Dormant Seeding Work for you.

[Green]

Sometimes I'll add more seed later on. But I just did my dormant seeding in the first area the other day, so it's pretty much already "later" now. If it washes away, I'll add some more, but I only have limited seed of the type needed. Germination is still over a month away, most likely, so I'm not going to keep checking on it.

[bpgreen]

I throw down seed before the first good snow and don't think about it again.

[northeastlawn]

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Or nothing at all once dormant seeded and whatever comes up, comes up.
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The thing is how do you know that the stuff coming up is your dormant seed and not POA Annual?

You kind of don't know until around April when you see seed heads.

I guess you can say the same for throwing PR down when the forsythia comes up, but for me this was always the thing about dormant seeding.

[bpgreen]

@northeastlawn, you'l have the same concerns if you do a spring seeding.

That's why the consensus here is that the best time to seed cool season grasses is late summer/ early fall.

If you do a spring seeding or dormant seeding and you're concerned about weeds, you'll need to use a preemergent that will allow the desirable grass to grow and will suppress the weeds.

If you're not doing a spring or dormant seeding and are concerned about weeds germinating, you'll still need to use a preemergent, but you'll have more options to choose from because you won't need to worry about the grass you want to grow.

[HoosierLawnGnome]

In Indiana, I wait a bit after greenup. We often have a late frost that kill things off pretty easily.

And I'm more of a plug guy anyways with KBG. Moved several dozen this past weekend to cover some bare spots.