The view from my front balcony yesterday afternoon. That was not taken through a screen, that's torrential rain falling from the sky.
And in the nick of time, too. I've managed to get my homeowners' association to back down from actually suing me because the lawn at the house the kids are renting from me isn't green enough. No kidding, I had received a series of threatening letters ending with "We are turning it over to the attorney." I sent my final response today - a terse, "The sprinkler system is working and I've hired a company to treat yard, it'll be mowed, and that's all I'm doing." To my surprise, the management company beeyotch backed down.
I was just shaking my head at being ORDERED to re-sod my yard - not just take better care of it, but put down NEW grass - in a drought - or be sued. I refused, and the woman who earns her living bitching at people about their lawns got quite irate, but she's backed off. So, yay.
But laying new sod would require a LOT more water to help the new grass establish -- in a drought? So sensible.
ReplyDeleteIn this country most people regard lawn sprinklers as definitely not PC. Mind you we do not have HOA persons breathing down our necks, just snooty lawn obsessed neighbours (and there is one in every street!) looking down their noses at the rest of us.
So far as Ernst and I are concerned the kinder you are to the lawn the more often you have to mow it. Save the water for the veges and the trees and shrubs.
Gae, in Callala Bay
Florida passed a law in 2009 that allows homeowners to install "Florida Friendly" drought tolerant landscaping in lieu of the thirsty, pest-sensitive St. Augustine grass required by most HOA covenants. I'd already decided that if the HOA really wanted to make an issue of my lawn, I'd rip the grass out and put in drought tolerant ground cover. I am still considering that option for the areas that have never thrived. I was really POed at the nerve of the letters ORDERING me to put down sod, when the lawn care company I'd hired said it wasn't necessary, and that the existing grass would come back with water and fertilizer!
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