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Anti Lawn Action (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by Napain@lemmy.ml to c/memes@slrpnk.net

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[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not an 18th century lawn, that's a 1950s pesticide lawn. Lawns used to be mostly clover which doesn't need to be fertilized and requires much much less water. When modern pesticide was invented they couldn't keep it from killing clover, so what did they do? They started a massive advertising propaganda smear campaign to rebrand clover as a weed. Modern lawns are not an outdated concept from the 18th century, it's a result of modern capitalist greed.

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

is this true?

edit: wikipedia seems to imply, that both were used

an inventory list from the 17th century noted supplies of clover and grass seed from England. New colonists were even urged by their country and companies to bring grass seed with them to North America. By the late 17th century, a new market in imported grass seed had begun in New England

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Yes, it was a mixture. I didn't mean to imply it was pure clover, that was a mistake.