What are you seeding?

KBG. Getting the sunny blend from SSS

What is SSS?

Seed super store, it's an online seed seller

I have had great success seeding when air temps are still hovering around 80-82 . For me that's Early to mid September, I imagine for you it would be mid to late August.

I'm near you, Uxbridge to be exact. I just did my first round of glyphosate on my new sidewalk strip. Builder put the sidewalk in this spring and it's been a salad bar since they neglected to seed.

I've got irrigation and tenacity, so I'm shooting for a month of additional watering and weed sprouts, another glyphosate app, then seeding mid August with SSS Bluegrass mix and tenacity.

That'd be fine. There's a good window for renovation; my projected schedule forced me to do it late July. Some seed sprouted, some sat there and waited for the temperatures to drop, but it went off with minimal problems. Just don't push it too close to frost as KBG takes a while.

If my schedule becomes a problem, let me know and we'll re-work it a bit. Nothing's so critical it can't either go early or late, or even wait until 2017 if it had to. Your soil is in pretty good shape overall.

Hey Morph,

I think your schedule will work. Here is what i'm proposing for my renovation (approx 13k sqft)

- kill: 7/31

- rekill: 8/12

- scalp/bag: 8/19

- power rake: Week of 8/22

- plant/slice seed it in: 8/27

Your schedule has me doing a milo/borax treatment on 8-1. Potassium sulfate on 8/15 and the I would be adding 3lb/1k of epsom salt at approximately 3 weeks into the sprout. would you recommend pushing that back a bit or should i "walk softly"?

This is your schedule for this piece of the land:Application
Date
Product
Rate
8/1/2016
borax/milo
4tbs per 1,000 sqft
8/15/2016
Potass Sulfate
2lb
9/15/2016
Epsom
3lb
10/1/2016
Potass Sulfate
2lb
4/15/2017
Epsom
3lb

If you power rake you don't need to slice seed, just broadcast the seed right away after clearing the thatch. I do it every year and have excellent germination.

Well i don't have a lot of thatch at all in my back yard. I was doing the power rake (big tractor with a pull behind) to really cut up and smooth out the ground. I wanted to slice seed it so that it would bury it a little to help it hold until it takes. My luck it would pour for days when i plant. The slicing (i'd do it twice crossed) would be my solution to hold it since its KBG and would take a good 10 days before any of it starts to sprout.

Yes/No?

How many square feet are we talking about?

approximately 13,000

I guess that's too much area to cover the seed by hand with straw or anything like that. I'm just not a fan of the corn rows that you get with a slice seeder, I feel like a broadcast spreader gives you more even seed coverage. Another option would be to use a roller to press the seed into the ground after broadcasting. Up to you, it will probably turn out great either way.

Yeah I only went one direction with the slice seeder on the front and I could see some row effect. I'm planning to go two directions on the back and I will roll it (rolled the front too). I think broadcasting the seed helps rid the corn row effect. But as you said, I think KbG will be good either way