This is also about gardening, but on a frugal level.

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2. Sincere kudos to you. I suppose the less grass the better, in certain ways. But!

I still want some, and it beats the heck out of weeds. I just don't want to be out too much in maintenance or make my carbon footprint any heavier than it has to be.

My own little 1/4 acre is heavily landscaped with an eye to food production and wildlife habitat. Neighborhood eyebrows have also been raised over my preference for letting creeping charlie run riot. I think it's absolutely beautiful and besides, after a thorough soaking, it pulls up easily from places it doesn't belong. One of my raised bed rose gardens has a groundcover of strawberries, too. Did you know that rose hips supply a lot of vitamin C and that you can make rose petal jelly? If everything's organic of course.