Bird
Rest in Peace
Eddie, I first heard of hydromulching from a friend and neighbor who worked for a company that owned 31 golf courses/country clubs and he said that was what they did around the perimeter of the greens when building new golf courses. Of course this summer will be 30 years since I had that hydromulching done, but I still remember that I could have bought St. Augustine sod for $1.25 a yard (if I provided the labor to put it down) and the hydromulching was just about half that; i.e., $.07 a square foot or $.63 a yard. The friend had told me it usually cost them about a nickel a square foot.
But I agree that the different types of bermuda can get confusing and I don't know anything about them except for the common bermuda and coastal myself.
However, the same can be said for fescue. The neighbor I mentioned who had his lawn done in fescue was, unfortunately, right next door. Now I didn't know, back then, that there are different types of fescue, also, but within a couple of years, I sure did think it should be illegal to plant that stuff. As long as that neighbor lived there, he watered, fertilized, and mowed and had a beautiful lawn, but that stuff spread into my year; clumps of it that grew just a little more than twice as fast as my bermuda.
It also stayed green and needed mowing year round. Then he sold the place and moved and that house became a rental house with tenants who did nothing to the yard, except mow it when the city issued a notice that it had to be mowed. Pretty soon, it was nothing but clumps of tall grass here and there in that yard, while the clumps that had spread into my bermuda stayed nice and green. I spot sprayed with Round-Up to try to keep it under control and out of my yard, but it was just about a losing battle.
It's hard for me to imagine anyone trying to kill out bermuda and keep fescue. If I found any fescue in my yard now, I think I'd spray the whole yard with Round-Up and start over.
But I agree that the different types of bermuda can get confusing and I don't know anything about them except for the common bermuda and coastal myself.
However, the same can be said for fescue. The neighbor I mentioned who had his lawn done in fescue was, unfortunately, right next door. Now I didn't know, back then, that there are different types of fescue, also, but within a couple of years, I sure did think it should be illegal to plant that stuff. As long as that neighbor lived there, he watered, fertilized, and mowed and had a beautiful lawn, but that stuff spread into my year; clumps of it that grew just a little more than twice as fast as my bermuda.
It's hard for me to imagine anyone trying to kill out bermuda and keep fescue. If I found any fescue in my yard now, I think I'd spray the whole yard with Round-Up and start over.