Why bluegrass will never survive in a southern lawn
People move down here from Ohio, look at the thin patchy grass everyone has, and decide they are going to have a proper lawn. They buy Kentucky bluegrass seed. By August it is…
Andre Whitcomb has run a two-man landscaping crew in Baton Rouge since 2016. He writes about lawns, drainage and heat, which in Louisiana is most of the job. He has strong feelings about people who plant the wrong grass and then blame the grass.
People move down here from Ohio, look at the thin patchy grass everyone has, and decide they are going to have a proper lawn. They buy Kentucky bluegrass seed. By August it is…
Compacted soil is the most common thing wrong with the lawns I get called to, and almost nobody identifies it themselves, because it does not look like anything. The grass is just…
In July and August down here, mowing wrong will do more damage to a lawn than not mowing at all.
Water standing in a yard for more than a day after the rain stops is a drainage problem, and around here it is usually one of three things.