Hi all,

I'm in the Seattle area and am working on renovating my backyard. Here's what I've done so far:

- Tore out the thick weeds using a sod cutter

- Rototilled the area, mixing in a couple inches of top soil

- Spread an organic fertilizer

- Raked the fertilizer into the top 2" of the soil

- Rolled the soil with a lawn roller

- Spread the seed (a perennial ryegrass/red fescue blend) using a hand spreader -- 10# over approx. 1000 sq ft

- Lightly raked over the soil to cover the seeds

- Rolled again to ensure good seed-soil contact

- Watered for 15 minutes 2x a day (on days without rain)

I just found this forum and after reading a lot of posts from folks trying to do the same thing I am, I realize several mistakes I made (not getting a soil sample, not covering w/ peat moss, using too much seed, etc), but hindsight is 20/20, I suppose.

I'm at day 13 now and there is quite a bit of good germination happening, but it is very patchy. I'm not sure if it's because of my lightly raking the surface after seeding, or if the rain/my watering moved the seed, but I worry that the end result will be too sparse.

My questions are, do you think it will fill in on its own? Is there something I can do now to improve the result?

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Thanks in advance for any help.