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Summer left your cool-season lawn looking pretty rough.

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All that heat and all those hours spent enjoying it took a toll. And cooler temperatures on the horizon aren’t likely to do your lawn any favors. So, how do you help it recover and prepare it for the colder weather ahead? It’s simple once you find out how to overseed your lawn in the fall with fescue.

Why Overseed in the Fall with Fescue?

When you overseed a lawn, you spread new, fresh grass seed over an already existing lawn in order to cover up any bare spots and enhance the thickness of the grass.

“It’s a rejuvenation of the lawn,” says Tom Good, Horticulture Assistant with the Kansas State University Extension office in Johnson County.

You do it, he says, after those long, hot, dry summers have wreaked havoc on your grass.

Adding the fescue, which grows its best in the cool temperatures of fall and spring, breathes new life into that tired lawn.

Why won’t fescue repair itself? Tall and fine fescues are bunch-type grasses, which don’t have runners to produce new plants as warm-season grasses do.

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