Cool season grasses

Cool season grasses
Cool season ornamental grasses include fescue, blue oat, tufted hair, and autumn moor grass. They usually begin to grow in early spring, and many remain semi-evergreen over the winter.

Cool season grasses
Sally Alcock, a horticulturist at Hastings Nature and Garden Center in Atlanta says cool season grasses are hardy grasses that grow best and quickest in the cool weather of the northern United States, ...

Cool season grasses naturally protect themselves by going semi-dormant during long hot and dry spells. They stop growing and turn tan, but generally bound back with returning rains and coolness.

Cool season grasses flower shortly after summer arrives. Once they flower, foliage growth slows down. Although they can remain attractive for the rest of the summer, the color gradually fades.

best time to seed lawns is from late summer until early fall (August 15 to September 20) while the soil is still warm (faster germination), watering will not be as much of a problem, there will be fewer weed problems, and the cool season grasses in ...

The amounts of water per week suggested for each month are for cool season grasses: Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue. Warm season grasses, like buffalo grass or blue grama, need much less water.

For Northern lawns (Cool Season grasses), begin the fertilization program as the grass begins to grow in the spring and reduce applications as the weather gets hotter. When cooler weather returns in the fall, the lawn can again be fertilized.

The fescues are cool season grasses that are adapted to the northern United States, the transition zone, and Canada.

For cool season grasses like fescues, a top dressing of 1/2 inch of compost or application of an organic fertilizer such as Espoma 'Plant-tone' (5-3-3) will encourage healthy growth. Remember, clover in a lawn is a natural source of nitrogen.

Plant in late fall or early spring for cool season grasses. Warm season grasses should be planted in late spring or early summer. For new construction homes consider a soil test to determine if the soil is sub-soil instead of topsoil.

Cool season grasses such as blue oat grass, blue fescue, and 'Karl Foerster' and 'Overdam' feather reed grass can be divided in late summer and fall.

The practical description of the transition zone is an area where summer is often too hot for cool season grasses such as bluegrass, ryegrass and tall fescue and winter is occasionally too cold for warm season grasses, which include Bermudagrass, ...

Others suggest you should only do this for cool season grasses like Bluegrass and Fescues. For warm season grasses, such as Bermuda grass and Zoysia, fertilizer can interfere with the hardening-off process in preparation for winter.

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See also: Grass, Plant, Lawn, Warm season grass, Soil