Stop using poison on your lawn
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Stop using poison on your lawn
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#2Important to be aware that this is an opinion piece.
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#3Quite the romantic notion of wildflowers spontaneously blooming in your unkempt yard when the best you're likely to get is crabgrass.
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#4Important to be aware that this is an opinion piece.
Should the title be changed to "I think you should stop using poison on your lawn" then?
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#5Quite the romantic notion of wildflowers spontaneously blooming in your unkempt yard when the best you're likely to get is crabgrass.
I don't consider maintaining or not maintaining a yard to be romantic, it's more of a chore. Gardening is a rewarding activity, but it's also not particularly romantic, it's what humans did for thousands of years to get food.
If I let my yard grow wild then I quickly have a large variety of wildflowers, interesting plants, and mixed wildlife in my yard.
Once an environment has been altered or landscaped in anyway, it requires what is considered neglect (and/or a lot of work) to get it back to a natural state. For most people with any sort of ever manicured yard, it's simpler to mow. Otherwise by modern standards it can be unsightly, is mostly socially unacceptable, considered bad for property values, etc, and it can also minimize the human use of a field.
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#6Important to be aware that this is an opinion piece.
Yes, much of the media is, and when it's bothered to be labeled as opinion it is definitely opinion.
I find much NYTimes Opinion to be distasteful, cringeworthy, divisive, propaganda, and even inciting, but it seems a fairly reasonable opinion that unnecessary poison use is bad.
Do have the opinion that poison on a lawn is good?
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#7>Why poison the earth when you can have wildflowers at your feet and songbirds in your trees without even trying?
Because if my lawn has any random wildflowers the HOA will send a letter and a fine if it isn't fixed within 5 days.
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#8The author doesn't seem to have any real understanding of the various sorts of chemicals people use on their lawn.
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#9>Why poison the earth when you can have wildflowers at your feet and songbirds in your trees without even trying? Because if my lawn has any random wildflowers the HOA will send a letter and a fine if it isn't fixed within 5 days.
I don't know how to say this more kindly: you signed up for that idiocy? what were you even thinking?
Just the idea of HOAs drive me absolutely insane, even moreso when they perpetuate ecological insanity in the name of looking "pretty".
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#10>Why poison the earth when you can have wildflowers at your feet and songbirds in your trees without even trying? Because if my lawn has any random wildflowers the HOA will send a letter and a fine if it isn't fixed within 5 days.
I don't know how to say this more kindly: you signed up for that idiocy? what were you even thinking? Just the idea of HOAs drive me absolutely insane, even moreso when they perpetuate ecological insanity in the name of looking "pretty".
You don't always have the option to opt out of an HOA, especially when buying a home. If the neighborhood said home is in, and has an HOA, you're usually grandfathered in.