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December 1, 2007
Plant of the Week
by
David Rodriguez
Do you like having a green lawn 365 days a year?
Do you like to mow, irrigate, and fertilize during the winter? Is it appropriate to overseed your lawn for the winter? These are just a few questions that you need to ask yourself before you overseed your turfgrass.
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Warm season grasses such as Bermuda and Zoysias go dormant during the winter months and can be over seeded with a cool season grass variety to maintain green color and adequate quality. This DOES NOT include St. Augustine grass which stays green-and-growing all South Texas “winter” long-unless we have a hard freeze below 20ยบ F.
To gather some insight on this topic, I used some of the information from Dr. Jim McAfee, Texas Cooperative Extension Turfgrass Specialist. The following is what he had to say about overseeding:
The best time to overseed the home lawn is late October through November, but more accurately after the first frost.
Annual ryegrass is the fastest germinating variety and probably the cheapest. It looks very s
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