Butterfly Gardening Blog

I’ve gotten a few of our Legacy grass plugs in now. I still have a lot to do though – it is hard work! With legacy you can just kill an area of existing grass with Roundup and then put the plug in. But I still dug away the dead grass around it to make it easier for it to grow. I’m a little concerned about how well it will compete with the other grass in our yard. Here is one plug shortly after it was planted:

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We’ve been wanting to grow buffalo grass for a long time, but we knew we couldn’t afford to redo our whole lawn. When our sewer line needed to be worked on this spring, rather than sowing the area with a non-native grass seed, we got some buffalo grass instead. Then we decided to start more elsewhere – with both seeds and plugs. It’s kind of an experiment – we’ll start it in different places and see how well it grows and spreads.

Buffalo grass (Bucheloe dactyloides) is a native lawn grass. There are many varieties available. In general, in tends to need less water, many varieties grow great in clay and need mininal mowing.

I bought some Legacy plugs recently, I need to get them planted soon. It only grows to be 4-6 inches high, needs only 15 inches of water per year, loves clay and grows fast. Here is the tray of Legacy plugs I bought recently:

Here is one of the areas my husband is growing a different variety of Buffalo grass in – it is called Topgun: