City of Calgary Community Maintenance

[fotze2]

I don't know about you losers, but my neighborhood of Upper Mounty looks pretty goddamn nice. Study more in school, you'll get a better neighborhood.

Also, why in the hell was there ever grass next to roads, has that ever worked? Good thing you are laying sod next to the Ring Road.

[Wormius]

Need some car flipping boulders instead of grass or mulch.

#RIPSageHillRock

[Bigtime]

I've heard rocks and stones aren't great as they can add to a heat island effect.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by GGG

You top up mulch every year. A bag or two for a flower bed and keep up on spraying then pulling weeds. Mulch doesn’t have to look like #### and it’s far easier to keep up with than grass. I think the problem is people who hate yard work do to mulch and think it’s zero rather than low maintenance

Problem is anybody who goes the mulch route does so because it's easy and cheap. A guy with that mindset absolutely does not keep up with it like they should. And even if they do, the older mulch eventually breaks down and weeds start growing out of it. It's just a really bad product.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Bigtime

I've heard rocks and stones aren't great as they can add to a heat island effect.

That's a good point. A rock base is good, but you should sprinkle in hardy local shrubbery to keep things looking pleasant/alive and to reduce the heat effect.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Problem is anybody who goes the mulch route does so because it's easy and cheap. A guy with that mindset absolutely does not keep up with it like they should. And even if they do, the older mulch eventually breaks down and weeds start growing out of it. It's just a really bad product.

There's lots of different types of mulches out there, including stone. Depending on the right location / site and the city's maintenance plan for it, it could be just fine.

[btimbit]

I put landscape fabric under my mulch and get maybe one or two weeds a year through the holes I cut for other plants. No maintenance flower bed other than topping it up every year or two