Are Weeds Always Bad?
I’ve been thinking about weeds lately since I might (gasp) buy a house again. Maybe, perhaps. Well, I haven’t decided. I’m sure one day I’ll make the leap from apartment life to having my own home again.
So, that means I’ll once again have to decide how to take care of a lawn, or I could just buy a condo… So, here’s the thing. When I was growing up, we always had clover in the yard. I’m not sure why, exactly. Maybe the fields where things that made money grew were more important.
Nevertheless, I never saw much wrong with having some weeds mixed in with the lawn until I had a house in the city.
Well, then I had to have a nice yard. The lady who used to live across the road from us was a lawn psycho. She always complimented me if she saw me working outside on the lawn, but she was out there four times more often. Apparently, the way my lawn looked was very important to her property values.
There’s got to be a name for this other than “keeping up with the Joneses.” Instead of peer pressure, maybe it’s Neighbor Stress. Have you ever asked yourself whether you really want to spend a bunch of time and money killing weeds in your lawn with herbicides? Are a few dandelions so bad?
I was happy to see that Michael over at Green Living Tips has been having some of these same thoughts. He wrote a great post called Useful Weeds. He points out the ways that weeds can be beneficial and asks you to question your views on them. Please give it a good read.
Do you use weed killers on your lawn?
Image via flickr.
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