Friday, April 9, 2010

Dayton "Dirt" - April 9, 2010

Tomorrow, on Saturday, April 10th, Sam Wagner, who for years, worked for the Greenview lawn fertilizer people will talk during a free seminar on the do’s and dont’s of lawn care.

Sam will share his years of experience with us as he has actually done what he is going to tell you on his own farm in Medina.

To those of you who do your own lawn care or want to do your own lawn care, you’ll be able to pick up a lot of tips from Sam that will eventually enable you to achieve that lush lawn with minimal work and expense.

One question that almost everyone asks is, “How do I grow grass in shade?”
What I have learned from experiments conducted at Ohio State University is that tall fescue blends of grass perform best under trees.

The experiments revealed what I always suspected but did not know why that shade from a structure is different from that of a tree because a tree will absorb the red light which “starves” the grass of red light and only leaves it with more far red light. More specifically, red light and far red light refer to the wave lengths of these two types of light.

Conversely, a building does not absorb red light so that the red light to far red light ratio is much higher which results in grass growing just fine in the shade of a building as compared to under a tree when the amount of shade in both cases is 90%.
We’ll talk about grass in shade and about a lot of other good stuff at the seminar.
Please, we ask that you let us know if you are coming as we are limited in seating and need to have enough refreshments on hand.

The lawn seminar begins on Saturday, April 10th at noon.

No comments: