overseeding your lawn

[Slick]

Grass is a long day plant so only mow low when its growing at its strongest ie June. Leave it as long as you you dare spring and autumn.

I have never used a scarifier on my lawn. Only as a paid job for others.

Mrs Slick will love that as that's her philosophy. I have always liked it like a putting green but that's obviously why I need the scarifier.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

If it's worth seeding it's worth overseeding.

As they don't say. But should.

 

[Gillstay]

If it's worth seeding it's worth overseeding.

As they don't say. But should.

Why ?

 

[Gillstay]

Mrs Slick will love that as that's her philosophy. I have always liked it like a putting green but that's obviously why I need the scarifier.

I decided it was better to change my mind set than waste so much time on grass.

It will always come back.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Why ?

Because overseeding is the usual/correct term for adding seed into an existing lawn.

Just a bit of a daft play on words by me - sorry if that caused confusion.

 

[rockyroller]

was working on the stone wall & slope, so figured I might as well add seed & some lawn soil sprinkled over, to cover the seed

 

[rockyroller]

been about 3 weeks & there's good progress

& they say we can't grow grass in the back area, ha!

forgot if I shared this 2009 photo. this is how we had nice grass back there, before they replaced the patios, & wrecked the drainage

 

[Electric_Andy]

I've overseeded my lawn before. I never took good care of it, just mowed as short as I could whenever I had time. Leaving things in the garden like buckets and old plasterboard) killed a lot of it off. I just through some seed down, trampled it in, watered it and it's always grown back fine

 

[rockyroller]

I've overseeded my lawn before. I never took good care of it, just mowed as short as I could whenever I had time. Leaving things in the garden like buckets and old plasterboard) killed a lot of it off. I just through some seed down, trampled it in, watered it and it's always grown back fine

I've got a side path that gets a lot of traffic but I'm not going to add lawn soil over the seed. I might do some watering tho, just until it pops