P ampas grass is a wonderful ornamental grass with lush panicles that offer a restful break from the green of a typical yard.

You'll find that the 'Fireball' perennial ryegrass is one of the best dark grass seed for overseeding during the fall season. It does well in partial sun and even full shade.

Even the best-laid grass seeds won’t produce a lush green lawn if they’re the wrong kind for your soil and climate. In Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, your best bet is a blend of Kentucky ...

A homeowner has no easy way of knowing what the other crop is. If it is something bad, less than one-half of 1% can ruin a bag of seed. For example, if a bag of tall fescue seed contained 0.5% ...

These include Kentucky blue grass, perennial ryegrass (as mentioned above), or fescues. The best time to plant is in the spring or fall, when air temperatures range from 50°F to 80°F, and the ...

Warm-season grasses grow in summer and stay dormant during winter. If you had a green lawn before winter, but now have a brown, dead-looking lawn, you probably had some variety of perennial warm ...

You should apply the seed when there’s no snow on the ground, and do the seeding when the ground is not frozen, so you can get some loose soil over the seeds. Due to competition from weeds and ...

Seed labels are required by law to show the percentage (by weight) of “other crop” in the bag. But unless a species constitutes 5 percent or more, the label doesn’t have to list the species.

“For perennial grass seed producers, preventing the damage the thrips can inflict on the developing seeds can be the difference between profitability or loss,” Schell explains. “Applying insecticide ...

A: The grass you planted should be fine; 100 percent perennial ryegrass is not a good choice for a shady site, which I assume you have since you bought both a sun and shade mix and a dense shade mix.

Although perennial grass seed — which makes up about half their production — requires plowing only every two or three years – the rest of their seed and row crops are rotated without plowing.