There oughtta be a law
I think the state should regulate the number of times a week a person can mow one yard with a gas mower. I don’t know how they’d enforce it, but my neighbor typically mows 60-70 times a year (although this year he hasn’t quite hit 40 yet!). . .and we only have grass growing from maybe, I don’t know, April to September. Let’s say it’s March to October. That’s seven months, right? Approximately 30 weeks? Nobody around here needs to mow more than twice a week.
And the neighbors think we’re the crazy ones!
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September 3rd, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Where I live (in the middle of the Mojave Desert mind you), we have landscaping guidelines. Namely your publicly viewed property has to be landscaped and neat. For most people it means water and most use gasoline powered lawnmowers. So 70% of our water usage goes to the lawn as well as the carbon emissions of 40 cars (what a lawn more gives off in a year).
If your area has a green education program, get them to suggest electric or human powered mowers. I am using an electric mower right now that I purchased at a garage sale for $20 but hope to go to a human powered mower next year. In the heat of the summer, my lawn is lucky to get mowed twice a month though. Usually every 3 weeks. Of course the only reason I have a lawn is it was here when we moved in 3 months ago and I haven’t had time to remove portions of it yet. Hopefully will cut down the turf to 30-40% of what is is now. Already cut the water to it by 46%. It used to get watered for 84 minutes total over the week. Now it gets 45 minutes worth of water per week.