Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!ems
From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Help with lawn selection needed
Message-ID: <1630@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 13:40:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: amdahl.1630
Posted: Fri Jun  7 13:40:21 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Jun-85 02:35:49 EDT
References: <1968@hplabs.UUCP>
Distribution: net
Organization: Circle C Shellfish Ranch, Shores-of-the-Pacific, Ca
Lines: 23

> I am thinking about planting a lawn in a sunny, dry area which I don't want
> to water very much.  Reading various pieces of literature has helped me
> narrow my choice to Zoysia (Japonica, Meyer, or Z-52) or Tifgreen Bermuda.
> 
I don't know what kind of bermuda we had (Tifgreen may be a special
kind ...) but it was a royal pain to deal with.  The stuff grows
without care.  It grows under concrete, it grows into flower beds.
It grows under the house and up the walls.  Left to it's self, it
goes to seed producing a forest of 6 inch tassels that make many
folks sneeze.  Should you decide to remove it, be prepared for a
year or two of work.  And it does seem to creep back in from
somewhere from time to time thereafter.

In the winter (in the Central Valley of California) it becomes
an interesting manila brown dormant mat.

Don't know what the Zoysia is, but it can't be much worse.
-- 

E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

This is the obligatory disclaimer of everything. (Including but
not limited to: typos, spelling, diction, logic, and nuclear war)