A Guide to Overseeding Warm‐Season Perennial Grasses with Cool‐Season Annuals

Abstract

Overseeding warm-season perennial grasses with cool-season annuals in the southeastern U.S. has many benefits. Because the growing seasons overlap in autumn, management practices to reduce the warm-season grass competition are necessary for early cool-season forage production. Cool-season forage production and distribution is dependent on species, seeding rates, and planting methods. Growing seasons also overlap in spring which delays spring recovery of the warm-season grass.