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Lawn From Seed vs Plugs - punafarmboy - 03-24-2008
aloha fellow folks with dirt under your nails!
any advice for someone who wants a lawn ?
i've only seen one successful attempt with seeding in 7 years and it was a fulltime job for the guy and an expensive one at that
am plugging a place in kapoho and lost the supplier a third of the way through
would love to hear about anything you encountered!
RE: Lawn From Seed vs Plugs - Hotzcatz - 03-26-2008
We've got fairly large sections of lawn planted from what started out as one flat of grass. There was a small section of Dragon's Beard mondo grass which we've been spreading around all over the place, too. I haven't had much luck with grass seed but when we find a type of grass which does well we encourage it and weed out the rest.
Do you have dirt to grow a lawn in? I've seen a house in HPP where they kept a duck in a pen. It was about 8' x 10' or so and they would move the pen every other month or so. Their yard was sort of a checkerboard of really green squares where the duck pen had been. They'd leave the pen there until the cinders had been covered with a good layer of duck fertilizer mixed in with the straw they kept in the duck pen and then they planted grass there after they moved the pen.
RE: Lawn From Seed vs Plugs - nanasohana - 03-28-2008
Hmmmm...this reminds me of the chicken tractor that was a thread awhile ago....could work the same with a few laying hens, I bet. Or ducks for their eggs.