I've come to the conclusion that if the devil has a green place he likes to retreat to in hell - I suppose even the devil takes a break now and then and wants to sit in a nice lawn chair on a warm ( ok, hot ) grassy hill sometimes - if such a place exists in Hades it must be green with crab grass.
I once had a nice, thick st. augustine lawn in my back yard. Then there was the hottest, baddest summer on record in 2011. Even hotter and badder for longer than the summer of 1980. It was worse than the weather that created the dust bowl days in Oklahoma in the thirties that Steinbeck wrote about in The Grapes of Wrath. It dried up lakes. It killed millions of trees and wiped out about a gazillion lawns , mine included. This year it looked like the lawn was making a comeback until I got out the old mower a few weeks ago only to discover that about 90% of what I thought was lawn grass turned out to be crab grass. Sheesh! So I've pulled up (by hand, mind you) every bit of that grass from hell and re seeded with bermuda and hope it all takes hold before the first freeze. So far so good. About half has sprouted and gotten about an inch tall.
I once had a nice, thick st. augustine lawn in my back yard. Then there was the hottest, baddest summer on record in 2011. Even hotter and badder for longer than the summer of 1980. It was worse than the weather that created the dust bowl days in Oklahoma in the thirties that Steinbeck wrote about in The Grapes of Wrath. It dried up lakes. It killed millions of trees and wiped out about a gazillion lawns , mine included. This year it looked like the lawn was making a comeback until I got out the old mower a few weeks ago only to discover that about 90% of what I thought was lawn grass turned out to be crab grass. Sheesh! So I've pulled up (by hand, mind you) every bit of that grass from hell and re seeded with bermuda and hope it all takes hold before the first freeze. So far so good. About half has sprouted and gotten about an inch tall.
Hmmmm, I wonder how much green spray paint
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