Yet another City Ride assigned to Quincy’s Kim Jong Koch Plaza

— News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Rolling early on a Saturday morning
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image

Yet another City Ride assigned to Quincy’s Kim Jong Koch Plaza.

While out early on a bagel run on the way to the Quincy Quarry Newsroom early Saturday morning, Quincy Quarry’s summer intern also scored some pictures of yet another designated City Hall ride assigned to the exclusive care of Kim Jong Koch Plaza: a riding lawn mower complete with optional grass clippings containers.

That and so much for hitting the lawn early on a weekend morning so as to endeavor to avoid ending up whacked by yet another Quincy Quarry exposé. 

That and likely also score some premium rate weekend pay.

Grass clippings bins cost extra
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image

In any event, Arnold Nicklaus, Quincy Quarry’s turf management advisor projects the cost of this ride at roughly $4,000 retail.

Amazingly, it was not pimped out as per the usual Natural Resources Department, née Park and Recreation Department practice, nor does it appear to ready to compete on the international lawnmower racing circuit.

At least not yet anyway.  After all, parts supply chains are still impacted by the COVID pandemic.

Nicklaus further reiterated that not only is the turf at Kim Jong Koch Plaza was not only clover-laden, it is also sorely in need of fertilizing.

Clover-laden Kim Jong Koch turf
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Additionally, he questioned the bagging of the clippings as best practices for regularly cut and irrigated lawns is to leave grass clippings on such lawns so as to both add beneficial tithe as well as provide some beneficial nitrogen.

Specifically, while Nicklaus suspects that the turf planted at Kim Jong Koch Plaza is a golf course mix of grass varieties, as it is not bentgrass putting green grass, much less maintained for putting other than puttering about on it with plaza designated maintenance equipment, he questions the collecting of grass cuttings to then schlep for disposal elsewhere. 

So hedge trimming a hedge is not an approved best practice for a riding lawnmower. 
A file photo

As Arnold sagely noted, “Best Practice“ for both regularly cut as well as frequently irrigated lawns is to leave the clippings on such lawns so as to both add beneficial tithe as well as provide beneficial nitrogen, not to mention that duly mower-mulched grass clippings readily disappear into the turf.

In other words, so recycling grass clippings is an environmentally friendly practice. 

At least as much as can be done with environmentally problematic turf, that is.

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