I wanna get a jump on planting grass this spring....
 

Hey guys,.... I live in the Seacoast of NH and I was wondering when is
the best time to start renovating my lawn this spring? Recently it's
been about 40-50F highs during the day.... The past few days have been
super rainy and I was thinking... damn, it would've been nice to have
planted seed before all this rain.

Anyway, I know renovating in the Spring is always much trickier and less
successful than Fall renovations, but I gotta give it a go, I'm slowly
trying to renew all of my lawn and I'd hate to miss a growing season.

My gut feeling is that it's still too cold.... Scotts says to wait until
it's regularly 60+, but it always seems as if Spring here is super
compressed.... it's really cold, and then before you know it, the summer
heat has arrived. A spring renovation a few years ago didn't work out
for me because I did it too late and the lawn wasn't established enough
by summer and it got burnt.

Any advice for a spring lawn renovation would be appreciated. Last fall
I was very proud of myself having renovated a section of lawn and it
just took beautifully, I want to try to reproduce that success.

Thanks,

G

I wanna get a jump on planting grass this spring....
 

Grass doesn't germinate til dirt is 55, if you plant to early then
annual grasses die if it freezes again. Perennial varieties would be
ok through a mild freeze.

I wanna get a jump on planting grass this spring....
 

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:29:58 GMT, "G. Filicetti"
wrote:

Hey guys,.... I live in the Seacoast of NH and I was wondering when is
the best time to start renovating my lawn this spring? Recently it's
been about 40-50F highs during the day.... The past few days have been
super rainy and I was thinking... damn, it would've been nice to have
planted seed before all this rain.

Anyway, I know renovating in the Spring is always much trickier and less
successful than Fall renovations, but I gotta give it a go, I'm slowly
trying to renew all of my lawn and I'd hate to miss a growing season.

My gut feeling is that it's still too cold.... Scotts says to wait until
it's regularly 60+, but it always seems as if Spring here is super
compressed.... it's really cold, and then before you know it, the summer
heat has arrived. A spring renovation a few years ago didn't work out
for me because I did it too late and the lawn wasn't established enough
by summer and it got burnt.

Any advice for a spring lawn renovation would be appreciated. Last fall
I was very proud of myself having renovated a section of lawn and it
just took beautifully, I want to try to reproduce that success.

Thanks,

G


This is a good time to treat weeds in the lawn and apply fertilizer.
Take a pH test and add lime (500# for half an acre is not too much) if
the pH is less than 6.3. If you had crab grass last year apply a
preemergence now and wait until fall for the seed.