Not a pretty picture. So there you have it. If that's a sexist remark, I plead guilty. It's not that you don't see women mowing lawns, of course. But in all the years I've been writing about gardening, I can count on my fingers the number of females who've called or written me about lawn care.
Men simply seem to care more about grass than women do.
There was a long pause on my end of the line after my younger son asked me to recommend a good book on lawn care. It was for a friend, he hastened to add. That didn't come as a big surprise since he lives in an Atlanta apartment and had to be coerced into mowing the lawn when he lived at home. But I was amused to find out for whom the information was intended. A couple who are close friends of his had bought a new house in the suburbs.