Has your lawn been neglected!? I'm going to show you how easy it is to seed a lawn mid summer. No chemicals, no hard steps.

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In todays video I show you how easy it is to fix a neglected lawn. I recently diagnosed this lawn and found that it had a history of being over watered. Which means the existing bluegrass will always have an issue. I discovered the tall fescue in the lawn was thriving. The easy fix is to plant tall fescue in the lawn. My favorite species of tall fescue is barenbrug's rtf tall fescue. Very dark green grass species and deep deep roots.

Today we will focus on using a lawn scarifier. my preference is the sun joe dethatcher and scarifier but i've had really good luck with the rock and rocker as well as the ryobi cordless dethatcher and aerator.

I fixed this lawn by simply running the lawn scarifier with two passes. One pass horizontally and the other vertically using the lowest setting on the unit. This digs slits into the soil to allow the grass seed to fall into. I push the debris the scarifier leaves behind off the lawn using a blower and disgard the debris.

The second step is to put the grass seed down. This lawn was super sparse. In the sparse areas I focus on 5-7lbs of grass seed per 1000 sq ft. In the bald areas I put down 10 to 12 lbs of grass seed per 1000 sq ft.

The third step is a starter fertilizer. I prefer to use the propeat 13.5.8 or the 11.11.11 at 9lbs per 1000 sq ft. this is a slow release fertilizer and very safe to use while seading.

The final step is to properly water the seed for two weeks. The seed simply put needs to stay damp for two to three weeks. water several times per week. do not over water. over watering will cause the grass seed to move. It will also cause fungus in the lawn. If we end up with fungus we have extra costs to fix the lawn down the road.

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