Rhizomatous Tall Fescue – RTF®

What is RTF® (Rhizomatous Tall Fescue) ?

Tall Fescue makes one of the most durable and visually appealing lawns available. They are noted for their rich emerald green colour, deep-rooted drought tolerance and soft texture.  More recently, turf breeders developed a variety coined RTF® (Rhizomatous Tall Fescue). RTF® is the holy grail amongst turf-type tall fescues owing to its rhizomatous nature of sending out underground runners (rhizomes) to fill out adjacent bare spots, effectively making it self repairing like couch.

Full renovation using RTF®

Reseedmylawn.com.au offer RTF® lawns from a full renovation only. If your lawn has little to no desirable turfgrass, then consider a RTF® lawn from a full renovation. A mandatory requirement is that the lawn is completely sprayed out with glyphosate (Round-Up®) such that the old weedy lawn is not coming back. Following, the old lawn canopy is fully removed by repeated super low scalping. RTF® is then drilled into and under the soil surface and the seed bed extensively worked. The final precedure is rolling ensuring seed soil contact so the seed imbibes moisture. Fescue germination and establishment takes a little longer than turf ryegrass, so mitigating weed competition and weed seed germination is paramount. For this reason, we use a significantly higher seed rate than sod farms who are mostly working with weed seed free bare earth. The full RTF® renovation process is fairly intensive in labour and on machinery, the seed use more costly; so we charge a little more for a RTF® lawn renovation.

16Apr 2018

The Ventrac aerovator seeder is the ideal implement for school oval renovation. The implement tynes agressively vibrate to fracture the underlying soil structure to  relieve compaction. The operator has complete control of how aggressively the soil is worked. Combined with the seed box, the Ventrac becomes the ideal implement for overseeding large greenspace areas, effectively burying […]

06Aug 2017
ryegrass

Watering lawn –  Deep and Infrequent or Little and Often? The short answer is you should water your lawn little and often. Water daily during establishment, every 2-4 days during the grow out period and more frequently through the heat and dry of summer. To grow deep turf grass roots, provides conditions for optimal plant […]

22Jun 2017
lawn seed lawn

Instant lawn cost | Cost of instant lawn | $ cost to lay Before you discount lawn seed, consider the list of crucial steps laying instant turf. After all, instant turf can be an expensive exercise, you don’t want your new turf to die, deteriorate or become weed or disease infested, so you need to be […]

21Jun 2017
couch overseeded to ryegrass

Selling house | Beautiful lawns add 000’s to property prices Selling house ? Most real estate agents agree that pristine, vibrant, new grass lawn areas substantially lift a property’s appeal, potentially adding tens  of thousands of dollars to the bid price. Read this daily telegraph article. From late winter, new grass sown from reseeding  takes around 7-10 days […]

13Jun 2017
lawn grub

  Lawn grub cockchafer feeding on lawn grass roots Image shows lawn grub otherwise called orange headed cockchafer feeding on the grass roots of established lawn. The grubs shown are third instar mature grubs prior to burrowing deeper where they pupate emerging as a black beetle in springtime usually mid-September for Melbourne.   What to do if you […]