Dormant Seeding Your Lawn - The Benefits of Overseeding Your Lawn in Late Fall/Early Winter

Dormant Seeding Your Lawn - The Benefits of Overseeding Your Lawn in Late Fall/Early Winter

Winter & Dormant Seeding Tips:

What is Dormant Seeding?

Dormant seeding is a major part of fall lawn care or winter lawn care. It is the practice of sowing grass seeds in late fall or early winter when the soil temperature is below 40 degrees. Grass seed will not germinate when the soil temperature is cold.

Seeds will germinate in Spring at the very first chance they are able to, giving your grass a head start at suppressing weed growth.

Why Dormant Seed or Winter Seed?

1. Overseeding your lawn - thicken up thin lawn and bare spots.
2. Can outperform spring seeding: Research has shown that seeds laid in dormancy can produce grass as much as half a month sooner than seeds laid in spring.
3. Aeration and Seeding helps suppress weeds and repair a lawn.
4. Mimics mother nature. This is the time of year when plants naturally hibernate.
5. You can target specific areas of your lawn. (shaded spots etc) New grass still needs sunlight for optimum germination; even when using shade seed varieties. Dormant seeding when most of the leaves have fallen will increase the amount of sunlight during the germination process.
7. Less water needed: All the moisture that is trapped in soil throughout winter will release itself with the thaw. If you lay seeds in the spring you might have to wait for rain before you see results.
8. Grass seeds have time to settle over winter for spring germination. Dry ground creates space for seeds to settle: In the dormant months, the ground is usually a bit dryer, providing cracks and gaps for seeds to settle into.
9. Plants have more time to develop before the heat and stress of summer arrives. New grass that isn’t fully established before summer will not survive severe heat.
When to Sow Grass Seed in Winter?
Dormant seeding can be performed any time between mid-November thru the end of the year or winter depending on snow fall.

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