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Turf Grasses

Grass types

Grass types are broken down into 2 broad categories, warm-season grass and cool-season grass each type with many species. In general warm season grasses are best adapted to warm climates growing thru about may and September (dependent on ground temperature) during summer so they are more heat tolerant while cool season grasses are adapted to cool climates growing mostly in the spring and fall and they are more shade tolerant.

Cool Season Grass
Bentgrass-	This is the top of the line for cool season grasses mostly used on golf courses it is a fine textured grass with deep green color and a low growth habit.
Bluegrass -
Fescue -
Ryegrass -

Warm Season grass
Bermuda -	Bermuda is the most common of warm season grasses it originates from Africa ,it is a creeping grass that reproduces through seeds and through runners and rhizomes, used on both golf courses and home lawns, can be found in many hybrid forms.
Bahiagrass -
Buffalograss -
Carpetgrass -
Centipede: -
Zoysia -	This is a low growing creeping grass it originates from Asia. A heat resistant agresive grass it forms a beautiful turf when established but is slow to establish from seed and has a longer dorment season than most warm season grasses.
St. Augustine -

Grass Anatomy

How grass spreads

Grasses spread 3 ways by tillering, creeping, and by seed from seed heads.

Tillering - Bunch grasses such as tall fescue spread by growing tillers from the crown of the plant , these kind of grasses grow as individual plants or in bunches the tillers fill out the plant making it fuller. So a bunch grass lawn is a series or collection of individual plants.
Creeping - Creeping grasses such as Bermuda grass spread by sending out rythomes and stolens (rythomes travel below ground and stolens travel above ground otherwise know as runners) ,so one plant starts another sometimes referred to as mother and daughter plants. Creeping grass lawns are plants that weave a dense mat of turf.
Seed heads or flower heads - both creeping and bunch grasses can spread by seed, seed heads appear at the top of the primary shoot when the grass is allowed to grow wild or has not been cut in a while.

Planting new grass

There are several ways to plant new grass below are the three most common.

Seeding
Starting lawns from seed takes the longest but is the least expensive.

Sprigging and plugging
This method is mid way between seed and sod price and time wise but usually requires special equipment unless you want to do it by hand.

Sodding
This is the quickest method for a instant lawn but also the most expensive compared to seed.

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