Several varieties for improved lawn performance can be over seeded yearly. The variety or varieties should be chosen by the adaptive characteristics for the region in which you are planting. Red fescue is in the fine fescues category and has narrow deep green blades. This fescue can be grown in single stands and prefer the more shadier and cooler areas than most other cool season grasses. Red fescue are usually added to bluegrass and perennial ryegrass mixtures and is known for its shade tolerance and drought resistant qualities.
Red fescue can establish in the lawn quickly while the slower growing bluegrass is forming.
This fescue variety is a non aggressive easily maintained grass and overseeds quite well in the areas of adaptation. Besides being a lawn cover it is quite beautiful when left un-mown in a meadow or for a roadside growth and erosion sites on slopes or hill sides. Red fescues one of the most widely used grasses in mixtures and to overseed cool grass lawns. The predominant use of chewings fescue is in the addition to other grass seed mixtures. One of the most popular is the mixture of perennial rye grass and chewings fescue.