Comments on: The Bad Seed

By: Nancy Best

Nancy Best — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:04:25 +0000

I’ve thought about this greatly…I would rather put the money “inside fixing up my house” so I can enjoy it’s beauty, then spend it on getting my lawn greener than my neighbors. All around me the neighbors stand around looking across at everyones lawns and they actually compare their lawn to everyone elses. It’s like a competition to see who can have the better lawn. Don’t they realize they are not really trying to get the lawn looking nice for themselves but really they are doing all this stuff for their neighbors to enjoy while they are getting into their cars on the way to work. Yes… quickly…Lets all run out and see who can put the better poison on the lawn.
I use to have a nice lawn until the lawn care companies in our town showed up into the picture…all these bugs (that I’ve never heard of before) were never in my grass until they showed up at my door to point out to me that all of a sudden I have a problem…..hmmm sounds fishy to me….

By: peterb

peterb — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 01:25:25 +0000

Really, it’s because some bastard stole my chair.

By: kerriem3

kerriem3 — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:33:58 +0000

OK. So I know you. And I am having a hard time buying that idea that you don’t sit on your porch whistling at neighborhood girls. I think you may be getting old.

By: Dr. Click

Dr. Click — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:07:59 +0000

I hate having a lawn. It’s expensive house decoration. You pay to keep it green in the summer (water), and then you pay to keep it neat.

One Zen rock garden coming right up!

By: Amos the Poker Cat

Amos the Poker Cat — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:47:37 +0000

I find a lawn maintainance the most silly thing. You mow it, only to feed it, and then it grows even quicker.

I really liked living in the mountains out side of Denver. No lawn.

(I thought I was out, but like a scene out of the God Father … ) Since I got pulled back to the PIT, most of the ten acres are taken up with woods. There is a token strip next to the road, and mail box that I mow. Just to trying to stay below radar. Sometimes I think that strip of land would be better if it were green concrete.

By: Troy Goodfellow

Troy Goodfellow — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:38:51 +0000

Our front garden has returned to nature and may swallow our postman. This is not an ethical statement on the place of wild growth or a rebellion against manicured greenery.

This is sloth.

Plus I can’t find anyone cheap enough to do the work for me.

By: tilt

tilt — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 18:10:06 +0000

Dear lord, I hate my crappy boring green lawn. I hate watering it. I hate paying somebody else to mow it. (I won’t go into how much I’d hate mowing it myself.) I like it when it looks scruffy and ne’erdowell, which, unfortunately, my homeowner’s association is not a big fan of.

Thankfully, my wife is talking to some folks about some kind of low-ecological impact xeriscaping jibber jabber, which is code for: no mowing. Screw you, boring green lawn people.

By: Shelby Davis

Shelby Davis — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:39:22 +0000

The only thing I care about is walking around one a week and ripping maybe 1% of the dandelions out, and mowing with a non-powered reel mower maybe twice a week. We need to get an electric weed ahacker, since the reel mower just completely misses the stalks of dandelions.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 13:45:40 +0000

I try to keep the dandelions under control. None of them are in my lawn, though; they’re all camped out in the garden.

The lawn has clover (no black medic – actual white clover) and chamomile and violets growing in it, and mostly exists for the dog to have someplace to use as a toilet.

I keep thinking about ripping up even more of it and putting in more garden…the dog really only needs a little patch, and if I make it a clover-patch, I won’t even have to mow it.

Hmmmm.

By: bbum

bbum — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:43:53 +0000

I mow and occasionally water, but that is it. My lawn has a lot of texture from the random things growing in it.

One corner has turned to mint. Amazing to mow that corner!

Given the Pittsburgh climate, there are stunning wild flowers that you could grow that would be hardy, interesting, and easy to maintain. Go for lots of edibles, too — ditch lillies and nasturtiums both make for wonderfully colorful salads and are quite tasty stuffed with shrimp/cheese paste, battered and fried.