What a peculiar word – GRUB – the more thought given this word the more one must chuckle at the versatility in which it is used.
My past employer would laugh every time I used the word –grub- in conjunction with a landscape installation. He would tell me how I have my own language and I could create the funniest words. I actually acquired this word from the company I completed my Co-Op with in college. Back then a sod cutter had not been invented yet – I joke – our crew did not have one. We were however introduced to a spiffy do-it-yourself-better-anyhow kind of tool, a GRUB HOE. This nifty little hoe had a handle about 3 feet long- (who doesn’t want to work bent over all day) – and as you guess it – an exaggerated hoe style implement on the end. You would take this instrument in your hand, swing it behind you, much like an ax and bring it down on the lip of the sod to be removed with just enough force to separate a good few inches of sod from the soil. This my friends, and past employer, is called grubbing out sod. Every time I had a job with sod removal and mentioned grubbing it out I would hear laughter. Here lies one example of – GRUB –
I had honestly known of this word long before then as I was raised in a family with true southern hospitality. Grub was mentioned a lot by parents, aunts, uncles, friends and they were not removing sod – not even close. If I take you south to my mothers’ side of the family I can explain the typical day with the word – GRUB. When you awake in the morning to the smell of sausage, bacon, pancakes, eggs, grits, fried chicken, potatoes, gravy, applesauce and homemade biscuits with strawberry jam – That is GRUB – When you come home to lunch the lay out was just as grand – a repeat for dinner and a before bed snack of pie and ice cream – that is GRUB
Grub has also been used to describe the feeling of dirty such as – I feel like such a grub or isn’t this seat grubby
A Grub is also a larva from any given soil born beetle such as the Japanese beetle.
What have we learned?
What is A GRUB then?
A GRUB IS A DIRTY ROOT EATEN SOD REMOVING SON OF A BEETLE looking at your lawns root system like it was a grub call from grandma.
Stay on the look out for any of them having a hootenanny in your lawn – if you find them, crash the party and B.Y.O.D.
(Bring your own Dylox)
