everyone's grass is turning green but mine??

[mystic97z]

hey guys, new here. i live in st. louis. just moved into a new house last may 2008 and sodded my yard. watered the heck out of it and it looked awsome all year last year. not exagerating it looked like a magazine lawn. i fertalized it with a generic brand/generic fall fertilizer last fall, and now spring is here and it seems that my lawn isn't greening up like everyone elses. matter of fact, my neighbors lawn is fairly green and already standing up tall already. mines got alot of dead yellow/brown color to it and is laying over still......whats going on? both get same sun/water.

he JUST had it treaded by chemlawn so thats not the reason. i'm pretty concerned.

[weasel]

you could have some warm season grasses in it or brown spot. Try mowing it and add some ironite. get a ph test kit and see for sure what it's lacking

[Smallaxe]

Try waiting for 2 weeks... Chemlawn does NOT have the magic solution ... trust me. :)

New sod will never equal established grass...

... Do you even have roots??? or -- Did you check???

[TJLANDS]

By fall do you mean Sept?
If so you could be 1 whole application behind, maybe 2, and the most important.
Nov-Dec winter fert, that is the app for early spring green-up. Especially for new sod.

[Ric3077]

I am thinking you have Zoysia which is still dormant...do you know what kind of sod was put down? If it was fescue then you have some issues. If it was zoysia you are fine.

[mystic97z]

i deffinately put down fescue, and yes it rooted. like i said it did great last year, nicest lawn in our subdivision by far. i think when i fertilized it was a little later than september. i put some fertilizer down yesterday so i will see how it does. what is scaring me is that my whole lawn isn't yellow, just 85% of it. some spots near my foundation and driveway are really green?? i will take some pics today and post them up.

[cgaengineer]

I agree if you have fescue and its not green you maybe in trouble. Fescue should have stayed green all winter.

Get those pictures up.

[MORTS4]

It sounds like you might also have some annual rye in your sod. It tends to yellow in the winter. Contact your the company where you got the sod and have them tell you what cultivars are in there. Out here in Washington some of our lawns with annual rye in it are spotty green and yellow mixed in. Overseed with a fescue or perennial rye in the fall for a green look year round.

[ejojr]

Your sod is fine. It has nothing to do with the type of grass, which is most likely a mix of KBG, fescue, and rye. In early spring, established lawns always green up before recently sodded (less than 1 year) lawns. Sod (and it's roots) essentially lay on top of the existing ground, where it is much colder. The established lawn greens up quicker as the ground warms up, because it stayed warmer all winter. I have done many sod jobs where the people call me in early Spring to tell me the sod died over the winter. I tell them it is just dormant, and needs warmer weather. Go back a month later, it is beatiful green. Give it time, you will be OK. I guarantee it.

[ejojr]

plus, you said it yoursself, already greening up near the foundation and driveway, where soil temps are the warmest.

[Smallaxe]

It is highly unlikely that your sod was fescue. Who makes fescue into 'sod'? Not a smart business move.

[robtown]

It is highly unlikely that your sod was fescue. Who makes fescue into 'sod'? Not a smart business move.

alot of places do. Tuckahoe farms does and they have been doing it for the Green Bay Packers for a while.
once established it does great.

[cgaengineer]

alot of places do. Tuckahoe farms does and they have been doing it for the Green Bay Packers for a while.
once established it does great.

They even sell Turf Type Tall Fescue as sod here in Georgia.

[RigglePLC]

edjor is right. Sod greens up a little more slowly. Partly because the heavy layer insulates the soil and it stays cold longer. Also most types of premium Kentucky bluegrass (most sod and sod mixtures) just are a little slow to green up in spring. Ryegrass which is used in seed mixtures and for hydroseeding greens up earlier in the season. Wait a month--your grass will be awesome, probably exceeding your neighbor's grass again.