So whose bright idea...

[kylinn]

... was this 'grass' stuff anyway?



Hopefully anticipating GE grass that grows to a set length and then stops, by god!

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[dglenn.livejournal.com]

That and related questions are answered in a more-interesting-than-its-title-sounds book, The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession, by Virginia Scott Jenkins. Google tells me it's available from eBooks.com and Amazon.com, but at the moment a routing glitch seems to be preventing me from connecting to either site. (I think I got my copy, years ago, through Science News.)

The individuals responsible are beyond the reach of retribution from the living who spend money and sweat cultivating grass today, but some of the corporations are still around to kick ...

(If my books were on shelves, I'd offer to lend my copy. Alas, most of my books are in a very-bad-place-for-books -- boxes stacked in a musty basement. I've no idea which box that one's in.)

[djfiggy.livejournal.com]

You may as well plant a bunch of mint, so it releases a pleasant smell whenever you mow it. :P

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Now I'm all curious about lawns, as per dglenn above.

Ack lawnwork.