Overseeding your lawn is a great way to ensure sustained growth and deal with stubborn patchy areas. The key to successful overseeding is making sure you’re seeding at the right time, watering appropriately, and ensuring that your soil is properly prepared. Your landscaping company can help you with overseeding, so you get the best possible outcome from your efforts. These answers to common questions that landscapers hear about overseeding will help you understand more about the process and benefits.
What is overseeding?
Overseeding is the process of adding grass seeds to your existing lawn, without turning the soil over as you would with normal seeding. Instead of turning over the soil, your landscaper can aerate the soil to create small holes for the seeds to enter to encourage new growth. Overseeding plays an important role in maintaining a thick, healthy lawn in the long term, even in demanding weather conditions.
What are the benefits of overseeding?
One of the biggest problems that is addressed by overseeding is bare patches in lawns. Bare patches can happen in high traffic areas, but they can also occur in spots that haven’t been properly watered or in which the original planting of the grass never took hold. Overseeding is a simple way of filling these spots and making your lawn look lusher. It also helps lawns grow thicker turf, which makes the grass more resilient and less likely to fall victim to disease and pest infestations.
When should I overseed?
It’s best to follow your landscaper’s advice about the timing of an overseeding project. The best time for seeding depends on where you live. In the Southwest, September and October are usually best for overseeding, though Spring is also an option for some kinds of grass.
Complete Landscaping is here to help you keep your landscaping look great all year round. For help with overseeding, landscape installation, and more, call our Tucson landscapers at (520) 323-8918.