MorpheusPA wrote:Not in the slightest. Although you're at the minimum, you aren't below it. I looked up your weather and you're going to highs from 70 to 85 over the next week, which is more than warm enough for the seed to sprout.

I just looked at weather.com and we'll have high 74F-Sun, 79F-Mon, 82F-Tue, 75F-Wed then 68F on Thursday. That should be good. Tonight though will be 51F

Here is a pic of what I seeded 6 days ago. I was filling in some spots that were flooded away when I did my initial reno on my sidewalk strip. We have had rain almost every single day this week. Granted, these are small sprouts but still exciting to see progress. Note the other seeds that were not covered by the peat? I know some people say that you shouldn't topdress, but this shows what the topdressed seeds are doing (growing) and what the seeds laying on top are doing (nothing). Apparently, all the rain removed some of the dirt/peat since we can see those seeds and the starter fert (looks like salt at this magnification).

Same thing here. I think about 15% of seeds got washed away. I'm not sure if I should fix it this year or I'll just dormant seeding or spring seeding. What are your plans?

What seedlings are those? KBG also?

For me, I did a small reno a couple months back and last Sunday I redid the spots that were washed out. (all KBG Mag3 mix). Since we didn't have a massive downpour to wash these out, I should be good. In a week or so I will be overseeding my entire front lawn for good measure. I am currently killing a few spots of fine fescue that are still in my KBG so the overseed and spreading should leave me in good shape.

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I have some topsoil folks. If in 15 days, there are obvious barespots, how thick of topsoil should I put? Is 1/4" of topsoil and thin layer of peat moss fine? These areas are really hard to keep seeds in place.

s1mpl3k1d wrote:

MorpheusPA wrote:Not in the slightest. Although you're at the minimum, you aren't below it. I looked up your weather and you're going to highs from 70 to 85 over the next week, which is more than warm enough for the seed to sprout.

I just looked at weather.com and we'll have high 74F-Sun, 79F-Mon, 82F-Tue, 75F-Wed then 68F on Thursday. That should be good. Tonight though will be 51F

Ah,its ok. You'll be smiling at your AWESOME lawn before too long! I am anxious for you to see how great this reno will turn out! LOL




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Great! I promise, I'll keep taking pictures.

http://i623.photobucket.com/albums/tt31 ... s-2007.jpg

http://www.greencastonline.com/SoilTempMaps.aspx

This helped me out a lot last year.

Cool links! Based from the second link, we are at 60-65F!

I would really like to see some update pictures. Lets see your little green hairs sticking up

gulp, I don't take pictures. LOL.





...........give me a few

Here are the latest pics taken this morning. We had a very good rain. Started 4am then slowed down around 11am, then back again around noon until5pm. Now it's drizzling.

I've been trying to upload the pictures for almost 15 mins now but postimage.com won't come up.

Anyways, I just uploaded the pics to my photobucket account.
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Aug 27 - Finally, postimage is up, sigh

holly cow that looks great for 11 days. Your are on a roll.

Indeed. postimage has been pretty crappy these past few days. But it looks good! I wouldn't have expected to see anything by day 11, so it looks like you're off to a great start!

Thanks folks! I do have one very very problematic area and that's the small hell strip. It has big puddle. I don't see anything growing. I'm not sure how to get the grass growing. Or maybe the seeds already floated and got washed away. I'm thinking of fixing that area next year. Or create a sod farm at the back, rip it, and put it there.

Here is the eyesore. Postimage is not working again for me.
http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn13 ... 26pic6.jpg

Here Ducky-Ducky!

hehehehehe, that's funny. either raise the grade with more dirt of jackhammer the curb for drainage?

It looks like the bottom left is the low point, just below the ducks, (ha ha, isn't photoshop great?).

I would dig a small trench and let the water drain towards the expansion crack.

Looking Good! Off To A Great Start!

That's very funny! Hahaha!

I had 3 extra bag of topsoil in the garage. I put it down and it helped a little. Looks like it's really low. I was thinking of asking the builder if they can bring me some dirt. I just decided that I will buy 10 bags later. Oh, there are tons of moss at the bottom and rain isn't going to stop today, it will be tomorrow afternoon.