Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Phil Bunch" <pbunch@cox.net>]

Yes and as the climate warms people farther north will have the "pleasure"
of a relationship with this lovely plant :-(

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From: livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:livingontheland-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
laurabrownmckenzie@att.net
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:37 AM
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Bermuda Grass

  We take a multi pronged approach to Bermuda.  First, where the grass is a
severe problem, I only plant vegetables that can be heavily HEAVILY mulched.
In the winter, those areas get a good going over with a scuffle hoe and then
are planted in rye.  I have several beds that sit in my "lawn" (which is
made up entirely of scruffy grasses no one would want). I have to have the
"lawn" there because the land slopes steeply. (A sketch of my growing spaces
is here: http://home.att.net/~ekyorigins/garden.jpg ).   Keeping the Bermuda
from invading the beds, I have 12 inch perimeters that are kept in rye in
the winter and kept hoed the rest of the year.  

   Lastly, if I'm digging a large hole (such as for a tomato or a buried
compost pile), I sift the soil with my hands to take out stolens.  

   Someone 13 or so years ago told me that I wanted to buy coastal Bermuda
for mulching as it didn't survive up here in North Alamaba.  I wasn't well
versed in the ways of things then and imported my own problem!!!!!
Everything else might die in a drought but the coastal Bermuda just keeps
going.  

Laura

    
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