Growing grass?? Since fall is around the corner I want to start working on...
Since fall is around the corner I want to start working on my yard soon. I purely bought a new home and the yard looks very bad. I live in TN and there is no topsoil, purely Tn clay...can someone give me step by step on how to grow grass by spring...also my yard have no shade.
Go to or call your county extension agency and get a soil question paper kit. Take samples and convey them in, now. If the question paper results show that you need lime on your lawn after put it down asap. It takes 4 to 6 months for lime to get the PH up contained by the soil, so if you need it, the sooner you put it down the better. Find out what grass types grow best in your nouns. Pick a grass type that you like and put it out in the leak. Get a maintenance schedule from your county agency. This rota will tell you when, what , and how much to feed your pasture throughout the year. You do not need top soil to grow grass. You need the right nutrients and hose down to grow grass. You can get all this info from your county extension agency. Good luck. I would start presently just by puttng down some scotts turf builder..it puts fertilizer into ground an that may help contained by fall when you put your grass seed down..its too hot for grass core now...I wish i be in TN..love it there..you can also see if your garden center have something that is called mushroom soil...that also is great.they speak it brings back the dead...if you gain a mulch always use something like licorice root..it decomposed an make the dirt awsome...good luck to you
I don't what your yard looks like in a minute but you don't need topsoil.Water (rain)=nightcrawlers=topsoil is the equation for that. Unless the yard is plagued near crabgrass, I would just overlay grass seed this unsettled summer/fall and start the grass care cycle in spring which consists of crab weed/feed contained by March, dandilion/feed in May, pesticide if necessary within late spring/summer. If yard is VERY desperate now strip and start over like contemporary home with straw cover. Also mulch instead of bagging grass clippings for nightcrawler production. Once rooted grass grows in good health in clay.Till the yard shallow as to not turn up too several weed seeds. Then seed next to a fiscue hearty seed. Buy yourself lots and lots of peat moss. By mitt keep spreading the peat untill you have at tiniest two inches of cover.Then the hard part you own to lightly water dont wipe the peat or seads away you have to keep the peat dripping at all times for three weeks till the grass establishes roots into the clay.It's like non stop babysitting. Any weed that spring up are ok unless they become a patch then they must be pulled.Now mix up more seed and peat surrounded by one container if any bald spots develop cover with the mixture.Keep sour the grass unless absolutly necesarry to remove a weed patch.
Answers: Oh that type of Grass !
There are grasses which are bred for "high traffic" (hard stuffed dirt) and "problem spots" you can get these at any Lowes or Home Depot.
Put down the seed kinda robust and cover with a thick lode of hay. LOTS of water. It should grow.