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Lots of us love lush green lawns. But the pursuit of "perfect" lawns often require lots of water and synthetic chemicals that can be bad for the environment and our health. Want to go natural with your grass, consider some good looking lawn alternatives, or just learn to love a new version of that old green carpet? The Eco-chicks talk turf with long time lawn devotee, Rusty Stachlewitz, of the Lawn Institute.
Published on June 11, 2008 at 2:30 p.m., as part of the The Little Green People Show.
Links
- Lawn Nation - Online Gallery for Lawn Nation at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
- The Lawn Institute - Keeping on top of turfgrass science so you don’t have to.
- Conservation Conservation
Grass Lover commented, on June 21, 2008 at 4:17 p.m.:
We need a little balance here -- there is grass and then there is grass, and it does produce more than golfers: what about Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood the splendor they found in the grass or that guy who wrote an entire epic poem about America by looking at a single blade of grass? what about the wonderful smell of watermellon and almond right after it is cut (and the gas fumes have blown away) or the feel of running across it in bare feet at night in the moonlight? And have you ever tried to make love in a bed of cone flowers?
Jill commented, on June 22, 2008 at 9:32 p.m.:
"Grass is hard and dumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects."
At least according to Oscar Wilde.
I hope I didn't give the impression that I HATE grass, I'd just be happier if in America we had a little less of it.
And for heaven's sake, I'd never begrudge anyone a little seven by four foot plot of soft turf for romantic interludes. If you're using it for zoinking purposes, I'd gladly offer you a football field full of the best Kentucky blue I could find.