Products · Super Grass™
Luxury never goes
dormant.
A cool-season perennial rye overseed for warm-season lawns. Installed by mid-October, mowed through March, fades cleanly when the warm-season grass returns.
The Premise
Green. In January.
Most Gulf Coast lawns spend three months a year tan. The warm-season grass is dormant from December through March; the property looks like the property next door, which looks like the property next door.
Scapes Super Grass™ is a perennial rye-based overseed installed by mid-October, before Halloween. It germinates in seven days, holds a deep green through the cool months, mows the same as the underlying lawn, and tapers cleanly when the warm-season grass returns in April.
It is not a substitute for the lawn. It is a winter layer — the same layer luxury hotels and Augusta National use to keep the surface readable for the months the photographs are taken in.
A great lawn does not surrender to winter.
It overseeds. In November. Every year.
It decides, in advance, to stay alive.
What looks effortless in January was decided in November by someone who planned ahead. The man who prepares in the season of plenty does not fear the season of want. A green lawn in winter is the cheapest luxury on the property — and the most disciplined.
— J Core, Founder · Still in the dirt
The Method
Two weeks of work before the seed.
Anyone can throw rye on a lawn. What separates a winter that looks like a golf course from one that looks like a hay field is the preparation, the seed, and the exit.
We cut it down in stages.
The first cut goes shorter than normal. The second, a week later, goes shorter than that. Stepping the height down rather than scalping it keeps the lawn from going into shock — it sends its energy into the roots, where it is safe for the winter.
A triple-blended perennial rye.
Most winter rye sold on this coast is annual ryegrass — forage seed, bred to grow fast and tall for pasture. Ours is the class of perennial blend found on famous golf courses: short, tight, dense, deeper in color, and far more resistant to disease through a wet Gulf Coast winter.
Sown in a cross-hatch.
Two weeks of low cuts earn the one thing that decides everything — real soil-to-seed contact. We sow in a cross-hatch so no seeding lines show as it fills, and run fertilizer with the seed on the first pass. Germination in seven days.
Then it is simply a lawn.
Mowed all winter at the same height as the grass beneath it. A light feed in late January carries it through February — the month that separates a rye job done right from one done cheap.
It leaves the soil better than it found it.
Rye left too long fights the warm-season grass coming out of dormancy, and you pay for it in a thin spring. We taper ours out on purpose. As it fades it returns organic nutrients to the soil and helps the established lawn wake up strong. One thrives while the other sleeps, then feeds it on the way out.
In January your lawn is green, striped and cut clean, and the one across the street is the color of a paper bag. Your property looks alive. Theirs looks asleep.
The Promise
Green through
March.
Up to six months of luxury for the price of one.
Green through the winter. Make your neighbors jealous with turf that reads like a luxury golf course all winter and into the spring. As ground temps return, the seasonal rye dies off as your primary grass comes out of dormancy.
Reserve
Book the winter overseed.
In the ground before Halloween, and it lasts as long as the weather can hold. Regular maintenance continues after germination and flush-out.
