John Deere Select Fescue
John Deere Select Fescue is a turf-type tall, fine fescue grass grown from seed. This is quality fescue that grows well in all areas of fescue adaptation. Palmer’s Turf Nursery hand-picks fescue varieties each year to provide you with sod that has the best heat, drought, and disease resistances available.

In addition to the benefits all tall, fine fescue grass varieties have, John Deere Select Fescue has superior Rhizoctonia brown patch resistance, exceptional salt tolerance, and a much stronger shade tolerance. John Deere Select Fescue is by far the most popular turf grass choice in the Tennessee Valley.

Uses for John Deere Select Fescue:

• Residential or commercial turf
  
• Parks and cemeteries
  
• Recreational and sports turf
  
• Sod production
  
• Golf course roughs or bunkers
  
• Roadsides and airport runways
  
• Reclamation projects
  
• Low maintenance uses
  
• Saline soils and water areas

Meyer Zoysia
Also called Z-52, this grass variety is an improved cultivar of Zoysia japonica. It has a medium, dark-green color with intermediate leaf texture and shoot density. Meyer Zoysia is slightly less shade tolerant than Emerald Zoysia. It also has the fastest spring green-up. The most cold tolerant zoysia grass, it is grown as far north as Pennsylvania and Missouri. This is the zoysia grass often advertised as the “super�? grass in newspapers and magazines.

Meyer can be established using plugs, sprigs, or sod and is excellent for lawns.

Advantages of Z-52 Zoysia:

• Dense turf prevents development of weeds
  
• Very green turf in the summer
  
• Can tolerate some shade
  
• Pest and disease resistant
  
• Excellent hot and cold tolerances
  
• Stands up to foot traffic
  
• Tolerates close mowing

Tifway (Tifton 419)
Tifway, or Tifton 419, was a product of cooperative selection and testing by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Stations, and the U.S. and Southern Golf Associations. This hybrid of the Cynodon transvaalensis and C. dactylon Bermuda grasses is highly disease resistant with a very dark green color. Consequently, it maintains a desirable green color longer, with less nitrogen requirements than most other selections.

Although Tifway’s fine leaves, which are stiffer than Tifgreen, make it inferior to Tifgreen for putting greens, it is a superior selection for tees and fairways. This grass’s growth begins earlier in the spring than most Bermuda grass varieties. It is also more frost resistant than other Bermuda grasses. As a result, it will remain greener deeper into the fall months.

Tifway is more resistant to sod web worm and mole cricket attacks. Because of its extreme denseness, it is more weed resistant than most Bermuda grasses. Tifway never produces seed, so it must be propagated by sprigs or sod. When managed correctly, Tifway 419 provides a thick, high-quality turf.

Emerald Zoysia
Emerald zoysia was introduced in 1955 by the United States Department of Agriculture and the Georgia Agricultural Experiment Stations. It is a hybrid between zoysia japonica and zoysia tenuifolia. This variety combines the fine texture of zoysia tenuifolia with the cold tolerance and faster rate of spread of zoysia japonica, and is similar in appearance and habit to zoysia matrella.

Emerald zoysia makes a quality lawn when regular maintenance and care is provided. It is less hardy than Meyer zoysia, but more shade tolerant, and has a high shoot density and low growth habit. With its dark green color and fine leaf texture, Emerald zoysia is often referred to as the Cadillac of grasses.

When proper care and maintenance measures are taken, Emerald zoysia produces a beautiful, thick, lush lawn.

• Requires Less Water
• Requires Less Fertilizer
• Shade Tolerance
• Traffic Tolerance

Research has shown El Toro to be one of the most drought tolerant turfgrasses ever released. El Toro thrives in low fertility enviroments. It is adaptable to a wide range of soils and ph levels. El Toro grows very well in shaded environments. El Toro forms a dense turfgrass stand that holds up to heavy foot traffic.

The New Zoysiagrass Standard
When selecting a turfgrass for a home lawn, commercial landscape, or park, there are many factors to consider. These include maintenance requirements, potential water restrictions, shade and foot traffic. El Toro zoysia was developed with these questions in mind. It is the product of the nationally renowned Turfgrass Research Center at the University of California - Riverside. Since its release, El Toro has provided homeowners and turfgrass managers alike with a low maintenance, high quality turfgrass. El Toro has the unique ability to shut itself down in drought situations and quickly recovers when irrigation resumes. This makes it an ideal choice for areas facing water restrictions. It grows very well in the shade where bermuda grass cannot survive. And because it produces less thatch than other zoysia varieties, it can mowed with a rotary mower. El Toro maintains its green color well into the fall, but can also be overseeded with perennial rye grass to provide a lush, green lawn year round.