Oregon Grown Grass Seed

Fine Fescue Is The Low Maintenance Turfgrass

Chewings and creeping red fescue are pleasing as a low maintenance monostand, and as an important element in fine turf mixtures. Fine fescue mixes exceptionally well with perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass, adding  shade tolerance to parks, golf course roughs and home lawns. Fine fescue is a low maintenance, cold tolerant turfgrass which is found along roadsides, reclamation sites, and on hard to mow and maintain slopes.

Once established, fine fescue requires little water and fertilizer to survive. Fine fescue does not establish quickly, and sometimes requires a nurse grass like ryegrass to hold the soil on slopes while rooting.

Although its name is sometimes mistaken with the new finer-bladed tall fescues, fine fescue has always had the narrowest leaves of the cool season grasses. Fine fescue’s narrow leaves require little water, and lose less moisture than other species on sunny days, making it most useful around trees, grape arbors and other plantings where competition for moisture, sunlight and nutrients is critical.

This environmentally friendly grass is often overlooked, but is found virtually everywhere cool season grasses are adapted.  Oregon fine fescue is grown to exacting standards recognized worldwide.

Fine fescue is found in parks where trees are present and compete for sunlight, water, and nutrients.	Low maintenance fine fescues are ideal for hard to access sloping areas.

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