Grass Seed Types
Warm-Season Grasses
These grasses grow vigorously in hot weather and go dormant when colder temperatures arrive. Often, owners over-seed warm season grasses with annual cold season grasses, like rye or bent grass. Seeded varieties of warm season grasses have been developed, but these can also be grown from stolons, sprigs or plugs.
Commonly used warm-season grasses are…
Cool-Season Grasses
The grasses described below are sold either singly or in multiple grass variety blends. Any of these grasses perform well alone if established properly, but the overall lawn becomes more vulnerable to disease, pests or other unfavorable conditions. Planting a blend of three to four different grass seeds will limit the risk of losing your lawn. Most cool season grasses are also useful for over-seeding warm season grasses.
Commonly used cool-season grasses are…
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MY 2 greyhounds kill my back yard.WHICH GRASS GOOD to plant for them.Thank’s Lana.
Yeah, dogs can be hard on turf but some grasses are tougher than others. Where in the U.S. are you located? If you are in a warmer area, bermuda grass will be the hardiest grass to plant. If located in a cooler zone, go with a tall fescue variety, which is the most traffic tolerant of the cool-season grasses. In both cases you would be better off establishing your grass by laying sod. Your lawn may have a better chance against your two greyhounds if established by sod, rather than seed. Good luck!
There are no selective herdicibes that can control common Bermudagrass in a hybrid Bermudagrass lawn. A non-selective herbicide like RoundUp is your best control option. Your hybrid Bermudagrass does not produce viable seeds, therefore, it is propagated vegetatively (sod, plugs, stolons). Repairs should be made with like hybrid sod, plugs or stolons. You could verticut an area of your existing lawn and use the stolons from this area to repair the bare areas. Princess 77 is a common Bermudagrass that is propagated with seed and comes closest to the finer balded hybrids. The hybrids generally tolerate lower cutting heights better than the commons. Mowing low may advantage the hybrids, but do not expect this to eradicate the common Bermudagrass from your lawn.
You have several otnoips. If you don’t care about using chemicals, round-up is a chemical that you can find at your local garden center that will completely kill everything if applied properly. If you want to do it the green way, place several layers of newspaper over the vegetation you want killed. Eventually, everything growing in the area will suffocate and die due to the lack of air. Also, keeping the newspaper soaking wet will speed this process up. You may also want to place something heavy on top of the newspapers so they don’t get blown away. In a few weeks, lift up part of the newspaper and see if everything is dead. If it isn’t, leave the newspaper there for a few more weeks. After this is done, you’ll need to start adding organic matter to the soil. Examples of this include table scraps (but NOTHING with meat or oil of any kind), grass clippings, tea bags, coffee grounds, orange peels, etc. Overtime the organic matter will break down in the soil, and vegetables LOVE soils rich in organic matter. If you want more info on this, just google composting . There’s TONS of info on this.
Forget the newpaper idea, it will blow away and take FOREVER to kill the grass. Buy some Round-Up, the raguler kind not the kind with residual affects. Mark off the area you want to be your garden and CAREFULLY spray only the grass you want to kill. Round up kills EVERYTHING it touches, so be careful that it is not windy on the day you do it. The grass will die in a matter of days to a couple weeks depending on the weather. The longer you can wait for the grass to die,the better as the roots will break down and make the next step easier. Now either borrow, buy or rent a rototiller to grind up the soil. Go over it many times to really grind it up. If you can, wait a few weeks and till it again. Now you have to decide if you have good soil or if it needs amending. If you can get a soil test done, it would be helpful .Plant your garden!