
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
How To Choose The Right Grass For Everybody's Yard
I would like to check out what grasses grows good in the humid southeast because this is where my family and I live at. Bermuda grass is one type of grass that grows real good here. Bermuda grass is heat-and drought- tolerant and it is very fast-spreading to the point that it could become invasivice in a yard. Bermuda grass is planted in two different ways, which are by seed and the hybrid Bermuda grass is planted by sprigs or sod. The seeds varieties are better to plant if you want to have less maintenance. Some of the seeded varieties are Yuma, Cheyenne, Del Sol, Primavera, Sultan, Sonesta, and Salara.
Zoysia is another good choice for most Southernlawns. This grass starts slowly, but when it gets established it is relatively low-maintenance and it tolerates traffic, heat and drought. These are some improved varieties of zoysiaa, Victoria, El Toro, Emerald, and De Anza. These offer faster growth longer color and a finer texture.
St. Augustine grass is another good choice for the southern states. It is planted either by sod or sprigs and the grass is coarse with broad leaves and it spreads rapidly by surface runners. In my yard, we have Bermuda and St. Augustine grasses.
I would like to write about what grasses will be good to grow in different parts of the USA. I hope that this will help everybody.
In the humid northeast and northwest, it has to be cool-season grasses, which would be Kentucky bluegrass, fescues, and perennial rye grass.
Kentucky bluegrass is the most popular grass grown in this area. This grass grown in this area. This grass has fine texture, quick growth, deep color, and cold hardiness. Midnight and Unique are grasses that has improved disease resistance.
These grasses will remain as a dark green that needs less fertilizing, such as, Opal, Challenger, Midnight, Cobalt, Washington, and Livingston.
Perennial rye grass new varieties are darker green, more disease-resistant and they do not turn brown after the grass are moved. Some of them are Stallion Select, Divine, and Stallion Supreme and these types have endophytes which are leaf-inhabiting fungi that will repel or kill leaf-feeding insects.
If there is a place that has allot of shade in the yard, dine fiscuies are the right type of grass that requires less mowing and fertilizing. Some of these grasses are Banner 11, Aurora, Discovery, Brigade, and Flyer.
The transition zone is where the north and south lawn climate zones interest. The grasses that will grow in this area, depends on the property. If there is a south-facing slope with allot of sun, it will need to have a warm-season grass. But if it on a cooler north-facing slope, the grass needs to be a cool-season grass. The Fischer will tolerate allot of foot traffic, drought, heat, and shade.
Turf-type tall fescues have better darker color, better texture and more compact growth.Here are some that are good to check out, they are, Tomahack, Virture, Duster, and Monarch, and the ones that are enhanced with endophytes are Tar heel, Earth Seve, Rebel 111, and Titan11.
In the cool, dry west the cool-season grasses will grow there, but the grasses will require supplemental irrigation.
If water is not plentiful, buffalo grass is one that can be tried as an alternative.
In the grid and semiarid southwest, there is not much of rain that falls in this area, so irrigation is a must. Bermuda grass is a choice, with St. Augustine and Zoysia a good alternatives.If the area does not have water, buffalo grass would be a great choice. At higher-elevations, which are Prescott, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico the cool-season grass Kentucky bluegrass would do good there.

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