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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
Before I started to live in apartments, all the houses I lived got lawn in both yards. Me and my dad usually just mowed everything, but we had to remove the clippings or my mom would be complaining (that's all she does anyways). I don't remember to have ever watered lawn, neither when I lived in Manaus (in the Amazon jungle) or in Florianópolis (in the shore), both cities with a humid climate.
I would just not be so sure about contacting the state extension agency, unless there are some folks who crop grass commercially back there.
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Well I can't promise anything about your particular extension agency or your local Ag school, but turf research is done at Virginia Tech precisely because of the environmental impact that the pursuit of perfect lawns has on water quality, among other consequences. They do experiments with new grass varieties and test low maintenance or alternative strategies for managing invasive plant growth and lawn health, and then the results are (eventually) added to the literature available through the extension agency of the state. Not all agencies are created equal though. If you do a Google search, you'll usually find documents created by several of the more prolific and organized states on topics related to land care agriculture rather than a document from every agency. Not all states take the "dissemination" part of the typical land grand university charter seriously, but technically those grants were given on the premise that the people would directly benefit from the scholarly agricultural research performed there. I've found extension to offer helpful data on occasion, but your local mileage my vary.