r/NoLawns

Hello, I live in Spain, near Barcelona and I bought this house

I would like to do a garden here, I like the meadow and wild style but you can't start,all garden is arround the house

I have sun all day but in winter is cold more or less 2°c at night. On summer is 30° c

Can you help me? Thank you so much!

Hi everyone. I have about 4 acres in south central PA. I have been working very hard to kill large portions of my lawn. I am on my second chip drop!
While I work, I have stopped mowing. My concern is that everything growing is an invasive, as I am surrounded by Amur Honeysuckle, garlic mustard, invasive grasses and probably 20 others I have yet to identify. Can anyone identify serious concerns? Can I leave anything? ID apps aren’t helpful as they just state “grass” or “dicot.” I’d love to let nature just take over, but I have a suspicion I’m setting my future self up for failure.

Thank you!

I’m just curious if anyone especially Arizona, has any clover yards. I just recently started one and it’s doing well for the most part. I currently have a sprinkler system up water it three times a day 18 minutes. I had no method when doing this. I just thought it’s going to be hot so I’ll let the water soak up and once established water less often.

Here’s my issue. My lawn currently looks like this (photo in post. The sun shade isn’t up it was temporary). Really good deep green with some patches. Nothing bad. I started watering once a day for 20 minutes. And then I noticed that the clover was drying up and just brittle and dead.

Okay here’s my questions
How do I know once my clover is more established?
How often should I water it?
Am I missing something?
Is there a better clover to plant vs micro clover and white Dutch ones mixed?
My grandma wants me to do this in her yard too. But she is deep in the desert with little to no shade from trees or even her own house. I feel like building her a retractable awning would benefit her a lot.

Hello hi! I’m out in western NC. My front yard came with no trees and was just gravel when I first moved in. I’m on year 3 and still no trees bc 🤑, but I did remove all the gravel. First 2 years I planted a shit ton of white clover and tried irrigating it to help it survive the brutal southern sun. My soil is full of granite and doesn’t drain well. I gave up on the clover and gave into letting weeds grow that will at least give some coverage to the bugs, but even the weeds dry out and die. There aren’t native cacti for my neck of the woods. I have multiple flower beds with good soil/compost full of natives that are also burning up despite being drought tolerant and irrigated. I’m trying to make the front of the house self sustainable but everything just kills over around May. Any suggestions for 400 square foot desert in the mountains? 🥲 pictured above some plantain and other weeds that are actively burning up

Currently in the process of letting nature overtake my lawn. I'm in Maryland zone 7b. I've overseeded microclovers and have also identified other plants like oxalis, black medic, dandelions, etc. that I plan on keeping as I've read that they're all better than turfgrass.

The only thing I plan on removing would be creeping charlies when it gets cooler.

I've also found the above plant growing throughout the yard and could use some help identifying it since I don't know if it's overall beneficial, or if it should be removed like the ground ivy. This plant grows upright, and has tiny leaves throughout the stem at ~2 weeks after germination. Appreciate the help 🫡

Front hill FKA lawn. We had the first hummingbirds of the year today!

Hudson Valley in New York State

White clover is absolutely thriving — nature’s own nitrogen fixer, quietly improving the soil while looking beautiful. Recently laid turf that needed a little help and wanted to try and create a beautiful wildflower lawn.

Also experimenting with daisies, self-heal, shady fescue mixes for the trickier corners, and ryegrass for the sunny high-traffic bits.

The dream is a lawn that feels like an old school playing field — clover, daisies, maybe some buttercups creeping in. And when life gets busy and the grass grows a little longer. That’s not neglect it’s the whole point 😁

Still figuring out the bare patches — debating a seaweed meal feed to help the grass fill out, or another go at getting self-heal established. Open to suggestions

Got mini clover seed from outside pride. This is the clovers second summer. Last summer it was great and up until now it’s been thriving. All of a sudden last week it started dying. Can’t tell what the problem is. My zone is 6b. Any thoughts?

Did my front lawn and strip along the road which is growing in even better. Back yard is still mostly grass but spread clover seed throughout hoping it helps by taking over. Zone 7

I hate lawns for ecological reasons and would love to switch to a wild lawn or something similar, however I am not sure where to start after reading some of wiki/side bar of the wiki. There are so many options but I was leaning of clovers because I have dogs. So Midwest, 5b

Here's a photo of my neighbor's yoda and lawn for an example

Location is Indianapolis, IN and zone 6b

Forgive me if this isn't the right place or flair, but I'm stumped on how to proceed with this lack-of-grass/mainly gravel yard. I decided last summer i didn't want the shrubs, so we removed them, but I'm stuck on what to do now. Going the no-lawn route i think is best. Any advice or tips is appreciated! For context, the previous owner used this area for parking.

Zone 6b, Canadian East Coast! My house sit on just under an acre. It is mostly lawn with some landscaping.

As I'm constantly adding beds/making them bigger, I don't want a hardscaping edge (rocks/metal/etc).

id like to get a trencher to help make clean garden bed edges. I have a edger shovel for maintenance, and my weed Wacker converts into a small edger but a electric edging tool will be a life saver for me (joint issues).

The picture is a big round bed. It was previously Tufts of sad grass, I cardboarded it, let it Solaris, dump tons of good compost / soil and the plants are thriving. The perennials are starting to pop up again after a long cold winter.

I want to make this backyard look more aesthetically pleasing and manageable for my mom.

I also have to maintain it mostly by myself, so I need something relatively low maintenance that can survive a little neglect.

The biggest issue is invasive ivy, especially poison ivy. I already rented a bobcat and stripped a lot of the yard down to clay, but everything eventually grew back. I think it’s because there’s still ivy around the crawlspace, under the deck, under the shed, etc.

I’m hesitant to use herbicides because there are some expensive plants back there already, including old Lenten roses. But if targeted herbicides are realistically the only option, I’m open to it.

The yard has heavy tree roots, a lot of shade, clay soil, and patchy grass.

What would you do if you wanted to improve this yard while spending as little money as possible?

Right now I’ve been considering:
- clover instead of trying to maintain a perfect lawn
- privacy bushes instead of replacing the fence
- mulch/woodland style landscaping
But I’m open to any ideas.

I haven’t quite lived here a year, but my goal is to remove the lawn & plant native. I’ve done the sheet mulch technique for a veggie garden in the back, and this is my recent sheet mulch section for the front. This is cardboard, compost, and mulch. However, our soil isn’t too bad in the front- just dry and a bit compact due to the lawn. Planted a tree a month ago in the soil and it’s doing well.

Can I get away with a thick 6” mulch over the summer instead of sheet mulch just to get rid of lawn? The whole, ripping tape, glue, and stickers off all my boxes and buying compost is such a process. I was hoping to sow seeds in fall for spring. I don’t know what kind of grass we have, but in the garden beds it’s not hard to manage. Willing to put in the effort, just didn’t know if I was doing more than necessary