Kentucky Bluegrass is a long-lived perennial that is widely adapted throughout the cool season growing areas. It can also be used in the cool semiarid and arid regions if irrigated. Kentucky bluegrass is capable of surviving extended drought periods and can initiate new shoot growth when moisture conditions improve. Summer dormancy may occur with the above ground foliage becoming brown.
Kentucky bluegrass is a general purpose turfgrass, commonly used on lawns, parks, athletic fields, cemeteries, golf course roughs and fairways. With good recuperative potential and vigorous rhizome (below ground lateral shoots) development, bluegrass is well suited most turfgrass applications.
Kentucky bluegrass requires medium to high nitrogen fertility. One half pound of actual nitrogen per growing month is not unusual. Establishment is slow, with some elite cultivars requiring 3-4 weeks for germination in warm soils. When properly cared for, a Kentucky bluegrass lawn will heal itself, spreading to fill in a dinner plate size area in one growing season. Kentucky bluegrass should be the primary grass in any cool season sunny lawn.
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Winter Lawn Care
Bulb Planters | Cape Cod Weeders | Dibbles | Grass Shears | Hand Cultivators
Hand Forks | Hand Trowels | Hedge Shears | Onion Hoes | Planting Lines | Pruning Saws
Pruning Shears
Earthgro | Miracle-Gro | Ortho | Osmocote | Roundup | Scotts
American Gardener | Ames | Briggs & Stratton | Craftsman | Fiskars | Honda
John Deere | Kawasaki | McCulloch | Poulan | Robomower | Toro | True Temper | Weed Eater
Edging Shears | Garden Fork | Grass Whips | Half Moon Edging Tool | Hoes | Rakes
Shovels | Spades
Bentgrass | Bermuda Grass | Buffalo Grass | Centipede Grass | Fine Fescues
Kentucky Bluegrass | Perennial Ryegrass | St. Augustine Grass | Tall Fescue
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Reed Canary Grass | Sand Love Grass | Sedge Grass | Sideoats Gramma | Switch Grass
Turkeyfoot Grass | Virginia Wild Rye | Weeping Love Grass | Weeping Turkeyfoot Grass
Wheat Grass | Wild Oats | Wild Rice | Wild Wheat
Amur Honeysuckle | Common Pearlbush | Drooping Leucothoe | Shrubby Cinquefoil
Spring Heath | Winter Honeysuckle
Pruning Equipment | Pruning Roses
Cool Season Grasses | Transition Zone Grasses | Warm Season Grasses
American Bittersweet | Banana Passion Fruit | Black Eyed Susan Vine | Canary Bird Vine
Cassabanana | Chilean Glory Vine | Choccolate Vine | Coral Bead Vine | Coral Vine
Fast Growing Balloon Vine | Hyacinth Bean | India Horse Gram Vine | Issai Kiwi
Kangaroo Vine | Kiwi Fruit | Mountain Rose | Passion Fruit | Purple Kiwi
Purple Passion Flower | Velvet Bean | Virginia Creeper | Woolly Dutchmans Pipe
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