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TURF SAVER RTF FESCUE SEED BLEND

#2122 | Festuca arundinacea

RTF BROCHURE

Summary

Turf Saver® RTF® is the most advanced and unique tall fescue blend available, providing the benefits of rhizomes not found in any other varieties.  While other spreading varieties describe “potential” rhizome development or “aggressive tillering,” the deep-rooted and heat-tolerant Turf Saver RTF has been proven to mend damaged turf and maintain both uniformity and density.

RTF is the only Tall Fescue with true rhizomes. Rhizomes help RTF quickly fill in damaged and bare spots in your turf with new shoots of grass. This results in less over-seeding, fewer weed problems and no wide-leafed ugly clumps of grass like other tall fescues can form. RTF’s extensive root system has the ability to draw moisture from a deep soil profile, which helps it use less water and makes it adaptable in a wide range of soils. It has excellent heat and drought tolerance, with less irrigation. A New Mexico State University trial proved RTF maintained high turf quality with 30% less water.

  • Additional Features:
    • Excellent disease resistance and insect tolerance
    • Produces a thick, durable lawn with improved turf density
    • Also available as sod through the RTF Producers Association
    • Self repairing tall fescue turf
    • Ideal for many golf course turf applications, including club house grounds
    • A blend featuring 40% RTF varieties combined with two high quality turf-type tall fescues
    • Including BarRobusto: a dark green tall fescue with high brown patch resistance and above average drough tolerance.
    • Includes Bonfire: a high NTEP ranking tall fescue
    • Quick to establish with very good uniformity and density
    • Strong traffic tolerance — the only self-repairing tall fescue seed mixture available
    • Extensive, deep root system
    • Saves 30% water over other cool season grasses
    • Strong disease resistance and insect tolerance

 

Also available in RTF sod!

Plant Characteristics
Taxonomy

Zone

Regional Growing Zone
1 - Northwest Coastal, 3 - Southern Mountain, 5 - Midwest, 6 - Northeast Lakes, 7 - Great Lakes South, 8 - Appalacia
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Temperature Zone
Cool, Transitional

Plant Characteristics

Leaf Color
Green
Growing Cycle
Perennial
Sun Requirement
Full Sun, Shade

Plant Information

Planting Season
Early-Fall - Early-Spring
Plant Depth
0.25" - 0.5"
Establishment
Easy

Seed Information

Seeds Per Pound
227,000
Kingdom
PLANTAE
Subkingdom
TRACHEOBIONTA
Super Division
SPERMATOPHYTA
Division
MAGNOLIOPHYTA
Class
LILIOPSIDA
Subclass
COMMELINIDAE
Order
CYPERALES
Family
POACEAE
Genus
SCHEDONORUS
Species
SCHEDONORUS ARUNDINACEUS

Coverage Area & Available Sizes

COVERAGE: 6-8 LBS PER 1000 SQ. FT

AVAILABLE SIZES:

Applications

Sports Turf

6-8 LBS PER 1000 SQ. FEET

Golf Turf

6-8 LBS PER 1000 SQ. FEET

Lawn

6-8 LBS PER 1000 SQ. FEET

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