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Old 24-04-2003, 04:56 PM
Dwight Sipler
 
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Default Keeping a Messy Garden

Vox Humana wrote:

Funny, but I have been referred to as a Lawn Nazi. I'm not sure why...




Someone put a column in our local paper last year with a test that would
tell you if you were a lawn nazi. I took the test and found out that I'm
an extremist (in the other direction -- I scored 5 out of the 100 that
indicated your status as a lawn nazi). My lawn gets mowed 3-4 times a
year, whether it needs it or not. It hasn't seen fertilizer or
(non-natural) watering in 20 years. I drive and park on it. I plow snow
off it in the winter, scalping large sections in the process. In the
spring I throw some grass seed on the scalped sections and forget it.
It's green because the weeds are green as well as the grass.

My neighbor has a lawn service that comes in once or twice a week and
mows the lawn. They cut it short. In the dry summer last year my long
grass was green and their short manicured lawn was brown.