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Name that grass???

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Loren

06-30-2005 20:59:04




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Fella says Timothy or Orchardgrass? What say ye?? If Orchardgrass what version?




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Jerry/MT

07-01-2005 22:26:36




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to Loren, 06-30-2005 20:59:04  
It's orchardgrass. The Britsh call it Cocksfoot becaise with the three separate "branches" that resemble a chicken foot. Can't tell the variety but it's probably Potomac because that's a real popular one.



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RB/CT

07-01-2005 05:52:58




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to Loren, 06-30-2005 20:59:04  
Orchard Grass, the bunching, denotes it from Timothy, funny, no characteristic short stiff side branches attached to it. George Washington once said, "Orchard Grass of all others is in my opinion the best mixture with clover; it blooms precisely at the same time, rises quick again after cutting, stands thick (boy he said that one right) yields well, and both horses and cattle are fond of it green or in hay."

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Roy in UK

06-30-2005 22:22:02




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to Loren, 06-30-2005 20:59:04  
Oh, so thats the famous Orchard Grass! we call it Cocksfoot in UK ( yes it is the same,Dactylis glomerata good old google) By the way we call Timothy Timothy!



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mike brown

07-01-2005 03:51:07




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to Roy in UK, 06-30-2005 22:22:02  
I wonder how many of these grasses came over with the colonists? I read somewhere that quackgrass was brought over early on for pasture grass.



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msb

07-01-2005 21:05:40




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to mike brown, 07-01-2005 03:51:07  
Giant Foxtail was (accidentally I think)imported in with some grass seed from Europe back in 1957 and started near Rantoul,Il.
Johnson Grass was imported from France(I believe)to the New Orleans area in the 1800 with the idea it was a great forage.How would you like to have gotten your hands on the throat of that brilliant guy.



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Roy in UK

07-01-2005 04:10:23




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to mike brown, 07-01-2005 03:51:07  
Out of curiosity I googled that one too. 'Quack grass' Oh dear we gave you our Twitch grass or "Wicks" as we call it in Yorkshire. (Thankyou for giving us Roundup to control it!)



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Roy in UK

07-01-2005 04:07:39




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to mike brown, 07-01-2005 03:51:07  
Out of curiosity I googled that one too. 'Quack grass' Oh dear we gave you our Twitch grass or "Wicks" as we call it in Yorkshire. ( and you gave us Roundup to control it! )



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mike brown

07-01-2005 09:37:34




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to Roy in UK, 07-01-2005 04:07:39  
Years ago my beef cows taught me that quack is under rated as forage. They always ate it first in pasture. I now have a hay field that is thick with it and it makes real nice hay and weeds can't get a toe hold in the thick sod. I've been cutting that quack hay field for ten years.



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Roy in UK

07-01-2005 14:09:36




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to mike brown, 07-01-2005 09:37:34  
Yes it does make nice hay, it has a delicate blue tinge too! If you have some low lying wettish land like we had, where cereal production is a no-no, the thick matted roots ( OK rhizomes if you want to be botanically correct) not only stopped weeds, it also knitted the land together so you had less chance of bogging down!



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daddyj

06-30-2005 21:08:52




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to Loren, 06-30-2005 20:59:04  
For sure orchard grass, variety is hard to pinpoint but a good guess would be Hallmark.



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Bobg

06-30-2005 21:07:09




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 Re: Name that grass??? in reply to Loren, 06-30-2005 20:59:04  
It's orchard, I don't know what you mean by "which version".

Bobg



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