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This Old Garden
The greening of lawncare has got to be one of the sharpest and most impactful pain points in the cuture today. Maintaining the strip of green lawn in frot of the hosue, in the back yard, or throughout the estate has long been a yardstick of success and happiness. Status symbol lawnage has outlasted its day in the sun.
NASA estimates 200 gallons of water a day Per AMERICAN are needed to preserve golf courses, parks, shopping mall greenways, etc. Doomed yards of pathy green dot the landscape of every town in the united States, even where a green lawn means an overage of public treated water being used for runoff areas like green grass.’
15 minutes sprinkler cycles mean expanses of brown turf and yellow hay are more and more common, ad as a culture we can reduce unpursued avenues of consumption recovery when habits such as turf maintenance per household go away. Turf engineers note that the culture instills the green lawn instinct even when it is cost prohibitive to maintain.
Options are to plant less green lawn and more gravel and turf, or elt the lawn go “”brown” for summer. Warm season varieties of planted grass might save 20% of California water, which during fire season could make a dynamic difference. Rye grasses can be a different type of grass employed to keep summer lawncare greenish bt not green wasteful.
Lawns do provide color, but so do flowers. Flowers at least support birds and bees and flora and fauna. With lawn grass, there is no growing of vegetables or fruit in some of these yards, just herbicide rich grass seed being watered and fed and nutrients instilled for essentially a color purpose.
Horticulture is part of an evolving change in consumer practices. The grass being greener may seem like an important effect, yet the net burden on municipal water supplies can be costly. Water scarcity is an ossue even in cities where real estate is proudly displayed with green lawns per household.
Can a home with a green lawn be truly “green”?
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