DURATURF® Furlong
DURATURF® Furlong is a blend of high quality Mediterranean perennial ryegrasses especially suited to racetrack surfaces in southern Australia. 60% of the blend consists of a very vigorous tetraploidcultivar with high productivity, especially over the winter months, attractive dark green foliage and excellent persistence. The other 40% of the blend is a diploid cultivar with finer leaf texture and higher density, but also with excellent winter growth. The diploid cultivar has a notably brief reproductive stage in the spring, after which it rapidly returns to vegetative growth, unlike many ryegrasses which continue to put up seed heads over several months. The combination of these two cultivars creates a blend with rapid germination and establishment, even in colder weather, high year-round vigour and an attractive, dense surface when mown at racetrack heights, with excellent hardiness and persistence.
Features
• Very rapid establishment
• Excellent persistence
• Attractive dark green foliage
• Winter growth
• Highly suited to southern Australia
• Economically suited to broadacre use
Species Blend
Tetraploid perenial ryegrass
Diploid perenial ryegrass
Application Rates
150-200kg/ha. Use the higher rate for new construction and the lower rate for thickening existing sward.
Maintenance Care:
Mowing: Typically 75-150mm, can be mown as low as 50mm.
Fertiliser: Strategic applications of fertiliser (especially slow release fertiliser) throughout the growing season will greatly enhance the persistence, wear and aesthetic look of the racecourse sward.
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