Lawn Overseeding

[EddieW]

I am about to start preparing my fescue lawn for overseeding and wanted to see if anybody can offer some good advise on a better way to go about it. I am overseeding a fescue lawn with more fescue. My plan is: this weekend, fill in all the places that have settled and put a nondiscriminatory herbicide on all the spots where bermuda grass has prospered better than the fescue. Next weekend, rototill all the areas that have not grown well or that I killed with the grass and add some peat moss, roll it with a roller, put down 100# of seed, mow existing grass from 3" to 1.5", aerate it with a plug aerator, put 200# of 33% ammonium nitrate fertilizer on about 1.5 acres, then water it twice a day for 30 minutes each time for about a week, then once a day for two weeks. I will then put down a 20-5-10 fertilizer for the winter. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Thomas]

WOW Ed, I say you done your home work after reading your post this morning /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gifand your asking for advice,for if I ever plan on reseeding my lawn I would contact you for information! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Have a nice weekend and stay /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif


Thomas..NH

 

[Bird]

I agree with Thomas; you don't need advice, you can be giving it instead. Ought to be a beautiful lawn if you don't run out of water./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

 

[EddieW]

You are sure right about the water. My sprinklers have run so much the last 3-4 weeks because of the heat and drought the ditches where I planted the sprinkler lines have settled after 3 years. That's what I have to repair. Another year like the last 3 and I'm probably going to go back to U-3 bermuda. Surely these record setting summers can't last forever.

 

[gordon]

WOW a nice lawn takes that much work? Its no wonder I have a weed garden instead of a lawn!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

If I ever decide to do a nice lawn I'm along with Thomas and Bird---I'll be asking you for advise Eddie!/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Gordon