Prairie Agalinis from Hades

Crumby is hoping (there’s always hope) that prairie agalinis is parthenogenic and shall snuff out the speargrass in these parts. Yes. So an average home owner decides to eradicate the KR, does eradicate the KR, then speargrass takes over from the pitiful, weak sister, sad sack, useless, cultivar buffalograss that the average home owner laid out to replace the KR. Did you purchase buffalograss sod? Sucker! Mercy!

OK. Speargrass is not anywhere near as big an ecological disaster as the nearly inert KR or as hopelessly useless as a pathetic buffalograss cultivar. On the other hand, those spears are plenty obnoxious. Crumby, during speargrass season, took to wearing cowboy boots with his pants tucked in the tops, figuring to blunt those terrible spear tips. Course, cowboy boots are incredibly dangerous unless you are on a horse, pony or other equine type beast of burden. For pedestrian travel, cowboy boots are unsafe at any speed. The fact is, you can twist your ankle standing still.

For example, Crumby recently traveled a ways off. The particular spot Crumby fetched up at is famous for stickers (Cenchrus). There too, Crumby wore cowboy boots with his Wranglers tucked into the tops. And course, Crumby tripped and fell from the terrible height those boots afford, barking his shin on a giant boulder while almost getting some stickers in his palms. Have you ever tripped up in a sticker patch and got stickers in your palms? It’s like stigmata or maybe worse.

OK. The purpose of this particular topic is to allow for the discussion of the liabilities an average home owner may encounter from having excess grass on the property. Crumby feels like the CB may now have excess grass. Correct. The herbivores can’t keep up with all the grass. Consequently, we need to employ parthenogenic dicots as an aid to grass affliction.

Crumby vaguely may remember that prairie agalinis (Agalinis heterophylla) is parthenogenic which means the dang agalinis could kill off some of the dern speargrass maybe. But also, when the agalinis gets this thick, it could maybe smother the speargrass. Also, the prairie agalinis is fine with the bees, whereas, nothing much likes speargrass.

Meantime, Crumby needs to apologize to the Hurricane Goddess. For practically forever, Crumby has been highly critical of hurricanes. The fact is, Crumby is the actual source of the famous ironic saying, Hurricane, No Rain. Yet the last twain hurricanes have brought much needed rain to these parts. So here’s to the beautiful Hurricane Goddess. As soon as it dries out around here, Crumby shall burn some speargrass up in Her honor.