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Old 09-06-2009, 02:14 PM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default Is there really such a thing as temorary grass

On Jun 8, 10:40*pm, mm wrote:
Is there really such a thing as temorary grass? * I was at the store
and the cheapest bag of grass seed was called iirc Temporary Grass. *

I didn't have my glasses with me, but I think they implied, it would
start to grow quickly but would die off later. * Is there really grass
that won't grow for years and years and years, if the conditions are
okay? *Or are they just leading people to believe that?

It was 3 dollars more for a similar sized bag of hot-shot grass seed,
so I bought that. Did they trick me?



I don;t think they tricked you, but we have no way of knowing if you
got what you wanted or need. If you read what was in that bag of
"temporary" grass, I'll bet it was annual rye grass, which is
typically used for applications like fast temporary errosion
control. It can also be planted at the same time as some other
desired grass, which is slower growing, giving green while the other
grass gets established.

Being annual, as long as you keep it cut before it goes to seed, it
gets eliminated.