Michigan Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail for Planting a Vegetable Garden
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I can understand growing a vegetable garden on your land. It just makes environmental and fiscal sense in your front yard as much as in the back.
But I can`t follow the reasoning behind forcing everyone to uniformly poison their land with fertilizers and pesticides or pollute the air with lawn mower exhaust and/or waste energy for purely aesthetic reasons. If this made sense regarding our land and air, then I suppose we should also poison and pollute our water for aesthetic reasons too. Its a good thing the lawn and garden industry hasn't expanded their propaganda into convincing people its a good idea to use their products to poison and pollute our lakes and rivers just like we use their products to poison and pollute the land so our rivers can look just as nice as our lawns of non-native grasses and our flower gardens of exotic plants.
Maybe we should start caring for the land, air and water in such a way that our efforts clean the land, air and water while restoring habitat lost to human encroachment rather than poison and pollute the environment for aesthetic reasons. Given the current man made mass extinction event, we should be trying to restore natural ecosystems, not destroy them for aesthetic purposes. Urban landscapes need not be toxic, destructive and contribute to habitat loss.
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But I can`t follow the reasoning behind forcing everyone to uniformly poison their land with fertilizers and pesticides or pollute the air with lawn mower exhaust and/or waste energy for purely aesthetic reasons. If this made sense regarding our land and air, then I suppose we should also poison and pollute our water for aesthetic reasons too. Its a good thing the lawn and garden industry hasn't expanded their propaganda into convincing people its a good idea to use their products to poison and pollute our lakes and rivers just like we use their products to poison and pollute the land so our rivers can look just as nice as our lawns of non-native grasses and our flower gardens of exotic plants.
Maybe we should start caring for the land, air and water in such a way that our efforts clean the land, air and water while restoring habitat lost to human encroachment rather than poison and pollute the environment for aesthetic reasons. Given the current man made mass extinction event, we should be trying to restore natural ecosystems, not destroy them for aesthetic purposes. Urban landscapes need not be toxic, destructive and contribute to habitat loss.
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Native plant gardening is a wonderful way to connect with nature and to improve your piece of the planet...
In Support of Native Plant Gardens
We love our lawns and gardens. Sadly, however, the average suburban lawn uses six times the hazardous chemicals per acre as conventional farming. Per hour of operation, a gas mower emits 10 times as much hydrocarbon as a car. Then, of course, there are the sprinkler systems that go off like clockwork, even when it’s raining. Want to make your lawn and garden more eco-friendly? Read on for tips on greener gardening.
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I'm all for foodscaping, but, I think her yard looks like crap.
When i do mine, the neighbours should not have any clue that the curved flower beds are holding anything more than perennial greenery. Strawberries make great ground cover. Chives are gorgeous accent plants. Tri coloured swiss chard is a great back drop plant. Rhubarb plants look gorgeous in a border. And assorted flowering herbs fill in the whole mess to gorgeously complete the look. I never got a single complaint about the zuccini plants being out front in the past. But, there are ways of doing it that still fall in with the conventional look of a front yard.
But, that's an issue of respect for my neighbours, not cowtowing to by-laws. I don't know what I'd do in this woman's position. But, I think I'd start with fixing the empty weed patch that's between the mulch and the street.
When i do mine, the neighbours should not have any clue that the curved flower beds are holding anything more than perennial greenery. Strawberries make great ground cover. Chives are gorgeous accent plants. Tri coloured swiss chard is a great back drop plant. Rhubarb plants look gorgeous in a border. And assorted flowering herbs fill in the whole mess to gorgeously complete the look. I never got a single complaint about the zuccini plants being out front in the past. But, there are ways of doing it that still fall in with the conventional look of a front yard.
But, that's an issue of respect for my neighbours, not cowtowing to by-laws. I don't know what I'd do in this woman's position. But, I think I'd start with fixing the empty weed patch that's between the mulch and the street.
I never seen a beautiful veg garden in June. Have you? How long do perennials take to grow from those little pots?
Give her a year.
It still loosks better than those subdivisions where you see a sliver of house and the rest is all driveway and garage.
It's not even really her neighbours raising the stink from what I understand. They only found one neighbour who seemed to have an issue with it, and no matter what you do, there will always be one neighbour who's not happy.
Actually, this is why so many communities object to veggie gardens - they attract more mice, rats, pigeons, or other birds into areas. These leave droppings, eat other vegetation from neighbors gardens, bite pets or children, and, of course, carry diseases. If a child or pet is bitten by a rabid rat or raccoon, there could be very serious consequences. This is what many communities want to avoid when they create this type of ordinance. Alternately, one could build an enclosed green house in the back yard so that one may have a utility garden while insuring protection from dangerous pests.
