Bird,
I'm a littel confused on the different types of Bermuda grass varieties myself. Some are better for lawns, others for high traffic use and then there's the high growth, high protein stuff for livestock. My neighbor has a pasture in Tifton with a number, I forget the number, but he says it grows faster than any other variety. I looked at it and what realy caught my eye was how thick the runners were.
Back in California, bermuda was something we all fought to get rid off. All the garden stores sold stuff to kill bermuda and save the fiscue. I spent allot of money trying to win that battle, and never did. hahaha Now I'm spending even more money trying to get bermuda established!!!!
DmansPadge,
No snow, but lots of freezing. There are stories on the news about trees and branches falling from the ice build up, power out for thousands of people and traffic accidents from the ice. Here it's just pretty with the ice in the trees.
I prefer the warm and hot weather over this any time. I wonder if I'm too far North and should have moved closer to I-10 instead of I-20!!!
Rob,
Bahia is what grows here no matter what. I'm not a fan of it either and want to fight it from getting established. There's just nothing good about it.
I'd enjoy showing you around the place when you're in the area. Be sure to let me know when as I'm not always here, or if I am, I might have the gates locked up while working on something.
Just PM me with your regular email address and I'll send you a map with my phone number.
Mark,
You've read my mind. We're realy looking forward to putting the litte ten foot boat in there with the 5hp moter and pulling the kids around on an inner tube. It won't be very wild, but on a nice warm day, it should still be allot of fun!!!
Jim,
I've been to that website before when pricing grass seed. They have lots of good information, but there prices are on the high side. One thing that caught my eye was this;
"Risk of late plantings:
Bermuda seeds planted too late in the year, runs the risk of not producing and storing enough food reserves to last through the winter dormancy period. Basically the plants starve and then die because not enough growth occurs after planting to store the needed food in the root system. Dormancy is not a complete stopping of activity, so even when dormant the plant still needs nutrients and water to survive."
Which is pretty much exactly what I did. I knew it was a risk, but after reading that paragraph, I'm wondering if it was a big mistake on my part to plant when I did?
I'll find out in the spring time. hahaha
Did you all notice that log drag with the tires? Looked like a good way to smooth out a field for pretty cheap. The guy I bought my dumptruck from uses tires for drags like that because he says they fill up with dirt and do a great job of breaking down the high spots and filling in the low spots. I never made a tire drag because I want one that levels out the groudn better. The one in the picture looks like the way to go!!!!
I also have a few areas that I planted bermuda seed in several years ago that are very thick and lush. I go here with my loader to cut out areas to transplant. This is how my front yard is done, and parts of my front pasture. I can do this all summer long regardless of the heat, but I do have to water it every day for it to take hold. Once that happens, I can stop watering and it will continue to slowly spread.
Ron,
Love to see you and Betty again. Maybe this time it will be dryer for you and we can get your RV in here. Let me know when and we'll be looking for you.
As for the mud, what fun would it have been to stay on the safe and compacted roads? hahaha Unfortunatley, with my clearing efforts, I'm destroying allot of my roads that were very solid and easy to walk on. One of the main ones is so bad that we gave up trying to walk on it over the weekend and went out into the grass.
PM me if you need my phone number again.
Bird,
I built a spec home a few years ago on a sandy lot. Nothing but sand. When it was done, I decided to have it hydromulched. The cost was more than I'd expected at $2,000 for a quarter acre, but it did work. The sand doesn't hold any water, so it had to be watered twice a day for the first week, then once a day for almost a month. After that, I just watered it once a week when I mowed it until it sold.
Mixed in with the bermuda seed was centipede. The goal was to have a centepede lawn in three years. That's how long the hydromulch guy said it would take for it to take over the bermuda.
In the spring, I plan to put out centepede seed around the dam, along the waters edge. It's such a slow growing grasss, and its so extremly thick, that I shouldn't have to mow it very often. This would be really nice along the waters edge. Then in time, I'll try to get it to spread and establish itself over more and more of the dam.
I also prefer the shade of green of centepede over bermuda.
Thanks,
Eddie