Landscaping Around Houses
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badjak
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I haven't had the pleasure
I grow things like plants & trees.
I love animals, but I rather someone else looks after them (except for my dogs of course, but even they go to the vet if something needs done with them)
SoCalZone10
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Not a farm person, but when I was growing up, my dad did let me have some tiny ducks and chickens. I can’t remember if we had anything else. My dad did want us not to know where things are from.
Barriehie
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Recall, never forget, turning unborn calves around so everybody lives!
Gone Hiking
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I can only imagine how hard it is to keep grass healthy in dry Nevada without constant watering. That kudzu is a foreign invasive curse on the East coast, as well. Good use of the trimmings to keep the unwanted at bay. We've had our own struggles fighting thistles in the back bed, which we think was due to the previous homeowner having a birdfeeder with thistle seeds. Nothing would kill them. We've since gone to placing river rock over heavy landscaping fabric around the whole house, and using mulch only in the flower beds. We probably have 80 tons or more of river rock now, and even have it around the shed. It's SO much easier to keep weeds in check, since you don't get a lot of growth through it, and what does can be pretty well controlled with herbicide.
Barriehie
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Five years ago when I left Las Vegas the water demand is such that you can't really have grass for a yard. The water co. paid you so much a square foot to take it out and go with desert landscaping. They've even got water police! They ride around and if you're say washing your car on the wrong day you'll get a big fine AND they turn your water off.
Lake Mead is seriously low. Literally it's almost a deadpool, the point where the water can't go through the dam anymore. There goes the power...
I'm glad I don't live anywhere near or in the area relying on the Colorado River Basin for survival. Too many people sucking it dry.
Gone Hiking
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Yep, pretty sure I'd go with nature out there and just let rocks and sand be my yard. My water bill is ridiculous enough when I have to water here! Not to mention, the water bill is directly tied to the sewer bill, unless you spend the money to install a separate water meter just for outdoor use.
SoCalZone10
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It seems like they keep building in LV. We know people sold their house and move to LV, I wonder what happens in the future, the no water part.
Gone Hiking
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It seems like a Pacific desalinization plant is needed to pump fresh water into the interior.
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Nope, but I'm definitely a country boy, not a Cityzen. My upbringing was definitely rural, close to the North Downs ( that English for mountains that are only 300 ft high), and it was nature, nature, nature most of my young life. There were a couple of farms close by, however, and we'd go and help out from time to time. Ankle deep in horseSurely I’m not the only one on the forum who’s had their arm shoulder-deep in a farm animal, à la All Creatures?! @badjak, @Barriehie, help me out here!
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no, you are not the only one.
I have delivered both calves and lambs
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LV is a net negative. That city/place produces nothing. Everything either comes in on a truck or gets pumped out of a lake that's drying up.
That place is going to become so expensive is how they'll "manage" the diminishing water. Fine by me if it all dries up, it's a dumb place to be for millions of people trying to live in a place that is only meant to support, cactus, coyotes, and rabbits. I D 10 T's