/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.2499883]

I'm getting tired of watering and mowing my lawn, and I don't have any HOA so I decided to switch to 0 maintenance landscaping. What's the best way to get rid of the grass that's there so I can put down decorative rock?

[Anonymous No.2499888]

>>2499883
Holy fuck that's ugly, do amerifats really live like this? Land of the "free"? These are fucking storage sheds crammed together like apartments.

[Anonymous No.2499892]

You could till it with a tiller. A big fucking waste of grass but it would be the fastest way.
You could cut it out and roll it, then give your rolls to that guy who always stands outside the gas station asking to buy grass.
You could set it on fire, poison it, bury it, get russia to nuke it. The sky’s the limit.

[Anonymous No.2499894]

>>2499888
That's Sydney Australia, and each cuck box is valued at 1 million aussie bucks per property, or 642k USD.
>>2499892
It does seem like a waste, I'm not sure if I can cut and roll it without colossal failure, but I'd like to try and donate it if someone wanted it. It does seem wasteful.

[Anonymous No.2499898]

>>2499888
Do you spend a lot of time looking at your neighbourhood from a bird's eye view?

[Anonymous No.2499903]

>>2499883

Rock will look terrible.

You can do astroturf. Takes a while to put in but it works.

[Anonymous No.2499904]

>>2499883
>amass land
>do literally fucking nothing with it
WHY, you could create an insanely beautiful garden with that. You could plant trees all along the perimiter and it would feel like you're in the middle of a forest.

I hate anglophones so much

[Anonymous No.2499909]

>>2499883
>What's the best way to get rid of the grass
Glysophate

[Anonymous No.2499911]

>>2499904
Keep speaking my language bitch

[Anonymous No.2499922]

>>2499883
>put down decorative rock
Why not clover?

[Anonymous No.2499942]

>>2499903
>>2499922
I really like the look of decorative rock. It's a great contrast to miles of flower beds, hedges and grass.

[Anonymous No.2499945]

>>2499942

[Anonymous No.2499946]

>>2499945
Nevada, California and Arizona have it right. I'm not sure why anyone would want to maintain grass.

[Anonymous No.2499995]

>>2499894
Well that shut the europoor up.

[Anonymous No.2500006]

>>2499883
>House
>Path
>Shed

[Anonymous No.2500025]

>>2499883
Holy shit i used to party down the road from this house. Fuck Schofield's road

[Anonymous No.2500040]

just seed low growing grass
https://www.crabgrasslawn.com/no-mow-grass-types/

[Anonymous No.2500097]

>>2499946
>I hate having a lush green living carpet, I'm just gonna have some rocks

[Anonymous No.2500129]

>>2499898
No he spends most of the time watching a pajeet fuck his gf

[Anonymous No.2500160]

>>2499946
Nevada, California and Arizona are all arid places where green ground cover isn't natural and requires extraordinary measures to install and maintain.
Rocks, gravel and sand make sense there, try doing a yard like that in a hot humid climate with lots of rain like Southern Louisiana and you'll spend the same amount of time trying to keep grass and weeds from completely overwhelming and covering that artificial ground cover in about 5 weeks time in the summer, and blowing leaves and other debris off it.

[Anonymous No.2500171]

>>2500097
I unironically do hate the texture of grass.
If I'm grabbing fast food and eating it outside, I'd rather sit on the curb of the parking lot than on the grass.
If I'm walking and there's a choice between pavement or grass, pavement every time.

Best "natural" surface is probably fine sand though. I imagine it would be expensive to maintain instead of a lawn, since it will keep blowing/washing away.

[Anonymous No.2500179]

>>2499883
Switch over to turf

[Anonymous No.2500188]

>>2499883
What a fucking hell scape

[Anonymous No.2500242]

>>2499883
Surfactant (strong detergent) and diesel fuel in a pump sprayer works superbly. I tried other vegetation kill methods and they're shit by comparison. You can add expensive vegetation killer to the mix but now I just use diesel. Not a pollution issue either (the unstudied should recuse themselves).

