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Alan Holmes see sig for reply address wrote:

"Anne Middleton/Harold Walker" wrote in message
news:8Zv6a.247620$be.227729@rwcrnsc53...
Roger.......I find it difficult to talk meaningful "stuff" with many an
English gardener......their way or no way.....just like a visitor to my
place a couple of years ago that told me I knew nothing about cutting
grass.....he wanted to cut mine as short as he cuts his in the
UK......could
I get him to understand our reasons for keeping the grass a minimum height
of between 2 1/2 to 3 inches.....not on your life......hec, if I cut mine
to
English heights it would be burnt brown before the end of June unless I
poured about an inch of water per day on it.....his final answer was that
American grass must differ from English grass.......what
rubbish........HW..

I wish I could get that fact over to my son-in-law who is living in the
Boston area.
He complains that the grass keeps dying, but when I pointed out to him that
it
may be because he cuts it flush with the ground, he refused to consider
that.

You mean Boston, Mass., not Boston, Lincs, I assume? Not that it makes
much difference. In the summers we had up to a few years back, the
same applied in Cambridge.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
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