In Great Falls, Va., a Washington suburb, homeowner Rachel Rothstein…realized times had changed when she spotted her neighbor at work in his yard the other day. “He was putting down seed and fertilizer,” says Ms. Rothstein. “It struck me. I have never seen him out there. It was always the lawn service.”
From a front page article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal.
Heavens, I wonder what the neighbors are saying about me. I fired the lawn service last summer myself…but it had nothing to do with the economy. I just found myself with a strapping 14 year old son, and I felt the time had come for him to be useful as well as ornamental.
As Lincoln used to say in closing arguments, you can have the facts right, but draw the wrong conclusion.
In Great Falls, Va., a [b]tony[/b] Washington suburb… [emphasized word added]
I guess the rest of us will cut back by not fertilizing.
Ditto #2. I’ll be impressed when people decide they don’t need to do anything to their lawns other than mow them. All these lawn fertilizers and irrigation systems in wet areas of the country are such nonsense.
A better indicator would be when they start planting vegetables instead of grass.