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

 

[rockyroller]

for my own reference, the seed I used this Spring

 

[rockyroller]

for my own reference, the seed I used this Spring
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unfortunately this species dies & one needs a another grass to take it's place, weird. by time summer was over it all looks like this. didn't help that we had a dry summer, especially the last month

the management company came by w/ an aerator machine, so might be a good time to throw down some seed, then water for a cpl weeks before hot gets cold

 

[Chislenko]

Just doing some autumn lawn maintenance myself. Firstly I take out all the moss, thatch etc with a good Spring Tine rake then mow, then aerate with a quality Hollow Tine fork. Personally I remove all the cores from the lawn although some people suggest leaving them.

I will now leave it a couple of weeks and then look to overseed mixed with an autumn feed. A lot of the seed / feed mixture will find it's way into the holes left by the Hollow Tine process which gives them a better chance to germinate.

Brushing sand / soil into the holes is a suggested option but not one I use.

 

[rockyroller]

for future reference, snow shovels are going in the basement, I'm hooking up the hose & probably next week, or one day after work this week, I'm putting down seed & some extra lawn soil

the condo lawn crew came by yesterday to blow leaves & it's unknown what else they might do. sometimes they run thru w/ an aerator that puts a bunch of holes in the soil. & they usually seed around the damaged areas of our parking lots. was thinking of waiting for that signal before I put down my seed ...

this is what it looked like sometime last week? from my area looking to the left toward my neighbors. the management company really messed up the drainage, when they put the new patios in
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just got some new seed for this spring. nice reminder when to wait for

 

[rockyroller]

gotta get this done