"Jangchub" wrote in message
On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:39:42 -0700 (PDT), Ablang
wrote:

I just read a good article in the Sacramento News & Review. It is
he

http://www.newsreview.com/reno/content?oid=970712

I was wondering (after reading that article) if there was any legal
restrictions to growing fruits, veggies, & other crops in one's front
yard in Sacramento County? What about eliminating a lawn in favor of
such ideas?

So what have you grown in favor of a green lawn?

Each house or development or area in the county may have deed
restrictions preventing this, but I couldn't imagine if you did a
nice, tidy garden people would most likely not complain. I have great
neighbors that way. They not only tolerate me, they never complained
once when my front garden went to pot when I couldn't garden for a few
years.

Interesting thread. I frequently visit what in Australia amounts to a city
(about 300,000 people). I do deliberate detours so that I can drive past
what I call in my head "ethnic gardens". I now know the locations of a lot
of them and can do a detour to any area I'm going to just to follow
progress.

These gardens are generally smallish blocks of about a quarter of an acre
and are owned by older Greek and Italian migrants who waste not an inch of
soil in growing food. Features of these gardens include: figs/walnuts and
fruit trees on the nature strip, pergolas covered with grapes (often near
the houe/over pathways or over a cantina in the back yard where the bulk
food preservation seems to go on). Every vegetable imaginable is grown for
whatever season it is and harvested and then replanted with whatever follows
for the coming season. I love these gardens as find them so much more
itneresting tht the houses around them with the more 'traditional' mix of
shrubs and flowers.

After 20 yeras of perving on these gardens I'm always upset when I realise
that the old people have moved on and their gloriously productive gardens
are destroyed by new owners who come in and do 'landscaping'.