"Annual" and "perennial" are terms that come up often in the plant world, and grasses are no exception. Knowing the ...

Ryegrass will provide color all winter and die out in spring when the dormant turf begins to actively grow. Freila / Getty Images If you live in a warm region, you don’t have to settle for a brown ...

Annual ryegrass in the pasture—if you love it, keep it. If you hate it…well, that may be a problem. A cool season grass, annual ryegrass has very good forage quality for early grazing and is part of ...

Q: My backyard has a Bermuda grass lawn and I would like to overseed with a winter ryegrass seed. When I have done this before, I "burned out" the Bermuda by not watering it, then rented a power rake ...

A popular Indiana cover crop has the potential to become a weedy nuisance with economical consequences because of its herbicide resistances, say two Purdue Extension weed science specialists. Annual ...

Many have a lawn question during the early spring about an over-seeded fescue lawn that has smatterings of grass that doesn’t look like a normal fescue-type grass. The newly seeded grass in question ...

Annual ryegrass, often used as a cover crop, can grow out of control and be difficult to manage, according to Purdue expert Travis Legleiter. Legleiter is one of the authors of a new publication now ...

I was in a garden supply store the other day and noticed that two separate customers came in looking for ryegrass seed, and I thought, “Why?” Why use all that water to grow it, and why spend all that ...

Most of us have fallen into the habit of thinking of spring as the season for planting seeds, but in fact, grass seed does much better if planted at summer’s end into early fall. The cooler, commonly ...

Annual ryegrass was king in Princeton, Ky., Oct. 3, as retired University of Kentucky Extension Soil Specialist Lloyd Murdock showcased a relatively unknown benefit the grass species offers farmers in ...

Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) and annual ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) are generally used to overseed dormant warm-season lawns in South Carolina. They provide a green cover during the winter ...