Salt-resistant grass seed?

where abouts do you live?

Peter H

Around here many people build a triangular wall from slats of wood and plastic. Not real pretty but saves the grass.

If you're looking for traditional turf grass, then tall fescue, creeping fescue, and bermuda grass are among the most salt tolerant. Blue grass is more adversely affected by salt.

Mass. but the problem exists wherever it snows.

I'm a big fan of tall fescue. In fact, I just scraped up the weeds and planted tall fescue this morning. Ask me in the spring how it survived.

That would be interesting since tall fescue requires warmer soil temps than rye or bluegrass to establish.

Not to rain on your parade but you are way late to plant fescue in Massachusetts. You should be planting in early September or even late August. If you are lucky the seed will survive through the winter and sprout in the spring. If you are unlucky it will simply rot between now and then.

If nothing germinates (which unfortunately is likely) you can wait until spring and sow new seed. Wait until the nighttime temps are no lower than 50F then sow your fescue.

Good luck,

William W. Plummer wrote:

Some of the tall fescue I planted about a month ago has sprouted. Except for one cold night, the daytime temps have been in the 60's and

Anything you planted a month ago will most likely make it. What you want is for the seed to germinate and become somewhat established before you have a hard freeze.

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