A friend of mine asked me what to do to his lawn in this crazy summer heat. His lawn, as well as mine, looks like a typical summer fescue lawn — large areas that are straw brown. Fescue is a ...

Fall is the best time of the year to reseed thin and bare areas in fescue lawns. The seeding rates depend on your lawn’s condition; completely bare areas need up to 7 pounds per 1,000 square feet and ...

Managed grazing makes better use of forage in a year of high-price hay. After a drought with short grass and little hay, fall pastures grew fast with good rains. Management-intensive grazing extends ...

A large area of my fescue has died and needs to be reseeded. This happened in spite of a lot of rain. Can this be prevented? How do I reseed? Troy, Tulsa Fall webworms are now prevalent. These are the ...

Q: I have some areas of my fescue lawn that need reseeding. What is the best fescue to use? R.M., Tulsa A: There is no one best fescue variety, according to the OSU turfgrass specialists, but there ...

Summer has been rough and rugged on lawns of all kinds. In Hampton Roads, warm-season grasses like Bermuda are mildly stressed while cool-season fescues are baked dry. “Even our turf plots look bad,” ...

One of the greatest expenses for livestock producers is winter feed costs. Profitability in most livestock operations is dependent on low feed costs. One way to lower these costs is to field stockpile ...

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 ...

Autumn is in full swing in Summit County and leaves are covering the lawns and devil strips across the area. As the calendar marches on to November and temperatures begin to drop, it's time to ...

About half the calls I get ask “Is it too late to plant?” and the other half are “Is it too early to plant?” The answers to these questions are “No” and “No”. With the invention of residential ...

This year’s weather is a mixed blessing for cool-season fescue lawns in Hampton Roads. Initially, ample rain enabled grass to stay greener longer than usual. But July’s scorching summer temperatures ...