All is well. Just tending to my bluegrass.
Mine ought to be needing some tending here shortly. The cold and snow slowed it down but the inevitable will soon be here in the Blue Grass State.
Actually bluegrass doesn't grow here. Doesn't even germinate. It's all fescue or bermuda here. Soil is too acidic for bluegrass.
We need to keep this between ourselves but since I moved to this home eleven years ago I have switched to fescue. I have a rake I put on the back of my trusty old John Deere and use it one time each year then over seed the yard part of this land with fescue. It has been a long slow process but the fescue propagates itself better, it is squeezing out the other stuff. Southern States sees me once a year for a fifty pound bag. I tried some a creeper one year, Zoysia plugs I think, it went nowhere.
You must have some miracle fescue cuz fescue doesn't propagate. Bluegrass does. Big time. I miss that about northern grass. The guy who owned this house before me owned his own landscaping company. So on slow days he had his crew work on his yard. Removed the top half foot of dirt and replaced it with black dirt from up north. He planted bluegrass and I had the best lawn....for about five years. After that the NC elements took over and roasted all the bluegrass and I could never get it to germinate after that. So back to fescue like everyone else.
By propagate, I mean that I let it go to seed once a year. It seems to grow more in clumps by seed than shooting risomes (I think that is the name of one method of propagation by Bluegrass). Another eleven years and the place will be a show but fortunately there are few around to see it. After partially retiring, my hermit tendency has come to the fore. Allowing the stuff to seed is not Mrs CMD's favorite activity of mine but a bag of fescue is not cheap and seeding itself is. Although we have a high lime content I just like the fescue better, maybe my imagination but, it seems to grow more slowly and stays green longer into the fall.
I miss our beautiful grass we had in California, it was so lovely and soft to walk in bare foot.
Here...it's all St. Augustine.
That's not grass - it's a weed
Here...it's all St. Augustine.
That's not grass - it's a weed
I miss our beautiful grass we had in California, it was so lovely and soft to walk in bare foot.
Here...it's all St. Augustine.
That's not grass - it's a weed
We have Bahia grass. It looks and feels the closest to the grasses of the northern states. It too is a weed grass so we can't treat with weed and feed. It browns during the dry season but comes back very quickly when the rainy season starts. Now that we finally have the irrigation in, we shouldn't have that dry season.
It really does act a lot like Michigan grass. Brown in the winter.
We have Bahia grass. It looks and feels the closest to the grasses of the northern states. It too is a weed grass so we can't treat with weed and feed. It browns during the dry season but comes back very quickly when the rainy season starts. Now that we finally have the irrigation in, we shouldn't have that dry season.
It really does act a lot like Michigan grass. Brown in the winter.
We have Bahia in the back, St.Augustine in the front.
None of it feels good
Grass seed is EXPENSIVE! Not to mention all the back breaking work to plant it and nurture it to life.
Good way to get killed. Think the wifey is a bear in the morning? Try that one on her.Nasty trick # 473...
put a couple of tablespoons of Ghost Pepper juice in someones mouthwash bottle...
St Augustine is horrible. Looks like crap, feels like crap, and dies easily. Florida has some of the worst soil for growing any kind of grass. It's not even dirt. It's sand.I miss our beautiful grass we had in California, it was so lovely and soft to walk in bare foot.
Here...it's all St. Augustine.
That's not grass - it's a weed
Campus Green is what we had that was so soft.
It's a mix of rye, Kentucky bluegrass and fescue.
We had it sprayed in the front and seeded the back ourselves.
It's a mix of rye, Kentucky bluegrass and fescue.
We had it sprayed in the front and seeded the back ourselves.
We had bluegrass in Illinois. So easy to grow and make look nice. Very little effort required. We had that fertile, jet black soil. Everything grows in that stuff. Guess that's why our crops are grown there.
Steve used to mow it twice a week just to keep it so beautiful.
Neighbors thought he was nuts...but we had the best lawn in the neighborhood
Neighbors thought he was nuts...but we had the best lawn in the neighborhood
I prefer Centipede grass here. You don't have to mow it very often. I put out a bunch of seed a long time ago. We got an epic rain, and it flooded over to my neighbors yard. He was ticked because he liked his St. Augustine. After he had the Centipede for several months, he decided it was better. It can die out during severe drought though, in the summer. (If you don't water it) New grass has some reddish streaks in it, when it is coming up. (or in cool months) There is a grass that looks similar, but it has very tall seed heads, and I hate that. It will choke out your Centipede, if you don't dig it up. I threw seed out, and planted flats of Centipede too. The St. Augustine in shadier areas will choke it out as well. I finally gave up last year. I am happy if it isn't too high, and it is sort of green.
No matter what kind of grass or weeds you have in your lawn it all looks the same on a satellite photo.
Got a pileated woodpecker out back jackhammering the side of a tree. It echos throughout the woods. How do they not get concussions is beyond me.
We used to see them all the time when I was a kid. Now it is a very rare thing to see them, especially in the city. It is a shame, they are beautiful birds.
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