Bermuda Grass
Time to talk about types of grass for a bit… I’m afraid I don’t have pictures of every type of grass out there, so if you have them, by all means, please use the comment form here to contact me and send me a picture – good pictures will be published here with credit going to the photographer.
So, let’s start with Bermuda Grass…
Bermuda Grass is often referred to in the Unites States as “the Southern grass”. It is a favorite in texture and color for all areas of usage from lawns to highway medians, athletic fields and the like, from about Tennessee, South. It essentially grows in tropical, sub-tropical and the transition zones. There are some cool season varieties being hybridized, but they are not widely accepted yet. In fact, many Northern climates relate to Bermuda Grass as a pestilence, owing to its ambitious and vigorous rhizome habit.
Just the same, Bermuda Grass is one of the most sun loving warm season lawn and pasture grasses. It can very easily be planted from grass seed and provides a great turf grass lawn in Southern areas. Bermuda turf requires a fairly moderate amount of lawn grass care, maintenance and mowing.
Bermuda grass is known as one of the most persistent and aggressive grasses. It’s tough to kill, in fact, after it gets established. It germinates quickly from seed, covers quickly and can grow in a pretty wide variety of soil types. For Floridians and Californians and any people who live near a coast line, Bermuda grass is fairly salt-tolerant. As a tough sort of survivor grass, Bermuda Grass is often used in these climates as a most desirable grass for golf courses, especially since it can be extremely reliable and attractive when regularly maintained and cut. Divots are easily replaceable fairly quickly and, for athletic fields, this also matters.
The bottom line with Bermuda Grass lawns is that they love sun, don’t require an awful lot of super focused maintaining, are quick to establish and keep their color without the constant need to “tone” with fertilizers.
