Green Grass, Year Round – All About Lawns

If you live in certain parts of the country--southern California for example--a green lawn year-round is no big deal. For other parts of the country, it's a little more challenging. Year-round green in Minnesota?

If you live far enough south that you have a warm-season grass, say Bermuda grass, but far enough north that your Bermuda grass goes dormant and turns brown when the winter temperatures dip just a little too low, I've got your answer: over-seeding.

Come fall, spread some grass seed for a cool season over your warm-season grass and see what happens. As the warm season grass checks out for winter, the cool season grass will check in. The result will be year-round green. But over-seeding takes more than just sprinkling grass seed. Here are a few over-seeding pointers.

If you're tired of looking out over your brown Bermuda grass all winter long, a little over-seeding can turn things green again.

Dawn West B.A. holds a B.A. in English from Harvard University and teaches writing at Oregon State University.

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Green Grass, Year Round - All About Lawns