I have never used a chemical weedkiller - ever. It occurs to me that if you are having extreme difficulty growing lawn grass perhaps a lawn is not appropriate to your environment. Consider what grows well in your climate and soil and grow that. Forget trying to reproduce the green desert lawns that grow so we'll in nanny states.
There are a few weasel words there. Especially the last sentence.
It would interest me to know the demographics of this forum. As statisticians say: "broken down by age and sex". My guess is that the "nanny state" is so loved by the frequent users because they themselves are nannies.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
It would interest me to know the demographics of this forum...... My guess is that the "nanny state" is so loved by the frequent users because they themselves are nannies.
Why? and so what? (I'm not BTW).
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Golf is boring IMHO but not all golfers are boring/unpleasant/ignorant/arrogant. There's a wide demographic of people who play it for pleasure tho it is expensive in the UK and that cuts off a wide portion of society.
Golf courses can be beautiful if well designed but there's still all that boring manicured grass that is no use to other life. Quite a few courses are now more ecologically aware and improving things between fairways.
I think this picture sums it up for me as someone who has never wanted a perfect lawn - grass is the space between beds of more interesting plants so the more "weeds" the merrier for birds and invertebrates.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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It would interest me to know the demographics of this forum. As statisticians say: "broken down by age and sex". My guess is that the "nanny state" is so loved by the frequent users because they themselves are nannies.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Caring for the spawn of the privileged, not something I tried.
I think you are the real pest here, @bede.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Nothing looks worse wherever it is in the world if it doesn't fit with the climate.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Golf courses can be beautiful if well designed but there's still all that boring manicured grass that is no use to other life. Quite a few courses are now more ecologically aware and improving things between fairways.
I think this picture sums it up for me as someone who has never wanted a perfect lawn - grass is the space between beds of more interesting plants so the more "weeds" the merrier for birds and invertebrates.