Not exactly a food plot, but......
 

I am doing some work with one of the old family church's in south Alabama. The old cemetary is basically full, the only open area has some old unmarked graves and a couple of the recent burials uncovered bones of who knows who so that area will not be used anymore. We managed to acquire a couple of contiguous tracts of land that should provide enough grave sites for a few hundred years if designed properly. We are going to clear about 2 1/2 acres, one acre for the new cemetary usage and the rest for parking. The sandy soil should be good for centipede grass, I think. I did the soil test already. I guess the question is will there be enough warmer weather left this year to plant centipede seed and get a stand before frosty mornings hit, ususally in later Oct?. Anybody have another choice for a better grass choice?

Getting real late for warm season seed where I am. I seed or sprig bermuda in may, but I am still selling some bermuda sod. I have no experience with centipede.

When is the first frost down there?

Depending on where you are Buffalo grass is a good low maintenance grass. It's a warm season grass so its getting pretty late to seed now. I have seeded buffalo this late before though. If you seed it with a cover crop annual like wheat or rye, the cover crop will pop up this fall and protect the ground through the winter until the soil temperatures rise and the buffalo can poke through.