can anybody help me find these two videos? i have tried searching every combination of words and am coming up dry😭
1) a video (a vine maybe?) of someone's dishwasher dripping and having flooded the kitchen with soapy water and a voice with a wobbly/sing songy filter says "i dont know what to do. no ones home. i dont have any paper towels to wipe it up. look at it, it's disgusting. it's like an ice cream dispenser"
2) (this one is gonna be harder to find bc i remember less of it but) a video of a young man talking about the pros and cons of different kinds of grass. he is sitting in a chair speaking into the microphone on his wired headphones with the background around him changing to the different kinds of grass he is talking about.
this one also has a funny/wobbly voice filter iirc. i dont remember most of the kinds of grass. i remember him mentioning ticks at one point. but the last grass he rates that is the best grass is fescue and he talks about fescue for a while.
i used to love this grass video i Think in my twitter heyday which was like 2017-2023 although im not sure when the original video was posted obviously
please help me if you know what im talking about! trying to search for these videos is giving me videos about dishwasher and lawn maintenance and repair😭
As warming temperatures enable tall fescue to move northward, scientists and ranchers are racing to stop its expansion.
Excerpt from this story from Grist:
America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east. Within that swath, a quarter of the nation’s cows — more than 15 million in all — graze fields that stay green through the winter while the rest of the region’s grasses turn brown and go dormant.
But the fescue these cows are eating is toxic. The animals lose hooves. Parts of their tails and the tips of their ears slough off. For most of the year, they spend any moderately warm day standing in ponds and creeks trying to reduce fevers. They breathe heavily, fail to put on weight, and produce less milk. Some fail to conceive, and some of the calves they do conceive die.
The disorder, fescue toxicosis, costs the livestock industry up to $2 billion a year in lost production. “Fescue toxicity is the most devastating livestock disorder east of the Mississippi,” said Craig Roberts, a forage specialist at the University of Missouri Extension, or MU, and an expert on fescue.
Between the cells in fescue grows an endophyte, a fungus living symbiotically inside the grass. The endophyte is what makes the fescue robust against drought and overgrazing, but it’s also what makes it toxic. When scientists engineered a version of fescue without the fungal endophyte, in 1982, its hardiness disappeared and ranchers saw it die out among their winter pastures. Farmers learned to live with the health impacts of the toxic version, and today it remains the primary pasture grass across 37 million acres of farmland.
It’s a longstanding problem, and it’s spreading. Warming temperatures from climate change are now expanding the northern limit of the fescue belt, and the grass is marching into new areas, taking root on disturbed land, such as pastures. Northern Illinois and southern Iowa could already be officially added to the fescue belt, Roberts said, introducing toxicosis to new farming regions.
As more farmers find themselves facing the challenges of toxic fescue, there are two strategies emerging to finally solve the decades-old problem, though in diametrically opposed ways. One involves planting a modified version of tall fescue — called “friendly fescue” — in which the toxic endophyte has been replaced by a benign one that still keeps the grass hearty and green all winter. Another would abandon fescue altogether and restore the native grasses and wildflowers that once dominated the region, as well as help revitalize natural carbon sinks and fight climate change.
For a variety of reasons — some economic, some cultural — neither solution has really taken hold with most fescue belt ranchers. But the debate embodies the agricultural industry in the era of climate change: As ecosystems shift and extreme weather makes farming even more precarious, ranchers are facing tough decisions about how to adapt their land use practices. What is best for business, and will that ultimately be what’s best for the land and for the changing climate?
Black-and-white photograph of two men observing pieces of grass. Text on back of image reads, "2*1856-29 SC- Charleston -10-24-50 Howard H. Lamar. St. Andrews Parish, S.C. W.H. Mickel, SCS work unit conservationist, H.H. Lamar, farmer, look at some Ky. 31 fescue grass and Ladino clover that was seed November 1949 and grazed during 1950. SCS Photo by John W. Busch. Please Credit Soil Conservation Service."
From the McLeod Family Papers, 1873-1990 (bulk 1900-1965) held at the South Carolina Historical Society.
Creating and maintaining a beautiful lawn all year long is a 100-step journey. In this post, Turf Pro experts explain late summer steps to maintaining a great lawn.
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Selecting a dry spell resistant lawn can be somewhat tricky with so many different ranges offered, here you will find information that can assist you to make that decision.
When to plant fescue grass is the first thing to understand is that most of the warm season lawns are considered to be dry spell tolerant, these types of turfs can make it through on hardly any water during the hot summer months which is thought about to be their peak growing times.
You will discover that some warm season yards have been established to cater for particular locations of the country, you will see that some will state they are condition tolerant, or developed to consist of various colors and texture.
Examples of dry spell resistant turf:
The Certain stress of Zoysia lawn are thought about to be dry spell tolerant such as Jam, El Toro, and empire; these are slow growing kinds of turf seed when as compared to a Bermuda grass or St Augustine lawn. The best feature of zoysia grass is that it produces a stunning, lavish green lawn, and once developed it is incredibly foot tolerant to traffic.
Bahia grass is a highly challenging lawn and is thought about to be one of the very best lawns for wear tolerance; it is likewise incredibly simple to grow as it will grow in any soil consisting of subpar infertile soil. It's dry spell tolerance comes from the compact routing system it utilizes, this turf is classed as condition and pest resistant and needs the sun and is not truly matched to an area that is shaded.
If it is a profoundly low maintenance lawn you are searching for then, the Centipede turf can be the response once it is developed, although this is another sluggish growing type of yard it does tolerate acidic soil incredibly well. It likes the sun but likewise will flourish in partially shaded locations, this why you will discover a lot of the lawn around the bases of trees will be Centipede turf.
A yard type that enjoys the total heat of the sun is the Bermuda yard, although in dry spell conditions it will tend to discolor extremely somewhat it will react to watering very rapidly. It is a sturdy grass and will endure foot traffic incredibly well; you will find that this grass will lie dormant over the winter season, but some garden enthusiasts make up for this by adding ryegrass seed which will help it keep it's lush green color.
The spring fertilizer for fescue that are considered to be dry spell tolerant are texture, typical Bermuda, Celebration, GN1, and Grimes ext.
There is one type of dry spell resistant turf seed that requires the bare minimum of watering (if any) this is the buffalo lawn, the Buffalo grass is not great at tolerating foot traffic and have to be kept much longer than other types of turf about 4" plus is a good step. There are not particular kinds of buffalo grass that are considered to be dry spell tolerant, being native to the Midwest all buffalo lawn seeds are dry spell tolerant.
Here's Why The Grass Isn't Greener At This Year's U.S. Open
Here’s Why The Grass Isn’t Greener At This Year’s U.S. Open
by Sam Sanders
The U.S. Open kicked off today, at the Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Washington. One aspect of this year’s tournament is standing out already: the grass. It is quite brown in some places, an aesthetic that is almost totally in opposition to say, the lush, verdant greens of the Augusta National Golf Club, where The Masters takes place.
