JackbyDev , 1 year ago

Not really a total scam depending on your perspective but lawn additives. I’m not sure what the term is. Basically when they come out fertilizer out. I say not totally because some people really do want a super green, super short, and (in my opinion) super ugly lawn. I replaced my front lawn with clover and the bees love it. It was green literally until Christmas last year (2022) when we had the big frost (southeast US). Like, okay, it’s a little less green or whatever, but wow it was green that late in the season and everyone else’s was brown.

JustEnoughDucks , 1 year ago

I found out that short flat green lawns ate a British nobility thing. Lots of other cultures had elaborate gardens and other cool things, bit the British were boring as fuck and colonized everyone.

Back before lawn mowers you had to be super rich to hire someone to pretty much full time take care of your lawn. It propogated to all of their colonies, including Africa where they would use a ton of water and non-native species to “make it feel like home.”

Then the US took this shit idea and ran with it