Hand Seeding the Lawn

all right it's time to seed i'm going to opt to seed the old-fashioned way and that is just using my nose pickers there's one thing that you gotta really keep an eye out for and that's that you see that right there that's really the worst thing you can possibly do over seeding will have all of this grassy will compete against each other and eventually kill each other off so over seeding like this is the biggest no-no and it's simply if you do it kick your foot around but we do have to embed the seat anyway but the easiest way to do it it's not very windy tonight so what i'm doing let me just show you it's coming out between my my thumb my neck i'm casting like i'm casting a fishing lure it's really simple really straightforward it's just a very gentle flicking wrist motion and anywhere you miss a spot you can always fill in just a titch and you've got really good control simply by opening or closing your finger in your thumbs like this i want a little there you go i want a lot simple and you can see how you can get a beautiful pattern now it's going to take you a little longer than it will if you use a spreader oh and don't worry about going too light going too heavy is way worse than going too light if you go too light you can always overseed it when you're over seeding it that's you can just spot seed over seed or you can do a general overseeding as well so let's say you're worried when you buy sod have you ever seen sod farms and tree farms at the same place the answer is no the sod has grown wide out in the open right so with it being grown right out in the open it's automatically a sunny mixture you can only get sunny mixed your sod but if your yard is shady guess what's going to happen to that side it's going to die it's just the lob nature right it's gonna die man we'll fix that in a moment um so the way you fix that is if you want the instant lawn you don't want to wait for seed so you saw and if your yard is shady over seed it with a shade mixture of seed what will happen is as that sunny that sunny sod will still take it'll still start starting to grab roots and you