Question About Grass In Winter

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February 04, 2020, 09:54 AM

PASig

Question About Grass In Winter

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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February 04, 2020, 10:01 AM

ensigmatic

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.

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February 04, 2020, 10:27 AM

Scurvy

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.

February 04, 2020, 11:23 AM

mark123

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Originally posted by chellim1:
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Bermuda grass turns straw yellow in winter.

As does zoysia.

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.

February 04, 2020, 11:28 AM

mark123

quote:
Originally posted by PASig:
I doubt if anyone is growing Bermuda grass in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

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.

February 04, 2020, 11:32 AM

PASig

quote:
Originally posted by mark123:

Feel it and see if the grass is stiff.

it looks quite stiff and thick to me wherever I see it.

February 04, 2020, 11:38 AM

tatortodd

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.

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