No, it doesn't suck up moisture from the seeds. It is often hydrophobic (repels water) at first. A nice slow, gentle watering the first time gets it out of the way, never to return. It's so simple as to almost not remembered sometimes. Would a standard rotary sprinkler stream be OK to initially hyd...

I'm beginning to plan for my first time overseeding this fall. We moved into our house in SW NJ last summer and hired a lawn company to aerate and put down seed last fall. There was no grass down before as this is a new lot. They have come out periodically since then to put down fertilizer, weed con...