Hello, everyone.

This is Enta.

Did you know this?

You wouldn't know just by looking at it, would you?

It's not a swarm of locusts lol

This is a type of chipboard that was somewhat popular about 20 years ago.

It's that thing where you turn thinned-out wood and felled trees into wood chips and spray them to create greenery.

Actually, I was one of the first people in the country to implement this construction method—I oversaw the construction and even conducted the survey myself, lol (at Codrato).

To cut to the chase, it hasn't grown back!

After five years of research, we found that not even native species were growing there, and it wasn’t until about 15 years later that they finally began to sprout here and there. (The research lasted five years.)

There are mechanisms and reasons why it doesn't grow. (I won't go into that here, though lol.)

Even now, I wouldn't say that area has been fully landscaped, but I guess that's just how things were back then—it was the trend at the time, so I suppose it can't be helped.

That's what I thought, but recently I came across this sprayed chip coating at a site that's currently under construction.

I was like, "What?!"

Spray-on chips these days...

And on top of that, even though we know that landscaping costs money to maintain—and on a newly developed residential lot, no less?

Seriously?? If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to just lay down some grass??

That's what I think, lol

In the back left of the photo above, you can see a layer of sprayed vegetation substrate with well-established growth. Half of it consists of wood chips.

"What kind of experiment is this at this time of day?? lol"

And I doubt this chip spray will grow back for at least 10 years.

At this stage, the fertilizer has already been used up, and with no moisture left, it's dry and brittle.

It looked bad, and the workmanship left me wondering, “What was that all about?”

I'm not saying it's bad, but construction methods go in and out of style, and when they're outdated, they really stand out.

Besides, if it were a good construction method, that would be one thing...

Well, if we're talking about being eco-friendly and reusing things, I guess that's the way to go.

Are the times changing?

Will there ever be a time again when we spray with huge hoses, like 3-inch ones, like we used to??

See you later.