Ask the Desert Botanic Garden, and the U of A's agricultural extension service. They would have seed recommendations. You have to fence it to keep range cows out ... there might not be a grazing lease active, but if you have grass in the fences area and none in the unfenced, something is eating the grass. For fast runoff control, get those "snakes" filled with straw and place them across the runoff areas at intervals, at right angles to the flow of the water. Plant a strip just above and below the strips to get a stripe of grass going to slow the water down when the snake eventually decays. Gabions in the deeper eroded areas will slow down the water, as will brush dams. Start in the smaller erosion channels at the high points and stake bunches of brush down with forked branches (like making a beaver dam). Work your way down the channels. Multiple small dams are better than one big one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabion ************ Searching Google for Arizona Native Grasses: http://www.nativegrasses.com/info/ornamental/southwest.html http://www.lgyp.com/brochure.asp?c=294897

Hey everyone. I just finished applying the Bayer Bermuda Grass Control RTS (ready to spray) to my grass infested with stilt grass. The weather has been so dry here in Central NJ that there has not been adequate soil moisture conducive to an herbicide application unless the turf was under irrigation, which mine is not. After a week or so, I will post my findings to the forum. This herbicide is not available in New Jersey (I tried ordering it through my wholesaler at work) but you can purchase it online. It is a homeowner product unlike Acclain Extra which is for turf professionals. Wish me luck!

No. Any plant poison that will kill what we consider "weed" grasses will also kill off what we consider the desirable grasses.

Esh, You make such good points! After reading your post, I wondered over to a conservation area which is in back of our woods---filled with the horrible weed!!! So even though we do not let the part in our yard go to seed, we still will get seeds. The group who owns the conservation lands has a "do not touch" policy, so I would not legally be able to pull up or weed wack the stilt grass there. Their phiosophy is that nature ultimately does the right thing. What do you think about this kind of policy? In my opinion, nature always does the right thing when we stay out of its way...However my town kills the natural preditors of the deer...So, in intervening to protect the deer, we are putting at risk all of the little creatures who depend on the native plants which the deer eat. We still have tons of frogs, but we are seeing fewer of the birds who depended on the native plants. For example, if you look at the bloom time of the Cardinal Flowers and the migration of the hummingbirds, you will be in awe of how it all fits together. However, since the deer have been eating the Cardinal Flowers, what are the hummers to do? I am upset at the moment because I put in some replacement Cardinal Flowers for the hummers the deer ate---and last night the deer ate the replacements. Do you think that in favoring one species over all others (deer), we may be throwing our whole enviornment out of wack?