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Mon, Mar 12, 12 at 21:32
| I dormant overseeded back in February and the 10 day weather forecast for the Boston area predicts sunny weather (no rain) with temps each day at least 50 degrees ( a few days in the 60s and one at 70). As everyone knows, it's been a warm winter with virtually no significant snow cover. Given the unseasonably warm weather, should I be watering each day to promote early germination of my dormant overseeded lawn? My concern is that if temperatures plummet in late March, any new grass that has germinated will die.
FYI, I dormant overseeded with a mix of tall fescue, hard fescue, chewings fescue, perennial ryegrass, and KGB. Any advice would greatly appreciated-- |
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| Hi, I am not an expert. Instead of dormant seeding, I actually slice seeded about 15-17 days go. Late February. I'm in Oklahoma. Our temps at the time were 50's during the day and 35 at night. Currently we are around 70 during day and 50 at night. I watered just like new grass seed, very often but not a lot. I noticed grass seed starting to come up yesterday. I'm lucky though as we've only had one frost while they were still seeds. You, I'd say wait until the temps rise a little more out of freezing reach. But yeah, new baby grass doesn't like freezing weather. |
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