if you have a hybrid type of grass, it can produce seeds but they won't be viable. basically the grass is sterile. abotu the best thing i cna tell you would be to try them. if it works, great, if not then you tried and now know you jsu tneed to go pick up a bag of seed to fill in the sandy areas. while you are at it, add in some organic material to mix with teh sand. if the areas a pure sand, grass really won't make it any better.

A few years back I was being very anal retentive and felt I needed to have as much environmental control as possible to cure my garlic. It was very hot and humid out, and my garage was just way too hot, and NO air circulation. aside: Previous owner had it built. It's a heavily re-inforced 24x32 pole barn structure with an 8" concrete floor. 2 individual insulated garage doors, and a heavy duty man-door. More outlets and lights than you can use, and heavy duty garage door openers. What's missing, WINDOWS!! I painted some on the inside and hung cloth, like curtains. I told my wife it's to remind me to put in windows, if not soon, whenever we need to re-side it. Back on track. So, I figured, the basement. It runs 70-75 in the summer, I can somewhat control humidity with the de-humidifier. So up it went. I hung copper pipe from the floor joists, and hung over 100 bundles of garlic, 10 to a bundle. I turned on the oscillating fan, opened the window and set the dehumidifier. The we left for the weekend. Came back Sunday to this faint smell of garlic in the back yard. Found out it was wafting from the window. I like my garlic, but the house wreaked. My wife and daughter went to a hotel, I was left home to move all the garlic and air out the house!! A few weeks later I made a dozen or so braids, and hung them in the kitchen to finish curing in a hanging position. After a few days they too ended up in the garage. Now, I hang them in the garage, leave a door open and run a fan on them. I also have some old wire racks I got from a grocery store where I can lay things out if needed.

They do dry fairly well. We concentrate on A. sphaerocephalum and A. caeruleum/azureum. You can pick them when the heads are very tight but show color or when they're just starting to open. I think the best setup for drying is a horizontal screen of hardware cloth, but you can also hang them upside down. Chives are also good, but pick them before they start to open, when the buds are large but there's still a purple "skin" over the flowers just beginning to split and let the blooms out -- they will open as they dry. A. schuberti is very striking when dry, but it's difficult to use in mised bouquets. It's easiest to just let it dry in the field. No color, just a nice weird form. A. "Hair" is another weird one, not to everyone's taste; we treat it like A. spaerocephalum. We don't dig the bulbs up, have never tried eating them. I replant A. caeruleum every year, since they tend to behave like annuals. A. sphaerocephalum seems to need replanting every 2-3 years. A. "Hair" self-seeds -- not to the point of despair, but don't get started on it if you think there may come a time when you couldn't stand to see another one. There are more that I'll probably try in future years, including regular onions.

I slice very thing ginger and put it in a jar with a little sugar and sherry wine. It also keeps very well in that too. For the most flavor and aroma, a dehydrator cannot be beat when it comes to fast drying. Always be sure that the item is also totally dry before its stored. If it has residual traces of moisture, it can cause mold to grow, even if its in an air tight container. Chives are actually better tasting if they are freeze dried, but we haven't that technology at home.