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I picked up a bag of grass seed last year at MD Day.
It was forgotten about for a year. We put the seed down anyway and it is growing really well.
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Asked June 14, 2024, 5:32 PM EDT
I picked up a bag of grass seed last year at MD Day.
It was forgotten about for a year. We put the seed down anyway and it is growing really well.
How can I get more grass seed or can you tell me what kind of seed it was?
Thanks!
Prince George's County Maryland
Expert Response
Do you recall what organization or department at MD Day was giving away grass seed? There are multiple plant/seed giveaways happening that day, and we at HGIC don't know what other units were handing out, but we could reach out to them if you happen to know who it came from. (Maybe the Institute of Applied Agriculture?)
We recommend that Marylanders use any of the recommended turfgrass cultivars when seeding lawns, since cultivars on that list (which is updated every summer) have been locally tested for resilience to our weather and disease pressures.
The most widely-grown lawn type in Maryland is the cool-season turf tall fescue, though warm-season lawns popularly use zoysia. Cool-season lawns are seeded in spring or (ideally) autumn, whereas warm-season lawns are seeded in late spring or early summer. It's typical for fescue-based lawns to include a small percentage of other cool-season grass types (either Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, or both), whereas zoysia turf tends to be purely zoysia, and less commonly seeded and instead grown from plugs or sod. Given that, we presume the seed you were given was a tall fescue blend, but aren't certain.
Miri
We recommend that Marylanders use any of the recommended turfgrass cultivars when seeding lawns, since cultivars on that list (which is updated every summer) have been locally tested for resilience to our weather and disease pressures.
The most widely-grown lawn type in Maryland is the cool-season turf tall fescue, though warm-season lawns popularly use zoysia. Cool-season lawns are seeded in spring or (ideally) autumn, whereas warm-season lawns are seeded in late spring or early summer. It's typical for fescue-based lawns to include a small percentage of other cool-season grass types (either Kentucky bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, or both), whereas zoysia turf tends to be purely zoysia, and less commonly seeded and instead grown from plugs or sod. Given that, we presume the seed you were given was a tall fescue blend, but aren't certain.
Miri
