>>806927A lawn should be filled with as much biodiversity as possible. It doesn't need to be waist high or anything, but everything underfoot should be very biodiverse. Monocropping your lawn is just as bad as monocropping your vegetable garden or flower garden, (e.g. it will look like sculptured shit when monocropped.)
>>806896>>806762>>806772Leaves self terminate where they attach to the plant. Cutting them off is a no-no. Snapping them off at that stem-leaf junction is recommended. Burying them is fine. Keep in mind that if you are burying the potato/tomato stems and you are removing the leaves, allow 2 days for the wounds to seal properly before you bury them. This will help prevent infection caused by soil on the wounds and help deter insects and isopods from causing damage.
>>806712>>806733That has nothing to do with hippies or neo-hippies. Biodiversity in lawn care helps to ensure lawn longevity. It can better survive during harsh conditions like drought, high heat, freezing temperatures, a plethora of lawn-killing insects, fungi, and has little to no thatch buildup. Because of a biodiverse lawn's robustness and tenacious no-kill attitude, you only need to mow it. You don't need to water it, feed it, spray it with pesticides/herbicides, or spend time dethatching, reseeding, and tearing out "weeds" by hand. It can also readily give you food crops as well, mostly as edible greens, but also seeds/rhizomes/tubers/corms depending on where you live and what is growing.
