Timeline for Dead grass in lawn after winter
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| Apr 15, 2016 at 21:43 | comment | added | sparkyShorts | Wow, you're awesome. Thank you for all this information!! Sounds like I have my work cut out for me! | |
| Apr 14, 2016 at 20:56 | comment | added | stormy | Use superior lawn seed...make sure that the 'weed' seed is ZERO. Don't worry about shade seed if you've got sun! It is a bit awkward to grow baby grasses in patches with established grasses but it'll only take 2 weeks max before you start dealing with the entire lawn as one. Mow no shorter than 3"!! Mow at least once per week, twice is super. Sharpened blades, organic slow release fertilizer, aerate pulling cores once per year. Once those baby grasses are mowed the first time water deeply...4-6" and do not water again until you step on the baby grasses and the grass leaves stay down. | |
| Apr 14, 2016 at 20:51 | comment | added | stormy | It is very much OK. Keep raking the dead stuff out, don't worry about the few live grasses! Lawns and plants are organic and you can relax about heavy handedness. You'll be reseeding and paying attention to keeping those new baby grasses moist. Shallow moist until they get larger. Then you need to train them to be drought tolerant with deep roots to match the rest of the lawn. Rake that soil down, get it level, don't worry about the few live grasses. Totally normal. Reseed, thinly thinly cover with your own soil (1/16 inch)? And compact, use a sheet of plywood and jump up and down. | |
| Apr 13, 2016 at 17:52 | comment | added | sparkyShorts | I've been raking like crazy, but I'm finding that some of the dead grass that is mingled with the green, healthy grass is not coming out... Any suggestions for that? | |
| Apr 11, 2016 at 20:20 | vote | accept | sparkyShorts | ||
| Apr 11, 2016 at 20:18 | history | answered | stormy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |