Start with top-quality grass seed. Work the soil up a little with a rake. If you are overseeding consider using a slicing machine. Evenly sowing larger areas by hand is difficult, so use a spreader. Cover the seeds by raking a little soil over them. Fertilize and mulch only if it's on a hillside. Use very little mulch. Water, water, water.

Burning off weeds only kills the tops and the new seed, but the roots will return to haunt you again.

To establish a lawn in western Washington, choose a combination of turftype tall fescue grasses and turftype perennial rye grasses. A mix that adds up to about 90% of these two grass seed types will grow well in either sun or light shade in western Washington. Turftype perennial ryegrass takes full sun and stands up to traffic. Turftype tall fescues are adapted to shadier locations. In combination, the mix works for a lawn in average light conditions.

In this area the best time to put grass seed down is in the spring during the months of April and May and in the fall during the month of September.

In St. Louis, we are in the transition zone between ideals for northern and southern grasses. Tall Fescues are best adapted for our area where there are extremes of cold winters and hot summers.

Why not? Remember, just before a snow, top dress with a light sprinkle of soil so the birds don’t think you’re a horticultural philanthropist.

Yes, this is not a good time to plant grass. It would come up this fall but not be established well enough to overwinter. If you want to seed this fall, wait until just before the first snow. The seed will lay in the soil and come up next spring.

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Sesame is comparable to low sorghum planting equipment. Sesaco's pamphlet contains plate numbers that work.

The seed a hybrid produces does not come true to type, but instead reverts back to the traits of the parent plants. This may result in the seeds harvested from hybrids to produce plants that are very dissimilar to the original plant.

Clyde Robin. Wildflowers are easy from seed. If seed is to be spring planted, first find an area that receives full sun most of the day. Remove the weeds. (Try Grass Getter®.) Rough up the soil to a depth of not more than two inches. Evenly apply the seed you have purchased over the prescribed area being careful not to plant too much seed on a small plot. Follow the planting recommendations included with your seed.

Fall is the best time to sow because there is a more developed root system by the time summer drought stress occurs. Spring is the second best time because the temperature and moisture is good for germination.

A blend of fine fescue, bluegrass and certain varieties of perennial rye can tolerate a fairly shady area. However, dense shade may require ground covers or shade type perennial plants. More important is cultural practices such as irrigation and more frequent light applications of fertilizer to make up this loss taken by trees.