I mean, I actually feel this way about roundup and I feel that the monoculture of mega green lawns is not a good thing for the environment, at all – that being said I’ve learned a ton here about how to not work things this way and how to improve what I’ve got instead of just hating everyone’s super green pics on here.
ronnymcdonald
3 of the top 10 golfers right now are non-white. Clearly this guy doesn’t watch golf.
vibeisinshambles
To be fair. There are just as douchey average Reddit responses to a picture of a nice no-lawn with local wild and pollinator flowers. Everyone has a preference. Do your thing, leave everyone else alone.
ProfessionalBoss2351
Clearly this person can’t afford a lawn
drvic59
Homeboy is just mad that his mom still makes him mow the lawn.
iJeff
Just gotta pair the nice lawn with an awesome garden for the bees.
celtic_sea_salt
What a prick! Lick my nutsedge, pal!
EasieEEE
I’m printing this and putting it above my garage door and touching it every time I wheel the mower out like the “play like a champion today” sign
darthrevan22
Reddit has a MASSIVE hatred for lawns it seems basically everywhere but this sub. I don’t fall hardcore one way or the other, I have a lawn in my backyard that I care about trying to keep nice, and I have a xeriscaped rock garden in the front yard that I also try and keep thriving. Lawn haters on Reddit try to take some elitist moral and ethical superiority over people with lawns, and that’s super annoying.
AxelHickam
Tell me your lawn sucks with it telling me your lawn sucks
Weazywest
I’ll be nice. Dude probably has never had a lawn before and only knows what other subs tell them. Hope they find some peace instead of coming after faceless online lawn guys.
XOxGOdMoDxOx
The European mind cant comprehend true property ownership
B_U_F_U
Now golf is racist lmao
Beginning_Cut1380
Funny how they use Roundup to kill off above ground green so they can harvest the below ground crops. Like potatoes, peanuts, etc… so we eat Roundup almost daily just say’n . Yup just had to keep the BS flowing freely.
And yes I know the residual in crops is microscopic, but still..
Embarrassed_Catch741
My bad, I’m a golf course superintendent who also maintains 20+ acres of native tall grasses and wildflower. We maintain 200 acres or more total. Diversity is vast among heavily maintained turf, just as native zones. We are an Audubon Santuary System course! That still sprays chemicals responsibly,when needed. Most successful golf facilities do not waste chemicals!! Costs $$$
myspacetomtop5
Bro needs a broom to stripe!
willzyx01
The guy clearly never held a broom in his life
z0mb0rg
1. People like this always have a stoop for a lawn, if they’re lucky. They live in a massive heat sink, 20 miles from meaningful wildlife and the pollinators they supposedly love, surrounded by wall to wall concrete and traffic and lights, all powered by oil, coal or natural gas. They sure love to lecture others in their concrete jungles with no greenery, filled with smog and noise and light pollution, don’t they?
2. We all know they are partially right, we know that insect collapse is a real problem for the entire food chain, and it’s on all of us to minimize chemicals and water usage where possible. Let’s own our part of the problem. Which brings me to:
3. These people, and this conversation in general (just like inevitable discussions around carbon footprints) always *always* benefit the biggest culprits — massive corporations and corporate farmers — the most. Because it puts the onus of pollution on our little quarter-acre lots when 95% of all chemical and water usage is on farmland. This is not an accident because these useful idiots distract from the real problem. (See: recycling, carbon footprints, etc.)
4. I’m sympathetic to these types, because it’s clear they have zero experience with home ownership, because the very first concern of every homeowner, after safety, is *pests*, and THEN property value. These people seem to think that keeping tall plants away from your foundation is something that was made up to sell weed trimmers. It was invented thousands of years ago to create a natural (natural!!) distance between where humans sleep and rats, bugs, and all the creepy crawlies that carry disease and make us sick. They would know that if they didn’t live in a concrete jungle. (See #1)
balloonerismthegreat
Poor buddy lost his lawn one year and it ruined him for life. What a shame
LastBossTV
I like the idea of hyper crowded bonsai trees.
What a nice thing to say!
AdamRaised_A_Cain
They were right about Round up though. 🤷♂️ No on should ever use that stuff. I worked in the lawn care industry at Truly Nolen for 10+ years. We use to see the studies on it and how it affects humans. Not good. Thankfully we didnt use the stuff at Truly.
MaxPower836
Insufferable
LegendaryEnvy
I just don’t like it when someone’s go to is chemicals. I’ve seen posts on here that someone has a small problem and instead of looking for other solutions it’s straight what chemical or substance can I add.
