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Post by horsea on May 20, 2018 13:28:18 GMT -5
september. Folks who inherit or buy a piece of truly wonderful land - good drainage, loamy, unpolluted soil - do not know how lucky they are. Our land has every problem known to man. Except the polluted part. I think. It's a quite wild, isolated area a short distance from a national park and a goodly number of the people around here are what could be considered environmentally conscious.
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Post by september on May 20, 2018 15:43:41 GMT -5
horsea, I agree! We were in our late 20's when we bought this property, had no experience buying a house and afterwards found so many things wrong with shoddy construction, including a poorly designed septic system and heating system, water pump and pipes in an unheated attached garage (never in Minnesota!) as well as just poor workmanship and design. But at the time we thought it was great -- until we lived in it for a while when winter came! As well as being inexperienced buyers, we were not that fixated on the house at the time, we just wanted more land (16 acres of mostly woods) for my horses, and access to a good fishing lake. We had no close neighbors, just two slowly dying old time resorts some ways away on both sides of us. Now both resorts have been divided up into small lots and we have high end expensive homes on both sides of us, we are the poor folk of the neighborhood! Luckily we are buffered by the swamp to our north. Our lake is relatively unpolluted, but it's difficult for our lake association to convince people they don't need fertilized green lawns like city folk, and should be leaving native plant buffer zones close to the water, instead of grass all the way to the lake. Progress seems slow, but it's happening.
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Post by paquebot on May 20, 2018 20:56:18 GMT -5
I'm not worried about what residential lawn services use. They must use herbacides which break down quick. They also can't use something which will affect a neighboring lawn due to litigation. Three of my neighbors have used them at one time or another. I have always grown tomatoes almost on the property lines with no damage. I used to get all of the clippings from 2 of them.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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