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Is this bermuda grass??
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WJKEIGER
Posted 8/30/2018 21:19 (#6960652 - in reply to #6960254)
Subject: RE: Is this bermuda grass??


nw NC
That is Bermuda grass. Lots of it used for pasture and hay in some locales. It has rhizomes that allows it to spread and take over most anywhere it grows. Before glyphosate and some other herbicides that can control it, Bermuda grass was a curse if it got into cropland. It takes two or three years to get rid of it with glyphosate. You have to repeat spraying it and stay after it to eradicate. There is some here that my grandfather planted near 90 years ago. After a few years and it spreading into his garden, he regretted planting it. We still have some in the garden to spray with glyphosate each year. When we allowed the dairy cows onto grassy areas that had some of it growing, they got some of the stems and rhizomes between their hooves where they mired in soft ground, and they brought it onto the concrete feed yard and barn. It got into manure that was hauled to the fields. Got the darn stuff started in corn fields. Still fighting some spots of it there years later.

Info on Bermuda .... https://extension2.missouri.edu/g4620





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