Interseeding with seeded Bermudagrasses Cancel The title field is required!

1. Steffie Safrit

   

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   4/18/2013 8:04 AM

   Has anyone ever seeded some of the seeded bermudagrasses like Rivera or Princess varieties into established common bermudagrass? Successes or failures? Procedures of establishment? Thanks.

   
   
   
   
2. Holt Michael

   
   4/18/2013 3:04 PM

   I have never tried or heard of it done but I would think that the common would prevail. Scalp the hang out of the common and that may increase the odds but there's going to be a lot of shade on that seed from growing common. When it does come up it will not choke out the common unless it is mowed very low. Just my thoughts.

   
   
   
   
3. Andy Jorgensen

   

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   4/19/2013 5:04 AM

   My experience is that the seeded varieties are improved over the common types, but the common types will always prevail against ANY grass.

   
   
   
   
4. Wahlin Scott B

   
   4/19/2013 6:04 AM

   Prior to my arrival our driving range tee was overseeded with some sort of aggressive wide-leafed Bermudagrass. It is not pretty, but it fills in divots in a hurry. I have never had a golf complain about it.
   
   A grass that was popular in the early 60's was Everglades Bermudagrass and it was widely touted and recommended by UF at that time. I had a solid hole of it in Miami that was planted as a nursery for the rest of the course. It had a very fine leaf, extremely aggressive - no other grass could survive in it, remained weed-free and even made a pretty good greens grass. It has great color and looked wonderful from November to late May at 0.125". It was thatchy and yellow (from verticutting) in the summer, but it remained healthy at 0.140". I think Everglades deserves another look.

   
   
   
   
5. Andy Jorgensen

   

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   4/19/2013 7:04 AM

   Scott Wahlin, CGCS said:
   
   A grass that was popular in the early 60's was Everglades Bermudagrass and it was widely touted and recommended by UF at that time. I had a solid hole of it in Miami that was planted as a nursery for the rest of the course. It had a very fine leaf, extremely aggressive - no other grass could survive in it, remained weed-free and even made a pretty good greens grass. It has great color and looked wonderful from November to late May at 0.125". It was thatchy and yellow (from verticutting) in the summer, but it remained healthy at 0.140". I think Everglades deserves another look.

   
   
   
   Interesting....
   
   http://gsr.lib.msu.edu/1960s/1968/680312.pdf