Andy, Thanks for the detailed reply! Always good to read your posts as you tell the 'whys', and certainly analogies like beach ball, tennis ball, and marble help too. I certainly buy the 'tiller + root + extra N' argument and will use it for my next reno's first cuttings. I actually had seen your po...

A wide guess: guttation?

I think too that it is probably better for me to skip the weed control and the non-winterization extra N for now.

Thanks!

Thanks Ocelaris and sfex02! I just found the background of that 2" recommendation in the FAQ: Mowing height of new elite KBG lawns... http://aroundtheyard.com/northern/mowing-height-new-elite-kbg-lawns-t690.html Strangely if I type the subject in the bestlawn search box, I got nothing. If I google i...

Hi, I wish I had found this site earlier. Unfortunately I had already dropped the seeds a week or two before I started reading the forums here, although I tried to read something about renovation and overseeding on the web beforehand. I dropped some northern mix (PRG, CRF, TTTF, KBG) on Sept 25 (I k...