Doguet Ventures/Bladerunner Farms
Zeon zoysia, the Nation’s #1 selling zoysia, is a superior, versatile, fine- bladed turfgrass suitable for golf courses, sports fields and home lawns. It grows in quicker than traditional zoysias, enabling faster harvest and regrowth. It is highly shade tolerant, drought tolerant, exhibits some salinity tolerance, and is adaptable in many soil conditions. Known as the grass selected for the golf course built for the 2016 Olympics in Rio, Zeon is sold as sod or sprigs.
JaMur produces less thatch than other medium-textured zoysias and produces a dense turf that chokes out weeds. It is very cold tolerant, extremely drought tolerant, and requires very little nitrogen. JaMur is commonly used on home lawns, roads and common areas.
L1F zoysia is extremely fine- textured, ideal for use in high-end lawns, sports fields and golf courses. It has an upright nature and handles mowing heights below ¼-inch. Research is underway now to confirm its viability as a grass for golf course greens.
Cutlass zoysia exhibits a horizontal growth pattern which reduces the need for frequent mowings for the end user. Cutlass also requires less water and less fertilizer, making it a low maintenance, homeowner-friendly grass.
Density buffalograss is fine textured and offers superior turf quality for faster and easier harvesting and planting. Strong and extremely low maintenance, Density requires no fertilization by the end user.
Eco buffalograss is a very low maintenance, native turfgrass. Many homeowners opt to mow it infrequently, or not at all. It forms very strong sod, lifts well, resists weeds, and requires no fertilization by the end user. A beautiful grass, it does produce a flower if allowed to go native.
FJ’s Select Turf is a compact St. Augustine grass with dense horizontal stolon growth and slow vertical growth that requires less mowing than many St. Augustine varieties. For sod production, its compact nature stacks a tighter pallet for easier handling and transportation. FJ’s Select has excellent green color, good heat tolerance, moderate shade tolerance and resistance to St. Augustine
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decline disease. Trials conducted at Texas A&M ranked FJ’s Select the #1 commercial St. Augustine in overall turfgrass quality. FJ’s Select is named for FJ Milberger, the father of the Texas turfgrass industry, who developed the grass.
Grassland Oregon
Skye Kentucky bluegrass was Grassland Oregon (GO) released in 2005 and is still grown. Te top performing variety in the last two NTEPs, it showed superior sod stretching strength benefiting harvesting and durability in use. With superior leaf texture and color, it’s an ideal component in any Kentucky bluegrass or tall fescue mix. Developed at Rutgers University, Skye built a long tradition of good quality production and excelling in all aspects of turf use.
Prosperity Kentucky bluegrass was released in 2003. GO gained market rights in 2012. It is still being produced. Prosperity’s very dark color and strong heat tolerance put it among top performers in the Northeast. It exhibits excellent resistance to stripe rust and leaf spot. Prosperity has been used on major sports facilities and excels in all venues suited for Kentucky bluegrass.
Memphis tall fescue, GO released in 2015, is a dark variety showing great winter color and spring green-up wherever it is grown. Its great traffic tolerance and rapid establishment crowd out unwanted competitors and get your product ready sooner. In the 2014 NTEP data, it showed some of the highest rhizome counts among all tall fescues tested.
Fiji perennial ryegrass, GO released in 2003, showed excellent wear in traffic and rated strong in gray leaf spot NTEP trials in multiple locations. Its dark color and strong density made it a staple in many turf grass mixtures. Today, Fiji 2 carries on those same traditions from the genetic line that is a force and will continue to be.
Jacklin Seed by Simplot
Award Kentucky bluegrass, introduced in 1997, ushered in the “low-mow” Kentucky bluegrasses and earned world-wide trust for premium performance and superior turf consistency. Continually ranked in the top of NTEP trials for overall quality, it is used with other Jacklin 5-Steps Above varieties in turf production mixes that provide great knitting and beautiful quality. Te 5-Steps Above varieties, advanced through Jacklin research, brought remarkable improvements and still successfully compete with new introductions.
TPI Turf News July/August 2016
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