Overseeding Your Lawn
by Dawn West, All About Lawns Columnist
Overseeding lawns for the winter is a common practice for many people who live in the Southeast and want their lawn to look green year round.
Overseeding a Lawn
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overseeding
Spreading seed over the top of an already established lawn. Typically, this is done to improve a sparse lawn without the work of redoing the entire lawn.
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Overseeding
This is the process of seeding a coolseason grass into a warm season species so that the area can have a year round green appearance. This should be limited to golf courses, sports fields and high traffic areas.
OVERSEEDING - Planting on top of an existing garden or lawn. Rye grass over lawns for winter. Wildflower seed in meadows.
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Overseeding is a critical practice in good lawn care. In order to maintain a lush, green lawn, overseeding is necessary.
Overseeding is one of the most important tasks involved in growing a healthy, lush lawn. While fertilizing your lawn is important, grass plants show down their rates of reproduction after a few years.
Overseeding is a great way to keep your grass green all winter and revitalize spots that need new life.
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If you live in a region where cool-season turf is used, lawns take on a lovely green color in winter.
Overseeding
Many homeowners don't want to wait until spring for green grass-they want it in autumn, too. That's why Alcock says many customers overseed their existing lawn with annual or perennial ryegrass or blends of cool weather grasses in October.
Renovation overseeding can follow after weeds have died. Allow 2 to 4 weeks after using 2, ...
If your lawn appears to be thin--for example in a shady area--try overseeding. Just before the growth season in spring and fall, scatter grass seeds over the existing lawn and rake them down into the root zone. Keep the area watered.
A partial renovation of an existing lawn involves core aeration and overseeding to thicken thin turf or introduce better adapted turfgrass seed varieties.
Fall is also a good time to dethatch and aerate your lawn.
If you are overseeding with fescue or rye for winter, quit feeding and watering Bermuda lawns and overseed them now.
Soil compaction is a common problem in northwest yards, whether in a newer development or in an old lawn, and leads to a hard, weedy surface that doesn’t accept water. Aeration, overseeding, ...
Apply 20 pounds per 1,000 square feet, advises Chip Osborne of livinglawn.org. Put it down in early spring, when forsythia is in bloom, but avoid using corn-gluten meal after overseeding, since it kills grass seeds as well as weed seeds.
 See also: Grass, Lawn, Soil, Water, Plant
  
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