Kill Your Lawn Instructional (Feedback Appreciated)

Jonathan, that's the best link I've opened all month. Since people aren't engaging their brains when joining the Herbicide Cult of Saint Gus. "Water me! Mow me! Feed me! Mow! Poooison! Mow!" - I figure St. Gus grass must be paradoxically neurotoxic/addictive or something.

None that I know of but I’ll look into it. Thank you for the help!

Wifket

Agreed. Depends on who you’re trying to influence/inspire, I guess

Rebecca Hunter

If you don't have an HOA then you can do whatever you want with those things. If you do have an HOA you might have to check in with their architectural/design committee to get things approved without being fined. But in the end, HOAs in Texas can't really stop you from xeriscaping or similar: https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/property-code/prop-sect-202-007.html.

Thank you Joey for you and everything you do. Outside of tarping, immediate lawn desecration is appreciated. Quick question if you would to you and anyone else who is familiar with 'Tejas' law, can I legally kill the depressing strips of median grasses between sidewalks and neighborhood streets? Hasn’t stopped me, just hoping to expand. Thanks again.

Wifket

I've killed a lawn with a sod cutter. It was hard work but that fucking grass is gone. Good video but I wish it had showed the all plants in place at the end.

Cody Luther

Bought a house in CO in March. It came with a sprinkler system, but I ripped the heart out. The front yard was already fucked, so to prep it for larger scale veg planting next year, I seeded with Daikon and tossed in a few different kinds of squash. It's rocking out and aside from a few Karen sneers the rest of the neighborhood doesn't seem to give a shit The Daikon is a great addition though, especially for hard packed soil that needs improvement in drainage. Those Daikon don't give a damn and will push right through hard pack, so long as you give it a little water here and there.

Uncanny Valley Woods

Kill your Lawn and Plant a Food & Herb Garden _ Very Good Video with common sense conclusions.

Beautiful.

Cat Esposito

So I've got a mountain of chips/bark, which goes over the top of all that cardboard. Underneath the first sections I did back in April, there's no more grass, tons of worms, and the soil is dark and crumbly. And the hardest part of it is deciding what I'm going to plant in that nice, healthy soil.

Harmless Weirdo

I'm taking the sheet mulch approach because in my old neighborhood everybody buys their entire lives from Amazon, and thus they toss out a shitton of cardboard boxes. I cruise through every other week before recycling pickup, and fill my car, before going home to spend a few days peeling off tape and labels and spreading the flattened boxes over the next doomed section of lawn. I've flagged down a couple of tree crews out on jobs, and had them dump their loads at my place at the end of the day.

Harmless Weirdo

The intro was hilarious! I loved it.But why rent a gas guzzling piece of equipment to kill your sod? Sheet mulching is an easier way to go. You just need a bit of patience.

Carol Brown

i always like it when you dig into what lawns represent. if you feel like it, expand on how the raping of native habitats relates to the lack of health and spiritual fulfillment in our societal cesspool

remarkably irritating and uncomfortable intro. sure to repel anyone who isnt already on your side.

initfo

Great inspirational video we encourage lawn killing at my independent garden center everyday and offer all the natives to make it awesome keep it up. Wish my kill your lawn shirt was in that font at beginning of vid... you rock Joey

Colette Haskell

Love it

Dominique Frost

OK, I liked it. Good stuff, although my experience with sod is that it ain't going to die in 3 days! It will come back up around all the edges. Could be wrong, never used a sod cutter. My big question is on design . So say you are doing the lawn you showed in the video. How do you make it look nisa nisa? (thats Greek) Do you line the native plants up in rows like I did in my front (Looks boring)? Do you clump them together in groups of like species? Do you create some topography? Short in front, tall in back? What about a water feature? What's an insect beneficial water feature? Birdbath? What I would be looking for is to make my neighbors either jealous or ashamed that they have lawns, not angry because of my messy looking yard. I am thinking to re-arrange my front using the clumping technique.

Edward F

Great instruction, superb introduction. I love all the ways we can kill lawn. Sometimes I just plant strait into it!

Lucas O'Neil

Great content that people need to hear! I just did this in my yard with a shovel like a sucker!

Where I live about the only thing you can rent for $20 is a couple of beers. Not helpful, I know, but thanks for showing me how sod murder is done. Now I'll get back to f*****g myself, which is more fun than it has any right to be.

Inspirational content. Much appreciated.

Have you looked into the cardboard method for killing the grass?

Trixi

Did this about seven years ago, mostly by just moving the dirt around to regrade the property, and couldn't be happier. I live in a garden surrounded by bees and butterflies.

Eric Filson

Also perfectly timed. We just bought a house with lots of lawn. I know it's gotta go, but for Various Reasons it will be there for a season or two. But now I know how to do it!

Great content, would love to see more instructional stuff like this. Short but sweet.

Nice! ended kind of abruptly, tho. No go fuck yourself or anything. edit: oh shit, yes there was - it was just so fast I missed it.

Just in the Nick of time for me! I have started the process with a useless patch behind my garage. I plan on redoing my entire backyard, different sections each summer. Love you Joey, your pal Fuzzy ♥️

Michele Plumley