need grass seed recommendation for raleigh nc

chips4000

16 years ago

just aerated, this weekend power rake...what's next - what kind of seed

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cearbhaill (zone 6b Eastern Kentucky)
16 years ago
The really, really fast germinating kind?

When is your average first frost date? Are you in a geographical hot spot microclimate of some sort? Are you ordering seeds or using what is available locally?
tak2w
16 years ago
What kind of grass do you have now?
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Mow your leaves as they come down. You should mow your leaves whether it's a new lawn or old lawn. Might take a couple of passes to get the pieces small. They provide organic matter for your soil. With new grass, just be careful making turns. Try to make turns on hard surfaces or adjacent areas Mow before watering for the day if you were going to water. As for whether you have enough sun for tall fescue, it sounds like you don't. Depending on the shade, you may not have enough sun for any kind of grass. Could you create a deck or patio back there? There are alternative groundcovers that do well in shade. Maybe you could create a small patch of lawn back there where you get several hours of sun and you could have mulched areas with shrubs, hostas, ferns, etc. in the shadier parts. As for the slope, you could do terracing. You could bring in large rocks. You could create a path down the hill. Think about how you want to use the area and try to imagine something besides grass.
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bpgreen
16 years ago
Since you show your "zone" as south, does that mean southern US? That's still a pretty big area. Can you give us more details? Warm season grasses are common in much of the south. If you're in an area with warm season grass, this is not the right time to seed.
scott504
16 years ago
Raleigh N.C. in the title.
bpgreen
16 years ago
Oops. I saw that yesterday and missed it today.

I think some people in Raleigh use fescue, which can probably be seeded now. If you have a warm season grass like St Augustine or Bermuda, you want to wait until next year and seed in the late spring/early summer.
quirkyquercus
16 years ago
Raleigh is not in the south, it's in the mid-atlantic.
So bpgreen suggest a tttf variety for op. Bermuda should not be cultivated due to it's status as an exotic pest an st. augustine would freeze to dealth in raleigh .
Billl
16 years ago
In raleigh the most popular grass is tall fescue. Good brands you can find locally are Rebel and Southern Gold.

Best of luck. I'm trying to overseed too. Between the drought and the water restrictions, it is a pretty rough year to try to get grass growing.

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