Ground Cover

[riversnout]

What's the best way to grow lush ground cover over volcanic cinder?

[bananahead]

dont plant invasive species, and you may need a canopy of trees for some shade, all depends are where you are...



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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha

[Lee M-S]

If you wait a few months, grasses will take over, and you just mow.

[riversnout]

bananahead - of course nothing non-native. What do you recommend that is walk-on-able?

[Kenney]

Pretty much everything grows on volcanic cinder here if there's water. Walkable implies grass of some sort to me. I've found the stuff that comes up on it's own is lusher than the centipede grass we planted and more draught resistant. As LeeMS said, the trick is regular mowing.

[shave_ice]

perrenial peanut gets pretty lush and is a nitrogen fixer.

[riversnout]

Perrenial peanut is from South America, any native similar?

[Durian Fiend]

Desmodium is a non native but widely naturalized ground cover plant that's a nitrogen fixer. It has come in and mixed with grass in my orchard.

[EightFingers]

Desmodium.......

It's all over my yard! I'm a gonna spray that ****!


Durian, you're right, that stuff takes over everything! I could easily have a yard of just that...

[leilaniguy]

I hate that "excrement" always picking it off my shorts, leg hairs, dogs.