Perennial Rye Grasses
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Rye Grasses come in two types: Perennial grasses and Annual grasses. Naturally, the annual grasses die off in Winters, just as the perennials may be expected to return. This fast-developing seed is probably the most versatile of all lawn seeds. Used often as a “nurse crop” seed in combination with a more desirable type, it germinates quickly, thus protecting the slower developing seeds. Rye grasses add toughness and thickness to any seed combination it is used with and, being a “cold season grass”, it stays greener longer and shows up earlier.
Rye seeds also have the amazingly attractive ability to be sown by hand casting without all the standard preparation worries. Rye grasses thus are perfect for repairing damaged lawn areas and allow the rhizomes from Bluegrasses and the like to filter through and establish themselves. They provide many attributes and very few downsides, being this versatile.
Annual Rye grasses are widely-used to establish pastures and erosion-control slopes and valleys with a fast-growing and rapidly-developing seed and can be used as the aforementioned ‘repair seed’ allowing the damaged other seed stock to replenish itself in a more timely and thorough way.
Perennial Ryes make a durable stand for athletics and playground and park uses. Mixed with the more beautiful grasses, it acts to provide a tougher, more long-lasting mixture, perfect for longer periods of greenness at both ends of the climate extremes.
Annual Ryegrass is easily removed from any area through heavy grazing, mowing or turning under before the seeding stage. Maybe this should be the number one grass of the new millennium? A non-aggressive, vigorous grower, it furnishes nutrients back to the soil, forms an erosion soil basis for stability, highly digestible, beautiful color, dies off when you need it to without chemicals.
