[DoingTheFrenchMistake]

Quite a curious obsession we have with grass. Here in Florida lawn care is a borderline fetish which some people make their life’s work.

In any other country / culture anything that required the resources devoted to lawn maintenance would when cut be eaten by man or beast instead of bagged and thrown into a landfill.

No doubt that 100 years from now with the shortages we will soon be facing the practice of lawn care will be so impossible to believe that it will be categorized as an old wife’s tale or urban legend.

[SaltyJoe]

It’s a fetish all over the world. I recall reading a book, (I believe it was the Mig Pilot who defected from the old Soviet Union to Japan) where some military commander painted grass green prior to being inspected by some high ranking party member.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Mom and Dad retired to Snell Isle in St. Pete. There were a lot of young folks living there…not necessarily retirees. There was a neighbor down the street who would be working on his lawn up until (around) 10:00 p.m.

My folks did the right thing because of the homeowners ass-ociation rules. They had a sprinkling system that watered the lawn in the middle of the night and hired a grass cutting crew to come in every other week.

Oh yeah. I forgot. Then there are the types of special grasses to grow in the lawn.

Here, the weeds grow among the grasses. They are just part of the lawn, and one can’t tell the difference. It is all green.

One of the “weeds” that grows wild among the various types of grasses and other weeds is coriander.

One needs coriander for a dish one is cooking? One goes out in yard and picks it…fresh.