"Hell Strip" is the colloquial term for the section of grass in city or suburban neighborhoods between the sidewalk and the road. Depending upon one's region, it's also known by many other names, including a median strip, a parking strip, a tree lawn, a terrace, a boulevard, etc.jessehurlburt said:
Almost no matter where you live, though, it's a tough area to grow desirable plants, with issues from compaction, wildly varying temperatures due to proximity to pavement, poor soil, poor or no irrigation, pedestrian traffic, dog traffic, public works construction, ... The list of complications goes on and on.
In short, it tends to be a very difficult (hellish?) place to grow a lawn.
The good news is that we don't have one (no sidewalk) but without the sidewalk, we lack a clear border between lawn and road (other than the road pavement itself) but we're working on that this fall...
