Legacy Fine Fescue

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Our premier fine fescue blend with a three different varieties of fine fescue to give you the best turf possible. This elite blend combines hard fescue, chewings fescue, and creeping red fescue to give you the immaculate lawn that you have been looking for. High quality look for a very low price!

Over the centuries, fine fescues have been renowned for their survival under extreme conditions. They grow in infertile and dry soils, tolerate close mowing heights, deep shade and grow in places where turf is neglected, tortured and forgotten. In these areas, fescues endure.

 
Legacy Fine Fescue Mixture is the perfect solution to those difficult to manage turf areas. Legacy is hard fescue, chewings fescue and creeping red fescue, specially blended for optimum performance under the highest turfgrass management, or planted as a cover for naturalizing low maintenance or native settings.

Hard fescue - classic hard fescue performance. Dense, dwarf, dark, compact growth that thrives in low fertility and infrequent irrigation. Extremely high endophyte levels. (approximately 20% of the mixture)

Chewings fescue - the most unique advancement in fescue breeding: a true fescue with extraordinary turf quality. Fine textured and low growing, with very high endophyte levels. (approximately 40% of the mixture)

Creeping red fescue - extremely high quality turf with high levels of viable endophyte. Excellent soil stabilization through aggressive, rhizomatous growth habit. (approximately 40% of the mixture)

HIGH MAINTENANCE TURF

Legacy is perfect for partly to heavily shaded sites where water and fertilizer conservation is important. Areas with dry shade are perfect for establishing Legacy in spring or fall.

NATIVE / NATURALIZED GRASS AREAS

Legacy is an excellent mixture for establishing and stabilizing naturalized areas. From wildlife cover to wildflower beds, erosion buffers to bank stabilization, Legacy is well suited to broadcast, drill, and hydroseedings.

Seeding Rate & Planting Time:

  • New turf: 4 - 5 pounds per 1,000 square feet or 160 - 200 lbs/acre for broadcast seeding
  • Overseeding: 2 - 2 1/2 pounds per 1,000 square feet or 80 - 100 lbs per acre for broadcast overseeding
  • Plant when soil temperature reaches 55 degrees in spring up until a minimum of 8 weeks before frost in fall