Then again it’s my opinion and I 100% get that people don’t care about my opinion in person and on the internet.
I try and do minimal chemicals in my life in general as cancer is just getting insane every year. especially now that we know people that live near a golf course have a higher chance to get Parkinson’s if you live in a mile radius and lower chance of you live within the water table.
the way I’ve seen some peoples lawns on here with the amount of chemicals they are basically a small golf course lol.
Ayeronxnv
If this person lived near you; you would never see them. They’re to busy morally checking strangers online in their parents house. I’d go on living life ignoring their existence. They clearly have a lot to say about a topic they really don’t know much about. It’s your common popular reddit take, that has been regurgitated.
theJMAN1016
The entire post was filled with blowhards.
I tried my best to introduce a bit of nuance but that is not as fun for redditor.
ThirstyTurtle328
Damn, did my brother-in-law send that to you? 🤣
GoGoGadgetSphincter
At any given time I have no fewer than 3 rabbits living in and eating my lawn and about 1000 wasps and countless other pollinators in my trees.
The only thing my lawn does is look pleasing and keep rats and mice from finding their way to the house since that would lead to a rat/mouse genocide.I keep it short and tidy so snakes can’t hide in it and bite my kids or pets.
The idea that my children and animals shouldn’t have an environment where they’re able to frolic without being swarmed by fire ants or being bitten by a rattlesnake or copperhead all because invasive Johnson grass got tall and made a nice environment for them to hunt mice in over 150 years ago and thus, “they were here for first,” is the most childish argument against having a yard. People are a part of the environment too and smart animals with good instincts will avoid humans and their dwellings.
Don’t disagree about round up though. That shit will give you blood cancer.
sroop1
Affect*
JustinF32
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We have a bunch of trees and shrubs, and my friends are starting to wonder if im the green thumb over the wife because we just both love to work on the yard.
Namewithheld1776
Lol. Driving all insects and animals away? I’ve never had so many worms or rabbits until I started mono-cropping my lawn. 🤣
Informery
Reddit is mostly a group of sanctimonious freshmen that weaponize morality against things that they don’t yet have.
Or as someone else said better, envy is at the root of all internet controversy.
kgr911
Nice lawn might as well have a burning cross on it cuz it’s the same.
Individual-Dingo7362
I live in a rental and when I moved in the front yard was nothing but dirt and weeds. I spent a marginal amount on big box grass seed, some fertilizer and a seed spreader. A little time and effort and I have a decent looking lawn. It won’t win any awards, but I’m pretty proud of it. My lawn mower is a cheap electric Craftsman that gets the job done as my yard isn’t very big. If I owned the property I might do an all native plant front yard, but for the few years I’m renting the grass looks great.
pretty_succinct
sounds like the uninformed and inexperienced rant of a college kid or burnout who has never owned land or taken pride in digging in the dirt.
funny story: my wife admitted to me once: “i feel sort of bad saying this, but watching you work out in the yard and make this amazing garden totally turns me on. i think it’s my lizard brain knowing my husband could totally take care of me by making things grow while all our other neighbors yards are disasters.”
it’s fun to dig in the dirt. we’ve made it this far largely because we learned to like it.
Physical-Bill-3599
Bro just wanted to show off his grass and now he’s singlehandedly responsible for the collapse of biodiversity, class warfare, and Monsanto’s stock price
Aura_Raineer
I remember a year or so ago this sub was like that, people were posting photos of weeds covered grass and asking how to address it and the responses we just leave it lawns are bad.
I didn’t come by here for a year or so after that. It seems like the mods must have cleaned it up because I now regularly see helpful advice.
Low_Industry2524
Id hate to be this guys neighbor.
Logical_Director_663
I notice Roundup no longer has glyphosate.
jayradano
I got one yesterday bc someone asked for recommendations on how to clean their glass shower and I said, used dryer sheet work great. (They really do!) and I got the micro plastics comment by some stiff.
AgileSafety2233
Pretty accurate
FunGuy8618
For such an “educated” view, it’s crazy how little people understand about landscape ecology. Grass grows where other shit can’t. That’s literally what makes grass significant, ruminants eat it cuz it’s in places other stuff with more nutrition isn’t. If you can grow other stuff, cool. But don’t pretend you didn’t dump 20 cubic yards of premium topsoil into your yard before you got a single fruit or vegetable. (Addressed to imaginary grass hater)
fredout1968
Jesus H Christ get off the cross! We need the wood…
Marley3102
The worst possible thing you can do for pollinators is to put a building on them. I guess all these haters are unsheltered, although their drinking their triple cold foam caramel machiattos in the paved Starbucks parking lot.
