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.
-
@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".
-
@Mik said in Southern Nevada: Giving Up Grass:
I'd like to have a coupe goats, too.
A coupe de grass?
-
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: