LP Field to get sod from GA Farm

You don't need the grass to grow in December,
but you need grass with a good root system that won't peel off easily.
If the field was maintained properly, we would have grass instead of mud in December.

I've seen soccer fields that are seeded with bermuda in the summer and rye in the winter that maintain a good turf in the winter months.

 

No to the 300 pounders, yes to 2 sixty minute (actually 90 minute) games in 2 days.
There is grass that is not totally dormant in the winter, and with a strong root system would hold up better than what they now have at LP.

 

I would have no idea.

I know there are fields that are not as bad as ours, and it could be better.

In a normal year we don't have a lot of hard freezes until after December, and there are varieties of seed that would still be very viable during the NFL season.
If they would work year round establishing a network of grasses, they could produce a thick turf that would hold up better than what we see.

I'm only guessing, but they probably don't do as much as they could in the off season, then as the middle gets ripped up during the season, they just lay down new sod that doesn't have enough time to lay down the roots it needs to withstand the traffic.
It would take a year round effort, and some bucks, but they could have a better field than what they've had.

 

:ha:
Well, I do what I can, I have about 2 inches of top soil on top of solid limestone. Hard to establish much of a root system on that mess.
They had to use a jackhammer to plant the posts for my privacy fence.

I had a really nice lawn in Phoenix, in a desert! It was tiff-sod, and I had a underground irrigation system on a timer. I mowed it with a tiff-mower, which cuts like those push mowers you've seen (in a circular over motion, only it's motorized) and it's like cutting just the top of the blades with scissors. That way the roots are not damaged.
I would wear steel spiked golf shoes every time I mowed to help aerate it, and I de-thatched it twice a year.

 

The grass doesn't have to grow. It's already there. They need to just do away with the stuff if it's that hard to maintain. Seems if the problems were so simple as "grass doesn't grow in december" then they would've just went with some sort of artificial turf from the get-go. But, maybe they didn't think it through. Pretty bad if they didn't lol.

 

Do you lose your grass during the winter at your place?