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How to plant and grow blue fescue

Blue fescue, a compact and drought-tolerant ornamental grass, works in many garden settings and looks beautiful year-round.
September and October are the best times of the year to seed cool-season fescue lawns. This narrow time frame promotes optimum root growth and development for this type of cool season grass. Fescue is ...
Fall is the best time of the year to seed cool-season fescue lawns. This narrow time frame promotes optimum root growth and development for this type of grass. Fescue is the predominant grass species ...
If you have fescue in your lawn, now is the perfect time to reseed your fescue. There are two times of the year when you can reseed fescue. You can put fescue seed down in the spring before the warm ...
IANTHA, Mo. - Since she was 16, Amber Pennington, Joplin, has worked each summer at Mid-America Seed Company, Iantha. She is now 22. She said she enjoys working for the company, owned by Bill Clemons, ...
It’s about time for fall planting of cool season bluegrass and tall fescue grasses. Overseeding requires many steps, but one of the most important is choosing a quality seed. All grass seed is not the ...
While the best time of year to reseed fescue lawns is in the fall, the second-best time is now. So, if your best intentions to get that seed down last fall went unfulfilled, it’s time to get after it.
Whether you're revamping your lawn due to spotty patches or planting a new lawn, you're probably looking for a fast-growing grass seed that'll have your yard lush and covered in no time. Luckily, ...
Second-cutting fescue makes quality hay when stems and seed heads were cut earlier. Farmers cutting fescue hay don’t get many second chances to make quality hay. This is a one-in-five year, says Craig ...
Most of us have fallen into the habit of thinking of spring as the season for planting seeds, but in fact, grass seed does much better if planted at summer’s end into early fall. The cooler, commonly ...
Cooler temperatures in the Tulsa area signal the start of fescue planting season. Early fall is generally the best time to seed this type of grass. Brian Jervis, a horticulturist with the OSU ...