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Old 23-04-2006, 01:27 PM posted to austin.gardening
Jonny
 
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Default Buffalo Grass

There's a short paragraph at the below weblink that confirms the
shopkeeper's instructions for planting Buffalo grass seed.
http://www.easywildflowers.com/quality/buc.dacty.htm

Bermuda (Sahara variety) would also suit your area. Planting seed has
similar requirements.

Just throwing the seed out to wherever may eventually grow in a few spots
and string out to cover. It takes alot longer this way.
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Jonny
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Hi. I am a completely clueless homeowner. We just got our house last
year. It's an old place that was built over a cow pasture. (East of I-35
in San Marcos.) The "soil" is dark clay. Weeds grow great in it!
So I outsmarted myself and bought 6 lbs of Buffalo grass this morning. We
have a really big back yard and I want to just plant that and forget it.
I thought I could just throw out the seed and water it for a week or so
then forget it. Unfortunately, as I was leaving the seed store, the kind
man who weighed out the seeds told me to be sure that the soil is broken
up really finely since the seeds are so large and light weight and to be
sure to plant them only as deep as half of the first joint on my little
finger.
Plant? Plant! Who am I? What am I doing? I have degenerative disease
in my knees and a birth defect on top of that. Get around slowly with a
cane. I also have fibromyalgia and will have a hard time with planting and
breaking up soil. If I can even figure out how to do it.
Am I going to have to learn how to make soup out of $98 worth of Buffalo
Grass seeds? Or can someone tell me where to go and what to do when I get
there?
Thanks!
Beverly

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