Growing a mixture of varieties is the key to having a green lawn all year. Early this spring, Denny, a friend of mine, wanted me to help him keep his lawn looking beautiful all year long. The ...

Q: We just moved into a new home on 3 acres and would rather not have to mow that much grass every week. Is there some kind of grass or plant that looks like a lawn that we can plant instead to hold ...

Clumps of a dark green, wide-bladed grass in lawns is likely a forage-type tall fescue called Kentucky 31 or KY31. As I mentioned in a previous article, the only control of forage tall fescue in a ...

Thinking of spring seeding your lawn for fescue this year? Just be prepared to have your work cut out for you, because spring seeding in North Carolina's climate carries additional difficulties beyond ...

GRAND HAVEN --- When we talk about grass, most people think of flat green mowed lawns. But think again. Picture the gracefully waving tall leaves and tan heads of beachgrass and sand reed grass along ...

A single crabgrass plant produces thousands of minute seeds which can remain dormant in the soil for years. Photo by Darrell Blackwelder Crabgrass is running rampant in our cool season fescue lawns ...

Livestock producers who graze fescue pastures should always have fescue toxicosis in mind. Tall fescue is a cool-season, high-quality perennial grass that thrives in moderate temperatures with ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: We have an ocean of lawn with little islands of what we are told is tall fescue. How do we eliminate the islands? — Matt, Indianapolis Dear Reader: Tall fescue is a dark green, wide ...

This is one part in a new weekly series featuring the UC Davis Arboretum’s “40 Plants You (Probably) Have Never Heard of – But Will Love,” 40 can’t-fail, easy-care, low-water plants well adapted to ...

Crabgrass is running rampant in our cool-season fescue lawns and shrub beds. The grassy weed is a warm season annual that thrives in hot weather experienced over the past few weeks. It is an ...