The green beneath your feet and how to keep your lawn healthy and a joy to experience.
The cool weather of autumn brings fall colours to many plants. The burning bush by the shed has been trimmed almost every other winter by the local rabbits. Rabbits seem to have a penchant for Euonymus alata for some reason. It must taste extra scrumptious in the winter. So this poor burning bush has never gotten more than a couple of feet tall. Except this last winter, the rabbits must have been well fed or something. For whatever reason, this year, the burning bush came through the winter unscathed.
a List of things to do in the Autumn for your lawn
An old German superstition holds that if a hibernating animal casts a shadow Feb. 2 – the Christian holiday of Candlemas – winter would last another six weeks. If no shadow was seen, legend said spring would come early.
This year, both Wiarton Willie and his American cousin, Punxsutawney Phil, predicted another 6 weeks of winter a few days ago on February 2 (Groundhog Day). Yet this week we are experiencing temperatures in the double digits (Centigrade).Today was 11 degrees and more of the same tomorrow.
In front of little plaza near our office is a lawn that catches a lot of the sunshine since the lawn faces south. Lo and behold that lawn was a beautiful green colour. It was a refreshing sight to see that patch of turf. Don't know if it was starting to grow, but it almost seemed like it was ready to be fertilized by the Turf King technicians.
We still have a fair amount of snow piled up on lawns and on the parking lots. The snow in piles of course, always takes a lot more sunshine before it disappears.
The sunshine and above freezing temperatures has started to thaw the phones. A bit of spring-like weather and people's thoughts turn to the yards and gardens.
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Bentgrass is not a grass or turf species that is desirable in home lawns. This winter has been hard on a lot of bentgrass patches in lawns. Here is one where the entire patch of bentgrass has turned brown. If
Winter has descended with a white blanket over the lawns in Hamilton and the cold is numbing at times.
The warm weather in December and January was unusual. I drove by a lawn in December after a few days of sunshine and saw a few dandelion plants with seed heads blooming. I swear I had driven by that way a few days earlier. Yet, I could not remember seeing any yellow flowers. I wondered if the dandelion seed heads had been sitting encased in their post-flower stage just waiting for some warm weather. If the weather hadn't been warm in December, would they have bided their time until the spring. Was this an effect of the "El Nino" winter that we are supposed to be getting? Will the dandelion puffs that dispersed their seeds in December result in more weeds or fewer weeds next spring.
