Kentucky bluegrass BALIN

A mid--early, broadly adapted persistent Kentucky bluegrass for pastures and lawns

• Very quick establishment
• Strong rhizomes
• Growth starts early in spring, and the regrowth consists mainly of leafy material
• Good persistence and winterhardiness
• Has a medium green colour
• Very suitable for extensive lawns in mixtures with other grasses

• One of the most sown varieties over Europe
• Plants – creeping (with rhizomes)
• Winter hardy
• Regenerates well
• Grows well both in spring and summer
• Persistent
• Drought tolerant
• Sow on moist soil
• Germinates and gives root slowly
• Resistant to the main Kentucky bluegrass’ diseases
• Turf is strong
• Tolerates trampling
• Also suitable for sports lawns (football fields, golf courses)
• When mowing frequently, it forms a fairly dense, durable turf, which looks beautiful
• Fills empty spaces in grasslands and persists for a long time, so it is more suitable for pastures
• Suitable for pastures in temperate climates
• Suitable for more intensively and extensively grazed grasslands
• Adapts well in mixtures
• Competes well with other cultivated grasses
• Used for hay, grazing
• Nutritional value – good
• Undemanding to soil and climate conditions
• It grows well in peaty soils, but does not fit well in sandy soils
• The highest yield is in the 3-4th year of growth

• High yields
• Rapid growth in spring and summer
• The plants are quite tall
• Good resistance to diseases
• Winters well
• Soil surface coverage – 6 points (out of 9)
• Suitable for establishing long-term pastures
• Grazing resistance – 4 points (out of 9)
• Persistence – 7 points (out of 9)
• Suitability for mixtures – 8 points (out of 9))

*According to DLF tests

• Average yield of dry matter – 6.48 t/ha
• Yield potential – 11.9 t/ha
• Duration of the vegetation period of plants until the first harvest – 154 days (counting from January 1)
• Average plant height – 56 cm
• Resistance to lodging – 7.2 points
• Winterhardiness – 6.8 points (out of 9.0)
• A valuable feature of the variety is high leafiness
• Leaves make up 60.9 % of the total green mass yield of plants
• Protein content in dry matter yield of green mass – 15 %
• Plants quickly establish in the lawn and ensure productive persistence
• Plants are resistant to diseases
• The variety is recommended for pastures in all regions of Lithuania

* according to of the variety economic value tests (VCU) in Lithuania, 1996-2001

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam