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RE: [GWL]: rolling the lawn

About 50% of American home landscapes are managed by the woman of the house.
Tell your wife to read what I said and if she still wants to roll the lawn
then so be it.  You will always have a lawn in stress.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Bush [g*@otherside.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 4:34 AM
To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
Subject: Re: [GWL]: rolling the lawn

Hello Jeff,
    Curious here.... all the references to men and their behavior in your
advice about lawn rolling. Do you have some figures to quote on males versus
females in lawn care and maintaince? Or, perhaps a bit of male-bashing for
humor and some color? I have three acres of grass to maintain here and I am
the last one to want fertilizers, weed killers, pesticides, lawn rollers or
anything that smacks of more labor for me. My wife, however, is very much
into the appearance of the lawn. She is the one who wants the lawn roller,
everything else on the long list of 'things to do to the lawn". Personally,
I would settle for anything reasonably green.
    When this man does his spring thing it certainly is not rolling the
lawn......
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
www.munchkinnursery.com
Southern Indiana     Zone 6

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@starband.net>
Subject: RE: [GWL]: rolling the lawn
snip.....

> Men need to have a nice flat smooth surface on their lawns and therefore
the
> roller was invented, probably in the early 12th century (grin).  Rolling
> works best when the soil is still wet and malleable.  So that is when men
do
> their spring thing.  What they are really doing is compacting the soil so
> badly that the lawn is going to be growing in major stress for the rest of
> the entire season.  The roots are not likely to get more than 2 inches
deep
> and they want 4 to 6 inches at least.  There is little air space left and
> thus there is poor drainage, especially if your soil is clay.  But the man
> is happy.  He never makes the connection between his good rolling job and
> all the problems with insects and disease that he has later in the season.
> Man rolls his lawn mostly because that is what his father did, and his
> father before him; ah tradition.
snip......> Jeff Ball

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