Comments on: Eco-lawn – Part 2: Why mow?

By: Yvonne Cunnington

Yvonne Cunnington — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:46:36 +0000

Hi Mary: Eco-lawn is made up of a mixture of fescue grasses (Festuca is the botanical name) including Sheeps Fescue, Lifine Slender Fescue, Navigator Creeping Red Fescue, Jasper II Creeping Red Fescue, Longfellow II Chewings Fescue, Heron Hard Fescue and Chariot Hard Fescue. Fescues are excellent in shade. Most traditional shade grass seed mixtures contain fescues.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:33:26 +0000

What’s the scientific name, and cultivar name, for eco-lawn? And how does it do in shade or part shade?
Thanks,
Mary

By: Yvonne Cunnington

Yvonne Cunnington — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:55:35 +0000

Hi Eve: You are so right – go for what is regionally appropriate for you.

By: Eve

Eve — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:04:21 +0000

I think I must be OCD Yvonne…if my lawn needs mowing…like it does right now, due to too much rain and laziness…I don’t even want to walk on it. I think I might trip!
Great post!
I think I would like to try filling some areas with moss. That seems like the way to go in the woodsy south.

By: Yvonne Cunnington

Yvonne Cunnington — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:01:43 +0000

Hi Miriam: With all the rain we had this season, our Eco-lawn grew so luxuriantly that we had to mow more frequently than that. But it is such a dense turf that weed control is quite easy. Cheers/Y

By: Miriam Goldberger

Miriam Goldberger — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:08:46 +0000

Hi Yvonne,
It’s great you’ve been carefully tracking the best ways an unmowed or rarely mowed Eco-Lawn works for you. Here at Wildflower Farm we’ve been doing the same thing. We have a number of shaded pathways and moist part shade expanses that we tend to mow just twice a year; once in late spring and once in the fall. It does keep the weeds down considerably. We do get the occasional weed. They’re easy to dig out and then throw more seed into the empty spot. Minimum maintenance!

By: Eco-lawn low maintenance grass

Eco-lawn low maintenance grass — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:35:41 +0000

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