Re: Covenants (was bottle trees) (warning--gets ranty by the end)

In a message dated 2/17/02 8:23:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
karen.tiede@eds.com writes:

<< Take back your front yard!  And don't support those nasty covenants by
 buying houses in those subdivisions!
 
 It's Sunday.  There's my sermon.  But y'all are the choir... >>

Good advice.

There were tomato plants on those front lawns when victory gardens were 
patriotic. Sometimes the only sunny site you will have is on the front lawn.  
I  would, heaven forbid, advocate messing up the suburbs but nowhere else in 
the world  will you find lawn sacred.

You will not find setbacks and line allowances to produce more lawn.  These 
rules are all over the country originating from early planners (Frederick L. 
Olmstead was one).  In the last town that I lived there was a fence ordinance 
that forbid fences in excess of four feet.  There was someone in town court 
over that repeatedly.

In my very rural and very small town, the decor surrounding houses is quite 
original, many old washers and the like.  I would much rather see gardens and 
appreciation of the land.  Any kind of garden.

While we have many very diverse suppliers now and plenty of resources, 
especially online, we are still not a gardening nation.  While that is the 
case, it is not the mission of non-gardeners to cover the planet with Scott's 
everything.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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