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How Lawn Care Services Do Rye Grass Overseeding
To Keep A Green Winter Lawn

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• Overseeding with rye grass is common in southwest
  Louisiana for people who like to keep their lawns
  with a green cover through the winter.
  Overseeding with rye grass is one of the many
  lawn care services that our lawn care company
  offers.
• A dead lawn is an eyesore, even in winter. In any
  case, there is no reason why you should keep a
  dead lawn when you have an option to keep it
  green. Rye grass does not survive in the warm
  months and therefore you have to replant it every
  winter.

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What is overseeding?

• When you plant rye grass in your lawn, it is
  referred to as overseeding because you will be
  planting it in a lawn that already has other
  grass.
• You can seed the rye grass on top of your regular
  lawn grass. That way, when the warm  season sets
  in, the rye, which is a cold season grass dies
  and the warm season grass starts growing.
• When you overseed your lawn with rye grass, you
  will keep a green lawn throughout the year.

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Why you need the assistance of lawn care services
for overseeding

• While rye grass overseeding sounds so simple,
  there are some very important things to consider.
  In fact, you should get assistance from a lawn
  and landscape maintenance services company lest
  you do something that will destroy your regular
  warm season grass.
• When you overseed with rye grass for winter, it
  means you will have to water your lawn throughout
  winter.
• Seeding could be detrimental to the health of
  your warm season grass. You have to do it just
  right. You do not need to worry though because
  part of our lawn care services is to eliminate
  all guesswork and get everything on your lawn
  just right!

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• Rye grass needs fertilizer to thrive in winter.
  Again, applying fertilizer without knowledge
  could hurt your regular grass. This is another
  reason why you need to involve professional lawn
  maintenance services. There can be no guesswork
  when it comes to the health of your lawn.
• How often should you apply the rye grass on your
  lawn? Most of our customers ask us this question.
  Too much overseeding with rye grass on the lawn
  can cause the annihilation literary, of your
  warm season grass.

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The best time to plant your rye grass

• Rye grass is a cool season grass. Thus, it is
  best planted in October or, at least 30 days
  before the first frost, when the temperatures are
  not too low.
• It is recommended that you seed with rye grass
  when temperatures are not any lower than 60 F at
  night. This grass is going to keep green until
  somewhere in the middle of May when it starts
  dying because of the high temperatures.

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How do you plant rye grass?

• The first thing that you have to do is mow the
  summer grass to create room for the new grass.
  You also want the rye grass seeds to get into the
  soil. The best way to prepare the ground for rye
  grass is to use a power rake to poke the soil.
• You cannot plant just any type of rye grass. As
  we offer lawn care services to our customers, we
  advise them on the best type of rye grass seed to
  use. What is good for a desert climate such as
  you would find in Arizona is different from what
  you would use in Louisiana.

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• Another thing that you need to know is how much
  rye grass seed you should apply in the lawn. Of
  course, the more the rye grass seeds that you use
  per square feet, the greener your lawn will be in
  winter. However, too many rye grass seeds could
  bring some nasty competition in May as all the
  rye grass will not have died off.
• The recommended seeding is between 5 and 10
  pounds of rye grass seed for every 1000 square
  feet. At seeding time, apply the first
  fertilizer. You may also apply a second helping
  of fertilizer in February.

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Why you should plant perennial rye grass instead
of annual rye grass

• It is best that you choose perennial rye grass
  seed instead of annual rye grass. When the warm
  season comes, you want your regular lawn grass to
  come out.
• As any lawn maintenance services provider will
  tell you, rye grass is a serious competitor for
  soil nutrients and other resources. Your warm
  grass does not need this kind of competition for
  nutrients, sunlight and other resources.
• Perennial rye grass grows faster, has more robust
  and greener leaves with a darker color as
  compared with the annual rye grass. If you get
  rye grass that is suited for your area, you shall
  have a green lawn throughout winter.  

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• By the month of May, you should stop watering the
  lawn so that the rye grass can die. Wait two or
  three weeks and then start watering again so that
  your regular lawn grass can start growing.
• Keep your rye grass mowed during winter.
  Overseeding with rye grass means doing some work.
  You should not worry because we offer grass
  cutting services to our customers throughout the
  year.

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• It is recommended that you keep the rye grass
  mowed to between 2 and 3 inches in winter.
  However, a couple of weeks before the last frost
  comes in Spring, mow down the rye grass to 1
  inch.
• This should give the warm season grass a  chance
  to start growing while you shock the rye grass to
  start dying. As soon as more than 50 of your
  summer grass attains green color, you can apply
  the first fertilizer for it.  
• As you can see, overseeding the lawn with rye
  grass can be daunting. There are so many things
  to take care of and to know about. These include
  knowing about watering, applying fertilizer and
  when to stop watering. That is why you need the
  help of landscape maintenance services.

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