It began 10 years ago with a very intentional surgical procedure; the removal of some thatchy st. augustine with precision cuts from my pick ax...my own version of playing god...thereby initiating the first phase of lawn extraction.
My reasons for this almost heretical act, (woe to those who reject this iconic symbol of the American Dream), were two-fold: I needed to free up some space for the dazzling array of ground cover and shrubs on display at the nursery...I was smitten. Secondly, word had gotten out about the disproportionate resources, many of them toxic to our water tables, we Americans were exhausting on our obsession with maintaining green lawns all year round. Despite the fact that local climate conditions may dictate a fixed life cycle for members of the poaceae family, scientific knowledge has allowed us to circumvent this natural order of ebb and flow with a regimen of synthesized nutrients and enough supplemental irrigation to reproduce the moisture levels of a rain forest.
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