my problem is people think they're going to save money by spending $400 on gardening supplies to grow $8 worth of tomatoes.

Yep cities r weird, all that wasted water on grass that not even animals get to eat. Then they pay to haul away the useless grass that they ise gas or coal to cut every week.

Originally posted by kingjames488:

have gardens in the front yard?!

blows my mind how these micro-governments and HOAs try to crack down on people for having gardens and growing food!

what's wrong with having a garden instead of a lawn? would it bother you if someones lawn was a garden instead?

Could be to promote sales for local vendors, to make sure they sell it, they need the trade, depend on it.

Could be to prevent them from growing or hinder the growth of illicit substance.

Originally posted by abdominusrex696969:

my problem is people think they're going to save money by spending $400 on gardening supplies to grow $8 worth of tomatoes.

Yeah.... I've never made a profit gardening. And yields were often disappointing on anything but crops I don't like much, such as tomatoes.

City people can have gardens in their yard. As long as your property is big enough to support it.

Another weird thing is people go to the bathroom inside their house. Then use drinking water to move it away and it gets buries in landfill instead of recycled.

If you think about it going to br inside a house is gross actually

Victory gardens made too much sense. You need them to know down to their core that their place is to be human honeybees, cattle who are totally dependent on forces outside their awareness and control. No community gardens, no gardens period. What, do you want them to think it's their place to be doing that, when they could be mindlessly consuming? No, tell them it is their right, they earned their consumption by doing as they were told. They will know this as a child does, and obey the unseen Father-Mother of "The City". Do you want them to feel any security at all, or do you want them to think food magically appears in the grocery store? Do you want them to be able to hold the fruits of their labor in their own hands and feel their own agency, or do you want grey human livestock who know only eternal dependency? Who you can maim and drain, and if necessary kill them all whenever by just sealing them in the city.

Front yards are typically along sidewalks where inconsiderate dog walkers let their dogs poop without doing the baggie thing, or close to the road, where garden plants would get exhaust blown on them. Not to mention rubber particles from tires.

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Front yards are typically along sidewalks where inconsiderate dog walkers let their dogs poop without doing the baggie thing, or close to the road, where garden plants would get exhaust blown on them.

Imagine if someone grew a fruit tree. It would drop all over the sidewalk! Ew! Not allowed!

In soviet states, homeless people will happily fertilize your garden, as well as your sidewalk.

Other city people would steal that garden produce. Needs to be in the backyard, inside a fence, for the gardener to benefit from it.

Originally posted by Grendalcat:

Other city people would steal that garden produce. Needs to be in the backyard, inside a fence, for the gardener to benefit from it.

Low trust parasite society. A problem to be fixed, not avoided and condoned. With enough abundance it would be commonplace for people to give food away because they couldn't store or use it all themselves, depending on climate.

The BETTER question would be... "Why aren't they allowed to have orgies in public?" Why? THINK about that.

Originally posted by Acetyl:

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

Front yards are typically along sidewalks where inconsiderate dog walkers let their dogs poop without doing the baggie thing, or close to the road, where garden plants would get exhaust blown on them.

Imagine if someone grew a fruit tree. It would drop all over the sidewalk! Ew! Not allowed!

Well, the fruits could attract rodents, the roots could cause damage to infrastructure (like the sidewalk), and they take more water on average than normal trees too. Not really an issue if you're living in a rural area, or a park with plenty of open space. But in the suburbs people have a right to a sidewalk to leave their house.

It kind of makes sense why an HOA would limit trees specifically. Because they will eventually grow outside the scope of your property and could damage other people's property. This is one of those rare cases where an HOA could actually be considered in the right. Where as normally they're telling you what colours you can and can't use to paint your house, when it is your property and you should be allowed to do whatever you want with your property.

Originally posted by Grendalcat:

Other city people would steal that garden produce. Needs to be in the backyard, inside a fence, for the gardener to benefit from it.

Not really the case. The HOA doesn't want your entire lawn being a full blown garden because it devalues the neighbourhood as a collective whole. It's the same reason they demand you cut your lawn regularly and don't paint your house certain colours.