Re: lawns
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: lawns
- From: C* D* <c*@fix.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 15:05:23 -0800
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>Hybrid bermudagrass (*Cynodon dactylon*): thicker, finer-textured than
>regular bermuda. Can be mowed at 1" without weed encroachment. Goes
>dormant for approx. 60 days in coastal Cal. My fave.
>
>Jerry Heverly, Oakland, CA
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I agree with Jerry. I've had a hybrid Bermuda lawn for at least
thirty plus years. It was sold to me as a hybrid called "Tifgreen" and was
touted as being the grass used on golf greens.
I tended it more carefully when it was new. When my boy was young,
thirty years ago, he and his friends played on it. It had a beautiful green
three or four inch thatch that cushioned them when they fell. I think it
would probably be almost impossible to get seriously hurt on that lawn.
I'm older now (77 in April). Nobody plays on the lawn anymore. I've
switched to an electric mower cause I'm tired of pulling that rope. I mow
it two or three times in the summer and it goes dormant about 1 September
and doesn't revive till March. I have a half dozen little patches of
daffodils that are coming up right now and by the time they die it will be
time for the first mowing.
It goes brown in the winter. I'm originally from North Dakota and
believe me, brown is a helluva lot better than white!!!
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