Kentucky bluegrass
Which grass should you choose? Check out our plots at the fair to help decide!
By Andrew Hollman and Kristine Moncada
We often get questions about which grass to buy for a home lawn. There are several different options for cool-season turfgrasses grown in Minnesota; which you choose will depend on your site, how you use your lawn, how much maintenance you want to do, and maybe even aesthetics.
Testing alternative clover options for use in Kentucky bluegrass lawns
By Paige Boyle
For many years, white clover (Trifolium repens) has been the go-to for adding flowering resources into lawns, and with good reason. White clover is a perennial, has a broad geographic range, can grow in both warm- and cool-season lawns, handles mowing well, and produces an abundance of flowers to provide pollinator forage (both pollen and nectar) in bee lawns. As a bonus, because white clover is a legume, it also adds nitrogen into the soil, resulting in less need for fertilizer applications. But are there other clover options for use in home lawns?
University of Minnesota Turfgrass team in the media – 10/24/23
Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work.
See the October 2023 Edition of MGCSA's Hole Notes for photos from our 2023 Golf Field Day and for Mixing Tall Fescue and Kentucky Bluegrass for MN Golf Course Roughs, an article by Andrew Hollman.
An overseeding success story
By Gary Deters
Overseeding into an existing yard can be very difficult because there are many different scenarios, challenges, and questions that go into the decision. What to do? What kind of seed? Where to buy seed? How much seed do I use? Do I need to prep the area? How much water is required to get the seed to germinate? What do I do after the seeds germinate?