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Re: [GWL]: rolling the lawn

Jeff,
I'm new here.  I thoroughly enjoyed your "well-written" account of lawn
rolling (isn't the writing part what we're about?) and showed it to my
husband who recognized himself and roared with laughter.
Linda Schaffner
Las Vegas area trade publication columnist

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@starband.net>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:37 PM
Subject: 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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