Rescue Your Fescue

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    1. Rescue Your Fescue Mark Blevins NC Cooperative Extension
    2. Burning Questions
    3. Picture the Perfect Lawn
      • Thick and Green All Year
      • Never Needs Mowing or Irrigation
      • Weed Free
      • Repels Grubs, Bugs, Diseases and Dogs
      • You Need Astroturf
    4. What’s so great about grass?
      • Aesthetic Value
      • Recreational Value
      • Economic Value
      • Health Benefits
      • Environmental Benefits
    5. Why go grassless?
      • Less Maintenance
      • More Wildlife Friendly
      • Lower Fertilizer and Water Requirements
      • Consistent Look Year Round
      • Greater Color Variation
    6. My assumptions:
      • You already have a lawn and live in this area
      • Your turf is suffering from the summer
      • You would like to:
        • Know which grass is best for your lawn
        • Manage weeds, pests and diseases
        • Rescue Your Fescue
    7. Which Grass Is Best for Me?
      • Cool Season
        • Tall Fescue
        • Kentucky Bluegrass
        • Bentgrass
      • Warm Season
        • Bermudagrass
        • Zoysiagrass
        • Centipedegrass
        • Bahiagrass
        • St. Augustinegrass
    8. Consider the Following:
      • Environmental Conditions
      • Intended Use
      • Maintenance You Can Provide
      • Pest and Disease Pressure
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    15. Keeping Fescue Happy
      • Healthy Grass is Happy Grass
      • Sunshine helps
      • Mow it tall
      • Soil Test
      • Fertilize fall & spring
      • 1” of water weekly
      • Compaction is the silent killer
    16. Manage Weeds, Pests & Disease
      • 1 st Step: Healthy Turf
      • Weeds
        • Broadleaf
        • Grasses
        • Annuals
        • Perennials
    17. Weed Examples
      • Crabgrass
        • Preemergence herbicide between Forsythia and Dogwood bloom
      • Henbit and Chickweed
        • Preemergence herbicide in September
      • Bermuda in Fescue
        • Mix Acclaim Extra and Turflon Ester and apply monthly in summer for 2 years or more
    18. Pests and Diseases
      • Japanese Beetle Grubs
        • Grub control measures 2 weeks after adult populations are at their peak
      • Brown Patch
        • Quit fertilizing after March
      • Thatch Problems
        • Prove it!
    19. Rescue Your Fescue
      • Figure out the problem(s)
      • Prepare and amend the soil
      • Select and sow seed
      • Follow up with care
    20. Figuring Out Problems
      • Dry and Sunny
      • Shaded and Short
      • Soil Problems
      • Poor Timing
      • Compaction
      • Poor Selection
    21. Prepare and Amend the Soil
      • Prepare Soil
        • Use a core aerator
        • Till or dig bare spots
      • Amend soil
        • Soil Test
        • Compost
        • Fertilizer ½ rate9
        • Lime
    22. Select and Sow Seed
      • Selection
        • Species
        • Variety
        • Etc.
      • Mow & Sow
        • Mow short
        • 3-5#/M sqft
        • 2 directions
      Not All Grass Seed is Created Equal!
    23. Follow Up with Care
      • Water
        • Daily shallow
        • Weekly deep
      • Fertilizer
        • Labor Day (split), Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day
      • Mowing
        • Tall! 3.5 – 4 inches
    24. Go Rescue Your Fescue! Mark Blevins NC Cooperative Extension [email_address]

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