[Anonymous No.2500266]

>>2500171
You can use erosion and dust control formulations/materials to minimize this, but heavier grain sand is best for longevity and keeping sand and fine gravel pathways clean is pretty labor intensive if there's any trees or other plants or animals around...you're either going to have to blow or rake it regularly and also scoop up the cat shit.

[Anonymous No.2500343]

>>2499888
That's in Australia, fatty.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10625607/Schofields-family-snubbed-MILLIONS-stay-dream-Sydney-home-Ponds.html

[Anonymous No.2500345]

>>2499883
You're a retard who doesn't understand that a rock yard still requires maintenance (our neighbors growing up did it, and switched back a couple years later). But if you insist, call around to lawn services guys and see if anyone is buying sod. Your grass can be transplanted to people who aren't retards for their lawns. They will come and remove, a bonus for your lazy ass.

[Anonymous No.2500348]

>>2499946
Lots in those regions don't have trees dropping leaves on them, or have enough rain to wash it away.
Rock yards are as much work as lawns. You just don't have to water them. If you're getting rid of grass because you're too fucking lazy to cut it once a week, you're a fat lazy retard.

[Anonymous No.2500359]

>>2499898
no, but the people in those houses spend a lot of time looking at their neighbors walls.

[Anonymous No.2500385]

>>2499909
Diesel works better but a mixture is even more effective. I tried everything then diesel saved me.

[Anonymous No.2500530]

>>2500160
>>2500348
I live in SD with lots of green lawns. I have recently aquired a house where the front lawn is 3/4 grass and 1/4 rock landscape. In the 1.5 years here I have had to do zero maintenance with it. Come this summer I will need to spend 1 day removing some small tree shoots but then I will be able to go another year or two without any maintenance. Rock lawns are less work than grass lawns by a long shot.

[Anonymous No.2500531]

>>2500530
Zero maintenance with the rock lawn. Plenty with the grass.

[Anonymous No.2500541]

>>2499883
just because you DON'T have a HOA, DOESN'T mean you can go lawnless
most cities, towns, townships, and other developments/housing have general requirements for a place to be considered a LEGAL RESIDENCE

lots of former Californian homes in the desert got bulldozed, siezed, or destroyed/possessed without any warning/reimbursement because the townships fucked them over so rich, well connected people could claim all that land for dirt cheap)
most States have laws requiring a MINIMUM of 1000sq feet of lawn, well tended, MOWED to below 5inches(3inches or lower in some places) to be legal residencies

anywhere that isn't the case is a local ordinance change that is temporary and usually requires renewals to keep it going(oops, we forgot to allow rock/sand/native terrain to be allowed substitutions this year, your home is no longer a legal home)

astroturf and the cheaper/more expensive variants also have to have a variance/law to allow their usage too

pay a lawyer to research your local, state, and federal rules and regulations, both during, before, and after droughts(this one won't end for at least 100yrs) and other things

if, and IF its permanently legal where you live(might have to prove you rack those rocks/sand/etc)

if your lawn is large and there are no fire restrictions, putting in for controlled burn of your grass may help(burn away grass, roots, seeds,etc)
put down at least 30yr weed barrier over the burnt remains, THEN put down clay, sand, gravel
get the clay, sand, gravel wholesale from local places(buying bags is stupidly overpriced, renting a truck and filling the back with clay, sand, and gravel is MUCH CHEAPER AND FASTER)

TEXT!!!!

[Anonymous No.2500543]

>>2500530
yeah, I lived all over SD and did the same thing because the climate allows it.
Now I live where it gets just as hot as it does in El Cajon but its 90% humidity all summer, doesnt go below 90° for weeks at a time and rains 60" a year and I assure you that trying to maintain a rock yard free of plant growth would take more time than just mowing the lawn.
Its great where it works but its simply not a universal solution...even roofs here can become covered with full on plant growth in a couple of years, not just mold but ferns and even volunteer tree saplings. Even brick joints and other crevices host plant growth, gravel and mulch prevents practically zero barrier to plant growth here without weeding and/or herbicides.

