When Is It Too Late To Plant Grass Seed In North Carolina. The following tips and advice for sowing tall fescue are adapted from a Turf Alert posted Sep 15 2014 by Dr. Many South Carolina homeowners overseed their dormant warm-season lawns with perennial or annual ryegrass.
The seed label will list the grass cultivars included in the mix. Warm-season grasses are green in the summer and become brown and dormant in the winter. Choose mixes with very low weed seed levels.
The higher the germination rate the more seeds that will come up.
In North Carolina cool-season grasses like Jonathan Green Black Beauty are best seeded in early fall but many people achieve success by seeding in early spring mid-February to late March. Warm-season grasses are adapted to the sandy soils of the North Carolina coastal plain and most of the piedmont. They dont have to deal with the heat of the summer and established grass will start going dormant soon which will give your growing seeds a. Sowing in the fall about 30 days before the first frost ensures a green cover during the winter when warm-season grass turns brown according to Clemson University Extension.