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Sun, Aug 12, 12 at 18:05
| For a flood prone area, or at the very least an area where the ground can sometimes stay damp after a rainstorm for a few days, which type of grass is better? bluegrass or tall fescue, and why? |
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- Posted by dchall_san_antonio 8 San Antonio (My Page) on Sun, Aug 12, 12 at 21:21
| Is it a low lying area? If so you need soil. When standing water cuts off air to the soil, the nature of the soil microbes changes. It will start happening that regular terrestrial grasses stop growing and swamp grasses come in. |
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- Posted by Lawn_Hobby none (My Page) on Sun, Aug 12, 12 at 22:16
| Not real low, but lower than the rest of the yard, definitely. What happens, is when it pours really hard, we get pooling that sometimes takes 24 hours to absorb in extreme cases. The ground can easily remain soggy for a few days after a hard rain. We used to have fine fescue there. It wroked pretty well. We tried ryegrass last year but it didn't work as well due to fungi presumably (there are some dead patches. I wouldn't call it brown patch, but similar perhaps). KBG--a better choice than tall fescue? Someone told me that tall fescue wouldn't do too well in dampness. To complicate matters, this is an area I don't water once the grass is established, and it gets very dry when there's no rain. |
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