Anonymous wrote:I have a lawn because it came with the house. In the spring it’s nice and green, but it has clover, which is always the greenest part. At the end of summer it has brown patches because of the heat. After the rain it’s quite green again. I keep it mowed and trim. I’m not dumping chemicals on it and wasting water to keep it artificially green. When you need to add some seed, use more durable grasses that are natural for your area and don’t try to kill the clover.

Your neighbor has not business telling you what to do with your lawn, but you should do better for yourself for your own reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:I assume that many of you live in typical suburban neighborhoods with lawns. If I want to live in the suburbs but not have a lawn (so as to avoid lawn care and chemicals) what do you recommend? Have people actually dug up their lawns and put something else there? Dirt or gravel? I feel like this might work in shore towns but not most inland suburbs the way most neighborhoods are laid out. Can any Takoma Park or Garrett Park residents weigh in on alternatives to lawns?

You can get organic stuff, or just let the lawn be natural. Mine even has a few mossy areas, under the trees. It’s fine.

Yeah--it is a false dichotomy between digging up a lawn and using chemicals. Like another PP, I let it go through its natural cycles and just keep it trimmed.

Anonymous wrote:Lawn sprays are bad for your health and the bees/environment. Is your stepford-wife-like lawn (at your second home) worth making the world a worse place? And why would you want a lawn you can never walk on or play on? I totally judge people who casually engage in these sort of vain and unnecessary evils.

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Anonymous wrote:it is a bunch of bad chemicals. i hate that our neighbor uses it. I feel bad for the people who have applying it as their job.

You don't have to stop, but realize that you are tracking it in your house. All the chemicals are everywhere. if you have a dog, it is even worse for your health.

How am I tracking it? I don’t step on my lawn. Have a path. Fwiw it’s a second home so we are not there often.

Plant zoysia and you won’t have to pay for Trugreen or spray chemicals all over.

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Anonymous wrote:it is a bunch of bad chemicals. i hate that our neighbor uses it. I feel bad for the people who have applying it as their job.

You don't have to stop, but realize that you are tracking it in your house. All the chemicals are everywhere. if you have a dog, it is even worse for your health.

How am I tracking it? I don’t step on my lawn. Have a path. Fwiw it’s a second home so we are not there often.

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Anonymous wrote:I assume that many of you live in typical suburban neighborhoods with lawns. If I want to live in the suburbs but not have a lawn (so as to avoid lawn care and chemicals) what do you recommend? Have people actually dug up their lawns and put something else there? Dirt or gravel? I feel like this might work in shore towns but not most inland suburbs the way most neighborhoods are laid out. Can any Takoma Park or Garrett Park residents weigh in on alternatives to lawns?

You can get organic stuff, or just let the lawn be natural. Mine even has a few mossy areas, under the trees. It’s fine.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think OP is a woman. I'm getting small dick energy from their posts.

Same

Why? OP is asking for alternatives. Isn’t that what you want?

Calling thr neighbor "delicate", not acknowledging that spraying his lawn can affect her property, telling posters he doesn't agree with to "get mental health care".

Anonymous wrote:I assume that many of you live in typical suburban neighborhoods with lawns. If I want to live in the suburbs but not have a lawn (so as to avoid lawn care and chemicals) what do you recommend? Have people actually dug up their lawns and put something else there? Dirt or gravel? I feel like this might work in shore towns but not most inland suburbs the way most neighborhoods are laid out. Can any Takoma Park or Garrett Park residents weigh in on alternatives to lawns?

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed that stuff is awful. It is of particular concern for any small children in your neighborhood too. It will probably be illegal in a few years. Please stop using it.

+1
It's 2024
Are you really this stupid? I can't believe people still think this stuff is ok even "on ther own propeertee"

Anonymous wrote:Ask her to prove it

Anonymous wrote:Wwyd?? She seems rather delicate and is hard to deal with

Anonymous wrote:Agreed that stuff is awful. It is of particular concern for any small children in your neighborhood too. It will probably be illegal in a few years. Please stop using it.