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  • I’m using a lot of patchmaster on my small, townhouse front and back yard at the moment. Today is day 8, and I have to say your day 8 pics look a little more encouraging then mine. I am, however, just starting to see some new blades rise up…just not very concentrated yet. I’ve been afraid that I laid it too thick, so I’m hoping it pulls through. I’ve been extremely diligent with watering it, so we’ll see.

    Josh in NJ

    Weekend Update: Lawns and Scott’s Patchmaster (28 day report)

  • So it’s day 14 and most areas are really starting to come in. However there are some fairly large areas in my front yard that have yet to produce a single blade of grass, and I don’t have much hope for them. I’m thinking that the first week of October I’ll spread some seed over these parts. Do you think I should rake back the patchmaster that failed, spread some new seed, and then put the patchmaster mulch back on top of the area? My thought was the water retaining mulch would still be of some help.

    Also – how many days did you keep up with constant watering? Just wondering when I can start backing off a bit there.

    Thanks!
    Josh

    Weekend Update: Lawns and Scott’s Patchmaster (28 day report)

    • Hi Josh, glad to hear you’re having some luck. That’s pretty weird with the specific areas which aren’t growing at all though. Have you used any herbicides/weed killers in those areas in the past year that might be preventing the seed from growing? When you spread the PatchMaster out could you see seed all throughout the material? Other factors could be hungry birds got to those spots, or something else kept it from producing. You could try to mix the seed in with the PatchMaster mulch, rather than just cover the seed with it. I’ve also had pretty good luck with raw seed in larger areas. I’ll clean out the area with a steel rake and loosen up the soil, sprinkle some seed over the area, then use the backside of the steel rake to mix the seed in with the loose soil and then soak the area pretty good the first time, so maybe you could do the same with those sections of the PatchMaster mulch. I’m not quite sure when I quit watering, once the patched area was fairly well grown in I watered less and less as time went on and the grass seemed like it was well rooted, and now it just gets watered when the rest of the lawn does, if we’ve had a long dry period and things start to looking a bit brown.

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