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- From: jhb@calmasd.prime.com (Jim Bishop)
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: Burmuda Grass
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.231254.1061@calmasd.prime.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 07:12:54 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.194403.16961@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Dec18.190325.9512@iscsvax.uni.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec18.190325.9512@iscsvax.uni.edu>, klier@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
- > To me, quack is _Agropyron repens_ (nasty stuff!)
- > witchgrass is _Panicum capillare_ (nuisance). We've got both here
- > in the midwest.
- > Bermuda is _Cynodon dactylon_ and looks like crab grass.
-
- Now I'm getting confused. I have Bermuda grass. This summer it was
- loaded with what I called crab grass. The two didn't look anything
- alike. The Bermuda is very fine textured. The crab grass sorta
- reminded me of Saint Augustine (as least the blade shape), and
- it is very invasive.
-
- > I hated
- > mowing my aunt's lawn when she had Bermuda. Had to sort of lift and
- > shove the lawnmower at the same time.
-
- Try a push mower with the blade setting of about 1-1/2 inches. Keep
- it regularly mowed and don't over-fertilize. Too much fertilizer and
- it gets impossible to push the mower through and it just rides over
- the top without cutting.
-
- We used to have a bermuda lawn when I was a kid in Kansas. It seemed
- like it was only green a couple months a year, so mowing was no big
- chore. In high school in Houston, we had Saint Augustine. It used to
- grow so fast during the summer monsoon season that we had to mow the
- lawn twice a week sometimes. Also the weight of the grass in the
- grass catcher used to turn over the mower if you didn't empty it before
- the bag was full.
-
- Jim
-