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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 6 days ago

One of the things I remember when I visited Florida as a kid from the UK was how weird their grass was. It's all spiky.

And kept trying to point this out but for some bizarre reason my parents weren't interested.

[-] fefellama@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

It’s called St Augustine grass and it’s everywhere down there since it’s supposedly very hardy, heat resistant, and salt resistant, which is important in hot, wet, and salty Florida. And I know exactly what you mean about the spikiness; it’s not soft at all.

[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In my region (Tennessee) the most popular intentional lawn grass is Tall Fescue, which is very soft, but it doesn’t spread laterally, so when gaps happen due to heat and such, spiky/hard crab grass fills in the gaps, and isn’t killed by broad-leaf herbicide since it’s also grass, so semi-maintained lawns quickly get taken over. The lawns with no herbicide regimen get taken over by clover instead, so you end up with a horseshoe of sorts where the completely un-maintained lawns (fescue and clover) and meticulously-maintained lawns (pure fescue) are soft, but the lawns in the middle are spiky.

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