I need a good fertilizer and grass seed for the southeastern part of virginia?

Question

I am tilling and re-seeding my lawn and need some help

Answer 1

I recommend that you go to a good local nursery and ask them for advice for your area, both for the type of seed and fertilizer.

Here in North Texas, I have St. Augustine; and twice a year I put down fertilizer that was developed at Texas A&M University, one for spring, and one for fall.

I'm sure that your nursery folks will have just the thing for you. Of course, you meet the nicest, most helpful people at a nursery.

Answer 2

I'm in southeast NC and early spring 2005 I purchased zoyia seed and planted according to directions. I now have the most beautiful lawn. I tried this after having lousy luck with centipede and St Augustine. Zoyia seems to be very hardy. Now that I have a good stand of grass I use store brand fertilizer that has the same indgredients as Scotts.

Answer 3

For years our lawns have been on a binge-and-purge program. At the first sign of spring, we rush to the garden center, load up on fertilizer, and blanket the lawn with it. Sure, the lawn greens up, but the more we feed, the more we mow.

For decades, experts recommended fertilizing four, five, or six times per year with up to 10 pounds of nitrogen per 1,000 square feet total over the course of the year. But lawns can get by — and even look great — with much, much less fertilizer. You don't believe it? Well, ask Glenn Smickley, superintendent of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club at Lake Manassas, Virginia. This showcase private course hosts major professional tournaments, so it must need lots of fertilizer to keep it looking good, right? Wrong. Smickley applies just 1 pound of actual nitrogen per year (per 1,000 square feet) over most of the course.

Or ask Eugene Roberts, owner of Fairwood Turf Farm in Glenn Dale, Maryland, one of the East Coast's best-looking sod farms. For him, grass is a cash crop. It has to grow quickly and look good. So he must pump it up, right? Wrong again. He too applies 1 pound of actual nitrogen per year per 1,000 square feet.

Both lawn-care professionals know that the secret is finding a turf grass that's well adapted to your particular climate. So here's a list, by region, of some new varieties — and some old species that were once disparaged as weeds — on the cutting edge of low-maintenance lawn care.

Southerners in the know call centipede grass the lazy man's grass. That's because this light green grass grows slowly and requires less mowing and fertilizing than most other warm-season grasses. Centipede grass is very well suited for the sandy soils of the Southeast and Gulf states. It is coarsely textured, low growing, and somewhat cold-tolerant (to 5° F).

You can grow common centipede grass from seed, but improved varieties, such as 'AU Centennial', 'Oaklawn', and 'Tennessee Hardy', must be propagated by sprigs, which are individual plants, runners, cuttings, or stolons that are planted at spaced intervals.

Throughout the upper South, blends of turf-type tall fescue have replaced Kentucky bluegrass as the fancy lawn of choice. Only an expert could tell them apart, yet the fescue is much less demanding and less problem-prone.