{"id":217,"date":"2010-10-12T09:58:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T13:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=217"},"modified":"2010-10-12T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T15:44:20","slug":"deadline-for-seeding-and-renovating-lawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/10\/12\/deadline-for-seeding-and-renovating-lawns\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline Approaching for Seeding\/Renovating Lawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Early fall is the &#8220;spring-time&#8221; for establishing a new lawn\u00a0or renovating a tired weed infested turf. In the fall most of the weed infestation, particularly from annual pest grasses like crab and goose-grasses, is over.<\/div>\n<div>You have another\u00a0week (until October\u00a020th) to wind up this chore.\u00a0To completely seed a\u00a0sunny area, choose a quality blend (two or more varieties) of tall fescue at a seeding rate of 6-8 lbs. per 1000 square feet of lawn area. Over a partially shaded area seed in\u00a0 red or chewings fescue @ 2-3 lbs. per 1000 square feet.<\/div>\n<div><strong>Use less than half the seeding rate over patch or renovated areas.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>October is a traditionally dry\u00a0month (appears to be the same\u00a0this year as well here\u00a0in the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). Days and soil temps are still warm and the new\u00a0lawn seeding will germinate rapidly. Irrigate lightly,\u00a0(termed &#8220;spritzing&#8221;), the newly seeded areas 1-2 times\u00a0daily. Spread one bale of hay per 1000 square feet\u00a0over the\u00a0newly seeded lawn area to reduce daily irrigation and\u00a0distract birds from dining\u00a0off your future lawn.<\/div>\n<div>In\u00a0early November\u00a0feed\u00a0with a winterizing 2 -1 -1 ratio of lawn fertilizer, following package directions. Mowing height can be lowered to 1 1\/2\u00a0 inches and a mulching attachment to the mower\u00a0blade will grind up fallen leaves and debris into mulch.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early fall is the &#8220;spring-time&#8221; for establishing a new lawn\u00a0or renovating a tired weed infested turf. In the fall most of the weed infestation, particularly from annual pest grasses like crab and goose-grasses, is over. You have another\u00a0week (until October\u00a020th) to wind up this chore.\u00a0To completely seed a\u00a0sunny area, choose a quality blend (two or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,558],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}