I've been studying this for a while. I think many city people have a different view of their lawn than suburbanites.
In suburbia it's all about having a lush, thick, uber healthy green lawn. In the city, its a combo of having a lawn healthy enough not to embarrass you....yet not so healthy that you need to mow it more than once a week.
So, this year I dethatched my grass and then laid down a dandelion killing fertilizer. I thought that in a week or so, I'd water. This would keep my lawn marginally healthy and dandelion free....yet not so nurished it would grow too fast.
You can imagine the mixed feeling that I am having watching a nice, unexpected, sinking rain come down over my freshly fertilized lawn this morning. Gasp, my lawn might be too healthy this year.
Someone needs to invent a grass hybrid that only grows 2" tall.
Saturday, April 29, 2006
The Lawn
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I am in the process of attempting to get rid of quite a bit of my front lawn to put in a garden. But I live in the 'country', technically, so that's okay. :)
I hate lawns. They are wastes of time and money, in my opinion! (But that's just my opinion, of course.)
That is how I see it most of the time. I don't want it to look too bad, but then I don't want to mow, or edge it, or water it. A lot of times I want to get a back-hoe and just get rid of it. Formal gardens all over. (Yes, I know, I would have to care for the garden, but not in fantasy, I don't)
you could just tether a goat out in the yard, then you'd never have to mow!
If it didn't mean scooping up goat poop and dealing with an onry animal when I wanted to use my backyard grill, I'd be all over that goat idea.
Yea, my garden is getting increasingly big each year. I don't mind mowing even with my reel mower, as long as I only have to do it once a week.
About the hybrid grass, they're not too far off on getting that done. Scotts has genetically engineered a glyphosate-resistant turfgrass, and there is a hormone that can be controlled for grass height.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/turf.html
2"? I'd be happy with 6" - that's the maximum that the city I live in will allow before it becomes a "nuisance". Of course, it'll be even longer before they actually do anything.
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