Why I Will Never Take Care of My Lawn

Going against the grain

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I have never understood weeds. No, not that kind. The kind that people don’t want to grow, the kind that people uproot and poison to get rid of. The kind that they curse for spoiling their lawns. To me, a perfectly green lawn is boring. Where is the variety, the clover patches and dandelions and wild strawberries? As a kid, they made a lawn a lot more…