I am starting to look at a winter overseed. Is there a reason to use perrenial rye, and not annual? Is the Perennial a finer blade? It seems that the annual would potentially die about the same time Bermuda comes out of dormancy, negating the need to spray it dead.
bwright
Annual rye is wet and messy to mow and is generally a poorer quality when compared to perennial varieties.
I did annual rye this past season. Like others have said it is very wet and messy. If you mow it constantly it's not bad but if you let it grow too long it really clumps up. I'd have to spend 20 minutes washing my reel after every mow. Mine stuck around through part of June. Wouldn't recommend it.
Following along as I'm seriously considering giving this a go as well. I do have some reservations about not being able to put down a fall pre emergent though.
I wouldn't get too caught up in the name on the bag. I think the blends can vary some from year to year - even under the same label name like "Champion GQ". Also at the end of the day I would say pretty much any decent PRG blend is going to look amazing against a backdrop of dormant warm season grass.
I was also worried about no pre emergent. I asked @Thor865 in a post last year, and he said not to worry, whatever does grow will get sprayed out in the spring. He was right. I had very few weeds grow in during the fall and winter and then just sprayed out whatever along with the rye with some msm turf. It did take a couple rounds, some heat, and some drought to finally kill 100% of the rye though. Also, don't forget you spring pre emergent.pmalecki said:
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