Society demands that everyone who has a square foot or more of suburban real estate cultivate a nonflowering, nonedible invasive crop on it. Why? Who's bright idea was that, and why did everybody decide to go along with it? Why couldn't it be strawberries, or bluebonnets? Something that is beneficial & edible, or at least beautiful?
If I were to till up my front lawn and plant an impassable thicket of 10' high sunflowers, my neighbors would be outraged. Why? They're beautiful, edible, I wouldn't have to mow, they provide privacy, they're good for the land, the list of reasons goes on. But no, I'm expected to pay a water bill so I can keep this stupid grass green in the heat of summer, and then because I water it so much it grows like cancer and I have continuously mow it, which further requires me to buy a lawnmower, edger, gasoline, etc and I have to pay to have the clippings hauled off. It's an utter folly.
[/rant]
If I were to till up my front lawn and plant an impassable thicket of 10' high sunflowers, my neighbors would be outraged. Why? They're beautiful, edible, I wouldn't have to mow, they provide privacy, they're good for the land, the list of reasons goes on. But no, I'm expected to pay a water bill so I can keep this stupid grass green in the heat of summer, and then because I water it so much it grows like cancer and I have continuously mow it, which further requires me to buy a lawnmower, edger, gasoline, etc and I have to pay to have the clippings hauled off. It's an utter folly.
[/rant]