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Zone Grasses
Transition grasses
are nothing more than either Warm Season or
Cool Season grasses. Sometimes they are
specific mixtures of different types of grasses.
Within the transition zone, no one type of grass will do well in all weather conditions
(heat / cold). This makes for a difficult situation where either more intensive
maintenance of a cool season grass is required, or the use of a summer time warm season
grass which goes dormant (and brown in color) in the cool days
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During the summer months,
the cool season grasses decline due to the hot weather in Transition zones. Planting
one of the more "cold hardy" warm season grasses can help keep your lawn in
shape and green through the summer. Cool season grasses must be
inter-seeded in these lawns to maintain a green appearance during spring and fall/winter seasons.
The best
way to determine a good "warm season" grass to plant in your lawn for summer
purposes is to see what your neighbors have good luck with. Areas can vary so much within
the transition zone due to temperature differences and soils that using
"suggested" grasses for your specific area can be misleading. What works
best is usually what others plant successfully.
Which
is best?????
Zoysia, Bermuda
and Buffalograss
are three of the more commonly planted warm season grasses used in
the cooler transition zone areas. Fescues,
Ryegrasses and Bluegrasses
are also very popular and used quite extensively
in the transition zone. While there is no one rule of thumb about
which grass works best, cool season grasses seem to be the more
popular choices for the majority of lawns planted in the
transition zone.
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