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Big Lawn, No Lawnmower

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One of those "make it say what you want to say" statistics. Does it list sources? Does it say how this figure was arrived at? Does it explain the methodology (of course it doesn't have to if it points to someplace else that does)? Average lawn size for *what*? All homes? All homes with turf? All homes with turf that are not the standard 1/4 to 1/5 acre lots that make up 75 percent of all of the single family home sites in this city of 1.5 million people I live in? Or maybe all homes on lots larger than an acre ? If it's the latter, I can agree, since most such sites have at least a third of their area in turf (at least in areas where it rains).
 
In other words: you're right. This does not at all seem reasonable.
 
Len
-----Original Message-----
From: gardenwriters-admin@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:gardenwriters-admin@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Claudia Groth
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 1:14 PM
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [GWL] Lawn Size

I recently came across an article (Journal of Turfgrass Management 1995) that claims that the average lawn size in the US is one-third of an acre or a shade under 15,000 sq. ft.

 

I’ve lived in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, California, and Oregon, certainly not a definitive sampling of our fifty-state union. However, 15,000 sq. ft. seems wildly high to me.

 

Does this seem reasonable to others?

 

Claudia Groth

 

 

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