Re: Kikuyu Grass has Hidden Virtues
Kikuyu is an important pasture grass in the Hawaiian Islands. i suspect
that it helps that most of the ranches are at or above 2000 feet in
elevation. There is an aphid that has gotten into Hawaii that literally
threats the existance of the ranches becuase it kills off the kikuyu grass.
MTF
>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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