Re: Kikuyu Grass has Hidden Virtues
Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> elischer@town.nd.edu.au writes:
> >Congratulations if you succeeded in getting rid of the kikuyu.
>
> Actually it was fairly easy to get the kikuyu out of the yard. All i
> did was cut it up into brick sized chunks, stabbed it with a pitchfork
> and out it came. Seems it packs just the top foot of soil with its
> stolons. The sand underneath was dry and very loose sand (it was like
> it had never been touched). There are a few errant stolons left but
> they come out easy and haven't even gotten very far.
I remember the lawns of my childhood in Kenya, which were almost all
made from Kikuyu grass. Where I actually lived our rainfall was pretty
scanty and the grass spent much of its life as bare stolons wriggling
across brown earth, but I once saw a lawn at high altitude where
rainfall was high and regular and there it formed a most magnificent
deep springy turf. this was long before the days of selective
weedkillers, but there wasn't a weed in it. So given the right
conditions this can actually be a really good lawn grass.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, New Zealand
