Has anybody turned your front lawn into a garden or mini farm?

[ZeroTX]

P.S.

Why are you putting your clippings in a landfill? Pretty much any lawn mower in the past 10 years is a mulching type, which makes tiny clippings and just blows them throughout the yard and they serve as free fertilizer. The only clippings in the trash are the very, very small amount that you sweep up off the driveway, etc.

[cla]

Originally Posted by davidt1

The Nazi association sent me a letter telling me to fix the brown spot on my front lawn. I complied, but I thought what a waste of time and natural resources this lawn care business is. You use labor, water and land to grow grass but only to cut it down and throw it away later in a land fill. Why? To keep the lawns looking alike, as far as I can tell. Repeat this process every week with every house in the city and you can imagine how much labor, water and land it takes to keep our lawns looking the same. There has to be more important reasons. If I ever catch a glimpse of my Gestapo neighborhood monitors, I will be sure to ask.

I got to thinking that a garden or mini farm would be a more productive use of my front lawn. Has anybody done something like this? I would love to hear from you.

lol - you must want more correspondence from your HOA.