Babyfart_McGeezacks
One time I asked what to spray to kill two small patches of clover in my front yard and you’d have thought I asked how to clear 1,000 acres of Amazon rain Forest
Grampyy
There might only be once single complete sentence in this post
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I mean, I actually feel this way about roundup and I feel that the monoculture of mega green lawns is not a good thing for the environment, at all – that being said I’ve learned a ton here about how to not work things this way and how to improve what I’ve got instead of just hating everyone’s super green pics on here.
3 of the top 10 golfers right now are non-white. Clearly this guy doesn’t watch golf.
To be fair. There are just as douchey average Reddit responses to a picture of a nice no-lawn with local wild and pollinator flowers. Everyone has a preference. Do your thing, leave everyone else alone.
Clearly this person can’t afford a lawn
Homeboy is just mad that his mom still makes him mow the lawn.
Just gotta pair the nice lawn with an awesome garden for the bees.
What a prick! Lick my nutsedge, pal!
I’m printing this and putting it above my garage door and touching it every time I wheel the mower out like the “play like a champion today” sign
Reddit has a MASSIVE hatred for lawns it seems basically everywhere but this sub. I don’t fall hardcore one way or the other, I have a lawn in my backyard that I care about trying to keep nice, and I have a xeriscaped rock garden in the front yard that I also try and keep thriving. Lawn haters on Reddit try to take some elitist moral and ethical superiority over people with lawns, and that’s super annoying.
Tell me your lawn sucks with it telling me your lawn sucks
I’ll be nice. Dude probably has never had a lawn before and only knows what other subs tell them. Hope they find some peace instead of coming after faceless online lawn guys.
The European mind cant comprehend true property ownership
Now golf is racist lmao
Funny how they use Roundup to kill off above ground green so they can harvest the below ground crops. Like potatoes, peanuts, etc… so we eat Roundup almost daily just say’n . Yup just had to keep the BS flowing freely.
And yes I know the residual in crops is microscopic, but still..
My bad, I’m a golf course superintendent who also maintains 20+ acres of native tall grasses and wildflower. We maintain 200 acres or more total. Diversity is vast among heavily maintained turf, just as native zones. We are an Audubon Santuary System course! That still sprays chemicals responsibly,when needed. Most successful golf facilities do not waste chemicals!! Costs $$$
Bro needs a broom to stripe!
The guy clearly never held a broom in his life
1. People like this always have a stoop for a lawn, if they’re lucky. They live in a massive heat sink, 20 miles from meaningful wildlife and the pollinators they supposedly love, surrounded by wall to wall concrete and traffic and lights, all powered by oil, coal or natural gas. They sure love to lecture others in their concrete jungles with no greenery, filled with smog and noise and light pollution, don’t they?
2. We all know they are partially right, we know that insect collapse is a real problem for the entire food chain, and it’s on all of us to minimize chemicals and water usage where possible. Let’s own our part of the problem. Which brings me to:
3. These people, and this conversation in general (just like inevitable discussions around carbon footprints) always *always* benefit the biggest culprits — massive corporations and corporate farmers — the most. Because it puts the onus of pollution on our little quarter-acre lots when 95% of all chemical and water usage is on farmland. This is not an accident because these useful idiots distract from the real problem. (See: recycling, carbon footprints, etc.)
4. I’m sympathetic to these types, because it’s clear they have zero experience with home ownership, because the very first concern of every homeowner, after safety, is *pests*, and THEN property value. These people seem to think that keeping tall plants away from your foundation is something that was made up to sell weed trimmers. It was invented thousands of years ago to create a natural (natural!!) distance between where humans sleep and rats, bugs, and all the creepy crawlies that carry disease and make us sick. They would know that if they didn’t live in a concrete jungle. (See #1)
Poor buddy lost his lawn one year and it ruined him for life. What a shame
I like the idea of hyper crowded bonsai trees.
What a nice thing to say!
They were right about Round up though. 🤷♂️ No on should ever use that stuff. I worked in the lawn care industry at Truly Nolen for 10+ years. We use to see the studies on it and how it affects humans. Not good. Thankfully we didnt use the stuff at Truly.
Insufferable
I just don’t like it when someone’s go to is chemicals. I’ve seen posts on here that someone has a small problem and instead of looking for other solutions it’s straight what chemical or substance can I add.
