You don t want to mix two types of grass but you want to make sure your lawn is tolerant of clay soil.
Growing grass on red clay.
An unamended clay soil will never grow a good lawn as grass roots suffocate in the airless environment drowning when the clay is wet and baking when it s dry.
Ask your agricultural extension office for help if you need it.
The problem with red dirt is that it s comprised of clay which is a heavy planting medium.
You can grow grass in red dirt if you first amend the dirt to make it more fertile and well draining.
Clay soil is made up of tons of small particles that stick together clinging to moisture.
Clay is only ever at a good moisture level for a very short time between being an airless wet mud and dry and hard as a brick.
Most grass seed will grow in various soil types.
You re improving your soil but it s still clay.
Grass grown in clay soil requires less frequent watering than lawns grown on sandy soil.
Varieties that grow in a clay loam soil include annual ryegrass colonial bent grass hard fescue kentucky bluegrass perennial ryegrass and red fescue.
A bone dry clay soil is going to be rock hard and not allow water nutrients to get into the rootzone when the temperature start to get cooler but before the leaves start dropping start by aerating your lawn followed by an over seeding of appropriate seed type and apply an organic fertilizer.
Even though clay soil isn t good for growing grass you can set up a covetable lawn on this soil if you prepare it well.
So the dirt is highly.
However clay soil is perhaps the most difficult to work with.
A good way to determine the soil s moisture content is by sticking a screwdriver into the soil to a depth.
Plant warm season grasses as plugs from.
That s because it is extremely heavy and thick.
There are very few air pockets under the soil surface and grass.
You will have to introduce some organic material and change its ph level before attempting to lay turf.
It can take up to two months of preparing the soil before you can actually plant your grass.
Here is a list of grasses that grow well in clay.
First determine what type or grass your lawn is made of.