Are you thinking about seeding KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS? Before you do, there are a few things you should know..

Kentucky Bluegrass takes forever to germinate and establish itself. Typically it can take up to 21 days for KBG to germinate and then it goes through a phase called sprout and pout where it will not grow for an extended period of time immediately after germination.

Also it takes longer to wake up in the spring time following winter. It is the end of April here in Chicago and my Kentucky bluegrass is still dormant. I applied 1 dose of granular fertilizer and one dose of liquid fertilizer so far and im starting to see some slight green up happening. For reference, my back yard which is mostly tall fescue has been actively growing and I have mowed it 3 times already.

Ever since sowing 1 pure cultivar of Kentucky bluegrass, I noticed other types of grasses invading my lawn. KBG has a very distinctive look and other grasses will stick out like a sore thumb in a pure KBG lawn. So if your neighbors allow there grass to grow long and start to grow seed heads.. Be prepared for that grass to start invading your lawn.

Kentucky Bluegrass is a very thirsty grass type. A Kentucky Bluegrass lawn needs at least 1 inch of water per week. During the hot summer weather it may need up to 2 inches or more per week. The reason it needs more water is because KBG has a much shallower root system then any of the other cool season grasses.

Another common is with Kentucky Bluegrass is fungus disease. A few common diseases that attack it are leaf spot, powdery mildew, and rust. I have powdery mildew currently and didn’t even know it until I decided to take a closer look. Fungus can be hard to identify, so if you are sowing Kentucky bluegrass make sure you keep an eye on it. Fungus usually has brown, white or damaged spots of grass with clear outlines. Don’t immediately go and start spraying fungicide if you see this… Wait to see if the spot gets bigger over a few days. If it turns out to be fungus, treat the area with a lawn fungicide. Many fungal diseases are made worse by bad watering habits, especially the fungus leaf spot in the the spring and fall when temperatures are between 60 and 80 degrees. Do not irrigate at this time unless you absolutely have to. Water during the day so the water has time to dry from the grass leaves.

The reason Kentucky is the KING of cool season grasses is its ability to spread and repair it self. The fact that it can spread and heal itself when damaged is the reason many professional sports teams seed it in their fields. It spreads underground through the production of rhizomes. Rhizomes are stems that spread horizontally right under the ground. Each rhizome produces a new sprout every couple inches along its stem from which a new Kentucky bluegrass plant forms and sprouts.

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