If it's not dealing with disease and heat stress, tall fescue is a fast-growing grass that can end up requiring mowing as often as twice a week to keep it at a height of 2 to 3 inches.

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit news organization. America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue ...

Q • My tall fescue lawn looks pretty beat up and thin. ... as tall fescue is a clumping grass and doesn’t have the ability to spread laterally to fill bare areas like Kentucky bluegrass does.

America’s “fescue belt,” named for an exotic grass called tall fescue, dominates the pastureland from Missouri and Arkansas in the west to the coast of the Carolinas in the east.

Yellow nutsedge and tall fescue are two weeds that are difficult to confuse for one another, except for one characteristic they have in common. Both grow faster than Kentucky bluegrass and so they ...

In addition to a positive control of non-toxic fescue seed, researchers offered lambs diets with toxic fescue seed with no red clover extract or toxic fescue with 0.33, 0.67, or 1% of the diet as ...

With all the moisture from rain and as summer temperatures increase, brown patches may begin to appear in tall fescue lawns.

More: Let's Grow: Plant mums early for success Turf-type tall fescue makes an elegant dark green lawn that is drought-tolerant and rugged. It is a fine-bladed, deep-rooted grass that spreads ...

Tall fescue seeding rate is 6 to 8 pounds per 1,000 square feet. The overseeding rate is 3 to 4 pounds per 1,000 square feet. Broadcast the seed over the prepared area.