Following the Directions on the bag is the way to go. If you put less than the bag said add away. Or add a lesser amount because there has been a short time period in between your last fert.

Flanna, the "starter fertilizer" is for the direct purpose of helping the seed to germinate and feed the young seedlings to mature faster, better.

When you applied this in October, you were, I think, not using the food for its potential because chances are the seed will not have sufficient time to germinate and come to some degree of health and strength sufficient to stand up to any early frost you may have been visited by.

Not to say maybe some seeds will germinate....maybe not.
but was there sufficient time for the seed, once beginning, to come to anything which would stand up to a frost.

Myself, I think if you had applied this in the first two weeks of September....that would have given you a decent interval to count on seeing something develop. And with the starter fertilizer, it would have at that time, produced something worthwhile.

As it was not applied until October...I think maybe you just wasted some fertilizer that will be better used in the spring with another seeding.

Milton90,

I've got a place in Middlesex County, NJ. Based on typical weather patterns, seeding in early October is fine. I've seeded that late with KBG (which takes longer on average to germinate) and normally it does fine.

If you planted Rye or Tall Fescue, you'll have been well within the normal Sept. 15 - Oct 15 window. Up in Jeannie7's area, I'm sure it would be too late.

As for your fertilization schedule, I would think you would be fine, since it has been almost two months since you applied fertilizer.

My top growth in both places has just about stopped. But the grass is still green and most of what you put down now -- assuming it is a quick-release, urea-based fertilizer will be stored as carbohydrates in the root system (which will help with spring greenup).

I just put down fertilizer last week after having put a previous application down in early October.

Milton

I am in central Jersey as well. I put down my last fertilizing today (24-3-3). Will greatly help the grass survive the winter and will help with green up in the spring.

Capt Tom

Stay away from Scott's products at once. It's intended for the entire USA but is only good for 1/4. Switch to Milorganite and Lesco products.

But, if you did infact apply lower dosage in Sept as a prior poster said, go ahead and apply another round. Just be sure the winterizer doesnt have a weed control in it. Scotts sells a winterizer w/and w/o weed control.

Don't watch the calendar so much when it comes to a winterizer application. Watch your turf. When you put a winterizer down in September, you were not winterizing your turf. A winterizer is put down after the top growth has stopped, which probably occurs in the period just before and after Thanksgiving. Make sure it is a fertilizer a high N and low P and K, such as the above mentioned 24-3-3. The bags that say winterizer and have a low first number and higher P and K are designed for warm season turf in the southern states. If you feel so inclined, find a Lesco, which is now called John Deere Landscapes, and ask the rep to put you on a residential turf program and make sure you mention the fact that you just seeded and that you had grub damage. You will not be disappointed with your lawn in 08.