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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You could do what I did:

  1. only buy a house in a place that has no HOA
  2. xeriscape the front, let most of the back just grow out wild, and keep a small patch of grass in an area where you like to chill (for me this is in a courtyard)
  3. use an old school push mower for this small patch. You get a little exercise with this, but not enough to ever stress ya, and it requires no gas, no oil, no electricity and barely ever any maintenance.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

let most of the back just grow out wild

This, but native plants instead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's exactly what grows out wild in my backyard here (which is against the edge of a greenbelt / drainage creek bed) - no intervention needed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

This sounds lovely