Last winter I threw down several canes of Napier grass, known as Elephant grass or Black grass. They were extra, prunings from some bushes in the front yard that were about to experience frost. I fed most of the leaves to the rabbits and then buried the canes here in the back yard abutting my neighbors fence.
I had to do something with all that bare sand. Prior to laying down the canes I had torn out quite a bit of orange honeysuckle, which is a beautiful plant but it had also been trying to take over my yard. And it is not as desirable as a rabbit forage as they don't seem to like it. (They will eat it if they have nothing else.) The work had caused many small mounds and pits in the sand.
So I laid down the canes as detailed here, and basically did nothing else. I think I may have shot water at the buried canes once with the hose. It has rained a few times since then, and here are the canes three months later. I think five or 6 patches of black grass has come up, and there are several places where the canes have become uncovered thanks to rain washing the sand back into place. For the amount of work that I put into planting the canes and caring for them, I have to say the Cane Method is very successful.