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That's right kids, they're tiny, but they can be an organic effective pest-control of some grass killing bugs.

It looks like I have grubs eating the roots of my grass, I had mistakenly thought it was fungus damage before, but my neighbour has grubs, so I'm going to go with Occam's Razor and suspect that I have the same cause of the same problem since we're in the same area.

I bought Lawn Guardian from NIC which contains 10 million (various package sizes available from 1 million up) nematodes. In particular the little critters are J3 stage Steinernema carpocapsae and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora.

So hopefully I will get my lawn back. Having a mini-desert (root-less grass doesn't like dry weather) is not fun.

Posted by mctaylor at 10:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

You see since 1998 when Corning Glass spun off the Pyrex kitchenware division to World Kitchen company which no longer uses borosilicate glass, which is what gave Pyrex its thermal shock resistance.

This thermal shock resistance is one of the biggest factors the Pyrex brand became famous and synonymous with quality glassware, in both the lab and the kitchen.

Now World Kitchen uses regular soda-lime glass that is tempered for increased strength in their kitchenware glass products, which is not as shock resistant, as my father strikingly demonstrated for me the last time I was home to visit.

So, yet again another case of they don't make it like they use to. For the worst, as far as the customer or cook is concerned.

References:
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1063574/000101540204001267/0001015402-04-001267.txt
http://www.pyrexware.com/thetruthaboutpyrex/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borosilicate_glass
http://www.pyrexlove.com/
Barbara E. Mauzy - Pyrex: The Unauthorized Collectors Guide (ISBN-10: 0764319078, ISBN-13: 978-0764319075)
Rogove and Steinhauer - Pyrex by Corning : A Collectors Guide (ISBN-10: 091541094X, ISBN-13: 978-0915410941)

Posted by mctaylor at 10:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)