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Grass competing with shrubs for water?

grow-chelle
12 years ago

I would like some input and opinions. I live in a very hot climate, it's now about 40 degrees in the shade and very dry. We recently put down a lot of grass seed with a border of shrubs, which seem to be something like an aucuba shrub from research I've done online, only very small. The grass seed was planted right up to the shrubs, without leaving any border around them. Now the shrubs are all slowly dying. We pulled one out and the roots are tiny. It's so hot and dry here, we're watering the grass regularly. My question is this: is there any advantage or disadvantage to planting the grass right up the shrubs. We have conflicting opinions. Someone suggested that it's holding in moisture but it seems to me that the grass is competing with the shrubs and taking all the moisture.

What do you think?

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