What can be done about the Monoculture Menace?

Wonder why zoomers don't get the utility of a back lawn despite their kids being quadrupedal spazzes

>>4998601
Why do you hate bugs, wild grasses and flowers?

Don't spray it with herbicides and pesticides. Give shit a chance to seed before mowing. It's not that hard to have a biodiverse lawn.

>Hi Sarah, it's Steve again, I hate to be a bother but I noticed that the grass on anon's lawn appears to be 1.5 inches higher than the maximum allowed per the HOA ruling; I've looked the other way on his choice of Montana Crispgrass for the lawn, but...

>>4998605
>OMG dont you want ticks in your lawn? Who needs a recreation space for actually DOING things lmao I just look at flowers while i browse twitter
Grim

I found blue eyed grass in my lawn and saved some from mowing. Also found more in another part of my yard by the woods. I think it's just natural native plant, but I have thrown some wildflower seeds in the past so I'm not 100% sure. Also lots of yarrow growing in the "grass" - saved some of that as well. And goldenrods, fleabane....

And a fuck ton of mouse ear hawkweed which I try to mow or pick before it goes to seed. I need to spray a lot of patches of it. It'll look all brown and gross but eventually grass or less troublesome weeds will fill in.

>>4998615
All the tall grasses were getting like 3-4ft tall and going to seed, choking everything out so I mowed a few days ago. Clover and such has barely even started blooming so more of that will come.
I noticed the male bluebird was back checking out the lawn for freshly uncovered bugs. I do love my bluebirds and they like a short-ish lawn to hunt bugs in.

>>4998601
>utility
what? one family barbecue every other year? i live in a suburb and absolutely no one uses their lawn. you dont either.
>>4998639
>wah wah im scared of bugs i need every outdoor space chemically sterilized by monsanto until my balls resemble tiny raisins and i contract every form of cancer simultaneously

>>4998599 (OP)

Can always just poop on it

>>4998637
>i-i-is that a... d-d-DANDELION? AAAAAAAAA IM GOING INSANE SAVE ME KAREN-SAMA

>>4999003
My tortoise would love that

>>4998695
>the retards in my community act like retards so everyone must be a retard

>>4998695
>you need to have ticks and rough weeds on your lawn because I'm an angry liberal virtue signaling dweeb! You are giving businesses money for goods and services! Shame on you! Stop doing a capitalism!
Lmao no kid. Get a job.

>>4999020
scared of a bug

>>4998599 (OP)
Nothing wrong with suburbs they're quite cozy especially the ones with parks and trails winding through them offering many hidey holes behind trees and bushes

>>4999046
Suburbs harbor a surprising amount of wildlife, especially birds, deer, marmots, raccoons, and foxes. But we're supposed to want more ticks and snakes apparently?

>>4999047
I'm in a desert. I don't know what grass is
Snakes are pesky though they like to hide in the rocks against the walls

>>4998695
>i live in a suburb and absolutely no one uses their lawn. you dont either.
Stop being a sweathog, lose weight until you're a healthy weight and go outside.

>>4999047
Why do you think that if you don't have 2 inch Kentucky Blue that's regularly treated with poison that you will have ticks? It's been years since I've seen a tick on my dog or gotten one on me, except when camping, and I barely keep a lawn at all, never mind a chemically treated monoculture one.

>>4999003
my lawn is covered with this fake dandelion shit. It doesn't even need pollination, it spreads by runners.

Guerilla gardening.

I put down red clover in the fall and every spring it starts to bloom and looks very nice. I have to buy the seed from the local feed n seed though I don't think it comes back every year unless you reseed

>>4999900
I want these with kudzu so bad
I want to watch boomers shit and piss themselves in pure rage. Throw them out all over the hood too, for good measure.

>>4999087
These things will kill horses and donkeys.

>>5000089
Holy shit that explains why there's no donkeys in my yard

>>4998599 (OP)
They're great for play, but if your yard is tiny there's no point

This is what back yard looks like

>>5000131
comfy

>>5000131
>outdoor cat, the choice of trannies
>lawn hate, the choice of autistic fatties with no friends
Its all coming together

>>5000162
Trannies and their allies are the ones whining about outdoor cats killing birds.

>>5000183
Wrong, tranny

>>4998639
>ticks
is that genuinly the reason to cut everything down and have nothing but 1 inch tall grass in your garden? I've never encountered ticks in a garden ever

>>5000197
Wrong, tranny

Not to interrupt this paint by numbers ritualpost thread but usually in a lawn, at least in my area of NC, people have a large open space and something like a pond, gardens, bird feeding stations, hedges along the outer margins. So you can grill and play yard games and there's still birds and bugs and flowers. You don't HAVE to succumb to all-or-nothing insane culture war brainrot, you know?

Monocultures are pleasing to the eye.

>>4998599 (OP)
Buy your own property and do what you want with it, renter.

>>4998599 (OP)
Get people interested in native plants or animals.

>>5000162
With enough dense shrubs, especially if thorny, you can entertain outdoor cats, crows AND homegrown songbird offspring in your yard.

>>5000199
>>4998639
I think the ticks probably come with the hedgehogs or other yard dwellers.
>short usable lawn vs wild meadow
Both can be pretty and feed some native wildlive

>>5000235
No excuses now

Petition your HOA/municipality/council/neighbourhood association.
>>4998695
We have a few neighbourhood cookouts annually. Not me specifically, but the block. It helps that with only a few exceptions, all the homeowners on our block are roughly the same age and most of us are couples (though the missus and I and one other couple are the only ones with school age kids).
>>4999020
wut
>>4999047
I live in a city and have all of that. We don't get any deer right by my house but were I to walk or drive a mile south or west, there are woods where deer can be seen as well as turtles, snakes and so on.
What animals do you see regularly?
>>4999076
To be fair, of my two best friends, only one ever uses his garden regularly. The other one talks about using his garden regularly but he and his wife never have anyone over for cookouts or drinks or anything. The other one has a sister who lives down the road and she and her husband and kids go over to his place often to hang out with him, his wife and their kids so they often just cook outside and eat in his little zip-up gazebo thing.
Our garden is too small to host anyone cuz, again, city, but we have folks over from time to time to hang out out front because there's a median with a grassy area between my side of the street and the other.

>>5000235
You can't always. HOAs etc sometimes block that sorta thing. While we don't have private lawns, per se, we have that median I mentioned in >>5000260 and we take turns as a community maintaining the grass and all use it when it comes time for a cookout. There no HOA nor any incentive for us to take care of the median but we do because it's nice to have nice things. It ain't much but I'm happy with the situation.

>>5000257
>you vill step on ze bees
>crows and cats
jfc sign me up for team monoculture

it is my species natural nest building behavior you anti-nature chud.

>>5000257
I brain outdoor cats unless they are of the bob variety

>>5000283
You are edgy on the internet because you're friendless loser with 0 life.
Only positive thing about the creeping governmental control of the internet is that you losers will finally start killing yourselves since you won't have an outlet anymore eventually.

>>5000290
That's not a terribly unrealistic post

It's been an agricultural pastime since medieval france

>>4998637
Thus.
>>4999003
AHHH FUCKING BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS IM LOSING MY MIND.

HOA TAKE AWAY THIS MANS HOUSE WITH A LEIN!

>>4999900
Unfathomably based (if it's with native species and non invasive ones).

>>5000260
>Petition your HOA/municipality/council/neighbourhood association.
I actually live in a free country and I can do what I want with my own property

>>5000384
iyss, ma'am