Seeding your lawn
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When To Seed Your Lawn

The best time to seed a lawn is in the fall (mid-August to mid-September). Seeding in spring is very difficult and often unsuccessful. However, there are circumstances that warrant a spring seeding:
  • Thin turf due to winter damage
  • Poor turf density due to poor recovery from previous year’s problems, i.e., grub damage, drought damage, etc.
To make your spring seeding most successful, you must:
  • Seed as early in the spring as possible to maximize the competition of turfgrass over crabgrass. Dormant seeding or early April seeding is preferred.
  • Maximize seed-soil contact through good soil preparation.
  • Irrigate often as soon as temperatures favor germination (soil temperatures above 55F). As root systems develop, gradually reduce frequency but increase duration of irrigation.
  • Continue irrigation throughout the summer until an adequate root system is established.
  • Control weeds in the lawn because spring germinating weeds will outcompete the desirable turfgrass and may kill the turfgrass.
Dormant Seeding

If a spring seeding is necessary, consider doing it before the frost comes out of the ground. This is defined as “dormant seeding” because the seed will lie dormant until the soil temperatures warm in April or May.

Depending on your location in Indiana, dormant seeding can be done as early as Thanksgiving and as late as March. The benefit of dormant seeding is that as the soil heaves and cracks during the winter, crevices are created for the seeds which create ideal germination conditions. Additionally, dormant seeding is easier to schedule than spring seeding, because spring rains make it difficult to seed after March in Indiana.

 
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