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<blockquote data-quote="Arnold Ziffle" data-source="post: 111817" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>flaboy, I don't know of many folks in my area that are putting in the traditional Coastal anymore. Tifton 85 is popular but it seems like more people are putting in a bermuda variety named Jiggs. The "poor boy" method is to let Jiggs in a hay field get pretty tall and growthy, so that you have long tops with several nodes. Cut it and bale it right away. Keep it from drying out as much as possible, wet it if you have to. The same day, or the next day if need be, throw the tops by hand and spread it out all over your well prepared ground (helps to have a lot of kids, or some "foreign exchange students", to do this!) then disc it in and roll it. You want to do this when you have a very well prepared "seedbed" and good moisture and of course it really helps to get a good rain soon thereafter. The idea is to get the nodes on the green tops covered with moist soil and in time roots will sprout from the nodes. This can be done spring through fall in our area. Of course, if it is bone dry you're wasting time and money doing this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnold Ziffle, post: 111817, member: 43"] flaboy, I don't know of many folks in my area that are putting in the traditional Coastal anymore. Tifton 85 is popular but it seems like more people are putting in a bermuda variety named Jiggs. The "poor boy" method is to let Jiggs in a hay field get pretty tall and growthy, so that you have long tops with several nodes. Cut it and bale it right away. Keep it from drying out as much as possible, wet it if you have to. The same day, or the next day if need be, throw the tops by hand and spread it out all over your well prepared ground (helps to have a lot of kids, or some "foreign exchange students", to do this!) then disc it in and roll it. You want to do this when you have a very well prepared "seedbed" and good moisture and of course it really helps to get a good rain soon thereafter. The idea is to get the nodes on the green tops covered with moist soil and in time roots will sprout from the nodes. This can be done spring through fall in our area. Of course, if it is bone dry you're wasting time and money doing this. [/QUOTE]
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