[Anonymous No.2500552]

>>2500541
>most States have laws requiring a MINIMUM of 1000sq feet of lawn
What the fuck are you smoking? Did your HOA or township sell you this shit?

Seethe.

[Anonymous No.2500558]

>>2500543
One of the reasons I will never leave SD again, that and I prefer cold weather and snow over the heat.
Don't get me wrong I like mother nature but every now and then you need to bring in father winter to tame her ass.

[Anonymous No.2501537]

>>2500558
LOFL, I just now realized you meant South Dakota and not San Diego...glad I refrained from flaming you for wanting to stay in the latter for the cold winters and snow.

Also thank you for similary not calling me a dumb faggot for talking about El Cajon, CA like it was in South Dakota.

[Anonymous No.2501559]

>>2499903
>You can do astroturf.
how does this not turn into a fuck load mess of shitty microplastic in ten years?

[Anonymous No.2501563]

>>2499942
Have fun pulling weeds between the rocks because there is all kinds of weeds and the clean looking care free gardens are actually cared for. At first moss takes root, it then mulches under the rocks and year three you have your ordinary weeds protected by annoying rocks and really visible from the lack of other greens.
Life ... finds a way

[Anonymous No.2501572]

https://youtu.be/xYdLfkJcfok

[Anonymous No.2501579]

>>2501563
Good, at least it'd be natural and not invasive garbage.

[Anonymous No.2501605]

>>2499883
What if you just backfilled the whole thing with sand? Maybe put in an artificial pond and couple palms. I too, hate cutting grass and pulling weeds. It's enough to want to cover the whole area with concrete.

[Anonymous No.2501608]

>>2499883
right here OP

[Anonymous No.2501614]

>>2499883
>I'm getting tired of watering and mowing my lawn
So don't. Why do you want to get rid of it? Just let it go natural. Let it do its own thing.

[Anonymous No.2502365]

>>2499942
Funny story from my teacher
>paving engineer
>making a house
>wife wants white rocks for this sort of decoration
>white rocks cost 5 bucks a kg at the gardening store
>wait a minute
>look at rock, identify geological origin
>call up the quarry 200km away
>around 100 bucks the cubic meter, something like 1 buck for 15kg
It's not some special rock, it's not kitchen top granite, it's just a stone that happens to be white.

[Anonymous No.2502370]

I always wonder about grazing animal. There is guy that gets paid to take his goats to eat weed in people's properties, i wonder if a goat or a sheep could be a perpetual lawn mower.

[Anonymous No.2502386]

>>2501614
This. Spread some wildflowers too for the beefrens.

[Anonymous No.2502399]

>>2501579
t. retard who thinks invasive plants can't propagate by themselves, and that a totally artificial sand or gravel bed will selectively encourage native plant growth.
And that there's no such thing as native grasses suitable for ground cover.

[Anonymous No.2502407]

>>2501614
Another one who doesnt get that letting whatever takes root grow unchecked doesn't in any way guarantee that it will be "natural" ie native flora, and can actually encourage invasive species (including natives) that will just take over and are actually kept at bay by things like well established lawns/landscaping and their ongoing maintenence.

[Anonymous No.2502411]

>>2501559
It does. Ten years is a third of the lifetime of modern house construction. That's a long ass time in the modern world

[Anonymous No.2502504]

>>2500541
Based schizo
It is true, though, that checking the local laws before doing anything is extremely important.

[Anonymous No.2503384]

>>2499904
>Amass land
>Do nothing with it
The land is the investment. The Aussie boomer that lives there isn't trying to fucking homestead and they're not going to pay a landscaper to keep up a garden, that stuff takes work. If you plant a ton of trees you have to consider their mature heights and they start becoming a liability when you're surrounded by other houses that branches could damage, etc. That's a big yard by poorfag standards but it's not "plant your own little forest" big, or at least not isolated enough.

