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Fall’s cooler temperatures and moderate rains create a timeframe for getting cool-season fescue lawns back in shape. Here are some tips from Virginia Master Gardeners on the best ways to get your lawn green and growing again.
Lawn-care tips:
Seed selection. When selecting fescue grass seed for lawn renovation or over-seeding a mature lawn, read the label that gives the content of the bag. Look for a product that contains several different types of fescue to avoid a monoculture. This will help insure that a problem that may exist with a single cultivar won’t adversely impact the whole bag. Also, make sure seed makes good contact with soil or it won’t germinate.
Use right aerator. A core aerator removes small cores of soil (when finished, leave those cores on the ground because rain will “melt” them back into the soil). Nail-like spikes do not properly open up the soil’s surface.
Mowing frequency. Mow your lawn frequently enough so that you never remove more than one-third of the blade at one time. Like most plants, grass makes its own food by a process called photosynthesis. This occurs in the blades of grass, so removing more than one-third of this “food factory” at one time stresses the grass. Also, allow newly sprouted grass shoots to develop a solid root before mowing – two to three weeks.
Mulching. If you have or are in the market for a mulching lawnmower, leave clippings on the lawn to help boost nitrogen levels in the soil; the clippings decompose quickly enough to avoid any thatch buildup.
Read directions and labels. This is sound advice when using any product, but it is especially important when using chemical products for week control. These products will have precautionary instructions that purchasers are expected to follow for the well-bong of both the landscape and the user.
Be patient. A nice fescue lawn can take up to a couple of years to establish itself.
RISMedia by Kathy Van Mullekom
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