If you’re having trouble getting grass to grow in a shady area of your yard, your best option may be a cool-season grass called tall fescue. However, tall fescue must receive at least three to four ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley Farmers and Gardeners! What a stretch of rain rolling in the second week of August. I hope many of you took advantage of several days of dry, sunny weather before all the ...
To successfully establish a new tall fescue lawn or interseed an existing lawn, consider the following techniques and practices from Univesity of Georgia Cooperative Extension. Grass seeded earlier ...
Tall fescue is a deep-rooted bunch grass, drought tolerant and hardy. A limiting factor has been its requirement for at least 35 to 37 inches of annual precipitation to survive. This requirement has ...
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 ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lawn make-over It’s been a tough summer season on lawns — little rain and outdoor activities can compact and stress the lawn. Not to mention dealing with ...
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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.
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 ...
Pastures dominated by perennial grass species form the base of animal/forage production systems worldwide and are vital to their economic sustainability. Tall fescue is a persistent cool-season ...