Ever heard of WIRE GRASS?

3044 · Apr 7, 2001

I need info on wire grass. Tried a search and came up blank.
Also tried other sites. Maybe using wrong name but this stuff runs across the yard like a basket weave and is pretty tough.. I need to know how to control, kill or live with it..pretty important customer..

Thanks Chris...

greens1 · Apr 7, 2001

Hi cp,
I have never heard of wiregrass, must be local lingo. Take a sample into your local Co op Extention office and have them positively ID it for you. Once you have a positive ID I'm fairly ceartain we can find a solution for you.
Jim L

eslawns · Apr 7, 2001

Around here, wiregrass is what some people call Bermudagrass.

powerreel · Apr 7, 2001

Greenish black standing upright with lots of nodes?
Round Up, Tri Mec, Surflan, dish soap will control it. You can not eridacate it, only manage it. Hope this helps.

Fantasy Lawns · Apr 7, 2001

bermudagrass id=> http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/cynda.htm

maintanence =>
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/LH007

bob · Apr 7, 2001

Bermuda Grass, Fusilate 2 will control it.

lee b · Apr 8, 2001

I thought wiregrass only grew on the coastal plain of the south-east. Wiregrass is not bermuda or bahia grass, but a entirely different critter. It grows up-right, has very slender stem-like blades, in the spring it's not to bad to cut, but when it toughens up in summer it can be rough. My part of the world got it's name from it - Wiregrass Georgia.

Barkleymut · Apr 8, 2001

Lee you may be right but in these parts we call Bermuda grass wire grass. Bob was right Fusilade does very well at controlling it. Just make sure not to mix it too strong or your fescue is toast as well.

lee b · Apr 8, 2001

Barkleymut, if ya'll call bermuda "wiregrass" because ya'll think it's tough, you oughta try drought-stressed bahia or what we call "wiregrass" which is even worse than bahia. Bermuda is pretty wimpy in comparision. If we sprayed and killed bermuda grass down here, we'd be outa work; because that's our predominant lawn grass.

Barkleymut · Apr 8, 2001

I'd hate to have that Bahia up here. Bermuda is like a weed and it spreads into mulch beds so easily. It lives through just about the dryest summer without water and 90-100 degrees for weeks with very little slowdown. It is the predominant weed around here. I love the stuff if you get a good variety it can make for a very nice lawn but like I said most folks here call it a weed.

lee b · Apr 8, 2001

One mans weed is another mans yard. I wish we had nice grass to work with, like ya'll have. We use round-up to keep bermuda out of flower beds, just spray a narrow band on runners trying to cross the edge of the bed, works pretty good, but you have to do it regularly.

Spence · Apr 8, 2001

Here in NC, wiregrass and bermuda is the same thing.

HOMER · Apr 8, 2001

Wiregrass is not Bermuda or Bahai. I saw this on the news one night because there has been a lot if controversy over what it is. I live in the "Wiregrass area". We even have a Wiregrass Lawn Care and a Wiregrass Lawn Service around here. Everything around here is called Wiregrass this and Wiregrass that. Type in the word wiregrass on your search and see what comes up.

Wiregrass is a specific type of grass that grows around here but it isn't bahai, although when you get hit by bahai weed eating you think a wire hit you. I will do some more research cause I want to know myself--------again. There was one site that I found that resembled bahai but it didn't even mention the fact that it came from the south.

lee b · Apr 8, 2001

Homer, thanks for backing me up on this. I don't believe wiregrass grows very far north, I think it's mainly on the coastal plain of the deep south. I know wiregrass when I see it, but don't really know alot about it. Farmers used to burn the woods off in the spring to make wiregrass green-up, made good grazing until it got too tough. When it dried out people used it woved together, like string or wire , for different uses. Bermuda and Bahia are not wiregrass.

[Edited by lee blount on 04-08-2001 at 10:21 AM]

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