It is your responsibility to water your newly planted fescue lawn. Fescue is relatively drought-tolerant, but needs to be watered during the summer to keep it green. For a newly seeded lawn, watering should be done every day or two depending upon the weather. It is important to apply water at a rate it can be absorbed by the soil. Under normal conditions, it should take approximately two hours to apply one inch of water.
Fescue grows rapidly and requires frequent mowing to help it spread.
Spring mowing can be greatly reduced by fertilizing in the fall and not during the spring. Zoysia Yard Policy Zoysia yards present a special problem since it can not be seeded. Often, residences with Zoysia yards request we lay Zoysia sod. Sodding is generally unacceptable because it greatly increases the project cost. Zoysia plugging is more expensive than laying seed for Fescue.