Who knows stuff about growing grass?

[KFC911]

^^^ LOL ..... wait for it... in six months....

"How do I kill all this this dang fescue?"

[javadog]

Originally Posted by KC911

Thanks! I doubled the coverage along with a good starter fertilizer a few days ago... been watering since and an unexpected rain last evening ... gonna water every other day per the "guy who knows stuff" ... I wish it was three weeks earlier ... but stuff happens

Six weeks ago would have been better.

Keep it constantly wet, not just watered every other day.

Best if you raked it into the top 1/4 inch of soil when you put it down.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by javadog

Six weeks ago would have been better.

Keep it constantly wet, not just watered every other day.

Best if you raked it into the top 1/4 inch of soil when you put it down.

I know all this is correct .... I knew it six months ago ....

I have excuses

Thanks all!

[WPOZZZ]

The birds will be happy.

[KFC911]

LOL ... at over $2/lb they had better not complain ... it will compliment their worms .

[stevej37]

What type of starter fertilizer did you use for the new seeding?
Hopefully one high in Phosphorus.

[KFC911]

It was a bag of Scott's starter stuff ... don't recall the numbers .... all decent. Might have been a bit light on coverage for that area ... but found a partial bag of 10-10-10 I'll spread too.

[stevej37]

Nice job...a lot of people skip that step.
Give it a week or so and it will start showing.

[Rusty Heap]

I'm on the left.........you're viewing about 4-5 of me and my neighbors on 5 acres each.. My Green Shop is roughly 30 x 100.......


And yes the Village Idiot in the lower right complains my shop stereo is too loud. 700 feet away.........

sigh.


I miss my Llamas, they'd mow my pastures for me.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by stevej37

What type of starter fertilizer did you use for the new seeding?
Hopefully one high in Phosphorus.

Starter fertilizer is not necessary. I don’t fertilize the grass until after the 3rd or 4th mowing, then I use regular lawn fertilizer.

[rwest]

Do a google search on pre-germination of grass seed. Pretty cool idea, I was going to do it this fall, but got lazy- story of my life.

You put seed in 5 gallon paint filter socks, put it in a bucket of water, change the water twice a day and after about a week, the seeds sprout and you then spread them on your lawn. Supposedly gives it a head start.

[Rusty Heap]

As I had a large area to cover, I also checked YouTube and people DIY their own Hydro-seed systems. Take a 275 gallon square cage IBC water tote and a 2" water trash pump. You buy a newspaper/pulp mixture in large sacks, add seed, and stir in tank. Then the trash pump, hose and nozzle to spray.

shrug. About $400-500 DIY.

[KFC911]

There is zero chance of rain for the next 7-8 days ... new sprinklers suck ...

My dawg sez woof

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by rwest

Do a google search on pre-germination of grass seed. Pretty cool idea, I was going to do it this fall, but got lazy- story of my life.

You put seed in 5 gallon paint filter socks, put it in a bucket of water, change the water twice a day and after about a week, the seeds sprout and you then spread them on your lawn. Supposedly gives it a head start.

Yeah .... I "might" do that next time .... mebbe might ... nope!

If it snowed here I'd just wait .... Patrick is da man

[GH85Carrera]

I know the best way to get Bermuda grass growing is to make a flower bed and try to keep it out. It will find a way to get in.

Our Fescue stays green all year. It grows like mad in cool weather. I sometime have to fire up the mower in winter if we have a long streak of above freezing weather. And it starts growing as soon as it is above freezing.

One of my buddy's wife over-seeded the dormant Bermuda grass with rye grass. It was nice and green all winter. He threatened her with divorce if she ever did that again. He said mowing the yard on New Year's day was not what he wanted to do in winter. He wanted the winter off from mowing. She said "but it looks so nice" to have green grass.

[1990C4S]

Originally Posted by rwest

Do a google search on pre-germination of grass seed. Pretty cool idea, I was going to do it this fall, but got lazy- story of my life.

You put seed in 5 gallon paint filter socks, put it in a bucket of water, change the water twice a day and after about a week, the seeds sprout and you then spread them on your lawn. Supposedly gives it a head start.

I tried that, it was absolutely not successful. It is very easy to end up with rotted grass seed.

[HobieMarty]

I used to know a little about growing "grass" but I guess that's for another thread. Lol.

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[cjh]

Just watch out for turkeys! My wife came to me and said the turkeys were out back and dug up all of my fresh plantings that I put in about 6 weeks ago were I had removed stumps. I looked today and it's a mess.

[gduke2010]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

It’ll be fine. People around here throw fescue and bluegrass grass seed out on the snow in March so it gets an early start. It’s not a great way to plant grass, but it does come up.

Yes this is the best time to seed. I seeded a home I built this time and the seeded grasses looked better than homes I laid sod.

The middle of summer isn’t a good time to plant.

Fall seems best

[greglepore]

Originally Posted by 1990C4S

I tried that, it was absolutely not successful. It is very easy to end up with rotted grass seed.

Worked great for me. Have to mix it with a peat or other medium to sow it, some folks use milorganite. I use this to repair dog urine damage spots all the time.

The above directions are misleading. You soak it for 24 hrs. After that you only dunk it twice a day and immediately remove. If you let it go more than a few days it can be a tangled mess of roots. If you left it in the water it would surely rot.