Grass
Poaceae is a large and nearly
everywhere ubiquitous family of
monocotyledonous flowering
plants commonly known as
grasses. It includes the
cereal
grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species
cultivated in lawns and pasture. The latter are commonly referred to
collectively as grass. With around 780 genera and around
12,000 species, the
Poaceae is the
fifth-largest plant family, following the
Asteraceae with 32,000 known species in over 1,900 genera,
Orchidaceae
with 28,000 currently accepted species in 702 genera,
Fabaceae
with nearly 20,000 known species and 765 genera, and
Rubiaceae with 14,200 species in about 615 genera.
Cereal
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Grass is narrow-leaved green
herbage type
of
plant grown
as
lawns or found in the wild in fields. Used as pasture for
grazing animals
and can also be cut and dried as
hay, which
is a grass,
legumes, or other
herbaceous plants that have been cut, dried,
and stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for
grazing animals such as cattle,
horses, goats, and sheep. Hay is also fed to smaller animals such as
rabbits and guinea pigs. Pigs may be fed hay, but they do not digest it as
efficiently as fully
herbivorous animals.
Lawn is a field of cultivated and mowed grass.
Lawn is an area of
soil-covered land planted with grasses or
sometimes other durable plants
such as clover, which are maintained at a short height with a
lawnmower and used for
aesthetic and
recreational purposes.
Field is a tract of
level open land that is sometimes large. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed. A
piece of land prepared for
playing a game.
Field in agriculture is an area of land, enclosed or otherwise, used
for agricultural purposes such as cultivating crops or as a paddock or
other enclosure for livestock. A field may also be an area left to lie
fallow or as arable land. Many farms have a field border, usually composed
of a strip of shrubs and vegetation, used to provide food and cover
necessary for the survival of wildlife. It has been found that these
borders may lead to an increased variety of animals and plants in the
area, but also in some cases a decreased yield of crops.
Low Maintenance Lawns - Slow Growing Grass
You will never mow your grass again,
well at least not as much.
8 Plants for Wild Lawns That Do Not Require Mowing: Re clover,
creeping charlie, sweet woodruff, Buffalo Grass, Evergreen Moss, Dutch
Clover, Snow-In-Summer, Red Creeping Thyme
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Naturally Short Grass with Low Maintenance.
Pitch-Perfect:
Study of World Cup's turfgrass may help crops yield more from less.
Grass is famously resilient. But Paspalum vaginatum, a species better
known as seashore paspalum, can tolerate stresses diverse and deadly
enough to rival camels and cactuses. Experiments show grass's
resilience-building tricks work for corn, too. hanks to a new study, the
official turfgrass of the 2022 World Cup may soon assist another goal:
growing crops that yield more food with less of the fertilizer that
imposes costs on farmers, ecosystems and drinking water.
Festuca is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the
grass family, Poaceae (subfamily Pooideae). They are evergreen or
herbaceous perennial tufted grasses with a height range of 10–200 cm (4–79
in) and a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on every continent except
Antarctica.
Ancient gene duplication gave grasses multiple ways to wait out winter.
New research shows how grasses count the short days of winter to prepare
for flowering. The findings provide valuable insight into how
winter-adapted grasses gain the ability to flower in spring, which could
be helpful for improving crops, like winter wheat, that rely on this
process. To get at the use of daylength as a winter signal, Amasino's
group turned to Brachypodium, a grass used in the lab that is related to
crops like corn, rice and wheat. They found that, out of 51 varieties of
Brachypodium, 40 could sense short days as a sign of winter, showing there
was variation for this trait among the varieties. The team found that the
duplicate, named FTL9, has evolved to act as a sort of inverse of its
parent gene florigen. Where florigen builds up in leaves during long days
to cause flowering, FTL9 accumulates during the short days of winter.
While enough florigen makes flowering inevitable, FTL9 only makes
flowering possible by releasing the brakes on florigen once spring arrives.
How to install an Eco friendly Lawn for a low maintenance grassy landscape (youtube)
Sustainable Lawns and Landscaping
Short Grass Seed Varieties -
Buffel
Grass -
Buffalo Grass
Kentucky Blue Grass (Poa Pratensis)
Ruschia lineolata
'Nana' or 'Dwarf Carpet of Stars' is a high quality, drought-tolerant,
low-maintenance alternative to grass.
Zoysia is a genus of creeping grasses widespread across much
of Asia and Australia, as well as various islands in the Pacific.
Z Farms
Replace your old lawn with a new slow growing grass using
Lawn
Grass Plugs.
Lawn Plugs -
Grassing.
Cutting down on Lawn Mowing will also
reduce Deaths and Serious Injuries:
More than 17,000 Children a year are injured by Lawn Mowers
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161,00 injuries
from Lawn Mowers -
Risks of Lawn Mowing.
