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Added on 07/03/07 by
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As most of you know, I am a lawn hater. I am a man allergic to lawnmowers and weed whackers.
After much ado around here about the lawn I have been forced to attempt to grow grass in some bare spots around the yard. Over the next few weeks I will be experimenting with a new area of the yard, posting photos and commenting on, well, watching grass grow.
The impetus for doing this unscientific lawn experiment is that about a month ago in separate barren ares in the yard I threw out two types of grass growing material - seeds and only seeds (Material #1) in one area and in the other some super fancy patch filling mulch, seed, fertilizer stuff (Material #2) - and one of the grass growing materials appeared to outperformed the other. I say "appeared" because after 3 weeks of watching Material #2 bleach in the sun and lose its pretty blue hue I threw grass seed all over it and by the end of the week I had patchy grass growth. I say it was the seeds and Betsy says that it was the magic of Material #2.
Of course, there are other reasons for the experiment like that I don't really care if I have two different shades, lengths or blade widths of grass next to one another, as some green grass nuts might.
So now I have a rather large area in my yard dedicated to watching the grass drag race to the sun it a fight for survival (it is my yard, it will die in future). I mean compare how Material #1 and Material #2 perform under the same conditions and with equal sunlight and water, as equal as an unscientific can be.
Here's the breakdown:
Material #1 - Scotts Turf Builder grass seed (the Spring Seeding Mix variety). It can be viewed on the left side (Patch A) of all photos.
Material #2 - Scotts PatchMaster Lawn Repair Mix (the Sun and Shade variety). It can be viewed on the right side (Patch B) of all photos.
Sunlight/shade
Water in the morning and evening for about 5 minutes
Rain
Random dog fertilizer (poo)
Disclosure: I'm sure you've guessed that I am not being paid for this by Scotts.
Experiment photos day 1
Previous - Material #1 only
Previous - Material #2
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yay for science!
also: are you doing something weird with your archives? bloglines is going nuts with your feed again - constant "new" posts that are just many many old posts.
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Posted by: EvilScienceChick
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7:10pm 07/03/2007 |
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that is wierd . . . i haven't touched the . . . wait i did.
i edited the archive feed to update the title and date range for the 5th feed to make room for the 6th.
i don't get some of these aggregators. bloglines probably thought they were all new because i removed about 20 podcasts when i changed the date range.
now you can just read them twice ;-).
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Posted by: Kris
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9:41pm 07/03/2007 |
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whatever it is, it's marking old posts as new about once or twice every hour. sometimes one or two, sometimes 5 or 6. old podcasts are also coming up on bloglines as new. very weird!
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Posted by: EvilScienceChick
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1:37am 07/05/2007 |
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i spoke with another bloglines user who is having same issue.
i'm pretty sure i know what is causing it . . . bloglines updates content not based on the timestamp associated with the release of the post but checks to see if it the post has changed.
not good.
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Posted by: kris
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9:57am 07/06/2007 |
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