Black Beauty grass seed

I purchased some Black Beauty grass seed to overseed my lawn.* The garden center where I got it says it's a perennial and can be put down now, but my hardware store lawn person says it's an annual and I should wait until spring.:?* I'm in Massachusetts. Thanks

Hi Lily,

I found Black Beauty info that says it's a tall fescue.* Tall fescues are perennial and can be sown now.* Fall is a great time to seed a lawn.
http://www.carrollgardens.com/fs_blkbeauty.asp
http://www.jonathangreen.com/blackbeauty.html
http://www.turf.uiuc.edu/turfSpecies...oolFrames.html

Newt

Hi Newt,

Thanks for the great info. I'm off to take advantage of this beautiful fall day and overseed the lawn. I'll let you know how it grows! Lily

Lily, you are so very welcome!* I didn't realize you were doing the entire lawn.* I was thinking you were just doing some spots.* Are you doing core aeration too?

Newt

*I* planted my new Black Beauty Lawn Sept 1st and it looks awesome.
It was not cheap. Hopefully it will stand up to its guarantee. I plan to fertilize with a Winterizer around Thanksgiving.
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Hi Md.Stamen,

'Black Beauty' is a tall fescue. This site says at the bottom of the page under 'Fertility':
http://www.turf.uiuc.edu/turfSpecies/Tallfescue.html

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Fertility medium, will tolerate low fertility, 2 to 4 lb N/1000 sq.ft./year

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If you fertilized when you planted and amended the soil with organics such as compost, you might want to re-think that.

Newt

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Originally Posted by lily

I purchased some Black Beauty grass seed to overseed my lawn.* The garden center where I got it says it's a perennial and can be put down now, but my hardware store lawn person says it's an annual and I should wait until spring.:?* I'm in Massachusetts. Thanks

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I think you should wait spring to do this. It is the best season for grass to grow. However, if you want to install artificial grass, this is not a problem.

I agree with Artiturf.. summer is the best season to grow a grass...