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chopped into small sections. The first method is preferable. Thesesections of roots or small clumps are planted from three to six inchesdeep; more shallow if the soil is moist. Shallow planting should beadopted only where ideal conditions exist for keeping the soil moist.It requires approximately three cubic yards of these roots to plantone acre of lawn. If the roots are contained in two and one halfbushel sacks it will require from one hundred and forty to one hun-dred and fifty of these sacks filled with Bermuda grass roots to plantone acre of lawn, or approximately one sack for each two hundred andtwenty-five square feet. These roots of Bermuda grass or St. Augustinegrass should not be permitted to dry out, either while piled waiting forshipment or while in transit to the place where the lawn is being made.Injury from the drying out of the roots of these plants between thetime they are dug and the time they are planted is not nearly soserious as the injury caused by heating or sweating while the plantsare still in the sacks. If these plants are allowed to heat or sweat theyimmediately turn yellow, begin to rot and die. Any plants that havebeen subjected to this heating or sweating process should not beplanted. If the lawn which is to be developed is large, then a simplemethod of planting these grasses is to spread them broadcast over theground and to disc the roots in with a harrow, or to plow a shallowfurrow and plant the roots in the furrows. The discing process hassometimes proved a failure. It requires approximately twice as muchgrass and roots as the planting in furrows, in order to get the same standof grass. It is a process, however, which can well be adopted where animmediate even stand of grass is not essential. This is true because inthe process of planting in furrows the grass can be more evenly dis-tributed at a shallow depth while in the discing process most of thegrass finds itself at a considerable depth, thus requiring more time forthe grass to reach the surface. |
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