Fuller: Why is your lawn controlling your life?

A sign of spring we take for granted is the Envious Neighbour lawn commercial.
Gary has a great lawn. So lush, so thick. “How does he do it?” Steve next door wonders. Poor Steve. He hasn’t even edged yet. Gary’s secret? He uses Bla-bla in the spring and Bla-bla II in the fall.
Our grass has a better diet than most middle class suburbanites, who gladly gobble drive-thru burgers but wouldn’t think of spreading no-name fertilizer on their blades of verdant wonder.
Stev