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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Now's your chance to nominate the neighbor with the weeds

Posted by Sue Kidd @ 10:28:25 am

Public shaming almost never works when trying to get that neighbor with the super hideous weeds to take action. Nope. But wouldn't it feel satisfying to nominate your lazy neighbor for an ugliest yard award? Details:

Watching grass grow is hardly anyone’s idea of a good time, but we also don’t want to have the ugliest yard in the neighborhood. What to do? One of your readers could win the “Ugliest Yard Contest” and get Yard Doctor Trey Rogers to help spruce up their yard.

Each year Briggs & Stratton launches its Yard Smarts hotline in time for spring lawn and garden season. It’s like the Butterball turkey hotline, except that it offers advice for the green-thumb challenged. Turf-grass scientist Trey Rogers, PhD, and his team help homeowners diagnose and cure their yard problems. The Yard Smarts Hotline runs from April 15 to May 15. And this year, Rogers will also make two emergency house calls for the winners of the “Ugliest Yard Contest.” USA Today calls Rogers the “Lawn Geek” and he can talk with you at length about his unusual fascination with watching grass grow.

To nominate, go here, or call 866-YARD-TIPS.

Categories: Gardening events, Weeds

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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. .

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune. She is a devoted vegetable gardener, but otherwise a tragic mess at growing just about anything else. Her current obsessions are growing tomatoes on a trellis and trying to convince all her South Hill neighbors to ditch the chemicals and go green in the garden (they are very suspicious of her). She’ll blog about garden gadgets, the latest garden trends and her current garden disasters. She is also the ringleader for the Home&Garden section, so e-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com. Use it.

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