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I'm asking the question to see if I can get some advice on how to kill the other grasses that spout in it. When I moved here to Electric City (Zone 5; 11" precip annually) and built a house the one thing I knew I wanted to try was buffalo grass - I'd tried it in California but it didn't do well. This time I put in the grass plugs sold by High Country Gardens and it grows here like gang busters, and I love it. Yes, it stays dorment longer than the other grasses do but I like that too - it turns a beautiful tawny color and I plant lots and lots of little bulbs in it for spring. Here's the only thing I don't like and its driving me crazy - the grass seed that gets blown over from my pasture grasses and germinates in my buffalo grass ! Yes, I get weeds too but I can take care of those with a little 2-4-D. And I use lots and lots and lots of the corn gluten to hopefully prevent germination of any seeds but for some reason this year I ended up with lots of grasses growing in my lawn. And I don't want them there - they grow faster and taller than my buffalo grass and they are much greener than the lawn so it makes things look weedy. Any advice on how to kill individual grasses w/out harming the lawn? Boiling water? Vinegar?
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