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CynthiaWVirginia -> RE: Grass, is green REALLY better? (4/3/2010 7:31:32 AM)
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I wish I were zoned for goats.
It's my goal in life to bury/destroy as much of the grass in my back yard as I can. My lot is 100 x 150 ft, and the hill too steep for a riding lawn mower.
Anti-weed mats covered with mulch...get ripped up and blown downhill. Adding new mulch year after year on the ones that stay put are getting pretty old. I'm looking at...finding old rugs...mwahahaha, and hammering spikes into them to pin those suckers down, then putting that black rubber chunks mulch down on top of it. Maybe a hole cut dead center for a tree.
I've planned areas to put down cement...with empty rectangular or square areas to grow carefully chosen flowers. I'm considering cementing some bench there too, so the wind can't haul it away.
In the front yard, some grass is okay. I like the look and smell of freshly cut grass. I have buried a fair bit of it under square terra cotta tiles though (and I add two new rows on per year so the buried area gets larger, lol) under our outdoor table and lawn furniture. Soon I'll do the same around my vegetable garden. The lawn mower doesn't have a problem near these.
<wishes again that she could stake out a goat in a new area of back yard each day, lol>
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The no-grow mats are under the fruit trees and cherry bushes I planted in my front yard, not over random patches of grass. In my backyard are a bit over 50 dwarf and semi-dwarf fruit trees I've planted...the flowers from these are lovely. Too bad the grass under them...isn't, lol. Two of these semi-dwarfs are almond trees, and I have two hedges of rose of sharon, lineups of cherry bushes along one of the fence lines, and raspberry and blackberry canes. Lots of flowers, very little fruit because of the late snows, sometimes to the beginning week of May.
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