While attending BYU my bishop worked in the horticulture department, specifically in the soils department. His office was in the basement of the Widsoe along with all of the other plant enthusiasts. I certainly remember thinking "what the heck could these people be learning about for four years!" There were maps of soil and test tubes of soil....so much soil....
Well since moving to Georgia (I will say I noticed NOTHING until I moved back here after college) I have become quite the plant enthusiast myself. I guess that implies I that I am enthusiastic about the plants living here....that would be incorrect. While I find it AWESOME that you can actually grow a garden that consists of more than root vegetables, (seriously, carrots rule but it's nice to have some variety!) the regular foliage is severely lacking. If you refer back to this post from a LONG, LONG time ago, I was first frustrated with the tree situation. Well now it's the grass. Grass is like a MAJOR thing. A major thing that I spent my life taking for granted. It's green, it's soft, it smells good. You just want to sit down in the summer and enjoy yourself. NOPE. Little did I know. There are MANY varieties of grass. Mostly separated into cool grass, and warm grass. I grew up enjoying the wonderfulness of Kentucky Blue Grass. A fantastic specimen that is soft and luscious. I now look out the window to see Bermuda Grass. A horrible weed that people like to use for a lawn. It's scratchy. SOOO scratchy. It gets everywhere. I don't know what the deal with that is, but its horrible. You sit on the grass (if you have to and you aren't scared about what might be lurking underneath the thick, intertwined, spiky surface) and when you stand up, you are covered in little pieces of grass. AND for all of that fabulousness, you get to do EXTRA maintenance. Bermuda grass needs to be edged because otherwise it spills out and looks like a big weed (coincidence? I think not!).
So basically, as Matt is taking care of our lawn this Spring. I appreciate the effort. And it surely looks better than it did before. But I don't know that I will ever be able to truly enjoy it. (And if you are wondering Kentucky Blue Grass will not survive here, I already checked.)
Too lazy to get my camera, but stay posted because I have pictures from our trip to the aquarium. (I know the suspense is killing you)
St. George for Spring Break
3 weeks ago
7 comments:
enough said. about the suspense i mean.
AHHHHHH the grass here is like that too and I hate our grass. natalie will venture out without shoes... I dont dare. Seriously I remember sitting and rolling and laying the calgary grass, so green and soft. totally taken for granted.
brown weeds now are my "lawn". it is sick.
I listen to the garden show on Saturdays...two guys on KSL...they're ALWAYS talking about grass and how all the Utah people water it too much...but they ALSO talk about the Kentucky Blue...best looking grass around these parts! I'm SO SORRY you're just a Bermuda girl. I'll lay on the lawn just for you...or better yet, come on out and lay on my lawn, and by the pool sometime this summer!
When I first saw the movie "Honey I shrunk the Kids" I thought that was really weird grass and so unrealistic with all those huge insects living in the grass and the rough terrain. But now I know that could be anyone's yard in Georgia.
AMEN. Part of the culture shock for me as a missionary in FL was the dang grass! :) Anyway, I'm such a lover of Kentucky Blue grass . . . grass was meant to be sat on. Maybe that's why there is an over abundance of picnic tables here . . . (okay, not really, but you know what I mean.)
Just get a gravel yard like Arizona residents.
i do have to say i love our grass. i guess you could always go with astroturf (sp?)or whatever that stuff is. ;)
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