3rd that vote depending on your location. If you never get cold enough,
the
winter rye won't germinate.
--
Dave
Profound is we're here due to a chance arrangement
of chemicals in the ocean billions of years ago.
More profound is we made it to the top of the food
chain per our reasoning abilities.
Most profound is the denial of why we may
be on the way out.
"Joe Doe" <None@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <omp_omelet-A49B00.20491513112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Omelet <omp_omelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> In article <MPG.21a41d1884f2cff19896f0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> MrClean <mrclean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> > We leased a house and before we moved in, the landlord resodded the
>> > entire back yard with St. Augustine.
>> >
>> > There are lots of trees and it is a 2-story house so it does not get
>> > much sun at all. Most of the yard died and I don't know what to do.
>> > I don't want to leave him with a dead yard. I trimmed back a bunch of
>> > the hackberries and it gets more sun but is this too late to re-sod?
>> >
>> > What can I do before next spring, when my lease is up, in order to
have
>> > a good lawn when we move?
>>
>> Winter rye...
>>
>> if you leave before the heat hits. ;-)
>
>
> I second that rye will look really good. The downside is you will
> probably have to mow all winter.
>
> I like adding winter rye from the point of view of letting the clippings
> improve the soil. Skip Richter (county extension agent and guru on KLRU
> gardening show) recommends against winter rye - he claims that the rye
> and normal grass are in competition during spring when the native grass
> is just emerging and so weakens the lawn. If the native grass is dead
> this is a moot point.
>
> Wait for sometime when they predict a week of reasonable rain and then
> overseed. If it rains like crazy however it might wash away the seed.
> If you choose to overseed when there is no natural precipitation you
> will have to keep the germinating grass moist (light watering 4-5 times
> a day).
>
> Roland
