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PostPosted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:11 pm 
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Where are you located?

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 Post subject: horse herb
PostPosted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 4:10 pm 
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Dallas - Dallis grass heaven


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Horse herb forms dense mats in the shade. I used to dig it up from the school yard behind my house in Waxahachie and transplant it under oaks. My wife's Aunt hates it for some reason but what more could you ask of a ground cover? It never needs water once established and you can mow it if you want to keep it under 4 inches (it usually grows to 8"). It will probably go dormant in Dallas in the winter but it comes back strong. You can probably find it at any of the Redentas in Dallas. Kent

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I'm a bermudagrass fan. I think it's a good choice if you are on a budget and want a low maintenance lawn. Low maintenance being you don't have to cut it as often and you don't need to water it. What more can you ask for?

On almost every lawn care forum there's some people who complain about how it invades their mulch beds. What kind of grass doesn't? And The bermuda runners are so easy to pull up, especially compared to pulling Bahia or st. aug.

This is the one invasive weed I can actually say I'm glad to have in the area. :wink:

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 Post subject: Bermuda grass
PostPosted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 6:00 pm 
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We moved into a new house in July of 2003. It was a former pasture, hard-packed from construction equipment, black clay, weedy, you name it. We bought some bermuda sod from a place in Ennis from a guy who sells it, and what we bought was very cheap, left-over, dead-looking stuff. We brought it home, laid it right over the ground with no prep at all, watered it to saturation every day for a week, then every other day for a few more days, then only when absolutely necessary. It is thick, gorgeous, has not been watered at all this year, is in blistering sun on the west side of our house on a windy hill, and just gets mowed, not fertilized. The only problem is that we decided to make a landscape bed over some of it this year, and even with thick cedar mulch, I told my husband I hope to live long enough to clear out all the bermuda that has come up in it. That is a questionable goal, I'm afraid.

We had bermuda at our old house, and it required nothing but mowing. Our St. Augustine in the back yard there had to be watered. It is very successful for us. There have never been any pest problems except one year when army worms swept across the country here, and it bounced back after the attack.

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