Manor lords who want to see attackers coming from a distance. Requires a few dedicated serfs for all the scything, but such is the cost of protecting one's estates.
Werent it more a flex how rich you were?
"See that lord over there. He is so rich he does not even need to use all off his land for agriculture."
In the 20th century it morphed into a marketing gimmick to sell lawn equipment, fertilizer and products to maintain a perfect manicured lawn
"See Mr Jones next door. He is so rich that he can afford to have a perfect cut grass lawn with no dandelions in it"
If you have kids It's helpful to have an open, flat area for them to run around on. It doesn't need to be (just) grass, but that's probably the most robust, and least likely to have sharp surprises, option.
No one. It started out as a status symbol, to show off that you can afford have a bunch of empty space in your yard as opposed to using it (for buildings or growing food) and the time to/the ability to have a servant maintain it, and unfortunately now you're excepted to waste time and water in order to do ecological damage.
Keeping the weeds out of a rock garden is annoying too I've found. The best way to do nothing is plant pine trees, everything under them dies lmao.
Backyard lawn gradually gets replaced by fruit trees and garden.
If the area is dry enough, the trees will barely survive and make sure nothing else will. If it’s slightly wetter, you’ll still get plenty of small shrubs and other hardy plants.
I need to to tell the kids to get off it!
It's so you can plant stuff there to defend your house from zombies
I hate grass, I hate mowing it and the free time that eats. Its useless
I'm slowly deleting patches by installing garden beds and pathways with things that are useful to me and wildlife and don't need constant maintenance.
My dream is to strip off the top layer of most of the yard and put down some grasses that don't grow above 4-6 inches and other ground cover between my garden beds.
I grew up mowing and hating mowing the lawn. Now that I'm an adult, I mow it exactly once a year. In fact, less than that because one of my partners and I alternate each year.
It gets pretty and nice and like 2 feet long like a natural forest with buzzing bees and the critters love it, then mow it and it dies for the year. Done.
It's a pity that we have to mow it at all, though. When the early summer sun hits low through it and you can see how much life is in it, it's like a dream.... Then it gets killed and I remember I live in the United States.
Goats.
Goats will only eat grass if there are no other green plants accessible.
How about sheep then?
Sheep won't do that voluntarily either I think, grazing animals need a variety of plants to be healthy.
Cut down all the rest of the shrubbery.
I have 600mq of "lawn". Its actually native grass that I need to keep trimming 6 months per year. I only water some flowers and plants I added to a specific area for the wife, and only like two months every year if it doesn't rain.
Lawns sure are weird :3
and ugly and wasteful and horrible for biodiversity
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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