Grass Planting

The Carpet Grass Leaf Planting , which is a prostrate, summer-growing perennial spreading by both stolons and rhizomes, became widespread on the coast, especially on low fertility soils where it invaded paspalum pastures and reduced their carrying capacity. Seed was harvested and sold under the erroneous name of Paspalum compressum, or Durrington grass.
Carpet Grass Leaf Planting is best adapted to humid, sub-tropical conditions with an annual rainfall of 35-60 inches (890 – 1,525 mm). It prefers sandy but moist soils of low fertility, but will invade both hilly and flat land of higher fertility. It is less palatable and of lower nutritive value than paspalum, and these characteristics together with a profuse seeding ability helps it to invade paspalum. Because of its prostrate growth and adaptability to close defoliation it has achieved some popularity as a lawn grass and in soil stabilisation in humid sub-tropical regions.