A Glyphosate-Tolerant Hard Fescue Revolution!
Aurora Gold benefits
- Weed-free turf with low rates of glyphosate
- Extremely low maintenance
- Good drought tolerance in low maintenance fine fescue trials
- Good summer performance
- Good resistance to dollar spot, leaf spot, and red thread
- Excellent shade performance
- Tested as PST-4RU
Description
Aurora Gold produces a dark green, fine leafed, dense, low-growing turf of excellent quality. Aurora
Gold excels where mowing, water, and fertilization requirements are low or non-existent.
Aurora Gold has many uses
Aurora Gold is an excellent choice for golf course extreme roughs, highway shoulders, parks, and
expansive areas that would otherwise be costly to maintain and where traffic is not a factor.
Aurora Gold should be used as a monostand to take advantage of its glyphosate tolerance. In Oregon
trials, all known weeds were removed with low rates of glyphosate. The turf will tolerate I pt./ac. rate, but
4 oz. is adequate to control Poa annua and most weeds.
Seeding and maintenance
Aurora Gold performs well in a wide range of soils where light irrigation is available. It will withstand
moderate drought conditions. Ideal soil pH is from 5.5 to 7.0.
For low maintenance, 1 to 2 lbs. actual N per 1,000 sq. ft. per year is ample, 3 to 5 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft. for
high maintenance.
Early fall and spring are ideal times to plant. After seeding, germination will take place in about 7 to 15
days, depending on soil temperatures, and first mowing can be expected in about 30 days.
Seeding rates:
Home lawns 8 to 10 lbs./ 1,000 sq. ft.
Parks, golf course extreme roughs 250 lbs./acre
Parks, sod farms, industrial campuses 200 lbs./acre
Golf course roughs 250 lbs./acre
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