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patch with no grass

Posted by amsy UT (My Page) on
Tue, Jul 26, 11 at 14:47

we jsut bought a house and we're working on mowing the front lawn weekly and making it look nice and green. however there is this patch near the mailbox approx. 2 by 6 ft thats bare and filled with weeds. we tried to pull out the weeds and put a patchmaster on it and make sure its watered fine. but after two weeks, even if we saw small grass growing like each is 1 in away from each other, the weeds grew back faster and are overpowering the little grass growing.

were not sure what to do now. how to keep away with the weeds and make grass grow there so it wont be an eye sore anymore in our front yard?

thanks


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RE: patch with no grass

I wouldn't worry about it now. It's an awful time to try to get any grass to sprout and establish, unless it's blue grama or buffalo grass (and those wouldn't look right with the rest of your lawn).

Keep killing any weeds that crop up and put some seed down about September 1 or so. Don't use something like Patchmaster. Instead, get a good seed mix (and make sure it doesn't have any K31 or KY31 in it). After you put the seed down, water lightly 3 times a day for three weeks.

Adjust the watering schedule to account for any rain we might get. What you're trying to do is to keep the surface moist almost all of the time.

Even if you see a fair amount of grass come up, continue watering three times a day. The reason for that is because the mix you buy will probably have some rye, some tall fescue and some Kentucky bluegrass (KBG). Rye will germinate in a couple of days, fescue in a week or two and KBG in 3 weeks or so.

Once the three weeks are up, cut back to once a day, but water a little longer when you do water until it cools off enough and/or we're getting enough rain that the soil is staying fairly moist in the top inch or two.


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