{"id":143330,"date":"2024-04-04T19:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-need-to-accept-the-weeds-dutch-towns-compete-to-remove-the-most-garden-paving\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T19:41:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T12:41:43","slug":"we-need-to-accept-the-weeds-dutch-towns-compete-to-remove-the-most-garden-paving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/we-need-to-accept-the-weeds-dutch-towns-compete-to-remove-the-most-garden-paving\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need to accept the weeds\u2019: Dutch towns compete to remove the most garden paving"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe national \u2018tile whipping\u2019 contest is helping the Netherlands to reach its environmental targetsTineke Menalda sits in the sun on her front step, nursing a cup of coffee and idly plucking out the odd weed. Three years ago, the front of her terraced house in Amersfoort was completely paved. But now, sitting in a lush garden of trees and green, she\u2019s an official ambassador for the strangest new sport in the Netherlands: tegelwippen, \u201ctile whipping\u201d, or \u201cwhipping away\u201d the paving stones.\u201cA lot of people think that tiles are easier, but actually when you have larger trees, you get very few weeds underneath them and you can make it really easy,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen I had paving I would never sit here, but now it\u2019s a garden, it\u2019s cooler in summer and in the spring, it\u2019s lovely.\u201d Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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