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the grass is always greenerJan 15 '00 Write an essay on this topic.The question raised here by Epinions completely ignores another possibility. Maybe maintaining lush green grass (or as the marketers of the herbicides, pesticides, and $2000 riding mowers so euphemistically call it, “turf management”) isn’t necessarily a good thing. The only kind of mowers included in the Epinions database are power mowers. Non-powered push mowers (like the one I use in my yard) don’t even rate a category. It’s just assumed that a wide, lush swath of green grass is the only type of ground cover for a yard. Think about it for a minute. Life is short. Time is precious. Time spent fertilizing your lawn, applying herbicides and pesticides, and riding around on it on a John Deere riding mower that costs more than the per capita income of three-quarters of the world’s nations is time that you didn’t spend playing catch with your kid, cooking a gourmet meal, or giving your significant other a hot-oil foot rub. It’s your choice. Would you really rather spend that time trying to cultivate the perfect crop of Kentucky Bluegrass? There is hope. When I bought my house eight years ago and the biotech revolution was just starting to heat up I mentioned to my wife that someday some brilliant bio-engineer would develop a slow-growing short variety of grass so that people who can imagine no form of ground cover other than grass wouldn’t have to waste their time out mowing the lawn. Varieties like that are just now being developed and reaching the market. I have my doubts about the wisdom of genetically engineered foods but I hope that whoever invented the new varieties of grass becomes richer than Bill Gates. Herbicides and pesticides pollute the water that runs off into streams and rivers and lakes that end up choked in cattails because all the other species die. The water then goes downriver only to be introduced into some other town’s drinking water intake valves. Bad as these two are, the really stupid one is fertilizer. Boy, I’m not spending enough time mowing my lawn. I’ll fertilize it so it can grow faster so I can spend more time mowing it. I just hate those foot rubs. The question as posed by Epinions: Growing and maintaining lush, green grass takes time and effort. Share your thoughts on the essential tools and techniques for maintaining a healthy lawn.  |
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