janet’s journal

When you are starting a new lawn you will have to choose between lawn seed or laying turf. Making use of grass seed is a great deal lower-cost than turf and has the advantage that you have a greater selection of different sorts of lawn seed to pick from. The best time to sow your lawn is in the fall or Spring as you need moist and fairly warm conditions. The summer would not be an ideal time to seed a lawn as you will have to water very frequently and hotter conditions are not best for the young seedlings to mature.

Different kinds of grass seeds develop at different rates so the length of time it will take for your new grass to be ready to use will be dependant on the type and the mixture of lawn seed that you use. You will also want to consider the kind of lawn seed you need. There are specific shade grass seed for regions that don’t get a lot of sunshine, sunny grass seed for areas that do! An extremely popular brand is Scotts grass seed.