I have a grass problem

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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 6:51am
The shit won't grow. I have good top soil, put fretlizer down, loads of grass seed and I water it non stop, what's a rat to do?
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CamP 6/20/2008 8:42pm
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Try sod next time.
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super rat 6/20/2008 8:43pm
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I'm too cheap to pay for somthing I could grow myself.
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super rat wrote:
I'm too cheap to pay for somthing I could grow myself.
When at first you don't succeed, try plan B.

Sod is usually cheaper than you think, unless you are trying to cover a very large area.

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danman 6/20/2008 10:08pm
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Have you covered it with straw or something similar to try to maintain the moisture?
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twizzler 6/20/2008 11:27pm
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Apparently Cygnus knows how to grow some really good stuff! Ask him.
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jtomasik 6/21/2008 3:49am
6/21/2008 3:49am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 7:21pm
Move somewhere where there's:

1. Oxygen.

2. Soil.



YOU LIVE IN THE FRIGGIN ROCKIES, MORON!

Dumb ass yuppies tear up the land in those beautiful mountains with their homes and shopping centers, then they pollute the waters with fertilizer to grow grass where it was never meant to grow. Jeezus, you guys need to move to California where you belong.
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JPT 6/21/2008 5:18am
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Plant in the Fall.
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KAWboy14 6/21/2008 7:44am
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birds eating all your seed?

you need 80 plus degrees for grass seed to germinate....is that what you have?

grass seed is for farmers.......are you a farmer? Smile

grass seed can never totally dry out are you waiting to long inbetween waterings? (a farmer woulda known that) Smile

try something easier....millet
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super rat wrote:
I'm too cheap to pay for somthing I could grow myself.
umm...obviously not! - lol

I put sod in half my yard (around a fountain and formal garden) and seed in the rest. The land scapper wanted me to sod the whole thing...The seeded part actually looks better now. It looks a lot more natural. I'm on a well and I watered the SHIT out of it the first year.

You can take a soil sample down to your local conservation office and they should be able to test it and tell you what you need to add...

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Cygnus 6/21/2008 8:06am
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Cover the area with clear visqueen and uncover every couple days . Might help with the germination .
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wpcjs 6/21/2008 9:32am
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In the long run seed is much better than sod.
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super rat 6/21/2008 12:11pm
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KAWboy14 wrote:
birds eating all your seed? you need 80 plus degrees for grass seed to germinate....is that what you have? grass seed is for farmers.......are you a...
birds eating all your seed?

you need 80 plus degrees for grass seed to germinate....is that what you have?

grass seed is for farmers.......are you a farmer? Smile

grass seed can never totally dry out are you waiting to long inbetween waterings? (a farmer woulda known that) Smile

try something easier....millet
It doesn't get up to 80 but a few times a year here, I don't think we have had an 80 degree day yet. I have been watering the piss outta it, do you think I may be over watering?
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KAWboy14 wrote:
birds eating all your seed? you need 80 plus degrees for grass seed to germinate....is that what you have? grass seed is for farmers.......are you a...
birds eating all your seed?

you need 80 plus degrees for grass seed to germinate....is that what you have?

grass seed is for farmers.......are you a farmer? Smile

grass seed can never totally dry out are you waiting to long inbetween waterings? (a farmer woulda known that) Smile

try something easier....millet
super rat wrote:
It doesn't get up to 80 but a few times a year here, I don't think we have had an 80 degree day yet. I have...
It doesn't get up to 80 but a few times a year here, I don't think we have had an 80 degree day yet. I have been watering the piss outta it, do you think I may be over watering?
Rat, grass loves sunshine and warm to hot weather. It grows like crazy with conditions like that. i would buy Sod. Its not that expensive, and its instant gratification. IMO your wasting your time trying seed where its a colder climate year around.
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KAWboy14 6/21/2008 12:23pm
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KAWboy14 wrote:
birds eating all your seed? you need 80 plus degrees for grass seed to germinate....is that what you have? grass seed is for farmers.......are you a...
birds eating all your seed?

you need 80 plus degrees for grass seed to germinate....is that what you have?

grass seed is for farmers.......are you a farmer? Smile

grass seed can never totally dry out are you waiting to long inbetween waterings? (a farmer woulda known that) Smile

try something easier....millet
super rat wrote:
It doesn't get up to 80 but a few times a year here, I don't think we have had an 80 degree day yet. I have...
It doesn't get up to 80 but a few times a year here, I don't think we have had an 80 degree day yet. I have been watering the piss outta it, do you think I may be over watering?
most grass seed needs to be over 80 to germinate so that may be your problem.

