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Posted on July 19, 2007 in latest news
So now that you have answered all the questions and made your mind up its time to choose the type of Lawn Grass meets your expectations the best.
We’ll divide the types of grasses based on the climate of your area.
1. Warm Season Grasses
Warm Season Grasses are found through out the South from close to west of Texas to as far north as Tennessee and North Carolina.
If you prefer a low maintenance, coarse textured grass you can use Bahiagrass Argentine or Bahiagrass Pensacola. The Bahiagrass grass can give you a fairly good lawn with low maintenance.
If you prefer a low maintenance fine textured grass you can go for Bermuda Common and Carpetgrass. These may give you an average to good lawn suitable for sports and golf too.
If you are willing to compromise with medium to high maintenance for a great looking lawn you can go for Bermuda Improved or Zoysiagrass.
2. Cool Season Grasses
You can see an extensive use of the cool season grasses throughout the Northern areas of USA. Like all cool season grasses their best growth periods are in the Spring and Fall. Summer time and Winder brings on dormancy in these grasses.
Low maintenance medium textured grass that gives a good lawn would be Bluegrass Rough. You can also go for the medium maintenance fine Ryegrass, which is available both in Annual and Perennial forms depending on what you prefer.
Bentgrass is considered to be the best of all, obviously high on maintenance and cost giving a Golf course kind of a lawn. Medium textured Fescue Tall(K31) gives a good lawn on for medium maintenance. Fescue Creeping would be a good idea if you prefer a finer texture with medium maintenance.
3. Transition Zone Grasses
These type grasses are meant for the Transition zone which is a mix of both warm and cool seasons. It is important to note that within the transition zone, no one type of grass will do well in all weather conditions (heat / cold). This makes for a difficult situation where either more intensive maintenance of a cool season grass is required, or the use of a summer time warm season grass which goes dormant (and brown in color) in the cool days of fall & winter.
Zoysia, Bermuda and Buffalograss are three of the more commonly planted warm season grasses used in the cooler transition zone areas. Fescues, Ryegrasses and Bluegrasses are also very popular and used quite extensively in the transition zone. While there is no one rule of thumb about which grass works best, cool season grasses seem to be the more popular choices for the majority of lawns planted in the transition zone.
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July 25th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Why would anyone in a residential home use Bentgrass — it is the worst grass ever and ruins a beautiful lawn. It has gotten into our lawn somehow and now that is hotter and less rain, it is awful. Brown flat and matted, what do you do. I have a beautiful garden ruined by this menace.