Comments on: I Hate Your Lawn

By: scentedfoliage

scentedfoliage — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:23:04 +0000

Go figure, a bunch of LA people arguing about how to watse more of N. California’s water. It makes me sad to see it going on again.
Turf management is an industry like any other that wants to sell equipement, chemicals, and services. Admit it, have you are been duped?
Please do what you can to reduce and recycle the amount of water used. Try scented ground covers, they use less water used and they smell great! sf:)

By: Matthew Fleischer

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:50:07 +0000

Trust me, I have a laundry list of envies, but lawn envy isn’t on there. Garden gnome envy, maybe.

By: Caitlin Kelly

Caitlin Kelly — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:37:46 +0000

My balcony kicks your lawn’s butt.

By: andreaitis

andreaitis — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:27:30 +0000

Is that what this is really about? Lawn envy disguised as environmental superiority?

By: Matthew Fleischer

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:02:33 +0000

You are so breaking rocks in Mongolia for that one if I ever lead a successful Maoist coup in this country.

By: Jod Kaftan

Jod Kaftan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:53:49 +0000

At least I have a lawn, Fleischer

By: Matthew Fleischer

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:27:33 +0000

When I was with the LA CityBeat I was planning to write a cover story called “Fuck Golf.” Unfortunately the paper went out of business before I could finish the piece. But God, do I hate golf.

By: swainchampagne

swainchampagne — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:48:46 +0000

Don’t get me started on cemeteries and the water wasted on those lawns. That could be a whole other rant. The oldest cemetery in LA is now barren on one side and flooded on the other because it’s full and there is no money to keep it up and their watering system is broken. It’s disgraceful. We need natural cemeteries that are like open space not golf courses.

By: Thomas Medlicott

Thomas Medlicott — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:03:04 +0000

I just Facebooked your article. I’m new to it so I only have four friends. The LA Times recently profiled some guy who has a small succulent garden in Culver City. All indigenous plants, this guy barely waters and he has ground cover and much beauty. Palm Springs has 125 golf courses! SoCal is almost all desert and there are plenty of varieties of natural vegetation to drastically reduce the use of water. Then there are those fake lawns – they must make the Earth feel like it’s wearing a wig. Tom Medlicott

By: Matthew Fleischer

Matthew Fleischer — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:00:21 +0000

According to the L.A. Times, 10 percent of water usage in Southern California goes to people’s lawns. That number is higher in Los Angeles County though, because unlike Orange County, for example, we use very little reclaimed water for landscaping. Some public land is irrigated with reclaimed water, but the majority of landscaping in L.A. is done with drinking water.

That all said, you’re right, agriculture accounts for 80 percent of water usage in So Cal. We shouldn’t be growing rice. I could just as easily go on a rice rant.