[Anonymous No.2503389]

would line the fence line with conifers to fuck off the neighbours

[Anonymous No.2503489]

>>2503384
just because jews keep printing money and flooding in more people causing the price to go up, it doesn't mean you're not doing nothing with it

[Anonymous No.2503504]

>>2500343
>Its massive but neatly-trimmed lawn takes around two and a half hours to mow, with the couple's young son regularly tasked with the epic job.

Thats pretty cool to be honest, I thought they would have some lawn company come in but nope, they are teaching their kids a lesson about labor and making him do it. Would be fun, I enjoyed mowing for the city and I would like it more mowing for my own parents

[Anonymous No.2503542]

>>2500343
>>2499894
Australian hates trees?
That shit looks ugly.

[Anonymous No.2505410]

>>2499883
You aught to put a shed there

[Anonymous No.2505652]

>>2499883
Just kill your grass and grow clover instead. Cut it really low and start seeding clover in. White clover or strawberry clover will work best.

Don't destroy the chance to grow things in your yard by piling rocks up in it. Look into permaculture. Plenty of root crops that just grow and you have to fight to kill them. They give you free food.

[Anonymous No.2505653]

permaculture more like permavirgin

[Anonymous No.2505680]

>>2505652
I'd try a moss lawn instead. Clovers are very fragile.

[Anonymous No.2505870]

>>2499888
jesus christ you're stupit.

[Anonymous No.2505871]

>>2499946
the jew fears the front lawn asparagus farmer.

[Anonymous No.2506717]

>>2499942
Rock isn't low maintenance, constantly have to pick leaves and growth out of mine.

[Anonymous No.2506923]

>>2506717
but why do you do that?

[Anonymous No.2507021]

>>2502504
That's required ON slopes you dumb fuck.

[Anonymous No.2507502]

>>2506717
Growth is easily prevented with diesel and a cheap hand pump sprayer. Surfactant (I use a cup of laundry detergent per five gallons diesel) helps. This is common as a carrier for very expensive vegetation control products but does nicely on it's own for hundreds of dollars less.

[Anonymous No.2507529]

>>2499888
>storage sheds
>apartments
lol they're like 3,000 square feet and have yards but I guess you're from a country where you're all too poor to afford a storage shed let alone a house.

[Anonymous No.2507540]

>>2503542
>Australian hates trees?
Trees are extremely dangerous in australia due to the drop bears. If you cant clearly see through the foliage you're more than likely going to be victim to an attack.

[Anonymous No.2507562]

>>2499883
Corrugated galvanized steel garden beds. Grow stuff to eat and sell. FFS, with a yard like that, you should farm the whole damn thing or rent it to someone who will.

[Anonymous No.2507565]

>>2507540
Koalas attack?
Think you had enough to worry about with every insect being deadly.

[Anonymous No.2507769]

>>2501608
Jej

[Anonymous No.2507795]

There's a guy near me who does this. Most of the properties around there are old growth forest but then this guy's entire lot is just dirt. Kind of an eyesore desu, I don't know how he does it.

[Anonymous No.2507872]

>>2499883
Have you tried getting a few goat, or sheep, or a swarm of grass-starved snails?

[Anonymous No.2509451]

>>2500541
>most States have laws
They can suck most of my cock. I'm growing food on my land and god help anyone who says otherwise.

[Anonymous No.2509459]

>>2499883
well if you stopped watering it you wouldnt need to mow as often

[Anonymous No.2509551]

>>2502370
Given enough land then yeah, pretty much, goats need about 3/4 to an acre per animal.
Whatever supplemental feed you need to buy in would be peanuts in price in comparison to the cost of fuel to maintain the same area of land

[Anonymous No.2509555]

>>2507565
The only way a koala could get the jump on you is it falling out of the tree dead from the heart attack you gave it.