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Bermuda Grass Grows Best
Bermudagrass grows best on heavy to light soils and under good fertilization and water
availability. It can be grown in deeper sandy soils than most grasses.
It grows well all
across the temperate areas (warm season) with plenty of sunshine and higher temperatures.
Bermuda is a Good choice for drought prone and coastal areas.
COLDER STATE LOCATIONS:
Northern part of red states on map at right are the colder areas where some bermuda grass varieties will survive.
Improved varieties with better
cold tolerance than basic
common bermuda types should be
used in areas including
Oklahoma, N. Texas, N Arkansas,
Tenn, NC and Virginia.
Varieties with higher cold
tolerance (ability to survive
lower temps with less damage)
include Yukon, Mohawk, Riviera
and LaPaloma.
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ADAPTATION: This perennial warm season
tropical grass is probably one of the most versatile grasses now grown from the tropics
throughout the temperate zone. Having probably come from Asia and/or Africa and used
only for pastures in the beginning, Bermuda has been adapted by man for some of the most
elite purposes for athletics fields and golf courses world wide. Science has developed
this southern grass species as close to northern bent grass as possible and is still
improving upon the varieties almost seasonally.
*MAP NOTE: Bermuda
seeded varieties planted in the more Northern areas marked in red on
above map should be selected from "cold tolerant" varieties such as
Yukon or Mohawk in order to reduce an increased risk of
winter kill from low winter temperatures. Hybrid varieties:
Some hybrid varieties, bermuda grass plugs, sprigs or sod provide a slightly increased cold hardiness range of adaptation
than seeded varieties.
Once adapted only to vegetative plantings,
the newer seeded varieties are vying for better positions on the lawns of the world.
These newer adaptations allow the grass to grow slightly further north and
have been selected for better drought tolerance than the older more common variety. The blade texture has
been adapted to finer, thinner blades more in common with the northern grasses. Adaptation
to salt spray adds to the popularity as a coastal grass.
Bermuda is usually not as disease or
insect plagued as St. Augustine. The adaptability of being grown by home
owners from seed has added to it's acceptance as a grass of choice.
Bermudagrass is also adaptive to areas of
potential flooding. Although this is not a water loving grass to the extent that other warm season
grasses may be, it can take getting wet short periods of time; when the period of flooding
is over and the land returns to the degree of drainage as before, Bermuda
will re-grow
quickly. This does not mean heavy flooding that stays for an
extended length of time. All
grasses will die when oxygen is cut off except those adapted to grow in the water.
As one of the original grasses introduced to the "New World"
Bermuda Grass is still used today in forage and hay fields worldwide. The better pastures and
hay producers still seem to be the ones that are grown from vegetative material with the
common being still being grown because of the low cost and ease of seeding. As
is true in
the lawn grasses there are improved varieties available in seed form that produce more
forage than the common Bermudagrass. This is one grass that has to be carefully chosen
because in some areas it is considered a weed and is highly invasive.
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