Pluggers by Rick McKee for June 22, 2023

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    suv2000  over 1 year ago

    I find weeds are easy to grow and just as a Green as grass

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    Zykoic  over 1 year ago

    I think lawns are a waste. Grow veggies. Plant fruit trees. At least grow clover for the bees.

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    juicebruce  over 1 year ago

    But Grass is just weeds called Grass ;-)

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    Inahastation(eye nuh ha station)  over 1 year ago

    That’s the difference in a lawn and a yard. ( I have a yard!)

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    david_42  over 1 year ago

    We never watered our yard when I was growing up, so during drier spells, I’d use a weedwhip on the fast growing plants; anything to avoid using the Sears Silent Mower. That thing was a pain to push.

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    There you go.

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    RuSerious? Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Dang! I missed my chance to get published. This was literally a FB post I made about 5 years ago! LOL

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    whelan_jj  over 1 year ago

    Then there are the “Get off my lawn, kid,” pluggers who keep a meticulously maintained lawn that are perfect to play on. I mean what other reason is there to have a lawn?

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    pheets  over 1 year ago

    That is exactly how we manage dandelions.

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    walstib Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Our neighborhood has a family that did the “No mow may” thing for the bees, but they don’t seem to realize it’s almost July. Some areas are almost waist high by now. The neighbor ladies are incensed, but I don’t think the neighbor men care.

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    KEA  over 1 year ago

    I follow a rule written by my former Physics teacher: if it’s green, mow it.

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    Gent  over 1 year ago

    Eh me no has no lawns.

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    mistercatworks  over 1 year ago

    The truth is even stranger. Mowing a field regularly gives preference to shorter, sideways-growing grasses. It’s a form of short-term environmental modification. However, “regularly” is more often than most people would like to do it. :)

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    g04922  over 1 year ago

    Well, it IS green, afterall…

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    cknoblo Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I drove by my old house yesterday. I think they decided to grow grass seed as a crop. It was at least a foot high. When I sold it, the lawn was beautiful. I had installed a sprinkler system. Before that, it had lots of dead spots. In my youth, we mowed whatever was there, and didn’t care what it was.

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    bwswolf  over 1 year ago

    When I was just a kid (many, many, many years ago) my Mother sent me out to pull weeds around her flowers ….. well I figured that if something was growing and it wasn’t a bush or had flowers …. it was a weed …… did what I thought was a great job ….. Mother came out and had a fit …. about half were flowers ……. on the bright side ….. she “NEVER” asked me to pull weed again …… :)

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    Bambihunter6  over 1 year ago

    If it is green, it is a lawn.

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    wildlandwaters  over 1 year ago

    just like my yard!

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 1 year ago

    good job

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    The Gun Doctor  over 1 year ago

    If you mow regularly, the short-bladed grasses will thrive, and displace the other vegetation.

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    DaBump Premium Member over 1 year ago

    I love the little yellow native wildflowers that grow the fascinating balls of seeds that fly away, and in my back yard I have a miniature nature preserve where everything is allowed to grow naturally!

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    MichaelSFC90  over 1 year ago

    Same here.

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    mafastore  over 1 year ago

    After husband quit his job about 15 years ago, our gardener (grass cutting guy) disappeared. So husband started cutting our grass. Most of the front of the house is our driveway and our property is less than 60 x100 so not that much, especially since part of the back is paved as a patio. It would take both of us to deal it as he would get exhausted and I had to help. Then he bought an electric mower figuring it would lighter in weight and easier for him to use – I had walk along side him and hold the electric cord in the air so he did not mow over it.

    Then came Covid. In 2020 we did not go into the backyard until he needed something from our garage at the end of summer. It was over knee high. I suggested we leave it die during the winter and deal with in the spring of 2021. He agreed. 2021 – forgot about it again. Last year we hired a gardener to cut the grass for us.

    Never have to worry about it again – well worth the expense. We were actually able to go and replace the broken basement window well cover that we found about the hard way when the hurricane hit and the basement got wet around that window.

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