
but as it turns out it isn't, it's already started to decay, resulting in ugly:

need more options to make nice looking gardens. some kind of permanent "Stomp to Dirt"ing at least would be nice.
here is an excerpt from a book that might help my cause:
Crop Protection in Medieval Agriculture wrote:Medieval pesticides were all natural products. If processed, the processing was done on the estate or farm. Among the abiotic substances were sulphur, pitch, and ashes, substances still in use today.
we have at least two of these in the game already. you could simply add an option to landscaping called "Treat Soil" that uses ash/tar and stops or slows grass spread on stomped dirt, maybe even on plowed land, if the engine allows for it.
otherwise you could perhaps make more variants of player-made terrain, like pebble-enclosed dirt as seen here:
