Does apartment bombing for cockroaches could have negative effect on paper?

[Wayne]

A sweetgum is totally worthless. It provides no shade, is only a part of an extensive root system producing more of its kind, scatters miserable prickly balls everywhere causing human feet to slip out from under the pedestrian, and if you cut down one of the miserable things, the wood cannot be split for firewood. Further they suck up the water and nutrient from an otherwise nice lawn, turning into eyesore dead land. As far as chewing the resin, Wrigley's has no need to fear of the competition.

Speaking of worthless, what is more worthless than a lawn? They're biological deserts that only serve to comfort feeble people who are afraid of native plant diversity and real wildlife like spiders insects and lizards and moles. People waste millions of hours per year mowing them and dumping toxic chemicals into them which then run off into rivers and lakes, then they spend millions of hours complaining about the neighbors who don't. I'll give $20 to any tree that can suck the nutrients out of another pointless lawn.

 

[Photo Engineer]

There are two types of sweetgum trees. We have one type in our yard and it is well behaved except for the prickly balls.

PE

 

[Old-N-Feeble]

Speaking of worthless, what is more worthless than a lawn? They're biological deserts that only serve to comfort feeble people who are afraid of native plant diversity and real wildlife like spiders insects and lizards and moles. People waste millions of hours per year mowing them and dumping toxic chemicals into them which then run off into rivers and lakes, then they spend millions of hours complaining about the neighbors who don't. I'll give $20 to any tree that can suck the nutrients out of another pointless lawn.

I agree. I moved to a rural area five years ago. Those who have built on and live on their property either mow their lawns often or at least occasionally. Then they have to feed and water constantly because we have very sandy soil here. I prefer the natural wildflowers. It irritates my neighbors that I won't mow my lawn until mid May or early June when the grass burrs begin to grow and most of the wildflowers are spent. I don't care. I didn't move here to live like I'm in the city. I'm also seeding indigenous wildflowers to replace what's been destroyed by previous owners. I have two acres with the house on the front .9 acres fenced off from the rear 1.1 acres. The rear half only gets mowed once per year when the tall grasses have turned brown in the dry summer heat and only then because it's a fire hazard.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Well, the "northern" sweet gum is a lovely shade tree with star shaped leaves. We use it for shade on the south east of our home. On the south west, we have a sophora japonica which is a litterbug. It drops huge pea type pods in late summer.

PE

 

[Photo Engineer]

These are deep green! Sorry. But I have those "things" all over the driveway.

PE

 

[Wayne]

With a nice lawn.

 

[Photo Engineer]

They are different.

There are two varieties of sweetgum!

PE

 

[StephenT]

Nothing wrong with skinks, but I hate sweetgums.

 

[winger]

Speaking of worthless, what is more worthless than a lawn? They're biological deserts that only serve to comfort feeble people who are afraid of native plant diversity and real wildlife like spiders insects and lizards and moles. People waste millions of hours per year mowing them and dumping toxic chemicals into them which then run off into rivers and lakes, then they spend millions of hours complaining about the neighbors who don't. I'll give $20 to any tree that can suck the nutrients out of another pointless lawn.

I completely agree!!!! We don't water ours or use weed killers, but we do mow it. And I grumble about it every single time. Grass on lawns is supposedly the most expensive non-useful crop in the USA.

 

[Diapositivo]

The Local council in Rome is, as you may know, quite in financial trouble. My local city park has seen a drastically reduced maintenance in the last couple years: now most of it is high spontanous grass. The result: swallows and house martins everywhere, butterflies again, and several new birds (which an English birdwatcher would classify as LBJ) yet to be identified. Frankly, it is so much better now than when it was just grass.

A garden can be kept in a beautiful state by allowing bushes and high grass to thrive, with some logic and aesthetic. Keep a part of it clear, and make of the rest of it a sanctuary for butterflies, birds, etc. The "all lawn" garden is a sad view deprived of life.

Yet, do remember to kill spiders when you see one!

 

[removed account4]

not sure if it will damage paper or film &c, but
if you ever read William S. Burroughs
you will realize that it might mess with your mind ...

 

[winger]

Might be, but it keeps up your property saleability and that of your neighbors, and keeps many teenage boys busy and out of trouble. Not keeping a nice lawn drives down the value of every other house in the neighborhood. Remember, most big city neighborhoods are already grossly upside-down in their tax value already, especially in the full-appraisal states. It's only a half acre, for pete's sake.
You wanna know the biggest waste of acreage that is the worst eyesore of them all? A golf course. They ought to plow up every dadgum one of them and put a cornfield there.

No teenage boys in this house, yet. As soon as the little guy's feet can reach the pedals, he'll be driving the Deere. And it's 2 acres here - all mowable green stuff. I can't call it grass 'cause most of it is weeds.

 

[jvo]

lima beans!!!!