Revnut

We’ve had 3 types of lawns in the houses we’ve lived in – fescue, weeds, and centipede. We’ve also had neighbors with bermuda and neighbors with zoysia. I like centipede the best. Here’s what I like about it:

• It’s low maintenance. Over-fertilizing is actually a problem many people face. It seems centipede doesn’t want too much love. I don’t know of a grass that’s lower maintenance.
• It’s drought tolerant. We only water when it starts to look a bit gray. This will keep the turf dense to prevent weeds from growing. One year, I didn’t water at all. It survived but it didn’t thrive.
• It’s a creeping grass which means you’ll never have to seed again because it spreads. Are you fescue people sick and tired of seeding? Come on!
• It’s a think, dense turf. Need to drive a truck on the grass? No problem. Bobcat? It don’t care. In comparison, fescue is just weak. You step on fescue the wrong way and it dies. Then you’re back to re-seeding.
• It chokes out weeds.
• It looks good.
• It grows from seed and sod. We’ve done both.
• Did I mention low maintenance?
• Unlike fescue, centipede thrives in the sun.
• Unlike bermuda, it’s slow growing so you don’t need to cut it as often.

It seems to me that many people struggle with their dying lawns because they’ve chosen a bogus species.