Deanna Kreisel
Associate Professor of English
Co-Director Environmental Studies
The University of Mississippi
Lawn Facts
Some things you probably didn't know about lawns.
Lawn Fact 1
Cultivated turf grass covers over 160,000 square kilometers, or 40 million acres, of land in the United States—an area three times greater than any irrigated crop.
Lawn Fact 4
Indigenous peoples in North America did not use tools to cut down grasses, but instead managed arable lands through controlled burning.
Lawn Fact 2
Scything is much easier when grass is wet, which is why it's usually done early in the morning before the dew has dried.
Lawn Fact 5
The first sport played on mown grass was lawn bowls; it has been played continuously since 1299 at Southampton Old Bowling Green.
Lawn Fact 3
The gopher in the 1980 movie Caddyshack was an afterthought, added in post-production after filming had ended.
Lawn Fact 6
Stephen King has written several works of "lawn horror."