The best reason for grass--bare feet! It's just not the same running
through anything else. It's also pretty nice for laying on your back
during a warm summer night and gazing at the stars.
Kelli
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Chasing babies and tickling them too! (not too bad for making babies
either) Entertaining old friends with lemonade (fresh from the tree).
Spending half an afternoon slowly raking it, mostly under the shade
tree. Smelling it.
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Kelli said:
> The best reason for grass--bare feet! It's just not the same running
> through anything else. It's also pretty nice for laying on your back
> during a warm summer night and gazing at the stars.
I can't remember if you've mentioned where you live, Kelli, but I can
imagine those activities only with nostalgia for my years in California. We
don't do it much in Arkansas, on account of the chiggers.
Eileen (glad to be living and gardening in AR, though!)
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hey lee,
Thanks for telling us about your neighbor last year who used black
plastic to kill the weeds before starting a new lawn. Idid it this
spring and my grass is coming up through the compost. I'm going to use
it some more this summer to kill off the mes i my backyard and plant
some stuff I want back there.
Deborah
Deborah wrote:
That's great! I'm happy to report that my neighbor's lawn looks GREAT this
spring. I will be doing that myself in the remaining patches of "lawn"
(weeds) where I'll be sowing more Dutch white clover. I'm also happy to
report that my next door neighbor on the OTHER side recently came over and
asked my advice as to how to get rid of her weeds and start a veggie garden
in her front yard. I am happy about this for a couple of reasons: 1) the
obvious reason that it's nice to have fellow revolutionaries!
think most of the problems I have with weeds now are because of weed seeds
blowing over from that particular neighbor's yard. Of course I've never
complained; I'd MUCH rather have a neighbor who lets their lawn go to weeds
than one who has a perfect chemically manicured lawn and complains about me
cultivating weeds, piling mulch and (gasp) growing food in the front yard.
But it will be nice to have that source of weeds gone.
So there's now black plastic covering part of that neighbor's yard, and she
asked me to help her get her garden established which I of course said I
would. I'm really happy that both my immediate neighbors are chemical free
and that one of them will be joining the edible landscape revolution! :-)
I really had hoped to be able to show by example how fun and practical this
is, and it seems to be working. A lot of my neighbors are also from other
countries, so are not so tied into the American suburban garden vision. One
Vietnamese neighbor yearly has a riot of squash plants across his front
yard - quite a sight! And my neighbor that I just mentioned is from Korea -
her mother always had a kitchen garden there. Now that the mother is living
here with her daughter, the two of them came over last weekend and the
mother got very excited to walk through my front yard and discover beans and
lettuce and peppers growing amongst the more ornamental stuff. She was even
more excited when I told them I'd done it without tilling! She is getting
on in years and was not looking forward to doing a lot of digging!
Anyway just thought I'd share that with y'all - the grapevines I planted
this year are also going great guns and the blueberries are doing well. I
have never been able to garden for this long in one spot (this is my 5th
year) and it really is a joy to see the soil get better and better every
year and the perennials get stronger and healthier!
--Lee, excited and rambling today!
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lflier@mindspring.com
Atlanta and Ellijay, Georgia
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I would normally say plant it now while your soil is still warm although here in zone 5, I don't plant grasses after September 1st because they are very slow to establish. Give it some extra mulch and hope for the best. Wintering it over in the house, will probably kill it because it requires a cold dormant period that will be difficult to provide it in your home.
marty_cyl
I've just been given a 4 inch pot of Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia
capillaris) the tag says it is safe to zone 6. I am 6 on some zone maps
and 6a on others. My question's are its getting very cold here at night
in the 20's last night(but supposed to warm up right now is 45) ,is it
safe to plant it outside now? Or should I winter it inside and plant
outside in the spring? Will it live in my zone? It's a very pretty
grass don't want to do anything to kill it.
Thanks so much
Marty in KY
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Thats exactly what I'll do .
Marty
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although here in zone 5, I don't plant grasses after September 1st
because they are very slow to establish. Give it some extra mulch and
hope for the best. Wintering it over in the house, will probably kill
it because it requires a cold dormant period that will be difficult
to provide it in your home.
> marty_cyl
> I've just been given a 4 inch pot of Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia
> capillaris) the tag says it is safe to zone 6. I am 6 on some zone
maps
> and 6a on others. My question's are its getting very cold here at
night
> in the 20's last night(but supposed to warm up right now is 45) ,is
it
> safe to plant it outside now? Or should I winter it inside and
plant
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