Is there any way to control perennial rye in a bluegrass and fescue mixed lawn?
a. If it was just bluegrass, there would be some products to use, but with the bluegrass and fescue mix, no. Both fescue and perennial rye are both bunch grasses, they don’t have rhizomes, they don’t have stolons. Even the new rhizomatous fescues have limited rhizomes. To get rid of the rye grass, there’s nothing they can do. Perennial rye grass a short-lived perennial in this state, and it winter kills, so if it’s coming back year after year after year, they have a very protected site. 11. A viewer sent two images, one of snow covered lawn, including a your clump white birch, the other is the same tree this spring, with a single trunk looking to be in good shape and two others that suffered severely bent sections. Should she remove the tree or just the damaged sections? a. You’re definitely going to have to remove the branches where the branch snapped, but using good pruning practices. You could prune those back if you had a shoot that was a third the size of the bent branch. If you d
