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Fri, Mar 23, 12 at 23:54
| Hi everyone I am planning to renovate a small section of my yard with Kentucky Bluegrass during the first week of April. My questions is: Should I mix Kentucky Bluegrass with Perennial Rye OR would I be OK with a pure Kentucky Bluegrass lawn? Are there any downsides to pure Kentucky Bluegrass?
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| You can mix the two, but I would go with straight KBG. KBG and PR grow at different rates, and they are also different types of cool season grass. PR is a bunch type, while KBG is a spreading type. KBG requires a bit more fertilizer, and both need full sun to do well (with some exceptions for some KBG cultivars that have shade tolerance). In the summer if you don't water mature KBG can go dormant for a long time, while PR will for a short period, then die. I would also recommend renovating in late summer/early fall, not in the spring. There are a lot of reasons why this is the case that I won't go into unless you need convincing. |
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| Yea I know about the late summer early fall time period...To be honest I want to get a quick section of my lawn done to make some progress so I figured since it isn't too much space to try it in the spring would not hurt... |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Sat, Mar 24, 12 at 3:15
| If you call it a down side, KBG takes 2-3 weeks longer to germinate than other seed. You have to keep watering it daily, 3x per day, until you get 80% germination. It also takes 3 years before you realize how great it looks. As with many ground covers, the first year it sleeps, the second year it creeps, the third year it leaps. Another reason more people are not thrilled with it is winter dormancy. It has been demonstrated (on another forum) that over dosing it with organic fertilizer for months can overcome the dormancy as far north as Philadelphia. The following picture was taken by morpheuspa on 4/11/2011. His lawn apparently looked like that all winter. All the lawns are contractor grade KBG except morph's. He renovated with improved varietes of KBG and heavily dosed it every week with either Milorganite or soy bean meal.
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| I think I am going to mix Scotts KGB with Perennial Rye but have the ratio set at 30% rye and 70% KGB. Is this picture a pure KBG lawn? do you have any pictures of the lawn in spring looking its best? |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Sat, Mar 24, 12 at 11:46
| But of course. Here is Morph's lawn on June 17, 2010.
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