Comments on: %&$#! Tru-Green

By: Lynnette

Lynnette — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:52:16 +0000

I totally relate…my next door neighbor just had Chem-L@wn come (again) today. I can’t wait to be out of this house and not downhill from his, anymore. Other Neighbor, who organizes the “leaf vacuuming” curb service every fall, looks on with disgust, as we not only don’t rake our leaves, but mulch them up with our lawn mower. Next up for us, xeriscaping and an electric rechargeable mower…although the girls might miss the bunnies (”Hop!”) munching on weeds, I mean our lawn, here.

By: Pann

Pann — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:55:20 +0000

I so agree. It’s vile, this obsession with adding chemicals to lawns, and so pointless. My neighbor expends so much energy (his own, electrical, and gasoline) keeping his grass pristine. I am sure he uses different fertilizers.

My yard and garden, on the other hand, is alive with toads, newts, cicadas, birds and the occasional garter snake. I would never put poisons out there!

By: Emilin

Emilin — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:14:47 +0000

Around here, we just call it “poison,” as in “Oh, those neighbors poison their lawn” or “I’m so glad the city budget is too strapped to poison the grass at the park.” I hate it.

By: Dara Lee

Dara Lee — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:41:27 +0000

We have a saying here at our house (which comes from my Dad, who lives on a a farm and has an acre of lawn to mow): everything is green when it’s mowed.

Amazing that if you take the time to keep the lawn trimmed, even the weeds and quack grass look nice. And grass cycling (not bagging the clippings and letting them mulch back into the lawn) really helps keep it green. We haven’t watered all year and our yard looks pretty good.

By: marigold

marigold — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:04:39 +0000

it is humans’ obsession to control the way things look & behave. especially grass. some of these newer subdivisions have such strict rules about the way the lawns look. and they MUST all look uniform: edged, weeded, manicured, NEVER overgrown. sounds like a grass cult. because if you don’t adhere to the “grass code,” you get a warning, then a fine. thankfully, we live in the old part of town, but my poor mother-in-law has to deal w/this rhetoric in her newer neighborhood. grass is most beautiful when it’s longer & wild anyway!

By: Swistle

Swistle — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:49:35 +0000

I agree. I’ve heard people making critical remarks about people who don’t keep up their lawns, but….isn’t that OUTDOORS? And isn’t it just….GRASS? We do nothing to our grass except cut it, and once we put out some new grass seed for a bare patch but that didn’t even work. Putting poisons to kill “the wrong kind” of grass or to kill bugs….well.

By: Sandi

Sandi — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:11:50 +0000

Me too! It drives me crazy to see a whole lot of time, effort and money being sunk into something that people only look at when going to and from the car. Fertilizer on the sidewalk just ends up in the storm drain, both wasteful and damaging.

Oops! Didn’t mean for this to be a rant…

By: Away2me (Deanna)

Away2me (Deanna) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:32:32 +0000

Probably fertilizer. That sucks!

By: Stacy

Stacy — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:15:47 +0000

Ah, I thought I was the only one who felt that way! I wash my daughter’s shoes (thankfully they’re like crocs, so they easily come clean) after we walk on someone’s sidewalk that was covered in those stupid little chemical pellets. And I’ve already started instilling in her that we only walk on OUR grass, not someone else’s - only for that reason. Annoying annoying annoying!