OREM UTAH - Betty Perry pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges she failed to water her lawn and resisted arrest when an officer attempted to cite her.

“Today, law enforcement in Orem has enshrined itself as the laughing stock of our country by prosecuting a 70-year-old great-grandmother for allegedly not watering her lawn,” the attorney representing Grandma Perry said. “This ill-conceived action ensures Orem’s law enforcement authorities first place in world records for stupidity.”

Perry’s next appearance will be on Oct. 11 for a pre-trial conference.

In July, Perry was cited by Officer James Flygare of the police’s Neighborhood Preservation Unit for failing to water her lawn. Perry refused to give her name to the officer and, when Flygare tried to stop her from going back inside her house, she reportedly tripped and injured her nose. She was arrested and taken to police station but released shortly afterwards.

An investigation by the state Department of Public Safety cleared Flygare of any wrongdoing, and city officials pressed charges against Perry on the landscape violation, a class C misdemeanor, and interfering with a police officer, a class B misdemeanor.

Hi all,

We moved into a new house in January in South Carolina and the home builders put Bermuda sod in the front yard and seeded the back with Fescue(not all that well I think) So we tried to make the fescue work, even overseeded it before summer but it just did not seem to take root and now we have some weeds, some fescue and mostly clay in our back yard. We have 2 children, 5 and 8 and 3 dogs(standard poodle and 2 labradoodles). Our yard does not get much shade. My question is what is my best option? I don’t know whether to seed or sod, what grass is best for a lot of traffic. Not to mention that I am so tired of each time I let my dogs out even if it is for mere minutes, them coming in filthy. So I would like a grass that is dense(is that the word I am looking for?) to avoid the dogs getting dirty outdoors. Plus I am trying to think of the timing right now too, being the end of August. I don’t have problem with doing Bermuda in the back but with it going dormant and turning brown in the winter I am concerned with the coverage and are my dogs going to be getting filthy again. We are from Florida so the grass going dormant is a new thing for us.

Does anyone know anything about this type of weed which kinda looks like grass but has small thorns like a little ball with thorns? I live in Minnesota and these seem very popular here and they like to grab onto shoe strings, I want to know how to get rid of them? Thanks

I have a problem when I cut my grass. I have a self-propelled walk-behind Honda lawnmower. It seems like the lawnmower has a hard time cutting the grass where the one set of wheels on the side of the lawnmower have ridden over the uncut grass. So I end up with uncut strips on my lawn. I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem & has a solution for me. I hope so!

I live on the Gulf Coast in Waveland, Mississippi. I’ve spend the last eighteen months or so bringing back a house and property severely damaged by Katrina. I need some opinions on lawn problems.

The property is about an acre in size and I’ve had to remove over one hundred dead/damaged trees. The back parcel of the property will soon be filled and graded and I’ll need to put down grass. I’ll have to seed it as sodding will just be too expensive. There are still quite a few trees remaining although none of them have any branches now (product of Katrina) so it’s quite sunny back there. I expect sections will be shady in a few years or so. I need a low maintenance grass that is heat and drought tolerant. Portions of the front and sides of the property have remaining patches of St. Augustine which is very healthy but I am told that it cannot be produced by seeding. I’d like something that blends well with the St. Augustine.

My second, and probably more pressing issue, is that there is a tremendous amount of torpedo grass on the property. Research tells me that there is no way of getting rid of this grass. It is invasive, spreading rapidly and requires frequent mowing. It takes over the flower beds and grows tall between the boardwalk and below the steps and porch. At this point I’ve just resigned myself to the fact that I can’t get rid of it. Do I just let it go and let it take over the back lot? Will it die off in the winter (mild temps here)? Is there a grass that I could seed that would crowd it out? The root system is very deep.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

I have a problem in Indianapolis, IN. I just recently purchased my house about a year ago. Last year I didn’t have any problems with my grass, but this year we have ran into a drought and I have thick, wide leafed, grass spreading through my yard. It starts in clumps and starts spreading out. It almost looks like it has a crab grass look, but my lawn guy said that it is kentucky rye and the rest of my grass is bluegrass. Is my only hope, roundup? I really don’t want to kill half my lawn now, so I am relying on your help!

your site is very good! sorry for my little english, I live in Sardinia (Italy) and I have a problem on my “prato”…. see image

Hello!

We bought a house in December in NH and we started a new lawn pretty much on a sand lot. We had an organic group coming in and do the landscaping for us. Our grass looks very different then everyone else in the area and I know they used 3 types of seeds and it seems only one really popped up with minor spots of the other grass. There was a mix of Kentucky Blue Grass, Red Fescue and a rye grass. I believe the only thing that seemed to germinate was the Kentucky blue(but I am notsure though)It is very thick and wide. It is a lighter color green. At first I thought it might be crab grass. Any reason that one would grow and the other 2 would now and how could we correct for next year. I can take a picture if needed.

I live in southeast GA. and have a visitor residing in my St. Augustine grass, this dirt pile can appear in a matter of hours

Hi I live in the adirondacks. Right now my yard is all sand and i have many pine trees. We would like to have a nice green yard. The back half of the yard is more shady due to the pine trees and the front part gets lots of sun. Any advice about growing grass in this type of lot would be helpful, we have been trying. Thank You.

sincerely,

Chickey1