Last July, I wrote about the plan to mark out the borders and let the turf grow long, cut it back, and then plant into the grass with robust herbaceous perennials that could compete with the grass to create a rumbustious tameflower meadow.
M. G. Lord, the author of a memoir, "Astro Turf," on growing up in the aerospace culture in California, suggested that these findings contributed to a growing awareness that our bodies are far more fragile than science fiction writers thought when they concocted wide-ranging colonization scenarios.
But much of the turf grass grown in the United States is not native, and requires a lot of water, chemical herbicide and fertilizer to keep up its appearance.
At the same time, federal incursions onto local turf have grown to outlandish proportions.
The call to tear out your turf and grow turnips comes, instead, from humble homegrown heroes like Roger Doiron, founder of Kitchen Gardeners International and the creative force--and face--of the Eat The View campaign to launch a new generation of Victory Gardens, starting with the White House lawn (see Roger's latest YouTube opus, This Lawn is Your Lawn, at the top of this post).
Compared to macro algae, turf algae grow faster [16], occupy newly available space faster [17], [18] and are less vulnerable to physical stress caused by water turbulence [17], [19] and grazing [15], [20].
The share provided by international donors has, in fact, stagnated while the share provided by low- and middle-income countries to fight the epidemic on their own turf has been growing rapidly.
Without home turf defended by growing borders, all of strain S fell victim to strain C's toxin.
Results demonstrated that the commonly recommended warm-season turf coefficient of 0.6, while approximating overall average annual ETa, under-predicted ETa during active growth periods and over-predicted ETa during late fall and winter periods, when turf was slowly growing or quiescent.
