When to start seeding your lawn
Fall Cool Season Lawn Seeding Tips // When? What Grass Seed?
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so for those of you starting questions
right now on when you should start your
lawn renovation of course I'm in the
middle of the Midwest section here in
Iowa and typically for bluegrass it's a
little bit longer so I'm going to plan
to plant this right in mid-august or so
a few things to keep in mind with that
are that you need to make sure you have
your watering in place and figured out
because you're still in August here
where we live it can still be plenty hot
and so you have to factor that in if
you're going to plant in August you're
still going to be dealing with some heat
and that's good because you're gonna get
a lot of germination because the more
heat there is there and the soil temps
are up at this time of year it's going
to help with that germination and it
might happen a little bit faster than
say if you waited a little bit longer or
if you are going in the spring when our
our soil temps are very low that's the
reason why it's also not as successful
usually in the springtime but right now
our soil temps are way up I haven't
checked them again recently to see
exactly where they're at but during our
heat spell I know some of our soil temps
were over 80 degrees but in terms of
seeding with those soil temps and
germination time it's gonna help so just
make sure you have your watering in
place and do not let the seed dry out so
if you have an irrigation system get
that thing dialed in if you don't and I
had not had one up until this year I
have a DIY kind of system that iOS used
using above-ground sprinklers and you
get them placed in the right area get
some timers going or whatever you need
to do to keep that going during the day
and I think you'll have some great
success I also have a video series
completely on lawn renovation from last
year when I did the other south side of
my house and so if you're looking to get
a jump start on all of this whole
process and check out that series I will
link it here
at the end of the video and in the
description too I also see a lot of
questions about why to certain grass
seed cost more than the other stuff or
why is grass seed online some of the
better varieties cost so much more than
what you get in the store well so
there's trials that are done at various
universities on grass seeds and test
plots and the ones that come out of
there as the best meaning they have the
best color the best texture the best
disease resistance those are just to
name a few
those are put at the top of the list and
are known as elite varieties and so
those ones are more expensive than
because you're paying basically for that
best of the best of the grass seed and
it's not to say that the ones in the
store aren't good some of them chosen
just might be some of the ones
don't have quite as good color or
there's various different things that
are chosen they're just basically so
that the budget of them is something
that's within reach for most people that
go to a store and they want to buy a bag
of grass seed but back to this specific
stuff here and why it might be more
expensive as well which is really
important to note are the amount of
weeds that are listed in there and the
amount of other crops so when you're
doing a lawn renovation you certainly do
not want to be shooting yourself in the
foot by adding in a bunch of weeds with
the seed or even more importantly the
other crop that's in there which can be
poet annual some of the rough grasses
that are really hard to get rid of in a
yard anyway
you certainly do not want to put them
down when you're doing the seeding if at
all possible so that's something to
think about so especially here on weeds
we have zero on other crop we have zero
that's really important if you're going
to want the best of the best yard when
you're doing a full-on renovation I just
recommend you spend the money at that
time and you get the best seed that you
possibly can
there's various places you can get the
best seed you can go to landscape
supplies you can find some things in
your area or you can find some other
places online in addition to seed
superstore here but just pay attention
to those tags look at your weed seeds
look at your other crop again and the
stuff that's going to be expensive is
going to have zero of that in there but
there's a reason for it and I just
wanted to kind of talk a little bit
about that too
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