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Re: So...What's up your respective Asses today?
By: AJ Date: March 24, 2018, 7:32 pm
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[quote author=indigo_dave link=topic=205.msg2262#msg2262
date=1521921403]
Living in hurricane land, I'd say that any tree is capable of
falling in a hurricane. And the leaves in the trees help to
form a sort of sail. Generally around here we see lots of oak
tree limbs and even some whole oak trees down in hurricanes. I
was told that the wind blows more easily thru pine needles.
Anyway, native plants are generally more resilient and need less
water.
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Pine trees are native down here and resilient as HELL. My main
gripes are 1) The root systems are thirsty bastards and suck so
much moisture out of the ground that it's difficult to keep any
grasses alive above the root system. Even if you water like
Hell, the needles (Gripe #2) will suffocate all under growth. In
the dead of summer...The lawn is sheathed in the damned things.
A constant battle to keep them picked up.
I had my 50 foot Pine Tree taken down last year. $900.00! I
don't miss it one damned bit.
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Re: So...What's up your respective Asses today?
By: indigo_dave Date: March 25, 2018, 7:18 am
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I'm a non-believer. That is to say I don't subscribe to the
whole concept of a lush green carpet you could lay down and take
a nap on. I never water my grass (what grass I have). I see
the conventional American lawn as a huge waste of resources.
We're currently in a drought in Central Florida. I welcome pine
needles on the patches of dirt scattered around my back yard. I
won't be watering my dirt patches.
Another thing I have a big problem with is the fertilizers and
poisons used on lawns. I think the tide of public opinion will
turn eventually.
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Re: So...What's up your respective Asses today?
By: AJ Date: March 25, 2018, 12:17 pm
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The whole concept of the lush green lawn started with some
English or French Lord or Duke or somethin'. One thing for sure
is it wasn't a guy that was going to have to maintain it. I'd be
perfectly content to rip up the sod, fill the place with sand
and just plant cactus and sagebrush. Stuff that relies strictly
on what moisture nature provides it to survive.
When I was a boy in West Texas, our backyard was the West Texas
desert. No fences, no boundaries to either my feet or my
imagination. And no grass...In the front yard either. I'd be
perfectly ok with a denuded yard.
However....I'm married...To a Kentucky girl who tends towards
the green and growing.
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