When I seed I just lightly push the seed into the ground with the other side of the rake
#4
Chris Bounds
Ok I'm open to suggestions it's a customers request and there willing to pay for labor to put straw down.If there's a better way of doing it then I'm all about it. I was told straw helps hold the seed in place.
Ok I'm open to suggestions it's a customers request and there willing to pay for labor to put straw down.If there's a better way of doing it then I'm all about it. I was told straw helps hold the seed in place.
Ok I'm open to suggestions it's a customers request and there willing to pay for labor to put straw down.If there's a better way of doing it then I'm all about it. I was told straw helps hold the seed in place.
The bird comment is interesting and even sounds logical but my reasons for straw are 3, to provide partial shade, to retain soil moisture, and to help (a little bit) prevent erosion.
#8
Carscw
If your aerating and over seeding then I see no need for the straw as the seeds fall into the holes.
i'll be able to tell you after this weekend. I bought 25 bales of straw to cover my yard that I've had trouble growing grass on. used to be farm land, grew wheat beautifully! I've harrowed and seeded, but every time it seems to rain and washout or it gets too dry or the wind blows or or or.
so i'll drag it with a tine harrow, seed it and cover it this weekend (about an acre). seeded it last fall, and some of that is coming up now, but it is spotty - tried the make rows-and-seed-and-cover-with-the-rake trick, but that didn't work. I know I should get a soil sample tested, and might still do that. I know I need black dirt to mix in with the clay soil, but at the going rate to cart topsoil out to the country, that isn't going to work. hence, the straw...
