The Grass Doctor

Will Kentucky bluegrass grow in the south?

I was in the beautiful backwoods of Kentucky last week and got my first close look at Kentucky bluegrass [the grass, not the music]. It was love at first sight. I saw cows grazing in grass up to their bellies; a hay field where it was raked up knee deep; grown into a beautiful lawn. It is surely the most beautiful grass I have ever seen. We bought some property in the southern part of Georgia and I would love to plant the bluegrass there but from what I read, it will not do well there. It is for a cooler climate. Can anyone tell me anything helpful about this?

Public Comments

1. Yes; get a mixture of bluegrass and fescue. That is what we do here in KY and we are in the South
2. i live in ky that probally wasnt blue grass you saw weve had a real wet spring so for so all the grass here looks good but its a real pain to grow it here
3. Southern Georgia has a lot of red clay. If you can import some black dirt and spread a couple-three inches on an area you want to seed in bluegrass, you could do that. Short of that however, it would be a stretch. You're real close to bahia-grassville.