[SimonR]

So, first up post in the Cool Season Forum. To be totally honest, ask me 6 months ago to post something on a cool season grass and I would have laughed. I am a Bermuda grower through and through. I never thought I could appreciate a lawn that wasn't a super fine leaf bermuda grass cut low with a reel mower.

Something happened. Maybe it was Ware's PRG overseed. Maybe it was watching some sport on TV of some New Zealand sports fields. Maybe it was going to my own major sporting ground that has PRG and thinking, damn, that looks pretty good. In any event, my current bermuda lawn is a dead lawn growing. You see my wife and I are about to rebuild our house, and what better time to experiment on the lawn when there is no consequence.

Luckily I had a pretty good bloke to call on for advice. Ben from LawnTips is also doing a fall renovation to PRG, so I was able to chew his ear off and he helped me along the way to get it up and growing.

I have got to be honest, I love this grass. I haven't been this excited to get home each day and mow. Before this journey I have never understood why you would ever want to grow cool-season turf. Now I know.

I was wrong.

PS. Still needs a reel mower though!

25 DAS. 5/8" HOC

 

[gijoe4500]

Those stripes look absolutely fantastic.

 

[b0nk3rs]

Feel a bit hot in here to anyone else???.........

 

[ryeguy]

Looks awesome! Where did you get your PRG seed from?

 

[SimonR]

Looks awesome! Where did you get your PRG seed from?

From a local distributor in Australia. The seed is PGG Wrightons and the cultivar is Colloseum.

Those stripes look absolutely fantastic.

Thank you. It is an amazing grass to mow. The stripes are instant and so defined

 

[Togo]

That's amazing! :thumbup:

 

[Pete1313]

Beautiful! Now you need to come up with a solution to grow that superior grass all season long!

 

[pennstater2005]

@SimonR

Looks amazing! PRG is awesome!

 

[zeus201]

Holy smokes!

 

[wardconnor]

Amazing. Now you know why we are crazy for cool season grass.

 

[Turfguy93]

Wow 😮

 

[SNOWBOB11]

Bro, that looks great!

 

[ABC123]

Thanks for the inspiration!!

 

[J_nick]

Lawn looks awesome Simon as usual. One question, what does "rebuild our house" mean? Is that what we would call a remodel?

 

[Colonel K0rn]

Wow, LOTM for April anyone?

 

[GlennBlake]

WOW. Amazing stripes, density and overall look. Def a LOTM contender.

 

[rrmiller32]

I just started my journey with PRG and that is what I'm looking for. Amazing, lush and short. I'm currently at 2" HOC trying to bring it down below 1". Any tips to get my PRG to that level?

 

[Ware]

Looks amazing Simon. :thumbsup:

 

[Redtenchu]

:clapping: :beer: :clapping:

 

[SimonR]

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. It's certainly a lot of fun to maintain this grass

Beautiful! Now you need to come up with a solution to grow that superior grass all season long!

Funnily enough we had a bit of a late heat wave here with 4 days in the 90s and it handled it quite well considering how young it is. Maybe some hope that it could be grown here year round but a preventative disease program would definitely be in order in the height of summer.

I just started my journey with PRG and that is what I'm looking for. Amazing, lush and short. I'm currently at 2" HOC trying to bring it down below 1". Any tips to get my PRG to that level?

I started mowing it at 5/8" and had it down to 1/2" so I would keep to the 1/3 rule and try and drop the height over a few weeks.

Lawn looks awesome Simon as usual. One question, what does "rebuild our house" mean? Is that what we would call a remodel?

The house is a 'tear down', so completely removing the whole structure and building a whole new house.