Me – How can I help you?
Customer – I want to grow some grass in my backyard.
Me – Awesome! What can I help you with?
Customer – I have read that putting peat moss down over the grass seed is a good thing.
Me – Oh. Okay. We usually just recommend hay or straw, but if you have heard that peat moss is a good thing, I am sure it is.
Customer - I need some grass that does well in the shade.
Me – Grass doesn’t do very well in the shade. If you don’t have at least partial sun in your backyard, you might want to consider some other types of ground-cover.
Customer – I have read that there are some types of grass that do fine in the shade.
Me – Grass is a sun crop. There might be a few varieties that claim to grow well in the shade, but good grass really needs the sun.
Customer – Well.. I have read that some grass grows well in the shade.
Me – Okay.. well grass is a sun crop – if you plant it in the shade, you will just have to replant it every Spring.
Customer - What kind do you sell?
Me – We sell the kind that grows in the sun.
Customer – Why don’t you sell shade grass?
Me – Because grass is a sun crop.
Customer – But I…
Me – Do you ever see grass growing on the floor of the forest?
Customer – No, but…
Me – That is because grass needs the sun.
Customer – The internet said…
Me – Grass is a sun crop.
Customer – I think.
Me – Sun crop.
Customer – You aren’t..
Me – Sun crop.
Customer – Why don’t you…
Me – Grass is a sun crop. That’s why it grows on the open prairie. That’s why it covers the plains. It’s a sun crop.
Customer – So you are saying that grass doesn’t grow well in the shade.
Me – Grass is a sun crop.
Customer – Grass needs the sun?
Me – Right.
Customer - But do you have any grass that grows in the shade?
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