Southeast, TN. Hot as hell with a good irrigation system ready to keep things wet as much as it takes. I know I should wait a month. This project has been going on since March… I will overseed in the fall as well. Any tips for hydroseeding?
by Selicafall
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Nice I wanted to go blue resilience but the lack of irrigation on my yard would have driven me nuts in the heat of summer. I went with super turf 1
You should wait two months
Wait, it’s not worth it right now.
You renting a machine to hydroseed or just throwing the penn mulch on top? Add a wetting agent to your slurry, like hydretain. Also where’s the milorganite bot??
Before hydroseeding, prepare the soil by breaking up and lightly tilling the top 2–3 inches to create a soft, workable surface for better seed contact. After spraying, keep the area consistently moist for 2–3 weeks and avoid walking on it until the grass reaches at least 3 inches.
Before hydroseeding, prepare the soil by breaking up and lightly tilling the top 2–3 inches to create a soft, workable surface for better seed contact. After spraying, keep the area consistently moist for 2–3 weeks and avoid walking on it until the grass reaches at least 3 inches. Mow gently once it’s tall enough, using a sharp blade and only cutting the top third to avoid stressing new growth. September feels like a better time frame.
With all due respect (and I’m only being partially serious), you’re an absolute idiot.
Just because you can keep it wet doesn’t mean the temperature will be right for germination, nor will be for seedlings to flourish.
Best of luck, idiot.
(Still only a little serious)
And little things stoppin
Nice garage setup!
I would wait, prime environment for Pythium Blight.
I’ve use of space
What’s with the organized garage shit???
Do you have a website?
Nice, worst month of the year to seed. good way to light $2,000 on fire
As someone who’s seed has failed for less egregious reasons as planting in the heat of summer… wait a month
Lot’s of acreage with that much seed!
Sold your cars for the zero turn huh? Worth while investment tbh
Mixed some grey Florida dirt, some Bermuda Vigoro seed, some milorganite, and leftover Miracle Gro seed starting mix (good aeration) into a blend I threw around the bald spots in my yard yesterday. Your stuff looks a lot more expensive. Don’t waste it.
As everyone else is saying, the best answer is wait as it’s going to be an uphill battle with the heat and water and disease at this time of year, but… I just moved into my house and had a bare backyard and didnt want my first year in the house to have a dirt backyard all summer so I went ahead and seeded knowing it wasn’t optimal with the plan to do a follow up overseed in the fall. The main problems I’ve run into even with an irrigation system a frequent watering has been disease and poor establishment due to heat stress. Even with frequent fungicide use I still lost 70% of my grass over a weekend from pythium as I had been using azoxystrobin and propiconazole but that won’t cover you for pythium and other oomycetes so I had to get even more fungicides to add to the rotation (all the ones for pythium are also much more expensive btw, but I’ve had good luck with mefonoxiam so far). So what I’ve learned is it’s possible to seed cool season in spring and summer but you will have a pretty poor quality yard even if your willing to throw all the water, nutrients, fungicides, ect at it that it needs. If you already have any yard at all I would focus on maximizing its health and you soil and work on things like leveling and optimizing drainage and irrigation rather than overseeding now and save that seed until it’ll grow in healthy. I’ve put down enough water, seed, nutrients and fungicides to establish 3 yards if I did it in the spring just to have a barely passable yard for this summer. There’s a reason why everyone has landed on the same recommendation of wait until spring to seed and it’s not just because it’s easier. I thought for sure that if I just put in the extra work and was willing to spend more time and money I could still have a good yard seeding in the spring but I’ve learned the hard way that there’s a big difference between what’s possible and what’s optimal. If you seed soon will some it grow? Yes if you water heavily and do everything perfect you’ll get some germination, but what does take will barely grow at all this time of year as the heat will stress the seedings to the point where they will not root or grow well at all and the water you’ll need to keep the seed and young grass alive in the heat with its shallow roots will increase your disease burden exponentially in this temperature and harm any of the current grass you have where you could actually end up with a worse lawn infested with disease with huge patches of damping off and root rot. If you do go ahead just make sure to run an aggressive disease prevention protocol with a rotation of fungicides to cover all diseases as I’ve found just to keep what I’ve managed to grow so far I need to apply each category of fungicide at its highest labeled rate and highest frequency just to stop any further loss for disease.
Garage looks sterilized and ready for surgery! Kudos
Solid seed choice, don’t be an idiot by putting it down in the peak of summer and letting it go to waste.
Also, use a broadcast spreader to put it down the seed, you won’t get a consistent application if it’s put in the hydroseeder.
I have been eyeing one of those cub cadet’s. How do you like yours?
Wait.
I would wait till fall to seed.