Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:

Unless you want to live in a British climate, a British style lawn makes absolutely no sense.

Over there, it's generally pretty easy to maintain - over here, not so much.

Could always move down here. We've got English rain with a lot higher heat and humidity. Think of it as an English greenhouse.

The threat of lurking alligators would be a good motivation to cut the grass.

[Copper]

@Catseye3 said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:

@Copper You live in hell.

The view, in hell, all week long

[Mik]

No grass there.

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:

No grass there.

Lots of grass there… There’s a Jamaican Chicken shack 50 feet back…

[Renauda]

@Mik said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:

Good idea. I’m looking at replacing mine with mostly clover and other wildflowers. Grass is a huge wast of time and money.

I did that with half my back yard. Supposedly it would be less maintenance. That maybe the case of you have a pet goat to keep it trimmed. Needs cutting once a week or it chokes out my 6hp Briggs and Stratton mower. Good thing about it is that it stays green until October and is drought resistant.

Overall, I don’t think I’ll do the remainder of the yards in that mix.

[Mik]

I'd like to have a coupe goats, too. I think the HOA might draw the line there.

[Ivorythumper]

@Renauda said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:

@Mik said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:

Good idea. I’m looking at replacing mine with mostly clover and other wildflowers. Grass is a huge wast of time and money.

I did that with half my back yard. Supposedly it would be less maintenance. That maybe the case of you have a pet goat to keep it trimmed. Needs cutting once a week or it chokes out my 6hp Briggs and Stratton mower. Good thing about it is that it stays green until October and is drought resistant.

Overall, I don’t think I’ll do the remainder of the yards in that mix.

Interesting to hear of your experience. I've been looking at microclovers, creeping thyme, sedum, and other grass substitutes -- I'm trying to convert everything to more xeriscape (though Philly gets more rain per year than Seattle), lush and low maintenance. The ideal is "set it and forget it".

[Jolly]

I think we ought to just go back to open range.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Mik said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:

I'd like to have a coupe goats, too.

A coupe de grass?

[Catseye3]

@Mik said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:

I think the HOA might draw the line there.

Yes, I think that would be baaaad.

[Renauda]

@Ivorythumper

In fairness the cover grows well in zone 3 and is very nice from mid May to the end of June. Plenty of wild flowers in the mix. From then on it requires weekly attention or it turns into a large mosquito incubator as it never dries out. We have more than enough mosquitos as it is in the north. I need not add to the plague.

I am told that this is the mix:

https://www.westcoastseeds.com/products/easy-care-groundcover-5?variant=8709380669500&currency=CAD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=CjwKCAjw6MKXBhA5EiwANWLODMln5u_hrLaeYF4NzBHRSmX_0VRA_sm_ospIT4IKIP2LBomtnUYcuRoCLvMQAvD_BwE

[Ivorythumper]

@Renauda Thanks!