Re: OT:Lawn Blame Game (was herbicides)

I thought that the fixation with a "flawless"
lawn came from watching the Cleveland Indians
play at Jacob's Field.  MTV the people that make
a lot of lawn care equipment have advertisments
about how to make your lawn look like Jacob's
field.  Generally behave like you are at the ball
park and use their equipment.

There is no question that the grass at Jacob's
Field is beautiful.  It is a "perscription" turf
grown on what might be call a hydrophonic medium
(Like the football field at The Ohio State
University Stadium).  However, it is there not as
a lawn but is a playing surface for baseball and
should not be thought of as a model for a
suburban lawn.  I think that the same hold for
golf courses, they are also playing surfaces for
a game not a proper model for a suburban lawn.

I keep the noxious weeds out of my lawn with an
occasional (and I do mean occasional, a quart of
the dilute product will last me a year or more)
squirt of "Weedbegon" and a few hours with a
dandilion digger.  Beyond that it is every plant
for itself as I run the mower on a regular basis.
 As I mow I always  plan how much to till up for
more iris, daylillies etc. next year.  Does my
lawn look like Jacob's field, no.  Does it look
as good at the neighbors who spend big bucks for
"Cemlawn" etc. no, but pretty close and I don't
have those little signs that say walking on this
grass may be hazardous to your health.

Bob


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> From: Jeff and Carolyn Walters
<cwalters@digitalpla.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list
<iris-l@rt66.com>
> Subject: OT:Lawn Blame Game (was herbicides)
> Date: Saturday, March 28, 1998 1:19 PM
> 
> Celia Storey writes:
> > 
> > But I don't understand this fixation with a
"flawless" lawn.
> > Where does it come from? Is lawn another
dubious legacy of Capability
> Brown?
> 
> Celia,
> 
> I thought that Capability Brown exercised
considerable ingenuity and put
> his patrons to incredible expense in order to
create naturalistic
> landscapes. If you are looking for someone to
blame for designing
> "flawless" landscapes, perhaps you should cast
a glance at Andre Le Notre,
> Louis XIV's chief landscape architect. All
those endless geometrically
> trimmed and arranged allees of pleached trees,
etc. After all, "tapis vert"
> (green carpet) is obviously a French term.
> 
> Jeff Walters in northern Utah  (USDA Zone 4,
Sunset Zone 2)
> cwalters@digitalpla.net
> Snow coming down thicker and faster now
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