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Problem with Fescue
On Aug 17, 4:14 pm, Eggs Zachtly wrote:
Foobar said: [...] overseed yearly Source? -- Eggs -Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. - Marin County newspaper's TV listing for The Wizard of Oz Since Fescue is a clump grass, yes, yearly. http://www.fescue.com/maintenance/index.html http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/turf/pu.../tallfesc.html |
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Problem with Fescue
On Aug 17, 3:26 pm, wrote:
On Aug 17, 3:14 pm, Eggs Zachtly wrote: Foobar said: [...] overseed yearly Source? -- Eggs Yes, I'd like to see the source for fescue needing to be overseed yearly. Or needing to be aerated yearly. Or needing a lot of water? Or being hard to maintain? The fescues are recognized as being relatvely low maintenance. Funny if fescues have those characteristics how they are widely used in parks, athletic fields, and sod production. Yes, I'd like to see the source for fescue needing to be overseed yearly. Or needing to be aerated yearly. Or needing a lot of water? Or being hard to maintain? The fescues are recognized as being relatvely low maintenance. Funny if fescues have those characteristics how they are widely used in parks, athletic fields, and sod production. Most Fesue is a hybrid. It doesn't produce seed. It is a cool season clump grass. It germinates from seed and when it dies it dies. It doesn't spread, hence the need to overseed. It is sold as low maintenance and drought tolerant. It is somewhat drought tolerant as it will go dormant. However, even dormant Fescue needs water. If the grass does go dormant, when the rain comes, much of it will not revive. Which means, it must be overseeded. |
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Problem with Fescue
On Aug 17, 3:54 pm, Jim wrote:
Eggs Zachtly wrote: Foobar said: [...] overseed yearly Source? most likely from some seed selling catalog. one of the really neat things about most turf types is how they will actually produce their own seed and reseed themselves if allowed by your local lawn gestapo to grow tall enough.. Yep, "most". Please define Gestapo. Now my neighbors have another reason not to mow their lawn. "I'm Reseeding". |
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Problem with Fescue
On Aug 17, 5:11 pm, Foobar wrote:
On Aug 17, 4:14 pm, Eggs Zachtly wrote: Foobar said: [...] overseed yearly Source? -- Eggs -Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. - Marin County newspaper's TV listing for The Wizard of Oz Since Fescue is a clump grass, yes, yearly. http://www.fescue.com/maintenance/index.html http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/turf/pu.../tallfesc.html I would submit that the first reference, which is part of seedland.com, is a seed merchant that has an interest in selling more seed by saying that you should overseed every year. And even they say it's necessary for tall fescue, not all fescues. The Texas Ext Service says: "Many tall fescue lawns become thin after hot, dry summer conditions. A thinned tall fescue lawn forms clumps and becomes unsightly. To prevent this from occurring, it's usually necessary to overseed fescue lawns in the fall." "Although it grows best in moist environments, tall fescue has good drought tolerance and will survive during dry periods in a dormant state.....Tall fescue is well adapted to the "transition zone" of the United States where summers are too hot and humid for cool season grasses and winters too cold for warm season grasses. In the South, tall fescue is best adapted to those states in the transition zone - Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and northern parts of North Carolina, Georgia and Texas." So, this advice is coming from and targeted at a state where, per their own advice, only part of the state is even suited for tall fescue. And even then, it's at the very end of the zone appropriated for tall fescue. And it assumes no irrigation during hot dry summers. So, the summer conditions in TX without irrigation are going to be vastly different than those of a lawn with irrigation in CT. I wouldn't be surprised if you did have to overseed it many years in TX without irriagtion. But that is different than telling someone that all fescues need to be overseeded every year regardless of climate or watering. I could show you dozens of agri ext services that talk about and recommend fescues and don't say they need to be overseeded every year. I'd also note that seedland.com is located down south as well, FL I think?, so their advice and experience base may be regionally affected as well. Where do you live and what has your experience been? I've had tall fescues as well as fine fescues, and shade tolerant varieties. My experience has been that they don't need to be overseeded much more than any other variety. For example, bluegrass can fill in through rhizomes, however what usually happens is, there is an area that gets shot from disease, insects, drought, whatever. And it's big enough that it then needs to be seeded regardless of whether it's fescue or bluegrass, because no one's going to wait for it to fill in. So, my take is, I agree fescues are not going to fill in and self repair like blue grass. But even clump grasses will grow larger to fill some modest damaged spots. And from a practical standpoint, they only have to be overseeded when significant damage has been done and that shouldn't need to be every year. |
