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 Post subject: Help! Organic lawns
PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:23 pm 
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To follow this dialogue, see posting from me "Help! Organic Lawns," in General Garden and Landscaping on 6/5/05:

David thank you for moderating and thanks for all you said in your response. I still love the Bermuda and I have almost a full ten pound bag (I over seed every year and it has been opened of course-cannot take back), and I want to understand how to get ride of the St. Augustine. It covers a 5x30 area and is spreading. I do not feel comfortable yet with the St. Augustine to take over my yard, partly because I have labored so over the past four years to produce a decent looking lawn. My house and lawn is built on “white rock” so the builder brought in sand instead of dirt as the builder was not willing to work with me in my lot preparation. I will post this under “Lawns” to share with others as well and refer them to my prior misplaced posting.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:09 pm 
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There are a couple things you can do with St Aug already creeping in from next door. One is to smother it with a one inch layer of compost. That will go a long way to preparing the underlying soil (such as it is) for your bermuda seed.

Another element of the fight against encroaching grass is to build a barrier between the two. I have a concrete wall that is 2 feet deep and extends above the soil line by a couple inches. I use a string trimmer to keep my stuff on my side and their stuff on their side. Works very well.

The other thing you can do, and this is by far the least effective, is to just mow the bermuda low like it likes to be mowed. St Aug likes to be mowed very high and bermuda likes to be mowed low. If you want to favor the St Aug, you mow high. That will kill out the bermuda. If you want to favor the bermuda, mow low. Unfortunately low mowing does not kill out St Aug. The St Aug will always be an ugly broadleafed "weed" in the bermuda (unless you smother it out with compost).

Hope this helps.

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