giving away free donuts as an incentive to vaccinate against covid specifically, well… do all marketing people go to hell?
On using water for lawns. Having moved from a megapolis to suburbs (and caring not at all about how my backyard looks, I’d rather have it paved over), lawns are essential for the general health of the environment, and watering them is essential to keeping them alive in a painfully obvious way.
You let lawns die, you get mud. Mud gets shifted to the road, where it dries and becomes sand and dust. Sand and dust get lifted by cars and cover everything. If you want to see this in action—visit St Petersburg in Russia, where they parked on all of their lawns and killed them, and now everything is covered in 1/8″ of sand.
Once your lawn is dead, it takes much more water to rebuild than it would take to maintain.
How long does it take a lawn to die? The request in this case was to leave them for a week when there’d likely be a thunderstorm, so I’m guessing it’s not a serious worry in this case. (But it might be one in other cases where there’s a limited supply.)
You let lawns die, you get mud. Mud gets shifted to the road, where it dries and becomes sand and dust. Sand and dust get lifted by cars and cover everything. If you want to see this in action—visit St Petersburg in Russia, where they parked on all of their lawns and killed them, and now everything is covered in 1/8″ of sand.
Once your lawn is dead, it takes much more water to rebuild than it would take to maintain.
Zero-scaping Xeriscaping is a thing—developing a lawn with succulents, packed rocks, artificial turf, etc. such that it’s solidly developed yet requires little or no water. It’s increasingly popular (in large part due to water use regulations) in California.
giving away free donuts as an incentive to vaccinate against covid specifically, well… do all marketing people go to hell?
On using water for lawns. Having moved from a megapolis to suburbs (and caring not at all about how my backyard looks, I’d rather have it paved over), lawns are essential for the general health of the environment, and watering them is essential to keeping them alive in a painfully obvious way.
You let lawns die, you get mud. Mud gets shifted to the road, where it dries and becomes sand and dust. Sand and dust get lifted by cars and cover everything. If you want to see this in action—visit St Petersburg in Russia, where they parked on all of their lawns and killed them, and now everything is covered in 1/8″ of sand.
Once your lawn is dead, it takes much more water to rebuild than it would take to maintain.
How long does it take a lawn to die? The request in this case was to leave them for a week when there’d likely be a thunderstorm, so I’m guessing it’s not a serious worry in this case. (But it might be one in other cases where there’s a limited supply.)
Zero-scapingXeriscaping is a thing—developing a lawn with succulents, packed rocks, artificial turf, etc. such that it’s solidly developed yet requires little or no water. It’s increasingly popular (in large part due to water use regulations) in California.It took me a moment to realize that you probably meant ‘xeriscape’ there.
Thanks for the vocabulary lesson. I had just heard ‘zero scape’ and assumed it was a trendy term for ‘landscaping that requires zero water’.