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Depending on the lawn grows this summer, I may want to overseed in the fall to thicken it up. Do you think the jute will get in the way? Probably should use a power seed to make sure seeds get into the soil?
Depending on the lawn grows this summer, I may want to overseed in the fall to thicken it up. Do you think the jute will get in the way? Probably should use a power seed to make sure seeds get into the soil?
Jute netting + a power seeder = one tangled up mess. Reminds me of the time I accidently ran the Sunday paper through my snowblower. I spent several hours in a cold garage pulling knotted up paper out of that thing.
Do you know what grasses your contractor put down? I ask for two reasons. First, it does look quite patchy and spotty. But some grasses do take much longer to germinate than others. Regardless, I'd hope for something more even than you have. Did you keep it consistantly watered? Grass seed will come up more quickly in depressions that collect water, if you don't adhere to a regular watering schedule.
Second, that area looks quite shady. I only base that on the number of tree trunks I see. It's going to take a shade tolerant grass to survive there.
Couple of issues with that seeding...aside from the jute, which stays. (BTW, I use clean straw on all of my seedings and grind it up with a mover when it has done its thing in terms of providing shade and holding moisture for the young plants.
It looks like it is under surrounding trees (?). Did they use a high quality shade seed?
Water. Water. Water. Every day. That ground looks HARD and DRY. Grass will NOT well grow under such conditions.
It rains daily here, so I have not had to watered that much. If rain is not in the forecast for any given day, then I do water the lawn manually. Actually the bald spot may be due to erosion from heavy rain?
Part of the lot is under heavy shade, the landscaper obviously knows this and told me he'd use shade resistant grass seed.
If it rains daily, then I'd tend to think that the seed did get washed away on some of the high spots and collected in the low spots. That would explain the patchyness.
If it rains daily, then I'd tend to think that the seed did get washed away on some of the high spots and collected in the low spots. That would explain the patchyness.
Yeah we get daily thunderstorm, some can be very heavy and almost floods part of the lawn. I plan to overseed this fall this fall and twice a year in the spring and fall for next few years, that will hopefully thicken up the lawn. Scotts makes those "dense shade mix" glass seed, I will use those.
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