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Aurora Gold Hard Fescue Benefits
- Weed-free turf with low rates of glyphosate application
- 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
Aurora Gold can be used as a low maintenance home lawn when mowed. It may also be used in un-mowed situations like slopes and naturalized areas as well as areas of low maintenance such as roadsides. Aurora Gold may also be planted (at no more than 10% weight of seed mixture) with wildflowers. Use as a cover crop in temperate areas that cool season grasses grow.
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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. |
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Aurora Gold Hard Fescue Grass 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 can be used as a low maintenance home lawn when mowed. It may also be used in un-mowed situations like slopes and
naturalized areas as well as areas of low maintenance such as roadsides. Aurora Gold may also be planted (at no more than 10% weight of seed mixture) with wildflowers. Use as a cover crop
in temperate areas that cool season grasses grow.
Aurora Gold should be used as a mono-stand 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.*
* Users of this variety must be in contact with
Turf-Seed, and follow chemical application directions exactly.
Growth Height - Planting in Nursery Situations
 With the use of
glyphosate (weed control and pgr activity), the typical low
growth habit of the hard fescues such as Aurora, and the limited
water going on a tree plantation, It would be surprising to see
it go much over a foot. I'd think that one or two mowings per
year would take care of things. In seed production fields, the
hard fescues are rarely more than 'knee high'. In our vineyard
trials in California it's only about 6" tall.
Other than the hard fescues, I don't know of much else that fits the need so well. The ability to withstand the use of glyphosate really makes this an ideal grass for Christmas tree
production. It greatly simplifies weed control and makes a great ground cover between rows in vineyards and in field tree plantations.
PHOTOS OF AURORA GOLD USED IN TREE FARMS
 
Establishment of Aurora Gold Hard Fescue GrassAurora 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, 2 to 3 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 10 to 15 days, depending on
soil temperatures, and first mowing can be expected in about 30
days.
Seeding Rates:
| Home lawns |
6 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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