if you are overwatering it you will be able to see rotting within the seeds.

if i was you i would either sod or if sod is to expensive get pieces of sod of a runner type sod and cherboard sod the lawn.....then it will fill in

OR

get some type of weed seed that will germinate in your area....there may be some sort of flower/weedy/grassy mix the hunters and farmers use.
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KAWboy14 wrote:
birds eating all your seed? you need 80 plus degrees for grass seed to germinate....is that what you have? grass seed is for farmers.......are you a...
birds eating all your seed?

you need 80 plus degrees for grass seed to germinate....is that what you have?

grass seed is for farmers.......are you a farmer? Smile

grass seed can never totally dry out are you waiting to long inbetween waterings? (a farmer woulda known that) Smile

try something easier....millet
super rat wrote:
It doesn't get up to 80 but a few times a year here, I don't think we have had an 80 degree day yet. I have...
It doesn't get up to 80 but a few times a year here, I don't think we have had an 80 degree day yet. I have been watering the piss outta it, do you think I may be over watering?
KAWboy14 wrote:
most grass seed needs to be over 80 to germinate so that may be your problem. if you are overwatering it you will be able to...
most grass seed needs to be over 80 to germinate so that may be your problem.

if you are overwatering it you will be able to see rotting within the seeds.

if i was you i would either sod or if sod is to expensive get pieces of sod of a runner type sod and cherboard sod the lawn.....then it will fill in

OR

get some type of weed seed that will germinate in your area....there may be some sort of flower/weedy/grassy mix the hunters and farmers use.
I used that flower/weed/grassy mix stuff...a field grew within a month. Looked better than dirt, for sure.

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Try some Rye grass. Thats what we use here in the winter. It will germinate with temps in the 50's and 60's.
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Hey rat, I dunno what the layout you have is like, but Im like you - way to cheap to pay big bucks for sod, so we planted some Sahara Bermuda and its working great. Ive been talking pics of the area I prepped, then pics as its been growing til now if you want to see what the stuff looks like before, during and partly after. Its still not fully in yet though but geting there

Shoot me a message if you wanna see those photos. So far this stuff is pretty damn good.
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super rat 6/21/2008 3:09pm
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Yeah post em up. I want kentucky blue grass but I'm thinking that may be the problem. I've used that high alpine low water grass seed befor and that shit grows like weeds because it's mostly weeds. But it's not the nice thick lawn I want. They are calling for a coulple days above 80 here next week, hopefully that gets the shit to grow.
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Sounds like you need to plant winter Rye and cover the seed with manure, that will do a few things help the birds stay off and let the seed germinate, keep it watered good.

2 weeks you will have grass.
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super rat wrote:
The shit won't grow. I have good top soil, put fretlizer down, loads of grass seed and I water it non stop, what's a rat to...
The shit won't grow. I have good top soil, put fretlizer down, loads of grass seed and I water it non stop, what's a rat to do?
Get a soil test. What type of seed are you planting?
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Cygnus wrote:
You can't grow grass on a brick .http://www.revive.com/ [img]https://www.revive.com/images/ReviveProductsSmall.gif[/img]
You can't grow grass on a brick .http://www.revive.com/

I have the Revive granules in all the Sam's clubs in CO. Should also be in the Wal-Marts.

It helps
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super rat wrote:
I'm too cheap to pay for somthing I could grow myself.
Ask your neighbor. I'm sure they'd be happy to come over and help you out since you were kind enough to set their thermostat for them.
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super rat wrote:
The shit won't grow. I have good top soil, put fretlizer down, loads of grass seed and I water it non stop, what's a rat to...
The shit won't grow. I have good top soil, put fretlizer down, loads of grass seed and I water it non stop, what's a rat to do?
and by grass, you mean hair, right?
Dirty Britches 6/23/2008 12:06pm
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seed in fall.
plant flowers in spring.

the grass wont be strong enough to make it through the hot dry season if you try and sprout it now.
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super rat 6/23/2008 1:58pm
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I put down seed and straw last fall, when the snow melted I had a nice mud straw mix.
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super rat wrote:
I put down seed and straw last fall, when the snow melted I had a nice mud straw mix.
in egypt they would be making bricks outa that mix Smile
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super rat 6/26/2008 6:13am
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Had a couple warm days and the shit has started to grow!


You sure do know your grass kawboy.

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