.

But a few weeks ago DH had a number of new bushes put in around the front of our yard- at a huge cost! we are sprucing to to try to sell in a year or two- and apparently Tru Green sprayed the new bushes (not the lawn). Oh f.

Dh just sent me the approx 10k word text our neighbor sent. It was really something- threatening, dramatic, claiming illegality, she’s already contacted Tru Green legal for damages, claiming we’ve killed all the birds and butterflies, ruined her health and her child’s health (her ‘child’ looks to be about 17 now), and on and on. She even ranted about ‘all the toxic spraying’ we do, which I took offense to because this is the first time in ages.

These neighbors are absolute pigs who never cut their grass, rake their leaves, trim their trees and who leave junk out on their lawn, and we’ve never said a word. The butterfly and bird reference made me laugh bc dh loves birds and butterflies and carefully tends to our butterfly bushes in the backyard, and constantly refills our bird feeder. Meanwhile their yard is a dumping ground for random crap.

I’ve had enough.

Sorry, people. You can be sensitive and ask for accommodation, but threatening people is not ok. If you’re this sensitive, you can’t live in the world with others.

[Anonymous]

Two things can be true:
1) Your neighbor is whack; and
2) spraying neighborhoods with harmful chemicals is a bad idea.

[Anonymous]

its bs crazy people, probably hippy boomers hopefully they die out soon. nothing good come about them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just stop, not only for your neighbor’s sake but yours as well. All those chemicals are unnecessary.

I’m fine with it. We’ve used it before at another home, and it worked well. That’s why we are using it again. It gave us a nice lawn

We have zoysia and don't need any chemicals to have a nice lawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll never understand some Americans' obsession with lawns. And yes, having your house look like a golf course is a uniquely American standard.

They discovered those who live near golf courses have higher instances of Parkinson's disease. I wonder what diseases TruGreen causes.

[Anonymous]

Fun fact: TruGreen used to operate as Chem Lawn.

[Anonymous]

Those chemicals are terrible. If she has health issues be a good neighbor and help with her yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two things can be true:
1) Your neighbor is whack; and
2) spraying neighborhoods with harmful chemicals is a bad idea.

F that. It was one spray on the bushes. Not even the lawn. She’s not going to die. And if she is from that, she should be in a bubble in a padded room somewhere. I’m done trying to accommodate this lunatic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those chemicals are terrible. If she has health issues be a good neighbor and help with her yard.

Well if she can’t handle one treatment on some bushes one time (not even the lawn), she should not leave the house ever because the town we live in sprays, and the restaurant down the block from us literally has a guy who sprays their patio area for weeds every single morning in the warmer months.

I’m done with this lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll never understand some Americans' obsession with lawns. And yes, having your house look like a golf course is a uniquely American standard.

They discovered those who live near golf courses have higher instances of Parkinson's disease. I wonder what diseases TruGreen causes.

Golf courses are a large area with regular sprays. This was one spray on some bushes. We’ve stopped lawn care bc of her. And yet it wasn’t enough for her.