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Alternate take, fix your 1/4 acre the natural way if you’re gonna be there a while.
Start a compost pile.
Aerate, plant clover, spread compost every year, plant a native tree or two and native plants underneath.
No need to till, just slowly amend.
I’m not planning on being here in four years so it doesn’t make sense to do anything that would make the house look “weird” and make it harder to sell.
My guy you’re complaining about a problem you’re part of the cause of then.
Trees are weird? A healthy lawn is weird?
Why complain if you have the environment you want 🤷
Because I want to make as much of a profit on this house as possible so I can move somewhere I can see the stars again
You're assuming that I want to stay in the suburbs when the least of my complaints is the lack of topsoil
Cool.
You complained about your yard being the way it is, it is the way it is because people don’t care enough to do differently. It’s not hard to fix it, compost is “free” and throwing some seeds down is very little work. Trees aren’t super expensive bought young and add value.
I assumed friendly advice on how to improve the conditions you were complaining about for relatively little effort would be beneficial, but here we are. Take care my dude.
And if I was planning on staying in a noisy, crowded suburb my entire life it would be appreciated. But I'm not, and most people don't care about this so spending my money redoing my bathrooms will have a better ROI so I can fuck off to a place where I'd gladly plant trees and spread wildflower seeds.
Also, it solves the least of my problems with this place. Now, if you told me to take a BB gun to all the streetlights causing light pollution then we'd be in business.
You should take a BB gun to all the streetlights.
Now we're talking