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Problem with Fescue
Foobar said:
On Aug 17, 3:26 pm, wrote: On Aug 17, 3:14 pm, Eggs Zachtly wrote: Foobar said: [...] overseed yearly Source? -- Eggs Yes, I'd like to see the source for fescue needing to be overseed yearly. Or needing to be aerated yearly. Or needing a lot of water? Or being hard to maintain? The fescues are recognized as being relatvely low maintenance. Funny if fescues have those characteristics how they are widely used in parks, athletic fields, and sod production. Yes, I'd like to see the source for fescue needing to be overseed yearly. Or needing to be aerated yearly. Or needing a lot of water? Or being hard to maintain? The fescues are recognized as being relatvely low maintenance. Funny if fescues have those characteristics how they are widely used in parks, athletic fields, and sod production. Most Fesue is a hybrid. It doesn't produce seed. It is a cool season clump grass. It germinates from seed and when it dies it dies. It doesn't spread, hence the need to overseed. Bullshit. Where do you think the seed you plant, comes from? Even mown fairly short, fescue produces seed. It is sold as low maintenance and drought tolerant. It is somewhat drought tolerant as it will go dormant. However, even dormant Fescue needs water. If the grass does go dormant, when the rain comes, much of it will not revive. Which means, it must be overseeded. So, you're assuming that noone waters their lawn, during periods of little/no rain? All of the rough on our course is tall fescue. We've *never* over-seeded any areas of established rough, in the time that I've been working there (5+ years). A properly maintained fescue lawn doesn't need to be over-seeded *every* year, as you state. That's an absurd statement to make, and any credibility you may have, goes right "out the window", if you stand by that statement. -- Eggs A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries. |
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Problem with Fescue
wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 17, 5:11 pm, Foobar wrote: On Aug 17, 4:14 pm, Eggs Zachtly wrote: Foobar said: [...] overseed yearly Source? -- Eggs -Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again. - Marin County newspaper's TV listing for The Wizard of Oz Since Fescue is a clump grass, yes, yearly. http://www.fescue.com/maintenance/index.html http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/turf/pu.../tallfesc.html I would submit that the first reference, which is part of seedland.com, is a seed merchant that has an interest in selling more seed by saying that you should overseed every year. And even they say it's necessary for tall fescue, not all fescues. ....... Note that "Tall Fescue" is a very specific grass. Bags of seed that list "fescue(s)" probably do NOT contain Tall Fescue. Lofts Rebel II is all Tall Fescue and there are one or two others. Tall Fescue seems to be working for me here northwest of Boston. Neighbors' lawns are fairly burned out, but mine is still reasonable. I overseed lightly after Labor Day. |
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Problem with Fescue
Stubby wrote:
Note that "Tall Fescue" is a very specific grass. Bags of seed that list "fescue(s)" probably do NOT contain Tall Fescue. Lofts Rebel II is all Tall Fescue and there are one or two others. Tall Fescue seems to be working for me here northwest of Boston. Neighbors' lawns are fairly burned out, but mine is still reasonable. I overseed lightly after Labor Day. The sun/shade mix out in my garage, bought in spring for a bare spot, contains 2 fescues, neither tall, a blue grass and 2 ryes. Have no idea of proportion of grasses in my lawn but it looks fine with infrequent over seeding. IMHO to have varied grasses in the lawn makes sure something is growing. I remember many years ago when Scott was touting Kentucky blue and everybody was putting it in. Then something like sod webworms would come along and wipe out the whole lawn. That doesn't happen to those of us with mongrel lawns Frank |
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