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Hello,

Paul - I love the site.  Great info.  I've decided this year to go organic, and your site was one of the first I found.  I'm cheap, I'm lazy, and I'm absolutely obsessed now with trying to go organic on my lawn.

That said, I live in Eastern Oklahoma.  My lawn is primarily Bermuda grass.  I'm mowing at my mower's highest setting (3 in), but I've read some info that Bermuda is different from other grasses in that mowing lower promotes denser growth.  I was wondering if anyone had any input on bermuda...

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My knowledge of the warm season grasses is pretty limited since I've always lived where they don't grow.  But what little I do know suggests that bermuda does well with being mowed higher too.  Not absolutely sure about that, but ...
 
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