Comments on: How to be a good suburbanite https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/ Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:20:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: check it out https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-554116 Mon, 20 Nov 2017 15:20:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-554116 good post and look. but I think it would be good to add not a different view of the problem

]]> By: thesis writing https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503418 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:16:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503418 Some people canâ??t get know how to see the doctoral thesis referring to this topic. Thence, I should recommend your masterâ??s outcome. But they will get the dissertation.

]]> By: loans https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503417 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:15:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503417 People deserve good life time and loan or just short term loan would make it better. Because freedom bases on money state.

]]> By: Anonymous https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503416 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:31:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503416 Here’s a fun thought experiment. What would happen if an asshole neighbor deliberately grew dandelions and ran an X Ray tube to cause mutation? And used Round Up a little to accelerate natural selection? God Forbid! Weeds that are Round Up proof. Say goodbye to that equity in the house. Take that, suburbanites!

]]> By: chuck goecke https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503415 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:09:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503415 Just one of the stupid things people do to their lawns is treating for grubs. Grubs are almost never a problem that need treating. Neil Sperry, famed Texas horticulturist once said on his radio program, that he had NEVER treated for grubs on his several acre country home in 30 years. Grubs are only a problem that need treating when the ground is teeming with them. Texas A&M recommends only treating when there are more than 8 of one type and 15 of the other main type of grub per square foot. That’s like the ground is squirming with grubs. You have to take a trowel and mark off 1 square foot and just dig it up, and count all the grubs.
Two very effective totally organic ways of treating for grubs are 1) milky spore disease(available as a powder – MSD doesn’t work for some kinds of grubs, like the ones we have here in Texas, it works great for Japanese beetle grubs), and 2) Beneficial nematodes – predatory microscopic worms that attack and kill and multiply in any soft bodied soil insects. Besides beetle grubs, they kill fire ant larvae, fly and gnat larvae, many other soil dwelling soft bodied insects, and even subterranean termites(they have a special formulation just for termites). They don’t harm earthworms. The makers recommend retreating every 2 years, I used them once over ten years ago, and think I’m still getting benefits. http://www.jefferslivestock.com/antidote/camid/liv/cp/14044/ Although this marketer recommends drenching mounds, I recommend mixing the nematode containing substrate(moist vermiculite) with several gallons of water, swirling it around and using this strained into a hose-end sprayer. This should be broadcast sprayed everywhere and immediately chased with lots of water. Apply during or right before light rain would be ideal, as the nematodes left on plants, leaves or hard surfaces will die, if not washed down into the soil before they dry.
One more thing, they are completely and utterly harmless to all higher forms of life, like birds, frogs, pets, children, etc.

]]> By: aporeticus https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503414 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:05:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503414 I overseeded my scraggly back yard (the front is HOA-maintained) with this Fleur-de-Lawn stuff: http://www.protimelawnseed.com/products/fleur-de-lawn. The best part is the nitrogen-fixing clover which has absolutely taken over.

]]> By: Schenck https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503413 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:48:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503413 Where I am the neighbors all seem to have full lawn services, they put stuff on the lawns and they get ‘good’ results, their lawns are dense and green and they’re mowed by someone else. I do that myself and don’t use fertilizers, my lawn doesn’t look nearly as nice as theirs. I might put some weed killer out this summer.
Our area is going to have a ‘native species’ seed sale, with a particular emphasis on native grasses, hopefully I can get some of that and seed that and not have to worry about it so much.
You definitely have a responsibility to keep your lawn looking tidy, doesn’t have to be a golf course obviously though.

]]> By: Don Smith https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503412 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:01:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503412 I haven’t fertilized or poisoned my lawn for years. The birds seem to know that. During the winter months, a flock of ibises hangs out in my yard probing for the delicious grubs. I haven’t seen them on anyone else’s yard. I also have resident cardinals, mourning doves, palm warblers and brown thrashers, to list a few. That’s enough reason for me.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503411 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:56:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503411 June, they look very different; Plus, one day the lawn was green, one day it had a quater acre of identical brown burning in the pattern one would get if one applied a dry fertilizer by hand or using a scoop instead of a spreader, and no dog lives there!

]]> By: HertfordshireChris https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503410 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 12:09:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/05/31/how-to-be-a-good-suburbanite/#comment-503410 While I cut my front lawn occasionally I delight in seeing the wild flowers that establish it it, but don’t have the courage to leave it to become a fully developed hay meadow. At the back the aim is to encourage wild life (particularly the birds and insects) but this year felt things had got slightly out of control – the 35 foot high sycamore tree – planted in about 1973 was really too big.

I refuse to conform and recently sold a ten year old van, used for transporting dogs, which I know had not been washed for 9 years – with all my neighbours washing their cars almost every week end. It got a wash before it went on the market and there was no evidence that the failure to wash it had had any effect whatsoever.

It is surprising how the suburban estates here in England, and I assume the U.S., leads to peer pressure in many ways – and I am very much reminded to the song “Little Boxes” which all looked the same – which I used as an introduction to my web site when I first set it up. Doing things just because your neighbours do them has never
appealed to me.

(In reply to an earlier commentator – Dandelion leaves can be used as a salad vegetable.)

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