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Look closely to see grass seeds
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As predicable as a Patriots loss of late comes a fall ritual that also happens in the spring: reseeding a bad spot in the lawn front of City Hall.
The bald spot is ultimately care of a landscape design flaw that encourages pedestrians to cut the corner on the grass, over-watering, and in the spring salt damage care of a Roman salting of Carthage grade treating of Kim Jong Koch Plaza in of City Hall with salt during snow and freezing events even though many to perhaps most local streets are typically subjected to low salt diets.
In any event, as for the reseedings, they are all but invariably failures.
City well-salted but closed
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Fall reseeding barely sprouted before freezing weather happens and then in time are damaged from excess salting for ice.
In turn, spring reseedings suffer from over-watering and — again — pedestrian damage.
One would think that city employees would finally opt for putting down some bricks or concrete where the grass keeps suffering damage.
Alternatively, there are variety of products on the market that protect grass from foot traffic.
City peeps, however apparently never learn, are stubborn, perhaps something else or maybe all in a mix.
Waste of ink.
Me,
First up, no ink was used in publishing this story, not to mention that the cost of bytes and bits used instead to publish this story is minuscule.
Conversely, the long and often wasteful history of spreading of seed and resodding given this design and maintenance flaw problem adds up to real money, especially when cutting back on irrigating, laying down a few square feet of pavement and/or using a simple product such as a green one of the following design that blends in nicely within grass while at the same keeps pedestrians from fatally crushing grass could readily solve the problem once and for all as well as for short money.
https://vodaland-usa.com/products/grass-driveway-grid
Oh, and then there are the whole other related problems that not only does the city over-water the lawn in front of City Hall, the lawn is also cut too short and such baits weed-infestation.
It’s so freaking simple, but the Kochsters just can’t figure it out. Maybe if the solution was more expensive than the seemingly biannual band aid, they’d opt for it. Does the lord mayor worship that little corner of sod?
Where cover-ups aren’t just for scandals, but for failing hairlines too! It seems like the city’s PR strategy has expanded from hiding budget discrepancies to hiding bald spots. What’s the line item for this in the budget—“Follicle Fiasco Fund”? Maybe the next press release will announce a new mayoral initiative: “Rogaine Revitalization for a Better Quincy.” Guess the real growth plan isn’t about the economy, it’s about the receding hairlines in City Hall. Priorities, right?