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Here I would love to share with you our travels and adventures as international mushroom consultants. MEMOIRS about husband Pieter Vedder, who was a SCIENTIFIC PIONEER in Commercial Mushroom Cultivation Education. His practical handbook is in 9 languages and is called the MUSHROOM BIBLE: https://mariettesbacktobasics.blogspot.com/2020/08/modern-mushroom-growing-2020-harvesting.html

Thursday, September 8, 2016

{Centipede Grass Sods}

In October when husband Pieter did remove the HUGE Indian Hawthorn and also got rid of all the rattlesnake weeds, he did sow a mix of grass.
From Home Depot, Pieter did haul back home several sods, on a piece of ply wood on the bike rack behind our Toyota RAV4...
Supervisor Spooky boy is watching that it is getting laid straight!
This photo is from October 31, 2015 where some of the grass seed did actually come up but it died already in the spring.
The Centipede that was supposed to be mixed in, did never come up.
This was the reason that we had to dig up all our Azaleas since it got infested by this pesky Rattlesnakeweed or Hieracium venosum L. 
Several loads and often they did run out of sods at Home Depot...
Keeping the ones that already got laid alive was also a struggle in mid June.
Sods that have been on pallets for days, seem to turn yellowish...
Light and water helps to change that quickly.
Row by row...
While we were in Florida, our cat sitter did turn on the sprinklers a lot so it is growing now and it has been mowed already.
Hoping to get this added section of lawn in good shape over time.
In the shade of our huge Magnolia tree, grass will not likely grow, so that has been left bare but grass will spread out.
Centipede is a grass variety that stands the heat and in winter it turns completely brown. That's a time that I hate.. looking so dreary!

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13 comments:

  1. You two do such a good job taking care of your yard. I don't like when the grass turns brown in the winter either.

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  2. Liebe Mariette,

    das ist ein wunderschöner Post.

    Sonnige Grüße
    Elisabeth

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  3. Wat een ruimte om jullie huis lijkt me heerlijk ...

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  4. Dearest Mariette; How hard it must be to take care of your special yard☆☆☆ We fear Centipede as we can see it inside the house, happens once a year or so :-)
    So sorry for my long absence, Dear friend. I DO hope you are having a wonderful week♪
    Sending Lots of Love and Hugs from Japan to my Dear friend in America, xoxo Miyako*

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    1. Dearest Miyako,
      Well, it is not about the creature 'Centipede' but in this post I only write about the variety of grass that is called Centipede because of its very unique root system, looking like a Centipede. The word Centi derived from Latin, meaning a hundred.
      Hope this did clarify for you the new term. My uncle Louis in Broken Hill Australia has the very same Centipede grass and for the same reason of extreme heat and extreme drought since this grass will survive.
      Hugs,
      Mariette

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  5. O jardim está livres de ervas daninhas sobre o olhar atento do gato.
    Um abraço e continuação de uma boa semana.
    Andarilhar

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  6. Your yard looks great with new sods! We just recently got new sods and have been watering every day. It's yellowish now but I hope it will eventurally look good like your yard :-)

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  7. Never easy to keep the grass green and healthy in summer.
    I like to see your cat looking over the garden. When we are gardening, one our our cats is always close to us digging away.

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  8. Hi Mariette
    It's a good idea ! Beautiful garden.
    Hugs

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  9. Liebste Mariette,
    Rasen haben wir noch nie gesät. Grassoden oder Rollrasen sind da sicher ideal, so hat man sofort einen kompakten Rasen, ohne daß die Vögel die Samen aufpicken können. Wir selbst haben Wiese, in der allerlei Wildkräuter und auch Moos wachsen, das ich auch sehr gern habe, da es sehr angenehm an den nackten Füßen ist. Bei Euch war es, glaube ich, auch so trocken, wie bei uns und dann verdorrt der Rasen. Bei uns passiert das in der Form nicht, da die Wildkräuter, die im "Rasen" wachsen, doch ziemlich robust sind und dann wieder grün werden. Wir halten die Wiese aber so kurz wie einen Rasen, dann ist das ideal und sieht auch ansprechend aus. Habichtskraut kenne ich auch, das orange blühende, das habe ich in einem meinem Gärten sogar einmal angepflanzt, weil ich es so hübsch fand. ;-) Heute würde ich das wohl nicht mehr tun.

    Ich wünsche Dir/Euch, daß alles gut anwächst und bald wieder frisch und gesund aussieht.

    Liebe Grüße
    Sara
    http://herz-und-leben.blogspot.de/
    http://mein-waldgarten.blogspot.de/

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    1. Liebe Sara,
      Es geht hier aber um die Grass Sorte die gegen unheimlich hohe Temperaturen kann und trotzdem überlebt. Ein wirklicher Tausendfüssler, das mit den vielen Wurzeln in der Erde haftet. Wenn es auch bis 42 oder 43˚C wird, überlebt es noch. Nur bei meinem Onkel in Broken Hill habe ich die gleiche Grass Sorte gesehen weil es da auch so heiß sein kann im Sommer. Und das sind Temperaturen die im Schatten gemessen werden; nicht wie im West Europa wo man so gerne jammert wenn es mal im Schatten über die 25˚C hinaus steigt! Dann jammert ein jeder...
      Es ist nicht leicht um in solches Klima überhaupt ein Garten im Leben zu halten...
      Ganz liebe Grüße,
      Mariette

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    2. Das ist natürlich nicht schlecht, liebe Mariette. Wir haben ja weniger Gras denn Wildkräuter im "Rasen" und wollen das auch so. Ein reiner Rasen aus Gräsern ist uns zu arbeitsaufwändig und unnatürlich. Nur auf den Löwenzahn kann ich gerne verzichten, aber auch Moos im Rasen lieben wir sehr. DAs ist so weich an den Füßen. :-)
      Mehr als 40 Grad sind sicherlich für viele Westeuropäer eher nicht so erträglich, weil sie es schlichtweg nicht gewöhnt sind, aber diese Temperaturen werden sich auch hier häufen. Ich selbst habe ja eher südliche Gene und komme meist ganz gut klar damit. Im Haus kann man sich davor schützen, ist alles kein Problem. Nur für die Gärten mit den Hortensien und anderen wasserliebenden Gewächsen wird es dann schwierig, da muß man direkt zum Umweltsünder werden, um sie halten zu können, indem man kostbares Trinkwasser verbraucht.

      Liebe Grüße
      Sara

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