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Except the trees. Mix in some remedy and diesel and then you got it.






Or just get agent orange. I hear he's pretty good at this sort of thing.

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Why didn't you just help her out and mow it for her? You sound like a b

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You sent a man with a gun to threaten violence on a human being because you dont understand property rights.

You sound cool.

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My (and my other neighbors') concern is mostly the type of trees/weeds growing there. The major problem is the ailanthus trees, which are an invasive/non-native, and almost impossible to get rid of once they get established. They will totally take over a yard.

http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/treeheaven.shtml

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A mutilated garter snake, a sliced frog and countless slashed grasshoppers. That was the scene of carnage in my yard in September, after local officials ordered me to mow my overgrown lawn or be fined $1,000. Three months earlier, I had stopped mowing my nearly one acre of country land outside of a rural Ohio town. A diverse potpourri of plants began to flourish, and a rich assortment of insects and animals followed. I had essentially grown a working ecosystem, one that had been waiting for the chance to emerge.
So this season, I took a stand and refused to mow at all.
In June, my partner and I received an official written warning from the trustee board of St. Albans Township, stating that our yard had become "a nuisance." Ohio law allows local governments to control any vegetation on private property that they deem a nuisance, after a seven-day warning to the property owners. But the law does not define what "a nuisance" is, effectively giving local leaders the power to remove whatever grass or plants offend them. In our case, the trustees decided that our lawn was too tall and thick and would attract "nuisance animals" such as "snakes and rodents." If we didn't cut it, they would hire someone to do so and bring law enforcement with them.

But the main point of growing a natural yard is to attract wildlife and build a self-regulating environment. The un-mowed plants in our yard attract plant-eating bugs and rodents, which in turn attract birds, bats, toads and garter snakes that eat them. Then hawks fly in to eat the snakes. Seeing all this life emerge in just one growing season made me realize just how much nature manicured lawns displace and disrupt.

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There are 40.5 million acres of lawn in the United States, more than double the size of the country's largest national forest. We disconnect ourselves from wildlife habitat loss by viewing it as a problem caused by industry and agriculture. But habitat loss isn't a problem happening out there somewhere; it's happening in our own back yards.

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Just like a damn liberal hippy to go whine to a government body about something that hurts their feelings. If it bothers you so damn much go mow it yourself. If not then MYOFB!

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