Re: thanks Jim ! n/t
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Chris in Tampa on 1/20/2010, 11:21 pm
Our association does the same thing. Luckily, most everyone's grass is brown. At least two properties that have giant trees in the front yard have mostly green grass because the trees protected the grass. My yard has nearly the least amount of grass as anyone and it is doing pretty good compared to most everyone else due to trees protecting most of it. Our homeowner's association has given a little, they are going to allow one person at least to not have to replace their grass until April. But, that was before the frost we had that wiped out most of everyone's grass. Maybe people will have more time now.
Even on some TV commercials that are being run here locally they say you should not water your grass too much during this time of the year because it allows bugs and I think it might have said it makes it more disease prone. I forget who is running those here. If my homeowner's association says anything about anyone's grass, I'll call the water district or maybe the county extension to get someone to tell me that it is better to not try to keep it so green this time of year. Info is probably online too.
Still too soon to tell about my plants and trees. Depending on if some of the big trees make it, perhaps as much as half the plants and trees may have died. But some things will probably come back. The amount of leaves on the ground is incredible. My dad raked under our rubber tree yesterday and today they were covering the grass again. It will take a month probably to have them hauled away. It will still take several more weeks at least, maybe a lot longer to see if a couple of our big trees survived. We have too many tropical plants. I was looking at your temps this month. We would have 95% or more of the yard dead if we had temps like that. You are far enough north that having tropical plants would be a real challenge. Here, we lucked out for quite a few years.
I just hope the farmers didn't suffer any long term damage. Have not heard about any long term damage yet. Not sure about the tropical fish industry though. I'm not sure how long it would take them to rebound.
Some neighbors have noticed a lot of dead fish and crabs in the canal. I only saw one dead fish and actually saw some minnows alive. One neighbor actually said that part of the water in the canal froze one morning, but I'm still unsure of what he meant. The canal level was really low so maybe there was a coating of ice in some puddles in the sand perhaps, because it's salt water. Or, perhaps even more likely now that I think about it, maybe a layer of frost settled on the sand. It was on a shallower area where the canal dead ends. |
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