Grass

>>1091517
Fuck lawn culture.

>TIME: The average homeowner will spend 150 hours a year maintaining their lawn (… but only 35 on sex!)
>PESTICIDES: 10 times more herbicides per acre are dumped on lawns than on the fields of agribusiness.
>MONEY: Per acre, it costs more to maintain a lawn than it does to grow corn, rice or sugarcane. More than 40 billion dollars are spent on the lawn in North American each year – more than the entire continent gave in foreign aid in 2005.
>BIRDS + BEES: In the U.S. an estimated 7 million birds are killed yearly by lawn-care pesticides. Honey Bee Colony collapse disorder is being linked to pesticides.
>RUNOFF + FISH: Phosphorus run-off from lawn fertilizer causes algae blooms that suck oxygen out of lakes, asphyxiating fish.
>WATER: 30% of the water used on the East Coast of U.S. goes towards watering of lawns. A single golf course in Tampa, Florida uses 178,800 gallons of water every day, enough to meet the daily water needs of over 2,200 people.
>SAFETY: Approximately 7,500 Americans are injured every year using lawn mowers, about the same number as firearms. About 10,000 of those accidents involve children. More than 30% these injuries resulted in an amputation of some sort. That’s more than 22,000 limbs and digits that go missing every year in pursuit of the perfect green!

https://peoplepoweredmachines.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/america-spends-more-money-on-lawn-care-than-foreign-aid-why-we-need-less-lawn/

>>1091525
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>>1091525
>7,500 people injured, of which 10,000 are children
>more than 30% of injuries are amputation
>30% of either 7500 or 10,000=22,000 instead of 2250 or 3000
Do you work for the Brady Campaign To Wildly Pull Statistics out of Your Ass?

Also your "source" is unsupported knee-jerk emotionalism.

>>1091553
Shut up, the thread is over retard.

>>1091517
Lots of water, cut it whenever you want, drop grass seed on the parts that die and keep watering.

>>1091517
>has moss
>has long periods of time between rain
wut
>keep yard green
Moss isn't "bad". It's ugly, which some people don't like, but it doesn't hurt anything.

Don't cut your grass super short, ever. Use the highest or second-highest setting on your mower. If you feel you MUST water your lawn, do it at dawn or dusk so it doesn't all evaporate in the midday sun, and do it actively (you are physically present, you're not setting a sprinkler then fucking off to do something else for hours). Any bagged supplement/fertilizer that claims it will green up your yard will do so...for about a week. Don't bother.

Weed your yard manually, most herbicides aren't really that effective or actively harm the grass too (even the ones that say they don't, like broadleaf killers). Overseed in the spring and mid-fall to fill in thin or bare spots. Aerate your yard (or pay someone to do it for you) quarterly, you can do it yourself with a pitchfork/potato fork for free (the potato fork is like $15 at Lowe's/Home Depot), just takes time. De-thatch your yard with a stiff-tined (garden) rake every early spring and late fall (right before you need to start mowing and after the last mow of fall).

>>1091558
Oh, also.

Rake your yard religiously in the fall and winter. Piles of fallen leaves that just sit there will kill the grass under them even when it's "dormant" and leave you with bare spots.

>>1091560
mow the leaves up you fucking old ass faggot

>>1091525
I don't know about these statistics but the spirit of this post is dead on. For the same amount of money and effort, you could have a yard full of edible crops or beautiful natives and let them grow wild with only occasional weeding. If you live somewhere that requires you to maintain a green lawn, you have failed at life and you are the cancer that is killing /out/ (both the board and the actual outdoors).

>>1091566
>mowing oak leaves to increase the acidity of your soil even further
I suppose if you have something not loaded with acid sure. Point is, get them up off the grass so it doesn't kill the fucking grass.

>>1091556
>Lots of water
we have water restrictions here. Still gonna water at the allotted times but i need to know how i can keep it green without water.

>>1091558
>De-thatch
what does this mean?

>>1091571
>I don't know about these statistics but the spirit of this post is dead on. For the same amount of money and effort, you could have a yard full of edible crops or beautiful natives and let them grow wild with only occasional weeding. If you live somewhere that requires you to maintain a green lawn, you have failed at life and you are the cancer that is killing /out/ (both the board and the actual outdoors).
I don't own the lawn, it's my parent's lawn. I just work it so that i don't completely lose the will to live :^|

>>1091644
>wut mean de-thatch
You get dead grass and shit all tangled up among the runners of the live grass, from mowing and whatnot. Get too much down in the runners and they can't run and spread, and if you get waay too much it suffocates the live runners.
>https://www.bayeradvanced.com/articles/how-to-tell-if-your-lawn-needs-dethatching