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Flora: The Phantom Grass
Tue, 24 May 2005

The sea is angry today my friends! The growth pattern of grass always seams to work towards self destruction so its amazing grass is anywhere in the world really (grow, grow, grow, cause too much shade, get burnt and dried out by sun, die, die, die.) Anyway, my little patch of office grass seams to have done well for the first part of the Victoria Day Weekend (a 3 day yearly weekend holiday we have in Canada, see link) and grown mightily .. but as the dry office air and long weekend without watering went on, the poor grass seams to have dried out and bent over, breaking the stems under their own weight, with the substrate as dry as a fine red wine.

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Flora: Return of the Grass
Thu, 19 May 2005

(Originally posted merged with the LifeDrive article, I've decided to not keep OfficeGrass posts merged with unrelated posts. It makes finding old articles hard I'm sure, and probably annoys people interested in only one of the subjects..)

The ryegrass is going crazy here .. before its even thickened out (was there enough seed planted to thicken out?) it'll need some serious trimming. But I can't trim it until its tall enough to overcome my NASA space-man figurine or shape up nicely as a crop circle (great idea sn00p!) I found it interesting that one blade of grass seamed to be trapped underneath a nodule of dirt and as we all know.. nature is powerful, so the chunk of earth has been lifted straight up. Nice. See pic below :) All of this and its only day 7 .. one full week since the seeds were put into mud.

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Flora: The Grass Strikes Back
Tue, 17 May 2005

The silly grass experiment continues! Yesterday was the beginning of the week and when I showed up at the office some tiny blades of grass were showing up on the left (Ryegrass) side and so far nothing on the (Bluegrass) right. Today the ryegrass is really pulling together though I expect bluegrass in another week or so...

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Flora: Grass Force (Part I: A New Hope)
Thu, 12 May 2005

The Internet is a wonderous thing -- it lets us find out vitaly important things like How many bubbles are inside of Coke? (one of my favourite websites by the way), but it never really reveals which side of the force is more powerful. Darth is a bad-ass of course, able to strangle enemies and stir drinks from across the room, but ol' Luke can shoot wamp-rats from his speeder back home. Did I mention - when I say Force I mean Grass? Darth is Ryegrass on the left, and Luke is Bluegrass on the right? No? Well, its true and I have experimental proof so we can finally find out who is more powerful and on which side the grass is greener.

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