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<blockquote data-quote="MrBilly" data-source="post: 445814" data-attributes="member: 87"><p>I personally would not plant ryegrass and Durana together at all. It is very important that the Durana gets all the sun and nutrients it can muster during the year of establishment. Putting in ryegrass will shade the clover and reduce your stand. When we planted it five years ago, we clipped the fescue to prevent the shading through the establishment period.</p><p></p><p>Also, ryegrass will set back not only the clover but also your fescue. Dr. Carl Hoveland, of UGA, just sent me an email about why one should not plant ryegrass into a pure fescue field. He says that since ryegrass and fescue are both cool season grasses there will be too much competition and the ryegrass will ruin most of the normal winter and spring growth of the fescue. Also, he said, "it (ryegrass) can weaken the tall fescue because the fescue does not have enough leaf growth to restore the storage carbohydrates in the stem bases so it may not survive the summer heat and drought." I had specifically asked him about planting ryegrass into a fescue pasture, and he said, "It would be better to spend your money overseeding bermudagrass."</p><p></p><p>If you don't have Hoveland's <strong><em>Southern Forages </em></strong>bible, you should get it. Here is the publishers site: <a href="http://ppi-store.stores.yahoo.net/soutfor.html" target="_blank">http://ppi-store.stores.yahoo.net/soutfor.html</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>Billy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MrBilly, post: 445814, member: 87"] I personally would not plant ryegrass and Durana together at all. It is very important that the Durana gets all the sun and nutrients it can muster during the year of establishment. Putting in ryegrass will shade the clover and reduce your stand. When we planted it five years ago, we clipped the fescue to prevent the shading through the establishment period. Also, ryegrass will set back not only the clover but also your fescue. Dr. Carl Hoveland, of UGA, just sent me an email about why one should not plant ryegrass into a pure fescue field. He says that since ryegrass and fescue are both cool season grasses there will be too much competition and the ryegrass will ruin most of the normal winter and spring growth of the fescue. Also, he said, "it (ryegrass) can weaken the tall fescue because the fescue does not have enough leaf growth to restore the storage carbohydrates in the stem bases so it may not survive the summer heat and drought." I had specifically asked him about planting ryegrass into a fescue pasture, and he said, "It would be better to spend your money overseeding bermudagrass." If you don't have Hoveland's [b][i]Southern Forages [/i][/b]bible, you should get it. Here is the publishers site: [url=http://ppi-store.stores.yahoo.net/soutfor.html]http://ppi-store.stores.yahoo.net/soutfor.html[/url] Billy [/QUOTE]
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