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growing grass

PleionePleione member
in July 2012 Moms
Anyone know how to get grass growing on their lawn again? Or is it supposed to happen by itself? This is my first spring owning a lawn and I have no idea what to do with it. Right now the snow has just about melted but its a mucky brown mess in the backyard. I'm seeing words like aerate, dethatch, sow grass seed, etc when I google this and it's like a foreign language to me. I don't even know what kind of grass the previous owners had there.What do you all do to your lawns to prep for spring?
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Re: growing grass

  • bcbuzzafsubcbuzzafsu member
    edited April 2014
    Our lawn consists of clover, some centipede grass, dandelions, some purple flowered ground cover, nut grass and English Ivy.  As long as it is green/pretty flowers I don't care.  I'm also in Florida so it never gets covered by snow, it just has to endure summer temps while I ignore it. Putting out seed doesn't make grass grow here, it makes fat birds.
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  • PleionePleione member
    Okay, thanks for all the input. I might just go the easy route and wait for it to come back and then throw around some grass seed in any funky patches. I'm afraid to aerate as I think you're not supposed to if the lawn was recently seeded or sodded, and I have no idea if ours was before the sale. 
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    bellaxanthe said:

    Oh and de-thatching. You need to wait until the grass and ground is really dry. Not sure where you are at in your spring season, but we wait until May in MN for this. Basically is doing a thorough raking to get all the dead stuff out. Bag it up or compost it.  You can rent a power dethatcher as well (or split the cost with a neighbor).

    I'm in Ontario, so we're just having teaser peeks of spring right now. So it might be late May before the ground really dries up. But let me get this straight.... I can't rake right now? There's a bunch of dead twigs and a few left over autumn leaves lying around, and I assumed a quick rake would give the grass a better chance of coming in.

    Good point about asking the neighbours for tips.
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