...might as well grow moss.
DAVID BENNER hasn’t watered his lawn since the Kennedy administration. He hasn’t mowed it, either. And it’s doing just fine. On a late-April afternoon, the two-acre property surrounding his ranch house in Bucks County was a carpet of green, uniformly lush and velvety under a canopy of shade trees.
Mr. Benner, 78, a retired professor of ornamental horticulture, is also a longtime practitioner and advocate of what he calls “the moss approach” to lawn maintenance. “Every time I give a lecture, I go into this spiel: get rid of your grass, and grow moss,” he said. “And now it’s finally gaining momentum.”
Much of my own yard is covered in moss, so we've been ahead of this trend for 10 years at least. Good story; the fact that the stuff is basically maintenance free is an advantage.
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Hmmm, lateral thinking here. Instead of spraying the lawn with moss killer, maybe I'll spray with grass killer. Sell the mower and buy a bigger beer fridge.
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