- Grasses growth cycle stunts out at 4-7 inches.
- reduces gasoline costs on landscaping.
- landscapers become recyclers.
- or caterers, for all the luxury spending that will take place.
ideas?
Why? Do you need one?
Yes, reduced fuel consumption, but how much? Is it even noticeable compared to the fuel consumption by cars?
Less pollution and noise, I’m good with that part of it.
There was a thread about a grass that’s being sold. The seeds are infected with a fungus that inverts the grass’s growth pattern. The roots grow very deep, and the leaves don’t grow very tall. Also grasses like Zoysia grow very slowly and require less mowing. Plenty of people are finding alternatives to grass now, there’s huge mulch market and decorative stones also. It’s been possible one way or another for a long time now but it hasn’t caught on that well. Solar lawn mowers are coming along also.
erm, Tripolar…
How much?
If every house holds a 6 month obligation to lawn care, every year. It is effectively reduced, automatically, by not dedicating 6 months, to fuel charged inhabitance; every year.
Your saying continuing the aggravated function of lawn care / fuel costs, is more fuel conservative; than eliminating the process of, using fuel driven lawn care.
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Is English your first language or are you using Google Translate?
Uh… not in my area. Our native grasses grow 7 to 9 feet tall (2-3 meters for you metric folks). Sure, you can plant a shorter variety but good luck keeping all the wild stuff out of your lawn over the long-term.
I am saying to stunt it out at 4-7 inches, as varied to your desire.
Please do not attack me for the way I talk, its ruder than the way I talk being of a poor manner.
The University of Minnesota developed a lawn grass that requires minimal maintenance and almost no mowing, with the grass maintaining a uniform lawn height. I don’t know if it is yet commercial available. So say the UM Arboretum folks when I was there about a year ago.
No attack meant. We have people fluent in several languages here; you may get better responses writing in your native tongue, with the translation below it.
As it stands, we are losing quite a bit of your thought proccess, and are therefore likely to be misinterpreting your posts.
A lot of people, they are mean to me. I never got an education. not really anyways. My cousins they got sick and i had to take care of them. so my life has failed, other than that success.
For what it’s worth, I use a mulching electric mower. I’m still using energy that had to come from a power plant somewhere, but small gas-powered motors are pretty inefficient and release a lot of pollution, so we’d see quite a bit of improvement just by getting more people to go electric.
If I could get a reliable lawn seed that would limit growth to a certain height and still stop invasive weeds from getting a foothold, I’d be happy to use it.
You’re new here. This place has a bit of a rough edge to it sometimes, kinda like two puppies or kittens “fighting.” Inadvertent scratches. Rough and tumble. Take it one step at a time. That said, just make your case and if English is not your language, do the best you can. You will get the support you seek.
Zoysia has been around for a long time. It grows root to root and crowds weeds out. In the time it takes regular grass to grow a foot high Zoysia will barely need mowing. Walking on it is like walking on carpet.
Why isn’t it on every lawn you ask? because it’s the last to green up in the spring and the first to go dormant in the fall.
Welcome to the board.
Your idea is not just a good one but easily put into practice. I’ve wondered myself why we don’t plant such grass on highway medians. It would greatly reduce the need to mow.
Zoysia is nothing but an invasive crappy weed grass here in New Jersey. Who wants a hay-colored lawn for half the year? (besides my idiot neighbor)
In New Jersey the lawn’s under snow for half a year, so who cares what it looks like then? ;-). Now if it’s hay-colored for half of the other half year, that’d be a problem.
The third of my front yard that’s been invaded by the zoysia already turned blond a month ago (early October). The rest of my lawn stays green year round, even under the occasional snow we get here. In the summer the crap grows just as fast as regular grass. The only people that “like” it seems to be the ones either stuck with it or the ones trying to sell it.
It looks like you’re listing benefits of some proposal that you forgot to actually state.
I live in a neighborhood full of Zohsia. They’re well tended lawns that look great. Sun or shade it grows thick and lush. It requires no weeding, chemicals or fertilizer.
So while you’re mowing, watering, reseeding, fertilizing, and weeding your lawn I’m doing something else with the time and money I save. If you like that sort of thing that’s fine but I’m replacing my backyard with it next year. I’m tired of mowing it 4 times as much as the front lawn. To each his own.