Then again it’s my opinion and I 100% get that people don’t care about my opinion in person and on the internet.
I try and do minimal chemicals in my life in general as cancer is just getting insane every year. especially now that we know people that live near a golf course have a higher chance to get Parkinson’s if you live in a mile radius and lower chance of you live within the water table.
the way I’ve seen some peoples lawns on here with the amount of chemicals they are basically a small golf course lol.
If this person lived near you; you would never see them. They’re to busy morally checking strangers online in their parents house. I’d go on living life ignoring their existence. They clearly have a lot to say about a topic they really don’t know much about. It’s your common popular reddit take, that has been regurgitated.
The entire post was filled with blowhards.
I tried my best to introduce a bit of nuance but that is not as fun for redditor.
Damn, did my brother-in-law send that to you? 🤣
At any given time I have no fewer than 3 rabbits living in and eating my lawn and about 1000 wasps and countless other pollinators in my trees.
The only thing my lawn does is look pleasing and keep rats and mice from finding their way to the house since that would lead to a rat/mouse genocide.I keep it short and tidy so snakes can’t hide in it and bite my kids or pets.
The idea that my children and animals shouldn’t have an environment where they’re able to frolic without being swarmed by fire ants or being bitten by a rattlesnake or copperhead all because invasive Johnson grass got tall and made a nice environment for them to hunt mice in over 150 years ago and thus, “they were here for first,” is the most childish argument against having a yard. People are a part of the environment too and smart animals with good instincts will avoid humans and their dwellings.
Don’t disagree about round up though. That shit will give you blood cancer.
Affect*
*
We have a bunch of trees and shrubs, and my friends are starting to wonder if im the green thumb over the wife because we just both love to work on the yard.
Lol. Driving all insects and animals away? I’ve never had so many worms or rabbits until I started mono-cropping my lawn. 🤣
Reddit is mostly a group of sanctimonious freshmen that weaponize morality against things that they don’t yet have.
Or as someone else said better, envy is at the root of all internet controversy.
Nice lawn might as well have a burning cross on it cuz it’s the same.
I live in a rental and when I moved in the front yard was nothing but dirt and weeds. I spent a marginal amount on big box grass seed, some fertilizer and a seed spreader. A little time and effort and I have a decent looking lawn. It won’t win any awards, but I’m pretty proud of it. My lawn mower is a cheap electric Craftsman that gets the job done as my yard isn’t very big. If I owned the property I might do an all native plant front yard, but for the few years I’m renting the grass looks great.
sounds like the uninformed and inexperienced rant of a college kid or burnout who has never owned land or taken pride in digging in the dirt.
funny story: my wife admitted to me once: “i feel sort of bad saying this, but watching you work out in the yard and make this amazing garden totally turns me on. i think it’s my lizard brain knowing my husband could totally take care of me by making things grow while all our other neighbors yards are disasters.”
it’s fun to dig in the dirt. we’ve made it this far largely because we learned to like it.
Bro just wanted to show off his grass and now he’s singlehandedly responsible for the collapse of biodiversity, class warfare, and Monsanto’s stock price
I remember a year or so ago this sub was like that, people were posting photos of weeds covered grass and asking how to address it and the responses we just leave it lawns are bad.
I didn’t come by here for a year or so after that. It seems like the mods must have cleaned it up because I now regularly see helpful advice.
Id hate to be this guys neighbor.
I notice Roundup no longer has glyphosate.
I got one yesterday bc someone asked for recommendations on how to clean their glass shower and I said, used dryer sheet work great. (They really do!) and I got the micro plastics comment by some stiff.
Pretty accurate
For such an “educated” view, it’s crazy how little people understand about landscape ecology. Grass grows where other shit can’t. That’s literally what makes grass significant, ruminants eat it cuz it’s in places other stuff with more nutrition isn’t. If you can grow other stuff, cool. But don’t pretend you didn’t dump 20 cubic yards of premium topsoil into your yard before you got a single fruit or vegetable. (Addressed to imaginary grass hater)
Jesus H Christ get off the cross! We need the wood…
The worst possible thing you can do for pollinators is to put a building on them. I guess all these haters are unsheltered, although their drinking their triple cold foam caramel machiattos in the paved Starbucks parking lot.
One time I asked what to spray to kill two small patches of clover in my front yard and you’d have thought I asked how to clear 1,000 acres of Amazon rain Forest
There might only be once single complete sentence in this post
That is so aggressive lol