Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.garden,net.consumers Subject: Re: Grass Message-ID: <3341@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 16:29:32 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.3341 Posted: Fri Jul 12 16:29:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 16:49:29 EDT References: <11461@brl-tgr.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 26 Xref: watmath net.garden:600 net.consumers:2610 > > Grass is *terrible* stuff, unless you can eat it. It needs mowing, > watering, de-weeding, etc., or it turns into a real mess. So why on Ayup. I'd rather have a meadow myself (i.e. grass, wildflowers, about one foot high) but suburban neighbors are apt to disapprove. The other night I heard a suburbanite on the nightly news describing how nice her neighborhood used to be. Her example? "Everybody mowed their lawns." Blecch! As alternative groundcovers (low-growing), my choices would be: Corsican mint Creeping thymes Camomile other creeping herbs. The Elizabethans were fond of planting walking gardens, with sweet-smelling herbs as paths. Of course, I doubt the Elizabethans played dodge-ball on these gardens! I don't know of many ground-covers tough enough to withstand gameplaying except perhaps quack grass. -- Elizabeth Hanes Perry UUCP: {decvax |ihnp4 | linus| cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay "Ooh, ick!" -- Penfold