The triple digit temperatures experienced in the Northeast this past week have quickly turned many formerly green lawns into brown ones. High temperatures with the accompanying lack of rainfall over the past couple months also has many municipalities contemplating if not already implementing outdoor watering bans.
So what does this mean for your lawns? Not to worry! It is time to take a break from mowing. The cool-season grasses, Kentucky bluegrass, ryegrass and fescue, favored in the northern half of the country have gone into dormancy. Since cool-season grasses thrive in temperatures from 65 to 75⁰ F they exhibit two growth spurts, first in the spring and again in the fall.
So just as the cool-season grasses came out of dormancy in the spring; they will do so again in the fall.