[Ntrails]

Buy a house without grass :)

[raydev]

How would you keep it from filling up with weeds in any reasonably grass-friendly climate?

I just pay someone $50/week to mow my lawn and I pay zero attention to it. If we have a mini-drought and the grass turns brown, oh well.

[grantith]

Kill your lawn and let the native plants take over.

[raydev]

I'd rather not get a bunch of ticks while walking to my door.

[satiric]

If you kill the lawn, won't the invasive plants take over?

[duskdozer]

Even if they were going to, you could just seed it with some native, low-growing "groundcover": clovers, fescues, whatever is in your area.

[asdff]

Actually illegal in a lot of the midwest I'm not even kidding.

[onecommentman]

And having a grass lawn is actually quite expensive (water) and borderline illegal/immoral (water) in the American Southwest. Having a grass lawn is only mandatory in a few gated communities with out-of-touch HOAs. We’ve gotten used to the xeriscaped look…blends well with the brown stucco/adobe exteriors. When you don’t have much green, it becomes a (cheap) accent color (e.g. shrubs, evergreen trees) rather an expensive-to-maintain background color (e.g. lawns).