Overseed yard today, or wait till after the heavy rains?

jeepinmatt

jeepinmatt

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I'd like to get it out so that it can get rained on, but don't want all my seed to wash away. The yard is generally flat and drains smoothly, though there are a few sections that are steeper. Maybe seed the flatter areas and wait on the steeper areas?
 
I think there is too much volume of rain coming on already saturated ground. I think it will wash seed away and move any straw you put down. I am waiting until the monsoon has passed.

There is a thread going about lawns right now.
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My dad done his yard 2 weeds ago grass is doing great I should have done mine at the same time but now I'm in the same boat your In guess ill wait till after this storm passes
 
Wait. Cool season grass does not require rain to germinate and there is still time to be established after this weather pattern passes. I wish I had waited but it did not seem this rain would be this type of event a couple of days ago. Now it's rainpocalypse. They put my wife in charge of a shelter (she's a DSS supervisor) so they are expecting trees down I expect.
 
I did my seed about 2 weeks ago. right before we got a nice little shower. Had about 3-4 days to sit without any rain, except for alight watering twice a day.
 
The Old Old Folks say wait til it's going to snow! They claim when the snow melts, it pulls the seed into the ground, & watered at the same time. And of course it wont wash away.
I never had the chance to try it. A lot of seed would be getting Old, by then, too.
 
ponykilr said:
Wait. Cool season grass does not require rain to germinate and there is still time to be established after this weather pattern passes. I wish I had waited but it did not seem this rain would be this type of event a couple of days ago. Now it's rainpocalypse. They put my wife in charge of a shelter (she's a DSS supervisor) so they are expecting trees down I expect.
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Might not need rain, but it certainly needs water. You can't put it down on dry dirt and expect it to do anything.
 
rodney eppes said:
The Old Old Folks say wait til it's going to snow! They claim when the snow melts, it pulls the seed into the ground, & watered at the same time. And of course it wont wash away.
I never had the chance to try it. A lot of seed would be getting Old, by then, too.
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Problem with that is, it snows in the later winter/spring around here. Most folks in the Triangle area use fescue, and you really can't plant fescue in the spring and expect it to live.
Another type of grass might well thrive with this method, though.
 
Pacfanweb said:
Problem with that is, it snows in the later winter/spring around here. Most folks in the Triangle area use fescue, and you really can't plant fescue in the spring and expect it to live.
Another type of grass might well thrive with this method, though.
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Perennial ryegrass is an option
 
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