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yard was a mess — tom up with all the plugs of soil and grass lying on top — but when that stuff worked its way back into the ground (in about 10 days), it looked much better.
While the yard was torn up, I set the mower blade as low as it would go and cut the grass. Then I distributed grass seeds and fertilizer and started watering it in the morning before I went to work.
Grass seed boxes or bags generally advise one to “mist” the new seeds lightly until they germinate. I tried that, and it didn’t work for me. I don’t care what they say, I think that new seeds need to have a pretty good amount of water a couple of times a day to get them going. And you’re talking to a man who grew bluegrass from seed. “Keep them moist, though not soggy,” I say.
About 10 days later the new seeds started to appear, and we had grass growing where grass had never grown. I had to do a section of the lawn at a time since it was a pretty big project, and I wasn’t able to finish the whole yard by the time the growing season was over.
A small section of old lawn at the bottom of the side yard wasn’t done, and it is easy to see the difference now. Because of the warm, wet winter we have experienced, my grass is already growing. The part of the lawn that I
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