Spring time

Here in the Mid Atlantic area we’ve had a mild winter, the middle of February has felt more like the middle of March. People look forward to spring with all the flowers and trees blooming, green grass and warm weather. I should say most people do, some folks have trouble with pollen so early summer is more their time. I find it ironic that nature, being perfect, needs so much input from people. Take for example crab grass control, every year these geniuses apply this chemical to their lawn. I wonder if it works so well why it’s needed this year, think about it. Crab grass is a high protein grass that is nature’s way of covering the soil to prevent erosion, it also comes on at the time the animals need more protein in their diet, think young deer and cattle. Why is it in your lawn? Real simple, cutting the grass too low, cut at four inches, second, not enough calcium in the soil, and third, drought conditions, it’s actually preserving the soil.  Then of course we have clover and dandelions, two beneficials to the soil, clover fixes nitrogen and dandelions provide relief from compaction. Dandelions also provide pollen for the early pollinators. We’ll see this season these idiots try to kill every bug around their yard, grubs, flies and wasps, along the way they’ll kill a lot more and not even know it. These extra killings will include their pets and their kids and sometimes themselves, don’t think so? Read the label of what you are using or having applied to your living area, you do the research, you understand the chemicals, you take responsibility for what you use. The people in this country rely on the marketing machine to solve all their problems, why, they’re too lazy to educate themselves, sure they have all this formal education but they can’t tell you how things work, no common sense. A trip to the local garden center will provide you with enough chemicals to answer all your made up problems, of course, the idiot working there is the expert and the consumer has too much money so he buys stuff that’s not needed. The idiot at the garden center can’t help you with diabetes or dementia or genetic problems your kid has, he can’t help you with cancer or heart problems, actually he can’t even help you understand the benefits  of a grub or a fly or a wasp.

So this year instead of being an idiot, try learning the benefits of all the stuff you’ve been unsuccessful in killing in the years past.