I've never seen a commercial tall fescue that produced grass with 1/2
inch wide floppy leaves. Tall fescue does grow relatively fast, but
it stands straight up. It's wider and coarser than a fine fescue or
bluegrass, but should only be about 1/8-3/16 inch wide. Sounds like
you have some kind of undesirable grass.
But whatever it is really doesn't matter. I suggest you find out what
kind of grass the good part of your lawn is then use that as a guide
to get the right seed for repair. You can just kill the bad spots and
reseed in Sept.
"Peter H" wrote in message e.rogers.com...
"BeamGuy" wrote in message
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Thanks for your reply...
Indeed - the mix of seeds I used appears to have three types of seeds,
Kentucky bluegrass, Perennial ryegrass,
and a type of Fescue. The existing lawn is mostly a dark green grass with
very fine leaves (roughly 1/16" across).
In the newly seeded areas there may be some plants like this, but the
dominant grass is a much lighter shade with very
wide floppy leaves (almost 1/2" across). This lighter grass also grows
almost three times as fast at the other grass. In
some areas where the overseeding was light I can pull up single plants
that come from one central seed area but have
spread out almost a foot in diameter!
Yes - I bought it as a Scotts "sun & shade" grass seed mixture at hardware
store.
Can I hope that whatever this is it will die off this winter?
-thanks
A quick google search produced this result.
http://2001.scotts.com/lawncare/GrassSeed.cfm
The sun and shade mix is listed there. One of the grasses listed is "tall
fescue", which is probably the large-bladed leaf that you mentioned. Whether
or not tall fescue will be a problem in your lawn will depend upon where you
are located, which to a large extent will determine the grass that you have
in your existing lawn.
I'm in the Toronto area of Canada and around here tall fescue is a bit of a
pain. It doesn't seem to blend well with Kentucky bluegrass/ perennial
ryegrass lawns. I know that in some parts of the US it is routinely planted
though because it's a sturdy variety.
Peter H