When to start seeding lawn
When's The Best Time To Seed The Lawn? Planting Grass Seed with Allyn Hane The Lawn Carew Nut
hey guys Alan Haines here the lawn care
nut with another lawn short so another
question that I get often is when is the
best time to seed the lawn now obviously
growing grass seed is important and in
fact if you look below I'm going to link
you to a couple different videos that
I've done on core aeration which goes
along with seeding and then a really
horrible video that gets a lot of views
though which is how to grow grass seed
so I'll link you to those but when is
the best time to seed well it depends on
what your goals are if your lawn is
overall thin and you're kind of starting
a lawn care program then spring is a
great idea you can just get some seed
and throw it down you don't really have
to aerate in conjunction with it if
you're just trying to kind of generally
add some fresh cultivars to the lawn you
can see here that I'm just throwing it
down like I'm feeding chickens and the
thin areas most grass seed that you're
going to get nowadays is going to have
coatings on it which are going to help
it to stem to kind of stimulate seed to
soil contact as well as keeping the seed
moist so seed will grow very well just
by throwing it down so spring is a great
time if you're just looking for this
kind of general you know pushing of the
lawn you can also get great results by
seeding in the fall time again just
watch those day and nighttime
temperatures and go ahead and aerate the
lawn in conjunction with it just to help
you know stir things up so you'll get
better germination so really though the
key with when is the best time to throw
down grass seed or to seed is when the
temperatures are right you really don't
want the outside temperature at night to
get any colder than 40 degrees and
during the day you don't want it to get
any hotter than say 75 pushing 80 so if
your temperatures are hovering between
40 and 80 then you're going to be just
fine to grow some good grass see the
other thing to keep in mind is that
germination especially of Kentucky
bluegrass can take up to 21 to 24 days
so don't give up keep watering and think
about it if you're going to seed in the
fall make sure that 24 days from now
you're not going to get a hard freeze
so spring and fall are both great times
to see it it just depends on what your
goals are keep in mind if you're going
to see it in the spring you probably
won't want to use pre-emergent for
crabgrass unless you can get a really
late crabgrass pre-emergent put down say
at the end of May and get your seed down
sometime in March it's all going to
depend on the climate where you are I
hope this has helped you I'm Alan Haines
the one care nut with another launched
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all kinds of great videos for you and I
will see you in the lawn
