FREE plants: Yes, I have a box of healthy, beautiful petunias I want to give away today. Read my last post for details.
Now down to business. If you’re starting a new lawn, choose a grass that’s suited to Western Washington:
Turf-type perennial ryegrasses
Fine fescues
Bent grasses
If the yard is shady seed mixes should include fine-leave fescues such as creeping red, chewings or hard fescue. Tall fescue also does OK in partial shade. In dense shade, add roughstalk bluegrass.
Sorry to break the news, but if your yard is too shady, you may never be able to grow grass successfully. Consider a groundcover alternative.
Source: The grass recommendations come from “Lawns” by grass gurus Arthur L. Antonelli and Gwen Stahnke, extension agents, Washington State University
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