Lawns are a sign of good citizenship.

I just bought 15 bags of grass seed😳

This is not who I am. I buy plants and grow food. In fact, I learned that having a lawn was supposed to be a sign of good character for the working class. I've heard that a nice lawn can also symbolize wealth, because it shows that a person can own land and not need to grow food on it. 

Lawn is a sign of prosperity and good citizenship and being middle class. 

Also, the first man to mow their lawn on the block, wins!

I don't know what he wins, but he wins. 

So I have made it my duty to not only make half of my yard a garden, but also to mow my grass before the man who lives down the street.  I think in fact, that this is what the neighborly over the fence discussion about cutting grass is about. It's about what place you plan to be in in the olympics of neighborhood lawn mowing.  It's a boy's club, though, so it probably doesn't count when I've mowed my lawn before the men on the block. But also, make sure you trim it.

My neighbor offered to come over and trim up my lawn real nice. I took it as a threat! 😱

How else could I take it?🤔

He wouldn't have offered to trim some other man's lawn down the street.

Seriously, though, I have been hyper organic with the yard thing. I mean, I have three composters, a vermi bin, another that looks like a space ship that can be rolled around, and one that's just passive. And I've bought all kinds of real organic fertilizer from fish emulsion to chicken poop. I've used vinegar and hot water to kill weeds in the cracks of the sidewalk. I've stood outside for hours just pulling weeds by hand and I 

                            never 

                                       watered 

                                                       the  grass.

And my grass and clover was always green. It was only fertilized by the dog. 😳 In fact, it might be healthier than a mono crop of Kentucky Blue Grass.   But who cares?

 

See this mess.....

Yeah, that's what city folk call a nuisance property. You might say, why don't those people take care of their property?! Well, it's vacant, owned by I don't know ? the city? a bank? an absentee landlord?

But you know, I live in the city, so you are right, who cares! Poor and working people who live in the city are probably all renters who don't give a shit so they leave mess like this around.

It's just that simple isn't it?

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Just as simple, as buying a 15-pound bag of grass seed. 🤔 Maybe, weed and feed and petroleum- based fertilizers that turn the water green with algae is next.  I'll show you who a good middle-class citizen is..... Right????