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Your thoughts on KY 31

10 years ago

So I really wanna cry right now ( I'm a 6'4 baby as I write this) my once beautiful lawn is gone. So now I'm wondering if I should start over with KY 31 in the fall? What y'all think? (My reasoning is better resistance to fungus and I'm still gonna pretreat with diluted Banner a few times a year. )

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  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    K31 is pasture grass. I wouldn't. Get ahold of some good fescue seed and be ready with preventive fungicide next May. I lost quite a bit of grass to fungus this year as well, but I feel better knowing I got a 50# bag of Rhambler sitting there just waiting to fill in the gaps. Lesson learned, will do better next year.

  • 10 years ago

    Is it possible to reseed dead spots in the summer with TTTF?

  • 10 years ago

    It's possible but a bad idea, best to wait until fall.

  • 10 years ago

    K-31 is, as noted, pasture grass. It's practically indestructible, but...well, ugly.

    TTTF would do well, and keep in mind that KBG will work to fill in holes that were created by fungus issues. It looks like you and your neighbors are having some drought stressing as well, which should tend to slow down fungal growth. So there's an upside there.

  • 10 years ago

    Yep it's been weeks without rain but my rookie mistake since February: Craggrass control.. Check grub control... Check too much water and no preventive fungicide or natural preventives :( next year I'll know better.

  • 10 years ago

    No huge damage. Step back on the water, and wait and see. Quite often, grasses that you don't expect will return, do return--at least a little. And bluegrasses spread so easily! Feed 'em well in fall and they should repair themselves nicely, although it may take until next spring for full repair.

  • 10 years ago

    Man I hope so what's sad is I've spent $700 plus on this lawn since last year.. My old house with zoysia??? Never watered, fertilized or bug control and it was beautiful. Sooooo frustrating

  • 10 years ago

    I've never had a cool weather lawn, but warm weather grasses seem sooo much simpler to own!

  • 10 years ago

    I think cool season grasses are a victim of their own resiliency. You try to grow Bermuda in NY - you just can't, whereas fescue will limp along even in Alabama. I imagine growing a cool season grass in PA is far simpler than growing a cool season grass in GA.

  • 10 years ago

    Exactly. @j4c11 wish I could have done sod but $800 for Bermuda sod or $2500 for zoysia wasn't in the budget :( what I may do is start plugging with zoysia with the pro plugger xl looks pretty easy to do

  • 10 years ago

    I read it takes about 3 years for Zoysia to establish from plugs.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    What the heck Bermuda costs $800?! What is that like 6 pallets plus delivery?

    Edit: No fungus issues to worry about with Bermuda...just a thought.

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