New type of grass?

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by id10t

This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff

Yeah... but does it have any Labrador in it?

[drkshdw]

Looks like a type of fescue. Quack grass is like crabgrass with thick blades. Stands out like a sore thumb and this time of year is turning yellow before the turf grass is. It also grows low to the ground, not stringy like your pic.

Best way I've found to get rid of grass in planting beds is to skim the top 2-3 inches of soil and toss it in the trash and bring in new soil to replace it. Any shred of root left will resprout and you'll be back at square one in a year if you try to pull or till it. Or if the periwinkle is just going to grow there, fill in the soil you remove with wood chips. Lay it deep and nothing grows through it. You can usually get heaps of them free.

[KFC911]

"We" might call it by the wrong name here... but generically it's called bermuda or crab grass though. It thrives in heat and where fescue/bluegrass is sparse. It sux...

[Danimal16]

Turflon Ester will control bermuda in fescue lawns. It also works in controlling kikuyugrass. It does not completely eliminate it, but it is a great control.

[masraum]

It's green. In my yard, that's good enough for me. I'm pretty sure that we've got at least half a dozen types of grasses in the area around the house that we consider "the yard." And besides those, we also have a bunch of horseherb/straggler daisy and frogfruit (among other things). I'm happy for just about any/all of it to grow and be green.

[stevej37]

Bermuda grass...along with Palm trees don't grow in Michigan.

Once in a while we have gators. But they are seasonal. They can't take the first winter.

[GH85Carrera]

My yard is mostly Bermuda. It is perfect for the area. Total drought resistance, it will just go brown and dormant until enough warm weather and water are around, and then grow like made. It loves 100 degree days and adequate water.

I have to fight it to keep it out of the wife's many flower beds. It thinks flower beds are the place to grow.

It puts root root runners and seed as well. Self perpetuating.