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Ecomodded my front yard
this weekend by removing all 900sq feet of front lawn (back yard is vegetable garden, no lawn). Took me all day Saturday and pretty much all day today, but it's gone. Goin low water use landscape. California drought and all.
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04-13-2015, 01:52 PM
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ha! I used to live in El Paso where we also proudly grew rocks and sand!
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04-13-2015, 03:26 PM
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We grow rocks and mud in the northeast.
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04-14-2015, 01:34 AM
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Pics! What did you replace it with?
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04-14-2015, 11:39 AM
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We do not really have a front yard here, really just a small parking lot--four covered spaces and gravel where two or three cars can park. There is a narrow strip of grass next to the fence and the city of Tempe threatened legal action, possibly including jail time, if we did not remove the weeds.
Weeds? That is grass!
The owner came out, cut and killed it, and the neighbor's grass is just as tall as ours used to be.
That was December...
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04-15-2015, 11:55 PM
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Not done yet. Still moving dirt around. I'm in San Jose as well. Santa Clara Valley Water District is paying me $2/sq foot to go low water use. Better'n a poke in the eye!
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04-16-2015, 12:48 AM
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Astro turf seems like a very logical replacement for real grass. Just vacuum your yard once a week and hose it down afterwards to clean it lol
Just don't do gravel.
I would not be opposed to having my entire yard paved concrete. Park the cars in unique arrangements to show them off and such
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04-16-2015, 01:47 AM
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SCVD won't give me my $1800 if I use artificial grass or concrete. Has to be native plants covering a certain percentage of the area and surface must allow water penetration as they're trying to avoid water runoff. Recharging the aquifers and attracting native species of bugs, birds lizards etc.
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Have you been to the water smart demonstration garden on the corner of Bascom and San Carlos? They have examples of the native plants you can use and you can get a good idea of what you may like and what works well with each other.
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This one?
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3235...U9FdTqMTGA!2e0
Yeah, my wife and I have taken lots of notes and pictures of various local landscaping projects and we have a really good idea of what we want to do. I'm not a huge fan of the bark because we have some huge trees that will make that a nightmare to keep clean every Fall. I'm leaning more towards rocks - easy to blow the leaves out.
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