Winter is when my crabgrass dies and my expensive St. Augustine grass gets a chance to fill in the holes. So I water it and encourage it with fertilizer and affection. But now the Green despots are turning it brown. Save water. Kill your grass.
The good city of Palm Coast, being politically correct, has cut back watering to one day a week. Do they realize how many grubs are going to starve? How many Armadillos will go hungry because of the scarcity of the grubs? How many lawn service companys will have to lay people off because our grass, which usually grows like crazy this time of year in Florida, is going limp as a geezer's Willy?
Check out GoToby's newsletter to see when you can water. You like rules and regulations? Palm Coast has rules and regulations. And hires lots of employees to enforce them. City payroll goes up. City's managers can justify requesting more pay. Larger offices. City politicians have more voter dependents. We are just following the example of our national leaders.
And us rebels have another chance to play "Catch Me If You Can", feel righteously indignant, and have something else to bitch about...just Talk To Ted!
Here's the news from Toby Tobin: http://www.gotoby.com/news.php?id=846
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Or do the smart thing and plant Bahia, the native grass of this area. St. Augustine is a tropical grass which can't withstand our climate without tons of water (usually city water which has been treated with chemicals at great energy cost), and tons of pesticides (since St. Augustine has no natural defense against the local insects). We have never watered, fertilized, or applied pesticide to our Bahia lawn and 10 years later it is still green and healthy.
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