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I pay attention now to people's lawns now that I have taken an interest in getting mine more up to par and a notice that some lawns are completely straw yellow colored? The majority around here are a dull green with some yellow interspersed but some people have lawns that look like closely cropped fine hay or straw? Is that a certain type of grass that does that? It's all yellow/straw color, not a bit of green to be seen. | ||
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Bermuda grass turns straw yellow in winter. Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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The ones that have some green in them probably put down a fall/winter feed, like we did. E.g.: Our next-door-neighbours' lawns look mostly straw-coloured. They only cut their lawns. Ours is mostly varying shades of green, with some straw-coloured mixed in. Same with a neighbour across the street, who also maintains his lawn well. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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As does zoysia. "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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My understanding is that you basically get to pick when your lawn looks it's worst, dead of winter or height of summer. Summer grass yellows in the winter and winter grass suffers in the summer. | |||
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Bermuda and Zoysia are warm-season grass. It would have been that way every year though. My neighbors have Zoysiagrass in their front lawn. It's green for 2 months out of the year.  | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
I doubt if anyone is growing Bermuda grass in Southeastern Pennsylvania. | |||
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| W07VH5 |
But, from what I heard, zoysia grass was brought to the area in the 50s. It was touted as a "miracle lawn" because it doesn't need much water, it's insect resistant and it only grows about 1/4" per month. Not being that old, the story that I got was that unscrupulous salesmen sold it in plugs during the warm season. Feel it and see if the grass is stiff. | |||
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"warm season' vs 'cool season' grasses grow differently. probably zoysia. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
it looks quite stiff and thick to me wherever I see it. | |||
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I've lived in 2 states in Upper Midwest as well as Alberta, Canada, and Anchorage, Alaska. All of those places I had cool season grass lawns that were a mixture of kentucky blue grass, fescue, and rye. IME, greenish yellow is the color of winter dormancy. All yellow might be winter kill if it's one of the grass varieties I listed or maybe somebody planted a different species where it's normal. Both lawns that I've had in Texas are/were St. Augustine. It's "winter" dormant color is straw yellow. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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