Overseeding

Overseeding your lawn is simply the spreading of additional grass seed throughout your existing lawn. This helps thicken and rejuvenate your lawn and adds additional varieties of grass. This in turn hardens your lawn and allows it to better resist lawn disease and insect damage.

If your lawn has become thin, you have bare spots, or your lawn has been damaged by insects, heat, or disease then overseeding is the #1 way to get your lawn back into shape.

We recommend overseeding along with lawn aeration in the fall (September) on an annual or bi-annual basis.

Note: Overseeding can also be performed during the winter in late-December, January, or February (this is known as dormant seeding) or in early spring as long as a spring pre-emergent (weed preventer) is not applied.

Dormant seeding during cold winter weather causes the seed to sit (dormant) over winter. During this time the ground heaves and cracks due to freezing and thawing temperatures, which naturally works the seed into the soil. The seed will then germinate when temperatures warm in the spring. Melting snow and spring rain keep the seed consistently watered without requiring manual watering.

If you are unable to consistently water the lawn while overseeding in the fall, then dormant seeding is the best option for you. There is less need to water, the seed receives better seed-to-soil contact, and it get’s an earlier jump start in the spring when conditions are right.

We can schedule overseeding at any time of the year.

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