The purpose of this grass eugenics is to create a lawn so sophisticated it can pretty much take care of itself, which is what people want.
It sells messenger bags with a clever twist: each comes with a choice of covers, from classic plaid vinyl to faux fur to fake grass, and two or more can be zipped together to create a lawn blanket.
The bacterial suspension was then streaked on an MH agar plate using a sterile swab to create a lawn of bacteria; 6-mm disks (Whatman, Piscataway, NJ) were loaded with the desired amount of antibiotic (gentamicin [10 μg], norfloxacin [10 μg], ampicillin [10 μg], and polymyxin B [300 units]) in a total volume of 25 μL, and disks were allowed to air dry aseptically.
Overseeding, by sprinkling grass seed over a short-cut lawn, can help create a dense lawn with a strong root system that is more resistant to stresses like weeds, insects, draught and soil compaction.
You're creating a chemically dependent lawn.
John Boyle, a 51-year-old venture capitalist in Menlo Park, built a new home on his property more than a decade ago largely to create a big lawn where his children could play football or baseball.
I'd like to create a herbal lawn.
"We are being forced to create a front lawn out of stones and, yes, cacti," said Harland Dorrinson, a resident of suburban Sacramento.
A 100 µL overnight culture of the test microbial isolates (Tables 1, 2), which had been grown in Luria Bertani broth (Merck, Darmstadt, Germany), was then spread plated onto the MHA to create a microbial lawn.
300 µl of each of two cultures with different antibiotic resistances were combined, washed, resuspended in 500µl of water, and plated on 60mm SOE plates, which created a dense lawn of asci on the mating plate.
