Is Grass Worth It?

Hi Everyone:

A few weeks ago my wife and I went upstate New York. The weather was perfect and the drive was a breeze. I did notice something though that caught my attention. As we were heading north on the New York State Thruway, we saw numerous large tractors mowing the grass. If you have ever been on this highway, you will know that there is a vast amount of grass on the median and both shoulders. I think that the thruway is some 450 to 500+ miles long. That is huge amount of grass.

With the current price of gasoline, using those gas guzzler tractors just doesn't make sense. And with the NYS economy in the pits, it also doesn't make sense to pay all the man hours necessary to get the job done. So what to do? I believe that it was Ladybird Johnson, President Johnson's wife, who led a campaign to plant wildflowers near highways, instead of grass. I believe that would be the common sense solution for New York and other states, for all their highways and parkways, would be to plant indigenous wildflowers etc. No more gasoline needed for the tractors and no man hours paid for upkeep. And finally I think that the Wildflowers would look a whole lot better then the miles of boring grass. Problem solved!

Til next week.

Peter