Sentences with phrase «warm season grass»
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In addition to funding research into cool - season grasses at Rutgers, USGA worked the other end of the turf grass climate spectrum, helping development of warm - climate grasses that can withstand winter cold.
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Taller, warm - season grasses thrived on the burnt, nitrogen - rich plots, but plants that prefer cooler digs were decimated, leaving these plots with roughly 5.6 species per 10 square meters — 66 % fewer than the control plot.
The reason, says study leader Scott Collins of the National Science Foundation, seems to be that mowing opens up a «big, thick canopy» formed by the taller warm - season grasses, allowing sunlight to get through so that «a lot more species can coexist.»
But once it warms up, pollen, dust mites, fleas, grass, weeds and mold will kick off allergy season in pets.
Chasmanthium latifolium is a warm season, rhizomatous perennial grass with stems about 1 m [3 feet] tall.
Warm - season grasses should be fertilized in late spring, once the lawn turns green.