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Vegetable gardens and native flowers > grass
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This is a serious question... why do front yards exist at all? Put my fuckin' house closer to the curb and give me that room in the backyard, where it's actually usable!
I would rather have my house set back a bit from the street. A little farther from road noise, and if there's a car accident, I'd rather vehicles ended up in my yard than in my house. I don't know if that's actually the reason though. And it still doesn't need to be a lawn in front, even if there's a bit of space.
Grow a bunch of trees in front yard.
Car through the front door
Why can't you use the space in the front yard?
I can, but it's not as pleasant - cars driving by, and less privacy. There's just literally no benefit and several minor drawbacks in comparison to the back
So you'd rather put your house, your literal living space, closer to the place with more cars and less privacy?
Ah, but you seem to be missing an important part... my front yard isn't made of walls
Ideally the front bit of your house also has things like windows and doors, which kinda negate the whole "less cars and more private" points.
...you feel the same amount of privacy in your living room as you do in your front yard?
You feel the same amount of privacy in your living room when it's right up next to the curb vs. set back a couple dozen feet?
Pretty damn close? 🤷♂️ if necessary, I can always close the blinds.
Then you're blessed to live in a place with no vehicles or pedestrians. The rest of us aren't so lucky
No, I think you're still missing the part about the walls and the blinds
And you're still missing the part about windows and doors, so I guess we've reached a stalemate.
...so you don't know what blinds are? You could also use curtains!
Neither blinds nor curtains block road noise, unless you spend thousands (per window) on specialty acoustic materials.
And I don't understand how you're trying to spin "just keep your windows blocked all the time, who needs pleasant views or sunshine in their home" as a positive.
Because street canyons are no fun.
Looks pretty fun to me
As soon as someone gives me the money and time to do so.
Id kill for a garden like that. However i absolutely don't have the time for the upkeep
Farm style produce requires a lot of upkeep. People have no idea the work, and chemicals, that are needed to grow the stuff they buy in the grocery store. Nature will eat it before you do.
I'm not an expert, but I think planting native wild food bearing plants may help. If it can survive on its own it's worth a try.
Same with lawns tho . They r effing annoying.
I'm in the city limits. I'd get a fine for this. It's so stupid.
That's going to be super expensive in the US, as you would get insane fines by the HOA and probably would get evicted (even if you own the house).
just don't live in an HOA, it comes free with your using your brain when buying a house
Yeah I use my brain when I choose where to live. Which is not in the US. However, I don't have money to buy so I'm forced to rent.
My neighbor didn't like my 6ft tall thistle, and called the city. Jokes on him. Next year I have 12ft tall sunflowers ready to go, and I'm putting a wall of them up right at the fucking sidewalk (actually offset by about 4ft so you can't "accidentally" knock them all down while walking by.
I live in NL, I can do whatever the fuck I want with my garden. Also, I have 2 feet. No clue how to translate that to thistles or sunflowers. I don't live in 1800, sorry.
Your suburban home is using way more resources than is sustainable regardless of the quality of your garden.
Grass is the bane of foliage. It just shouldn’t have been.
Stupid golfers.
Grass isn't even horrific on its own. There are plenty of grasses, fescues, and sedges with native faunal associations.
Never letting it grow tall enough to flower and seed, though?
This reminds me of a house in my neighborhood that goes all-out. I call it "the garden." The sidewalk in front of it as covered on both sides by a variety of native flowers and shrubs. After walking by lawn after lawn, it's like crossing a wild meadow, complete with butterflies and hummingbirds.
These both look stupid. Learn to balance. A clear-cut yard on one end of the spectrum, and some hobbyists vegetable maze on the other.
Also, I wonder what the income difference is between people living in houses like on the top and houses like on the bottom. I wonder if that affects their yards?
Try getting this past your HOA.
Plenty of them in my HOA. Contrary to the contrarian Redditors/Lemmy users, most of them have common sense rules.
Yep, people only like to talk about drama. No one is going to post on social media about their boring HOA that just takes care of common areas and maybe holds an annual BBQ.
Maybe with a sweet wall to keep racoons from gobbling up all my lettuce
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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