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Easy Gardening Advice - Say What?
TPP fell for some click bait the other day, i.e., 25 tips to make Gardening Easier. No question about it gardening can be real work, digging holes for planting trees. So you know it was some of the same-old, same-old: use mulch, don't mow your lawn (grass) so often, etc. But then probably to get to 25, the "easy gardening tip" was get rid of lawn and install Astroturf! Now in what sense of the word is installing astroturf "gardening"? Hey, come and see my lovely Astroturf, it's doing so well this year. It must be the Astro-fert that was applied this spring. And you know you can color coordinate if you use Astro-turf. And the image is even from "Good as Grass". Bottom left is "called Boise Blue" for some goofy reason.
Now least you think TPP is close-minded about innovation, a garden trial was done using rubber mulch made from old tires and dyed brown. It actually looks like wood mulch, and it doesn't decompose producing a weed growing medium, and it lasts for years. Rubber mulch would actually work well in a play ground area, or for a fairly high traffic path. Astroturf was the deal-breaker, and the clicking stopped. As good as grass, tell that to an Astro-cow. And where are the Astro-chickweeds and the Astro-dandelions? It may be as good as grass, but as good as lawn, never.
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At least I wouldn't spend so much time keeping the Astro-mower in good repair.
Anyway, I enjoy a good dandelion every now and then.
I can answer the "Boise blue"! Boise State University is famous for its blue astroturf football field. That's really the only good application for the stuff, IMHO; though it might be a good thing to suggest for the rest of drought-prone southern Idaho...
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