When overseeding bermuda with fescue encourage aggressive fescue growth even into the warmer spring months by allowing shade from buildings or overhanging trees to cover the turf.
Overseeding bermuda grass with fescue.
By then warm season bermuda usually has grown back thereby allowing homeowners with this turf mix to maintain green lawns all year round.
It makes the summer lawn look lush.
But it does not do well in cooler weather and may need to be overseeded in the fall.
Since bermuda grass is a warm season grass and fescue is a cool season grass the two seem like a match made in heaven.
Ryegrass aside you can also overseed bermuda grass turfs with fescue grass varieties.
Some gardeners prefer to replace it with fescue a cool season grass that does best in the fall winter and spring.
With high quality fescue grass seed in hand it s time to move on to preparing the lawn.
Unfortunately there are problems mixing the two grasses.
Cut to about 1 5 inches before overseeding so the new seedlings can compete with the existing grass and weeds.
Also both types of grasses need nitrogen fertilizer but on completely.
Mow the existing lawn short says the nebraska extension.
Sow 6 8 pounds of annual ryegrass per 1000 square feet and broadcast a complete lawn fertilizer than contains a slow release form of nitrogen if you have not done so already.
First bermuda likes to be mowed low and fescue likes to grow taller.
Prepare the lawn before seeding by mowing your bermuda grass about 1 inch and by raking the lawn vigorously with a metal tined rake.