Re: What grass seed to spread?

Posted by jeffcat on February 16, 2017 at 16:55:45 from (50.207.7.236):

In Reply to: What grass seed to spread? posted by pburchett on February 16, 2017 at 14:07:18:

First off you need to tell us where you are. Tons of types of grass
seed and sensitive to climate. Here in SJ it is a giant cat box of
sand and you are going to need to do some work. If you can get REAL
TOP SOIL and not some mixed up crap. Spread it around at least a
couple of inches thick. Use the seed appropriate to your conditions.
Keep WELL watered till it is 4 to 6 inches high before you even think
of mowing it. See if there is a sod farm near you and talk to them
about what to do. The sod farm near me even has a commercial store
operation that sells stuff in bulk. Reasonable prices. They have all
kinds of seed mixes and also sraight rey grass. The rey grass or oats
makes a very fast growing and soil binder to start a lawn. Then you
over seed with what a sod outfit or what others on here will recomend.
You might do better with just soding the whole place. Just remember
that a lawn should be the most picture perfect "Hay Field " a farmer
could ever hope to plant. You want it as smooth as silk. NOT ROLLED
,but I used a lawn drag to smooth everything like a slick sheet of
paper. Piece of heavy duty 6x8 foot chain link fence behind my garden
tractor. Narry a bump anywhere. The lawns in the whole of the US would
add up to a little bigger than the state of Pennsylvania. Another tip,
a lot of my lawn is that Zoysia grass. Stuff is incredibly tough once
you get it established. If you buy it the stuff will come in sheets
like sod. You cut it up into "plugs" like one inch square that you
plant. Keep it well watered for the first year and you should see it
slowly starting to spread. Stays short and is very soft under foot.
Once it gets going you can cut chunks out of it and do transplants
else where. My first sheet of plugs i have heen able to spread over
half of my lawn. It does brown out as winter hits but not that bad.
Soon as it starts to warm, early April it goes Zap and greens right
back up. Very tough and strong in drought.

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