Don't know how well it will do in the south but after trying a bunch of different things this seems to work, the geese are hard on it until it gets about a foot tall so we keep them off it in the spring until it gets some height to it the good thing is that it grows fast in the spring so by May we can put the geese out early enough to breedTimothy Grass! Somebody else also told me about it and I could not think of that grass name to save my soul. Im gonna plant a buttload of that grass around my new pond. Thanks so much Waterdog.