Kentucky Bluegrass is a cool season lawn grass.  Bluegrasses can be planted from seeds or sodded and is one of the most popular turfgrass lawns in Northern America.  Bluegrasses require medium amounts of lawn care and make beautiful home and sports grasses.

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Bluegrass is a cool season, perennial ground cover; forming a beautiful, high quality, dense sod when grown in pure stands.  Grass color ranges from bright green to deep bluish green. Bluegrass is often used in low to medium traffic areas and often incorporated with other grass species to produce a better multi-purpose lawn.  Search our store for products: BLENDS - Bluegrass is often sold as a blend of similar improved varieties for greater versatility.  This blend can result in improved lawn appearance, earlier green, with better disease and insect resistance.      Web Seedland.com

Kentucky Bluegrass (shown above) is the most famous and popular of the Bluegrass species.  --- There are many improved varieties of KBG available on the market today.

Bluegrass remains the same in popularity much as it was when first introduced to North American by early Europeans and their animals.  Beautiful, lush and finely textured, this is the real lawn grass most people strive for. Truly a "bare foot" grass at its' finest. Not too aggressive nor too retiring this species mixes well with companion cool season grasses for greater diversity and longevity.  As most tender bladed grasses go;  higher rates of fertilizer and water are needed. It's fast growing characteristic has the ability develop a good root system against drought. Bluegrass has good "lawn mending" capabilities. 

Bluegrass has a later green-up period and is often seeded specifically with ryegrasses for this reason. Bluegrass is one of the longest living perennials grasses grown. Although a reseeding grass; many factors over a period of time may thin or kill sections of these lawns and reseeding or patch seeding may be required. The reasons for this can be due to disease, insect damage, wear, climate swings, water deficiency, or other environmental factors. Reseeding affords the homeowner a chance to upgrade the present lawn with improved qualities.

Establishment:  Bluegrass can be fairly easy established from seed or sod.  Seeded lawns establishment depends upon a well prepared seedbed, application of a starter fertilizer, following seeding guidelines with consistent watering schedules while the seedlings develop and thereafter as needed.  Due to the slower growth of Bluegrass, full establishment takes time (1-2 months is not unusual).  This is one of the primary reasons to include Perennial Ryegrass in a Bluegrass lawn.

Additions of creeping red fescue, perennial rye grass or annual rye grass seeds are included in bluegrass for several reasons.  Red Fescue tolerates shadier areas where bluegrass may not get enough sunshine. Annual rye grass is often seeded with the bluegrass to achieve green-up earlier and dies off when warmer weather sets in.  

The addition of perennial ryegrass helps to develop a tougher sod that stands up to tougher wear. Bluegrass and perennial rye are good companion grasses for athletic fields and playgrounds. These different combinations of grass seeds works exceedingly well for  newly planted seedbeds and overseeding existing stands of bluegrass lawns. The balanced mix is chosen to utilize the specialties derived per each kind; blending traits to produce the best composite coverage possible.  Including the faster growing Ryegrass also produces a lawn cover while the Bluegrass grows in.

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Bluegrass develops a shallow root system and is not a high drought tolerant grass, but it has the ability to go dormant in severe situations and can recover if watered intermittently keeping the lawn minimally growing during drought. Grass species evolved the best root system to cope with nature's stresses and help assure the longevity of each species.. 

Pasturage: Bluegrass is a long-living perennial grass which originated from Europe and Asia. In Europe bluegrass is called smooth meadow grass. This grass has successfully spread across half of the United States and into Canada and is well known as a pasture grass for horses, cattle, and sheep throughout the areas of adaptation. Millions of acres are now occupied  whether by purpose or by nature's own seeding and are still being planted today. Bluegrass seeds are easy to harvest and has developed into one of the species with the largest number of varieties of any grass seed.    --- Read more on Bluegrass pastures.