Hustler TurfPesticide Lawn
Application: States and local jurisdictions play a major role in
regulating the use of chemicals on lawns. The active ingredient most
widely used on residential lawns in the United States is a chemical
mixture called
2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, or 2,4-D, which is sold in differing
formulations under a variety of trade names. Another common herbicide is
glyphosate. Studies of occupational exposure to agricultural pesticides
(including 2,4-D and glyphosate) have found a positive correlation
with certain
cancers. There is no
scientific standard for how long one should stay off a lawn after it is
treated. Yet a 2013 study examining the levels of lawn
Pesticides in the urine of dogs found
that herbicides persisted on lawn surfaces for at least 48 hours after
spraying. If you’re trying to get rid of the bulk of the exposure, you
want to be off of [a treated area] for at least two days, and more like
three. Just because it’s dried doesn’t mean it’s not transferable. It may
mist later, or there may be dew in the morning. Even dried chemicals such
as lead and pesticides leave residues on hands and clothes.
The
average homeowner will spend
150 hours a year
maintaining their lawn, but only 35 hours on sex. PESTICIDES: 10
times more herbicides per acre are dumped on lawns than on the fields of
agribusiness. MONEY: Per acre, it costs more to maintain a lawn than it
does to grow corn, rice or sugarcane. Americans spending an estimated
$40 billion a year on Lawn Care. More than
80,000 people to U.S are injured and an
average of 70 deaths annually mowing lawns.
Americas most grown crop is something that no one is eating, no one is
asking for, and no one is quite sure what to do with. It’s your
Lawn. The U.S. devotes a full one-fifth of its land
to agriculture (408 million acres, or 637,500 square miles) for
farmers to grow on, of which corn is the largest food crop.
However, there are almost 50,000 square miles of
Lawn Growing in the U.S.—almost three times as much as corn.
128,000 square kilometers (or about 50,000 square miles) of
growth, three times that of the U.S. land occupied by corn.
This is so ignorant it's not even funny.
The Case Against Lawns -
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Desert Landscapes
Low
Water Landscaping -
Low Maintenance Landscaping
Laws banning "
non-functional turf."
Ornamental grass requires four times as much water.
Ornamental Grass are grasses grown as ornamental plants. Ornamental
grasses are popular in many colder hardiness zones for their resilience to
cold temperatures and aesthetic value throughout fall and winter seasons.
Along with true grasses (Poaceae), several other families of grass-like
plants are typically marketed as ornamental grasses. These include the
sedges (Cyperaceae), rushes (Juncaceae), restios (Restionaceae), and
cat-tails (Typhaceae). All are monocotyledons, typically with narrow
leaves and parallel veins. Most are herbaceous perennials, though many are
evergreen and some develop woody tissues. They bring striking linear form,
texture, color, motion, and sound to the garden, throughout the year.
Almost all ornamental grasses are perennials, coming up in spring, from
their roots, which have stored large quantities of energy, and in fall or
winter go dormant. Some, notably bamboos, are evergreen, and a few are
annuals. Many are bunch grasses and tussock grasses, though others form
extensive systems of many-branched rhizomes. The bunching types are often
called "clump-forming" or "clumping", distinct from the rhizomatous types,
called "running". Sizes vary from a few centimeters up to several meters;
the larger bamboos may reach 20 m or more tall. Some ornamental grasses
are species that can be grown from seed. Many others are cultivars, and
must be propagated by vegetative propagation of an existing plant.
Landscaping.
Ornamental Plant are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in
gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, cut flowers and
specimen display. The cultivation of ornamental plants comes under
floriculture, which is a major branch of horticulture.
Native Plants -
Plants
Synthetic Grass?
Todd
Valley Farms
Get and Maintain a Healthy Lawn
Tools (building) -
Tools (engineering)
Scientists solve the grass leaf conundrum. Grass is cut regularly by
our mowers and grazed on by cows and sheep, yet continues to grow back.
The secret to its remarkable
regenerative powers
lies in part in the shape of its leaves, but how that shape arises has
been a topic of longstanding debate.
Scythe is an
agricultural hand tool for mowing grass or reaping crops. It has largely
been replaced by horse-drawn and then tractor machinery, but is still used
in some areas of Europe and Asia.
Scythe beats a Gas Powered Weed Wacker in Grass Cutting
Competition.
South West Annual Scythe Festival - June
2010 (youtube)
Sean
Dembrosky presents the different types of blades, demonstrates
proper scything techniques (video).
Edible Landscapes

Growing Food instead of non-edible plants.
Edible Lawns -
Edible Landscaping -
Edible Landscapes London
From Lawns to Edible Landscapes
(youtube)
Pam Warhurst Edible Landscapes (video)
Forest Gardens -
Permaculture
Plant Maintenance -
Seeds
Of course growing Grass for Farm Animals
is a totally different type of Grassing:
Forage Seed -
Best Forage -
Seed Land -
Hancock
Seed.
Forage is plant material (mainly plant leaves and stems)
eaten by grazing
livestock.
Historically, the term forage has meant only plants eaten by the animals
directly as pasture, crop residue, or immature cereal crops, but it is
also used more loosely to include similar plants cut for fodder and
carried to the animals, especially as hay or silage. The term forage fish
refers to small schooling fish that are preyed on by larger aquatic
animals. While the term forage has a broad definition, the term forage
crop is used to define crops, annual or biennial, which are grown to be
utilized by grazing or harvesting as a whole crop.
Cover Crops -
Seeds
