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Originally Posted by justplugit
Right now is the best time to do it FR. It takes a good 3 weeks for a premium, bluegrass/fescue mix to germinate. The soil is warm, the nights are cool and leave moisture on the seed, and the fall rains help the germination.
The secret is to keep it moist as was stated before.
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the other sort of forgotten
secret is where you have firm contact
with the soil which hastens germination. In the "OLD" days everyone in the neighbor hood had one of those iron (steam roller) type drums
with a handle that you filled with water to compress the seed after you spread it. that method has been largely forgotten...
but look to nature: she drops her seeds and then covers them with heavy snow that melts and waters the seed pressing it to the soil
in the springtime .
my point is that you can take advantage of snow and do a planting of
seed just before a good snow storm (that will stay put) in late spring
or i should say "false spring" and accomplish the same thing.
i used to run the core machine at the golf course.... then we would
push all the cores into piles and haul it off to an area that needed
some grass started and spread it there. then we would distribute small piles of compost to the cored section and rake it into the holes.
what this did was to increase the organic matter in the lawn (greens) and allow it to retain more water when it rains or was watered.
you can accomplish this same thing by wind rowing your maple and other crispy leaves (JUST NO OAK LEAVES)
and then run the mower over them until they are tiny pieces 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch square and then
let the worms pull them down into their burrows. worm castings hold ten times their weight in water.
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