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Originally Posted by justplugit
Matt, aside from agreeing with Karl,  try the following. Rent an overseeder slicer. It will slice the soil and drop the seed so it comes in contact with the soil which is necessary for germination.
Only Scotts products i use are their seed as they have good mixes for sun or shade, have a high germination rate and very low weed content.
Get a broadcast fertilizer spreader it will make things real easy.
Don't overwater= fungus. |
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In the old days ..
.everyone had a water filled or solid concrete
roller in their backyard or had a deal to work out a share program with a neighbor.... this was so they literally pressed the grass seed into the soil making sure it had firm contact with the soil which encourages germination... (extremely important)
now a days people spread it with a spreader and water it to death without hardly even scratching it in... or they cover it with hay...
and the hydroseed companies have a much higher germination rate because their grass seed is pre germinated in their tanks and its sprayed down with a green moisture holding substance too.
the coolest thing i ever saw while working on golf courses was the finger hole maker which had a bank of tubes jamming them into the turf then popping out the plugs which you had to rake up and deposit elsewhere. Then you had a grass surface with thousands of finger sized holes , so we'd spread compost on top and lightly rake that back into the holes to increase the organic matter
instantly.
Exactly what worms do.......... 
the funny thing or SAD thing was.... they had special chemicals to kill all the earth worms because a big old worm casting ball on the surface would stop or deflect a golf ball and that was a NO NO.