Re: The value of water

In a message dated 1/25/99 5:14:29 PM EST, cnorman@best.com writes:

<< here in Oakland I never water my
 lawn (I'm inland enough to miss much of the famous SF fog).  Even during
 last year's super hot low-cloud/low-fog summer that messed up some of my
 other plants.  My lawn was green all summer and is green now.  Mind you, we
 are not talking lush picture-perfect green.  And the front lawn
 (St. Augustine and Bermuda mostly) which gets no shade is great to play on
 but not for lying on. >>

Cyndi:

I know Bermuda and St. Augustine are tough grasses, but I can't imagine them
going for months without water and still looking like a lawn.  When we had our
big drought a few years back, and many Bay area communities passed ordinances
forbidding lawn watering, I distinctly recall many very dead-looking lawns and
gardens all around the Bay area.  Plus, I always thought that Bermuda and St.
Augustine were winter-dormant grasses.  I know they turn brown here in the
winter.  Speaking of Bermuda grass, I think I'd rather have Oxalis corniculata
as a weed in my lawn than Bermuda grass.  That stuff is so invasive, and
virtually impossible to eradicate.  

Kurt
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