Interesting Facts That You Should Know About Kikuyu Grass

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Interesting Facts That You Should Know About
Kikuyu Grass
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Introduction

• A number of factors have contributed in making
  Kikuyu grass immensely popular in Australia, but
  there are some who oppose and say that there are
  other better turfs too. There is no doubt about
  the same and in fact, there is an entire range of
  turfs, but all of them are better in different
  ways.
• The people of Australia love this turf because of
  features like rapid lush green growth, drought
  hardiness, resistance to wear and ability to
  survive gardener neglect.

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• If you are planning to get this turf installed,
  continue reading this post, as we have determined
  some top facts, features and characteristics of
  this Kikuyu turf that make it so popular in
  Australia.

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KIKUYU GRASS CHARACTERISTICS

• This grass was first brought to Australia around
  one century back in 1920s and at that time, it
  was categorised as a "pasture grass" for cattle.
• It was the native of Kenya and later in the
  1960s, it saw transformations and later, it
  became the top grass in the Australian Continent.
• The modern-day variant of this grass is not as
  aggressive as the former Kikuyu grass of the
  early days and at present, its very sterile.
• This turf experiences really good quality and
  lush green turf throughout the winter and summer
  season.

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• This grass is better than others because it puts
  down deep roots.
• It can thrive really-really well in the hot
  weather conditions and because of
  disease-resistant properties it stays immune
  through the summer season.
• Kikuyu grass has broad coarse leaves (25 to 40 mm
  long and 4 to 5 mm wide) and hard runners.
• Because of having really aggressive growth rate
  and self-repair properties, this makes it a very
  economically available Kikuyu turf.

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• Kikuyu is renowned for its vigorous growth in
  most conditions and although it is not a shade
  loving grass it will tolerate some shade.
• Growing the turf requires preparation, but not
  too much and mainly includes spraying, rotary
  hoeing, and levelling.

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