Post A2uSn5zPQ97P95xYDw by drh@octodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #A2uGAxwDhzTBijWHsO by drh@octodon.social
       2021-01-04T21:18:16Z
       
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       Does anyone have any simple tips for maintaining an environmentally friendly lawn in #Aotearoa | #NewZealand?
       
 (DIR) Post #A2uGAyFiXV48hCdrGa by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2021-01-04T21:31:50Z
       
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       @drh don't mow it :) - for a large part of our yard (we moved into this new house a year ago), we're working on a meadow rather than a lawn. Letting the grass grow and planting wildflowers. Considering an apiary... We've planted lots of native shrubs and ground covering plants to push out some other parts of the lawn. We've got skinks in the yard (we've encouraged them by putting boards down to create hiding places - have 5+ now). Yeah, big mown lawns are dead zones.
       
 (DIR) Post #A2uSn5zPQ97P95xYDw by drh@octodon.social
       2021-01-04T23:53:08Z
       
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       Sounds good @lightweight but I guess I wanna find a compromise between big and wild and a little tidy yet not environment enhancing.
       
 (DIR) Post #A2uSva39XaeYh1ky5Q by drh@octodon.social
       2021-01-04T23:54:33Z
       
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       Sounds good @lightweight but I guess I wanna find a compromise between big and wild and a little tidy yet environment enhancing.
       
 (DIR) Post #A2uTWHWZNgwtx415Hs by lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
       2021-01-05T00:01:14Z
       
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       @drh I think the problem is that mowing and environmental enhancement are kinda mutually exclusive (depending, perhaps, on your definition of an enhanced environment). We mow a few portions of our yard, have got native ground-covering and shrubs in another portion, and have built a fence around the "meadow" portion of the yard :)