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Old 02-26-2025, 01:32 PM
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Plant trees to block the sun and get their evaporation cooling effect. Put stone or low growing plants in a circle a LARGE circle around the trees. Widen your driveway as much as allowed. Both of these strategies give you less grass to mow and fertilize. If it were me, I would get a small riding lawnmower or a push electric one to cut my own grass. If my neighbors were LOUD, I would soundproof a TV room so that I could avoid their noise. I would also plant fast growing plants like podocarpus on my sides or back to block noise and also put stones or low growing plants to cut down further on the area to be mowed. The grass in Florida are all ugly and not as soft as northern grass AND besides mowing they require a lot of expensive watering.