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Chiefengineer MIssion Valley, TX(Zone 9a) Oct 05, 2009

I live in the country outside Victoria, Texas. This is near the Gulf
just north of Corpus Christi.
I have a place outside my backdoor (surrounded by concrete walkways
which promote grass growth from morning dew, etc., like there
is no tomorrow) that I have been looking to replace with
fake putting grass. No joke; it looks like an Indiana Jones movie
two days after edging/cutting.

And then I got some quotes...and I may as well build a small house there.

So I was thinking of putting in some real bent grass, and cutting it by hand
with a manual rotary mower that cuts short. The driving range guy here has a
kind of a rough chipping green that would work. He said it is "40-18 hybrid",
which doesn't Google. It gets real hot, real dry, real humid, but should never
frost in that space.

I looked in the grass forum and it seems devoted to bamboo. I searched this whole
site and got a lot of raccoon threads for some reason. I would just like ANYONE
to tell me if there some decent seed-type I can grow in South Texas that has
some native resistance, or someone has had some success with bent grass
in subtropical climates. Thanks for any help!

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themoonhowl Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a) Oct 06, 2009

Here are some links you may of use.

http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/sustainable/handbooks/lawns/1.html

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/turf/publications/bent.html

http://www.american-lawns.com/grasses/bentgrass.html

This one mentions the 40-18 hybrid

http://www.ssseeds.com/SSSeed_Brochure05web.pdf

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Chiefengineer MIssion Valley, TX(Zone 9a) Oct 19, 2009

Thanks for the links. I am getting educated.
Interestingly, the Lowes map for Bent Grass
excludes my area...apparently it doesn't get
cold enough.

My Googling just wasn't hacking it...I found
a single supplier supposedly specializing in
Texas Bent hybrids...but again....no real
micro-climate designations.

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themoonhowl Prairieville, LA(Zone 9a) Oct 19, 2009

Hope you find what you are looking for. Google searches can be very frustrating sometimes.

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