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Reminder: Your lawn isn't "being invaded by weeds," it's undergoing natural selection.

https://lemmy.ml/post/4394933

Reminder: Your lawn isn't "being invaded by weeds," it's undergoing natural selection. - Lemmy

Especially ironic when suburbanites rave about how houses are infinitely better than apartments because they’re “closer to nature.” You want to be closer to nature? Let natural processes work and have a lawn of whatever grows in your area naturally (even an “invasive” species is better than lawn grasses, unironically, and lawn grasses are almost always also non-native species, just ones that can’t actually survive in the environment.) Don’t water, don’t mow, don’t fertilize, just let nature do its thing. It will also attract more pollinators, birds, wildlife in general and instead of a lawn, soon you’ll have a natural meadow in your yard. That’s nature, a lawn that needs excessive water, chemical fertilizers, and poison just to maintain isn’t.

Sep 4, 2023 at 2:41pmWeb
Show threadTb0n3Sep 4, 2023
What if I don’t want ticks in my yard? Tall grass just makes it worse.
Show threadwheeldawgSep 4, 2023

I always wonder if there would be any ecological detriment at all if things like mosquitoes or ticks just went extinct.

I’ve never heard of anything that depends on them specifically for food, and literally everyone but then would be better off.

Show threadpsyspoopSep 8, 2023

A major overlooked ecological value of parasites and the diseases they carry is population control. We all hate them and the off chance of getting a serious disease from them, but they do help keep populations of mammals in control. Also, some mosquitoes are pollinators.

Generally, if the question is "Should we eradicate native species?", my answer would be no regardless of species because ecology is extremely complex and we likely will never exactly understand the impact of voluntary species eradication until after we do it.

There are non-native mosquitoes and ticks though, eradication of those should be okay unless maybe if they've been naturalized for a long time. Less severe population control near urban areas is probably the most reasonable compromise between not disturbing native ecology and human comfort.

Show threadxionzuiSep 4, 2023
Not mowing in some places means letting it turn into an overgrown, unusable mess. I’m all for more natural and beneficial lawns, but just letting tall grasses and things grow until it’s hard to walk in and looks abandoned isn’t an option in a lot of cases. There might need to be to be a bit more artificial selection involved.
Show threadSemi-Hemi-DemigodSep 4, 2023

I don't weed or fertilize, and mow at the longest setting and only when there's at least a couple inches to cut off. There's at least a dozen different species of plants in my yard, depending on how much shade and water that spot gets: Clover, violets, dandelions, and several different kinds of grass and flowering plants.

It stays nice and green all year long, and I get compliments on it from my neighbors who have TruGreen showing up every month. You don't have to leave it overgrown to have something much healthier than a monoculture lawn.

Show threadsouthsamuraiSep 4, 2023

Houses are infinitely better than apartments because you have more distance from your idiot, asshole neighbors, and can build a fence to improve the separation.

Being able to then do away with the grass and plant native flora is just a side benefit.