Mano a lawno.Your article "Keep Off The Grass" (Features, May/June 2005) omitted a very, obvious alternative to conventional, chemical-heavy lawn care, which is to simply let your lawn grow as it wishes and just keep it mowed. The idea that a monoculture mon·o·cul·ture n. 1. The cultivation of a single crop on a farm or in a region or country. 2. A single, homogeneous culture without diversity or dissension. of grass is the ideal or even desirable is a mistake and a misuse of time and energy. As the ancient Roman poet Horace Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (hôr`əs), 65 B.C.–8 B.C., Latin poet, one of the greatest of lyric poets, b. Venusia, S Italy. He studied at Rome and Athens and, joining Brutus and the republicans, fought (42 B.C.) at Philippi. told us centuries ago, "Though you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will still find her way back." Tom Palmer palmer: see pilgrim. Winter Haven Winter Haven, resort city (1990 pop. 24,725), Polk co., central Fla; settled 1883. It is a marketing, processing, and shipping center for one of the state's chief citrus-fruit regions, with fruit-canning plants and packing houses. , FL |
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