Having a neatly mown, green lawn was an English thing in the 1700s-1800s.Don't even get me started on how much water is wasted by HOAs with their silly rules requiring lawns be watered.Old tech may be simpler and thus more reliable, but imagine 100 million households using an extra 20-25 gallons of water per wash load than they need to. That's 2.5 billion gallons of water saved per load cycle. Could be 150 billion per year. That's a big deal, especially in the western US where water is often scarce. Using more efficient washers and toilets can reduce water usage by 10-20% in a typical home.
Rain is plentiful in England and they did not then have the long droughts we have been experiencing more recently (in southern England).
If your lawn was tidy and mowed, that meant:
- you had enough sheep to keep it so
and/OR
- you could afford servants to cut it with scythes (mowing machines only date from the 19th C, from memory - the lawnmower invented by ... an Englishman)
So it's an English social class thing, dating from over 100 years ago, that has transferred to our former colony. Proof that you are a "gentleman" ie rich enough to employ servants.
Did you know "Kentucky Bluegrass" is actually an imported species, not native to North America? I did not.
Statistics: Posted by Valuethinker — Thu Nov 28, 2024 7:33 am