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Article #4301Re: Is Mowing your Lawn bad for the Environment?
From: Jeff Abrahamson
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 23:33
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1989 23:33
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Several people have debated the pros and cons of fertilizer w.r.t. thatch. Could someone clue me in on why you don't want thatch? Unless you cut your grass quite short (which wastes water in all but the wettest areas), you shouldn't see much brown through the green. And thatch makes for a softer lawn. When I walk (--> barefoot) or lie on grass, I much prefer to see grass and thatch than topsoil (as I do on some well-raked lawns). -- ---------- Jeff Abrahamson jma@abel.uucp, abel!jma@manta.pha.pa.us UPenn Mathematics jma@grad1.cis.upenn.edu Bicycle Coalition of the Delaware Valley
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!psuvax1!vu-vlsi!abel!jma From: jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.environment Subject: Re: Is Mowing your Lawn bad for the Environment? Keywords: lawns, oxygen production Message-ID: <415@abel.UUCP> Date: 7 Jun 89 23:33:27 GMT References: <24792@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <20388@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <2876@cuuxb.ATT.COM> Reply-To: jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) Distribution: usa Organization: UPenn Mathematics, Philadelphia (Havertown) Lines: 14