Rob wrote:
> The grass on my lawn is not very thick so I was planning on
> overseeding the whole thing. You mentioned covering the bare spots
> with soil. What's the best and most economical way to do this for the
> whole lawn? Would it be better to buy a load of topsoil and lightly
> spread it over the entire lawn? Will I have to rake down the entire
> lawn or will cover with seed and then raking in some topsoil be
> sufficient?
>
If you want to invest the time and money for the whole thing, then
tandem loads of topsoil are the way to go. You just have to make sure
you get topsoil and not clay. So many places advertise class A topsoil
and when you see it, it's clay with rocks larger than my fist. Good
topsoil should be cut with peat and have rocks certainly no bigger than
what you find on a gravel driveway (smaller really).
Then you just seed the lawn, cover it with a few inches and keep it well
watered for three weeks (or until it's well sprouted) and then every two
days afterwards.
You can't do it now because of the heat. This would have to wait for
late September/Early October or next Spring.
The one question...before you do any of that...is have you limed the
lawn religiously over the past few years? If not, that could very well
be the cause of a weak lawn (and redoing it as above will do no good
without consistent liming). It takes several months for the lime to do
its magic which is why fall is such a great time to lime.
If you haven't, consider liming (right now...pelletized stuff spread by
hand as if you were feeding chickens (no chickens required)), lime
lightly again late in the fall and every fall afterwards. And fix the
bare spots with a little seed and a few bags of topsoil.
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We must change the way we live,
or the climate will do it for us.
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