How to Plant Grass Seed and Overseed like a PRO

want to save yourself thousands of dollars and have a gorgeous Green Lawn that looks like a pro installed it well you can bite the bullet and have sod installed or you can seat it yourself now my company installs at least one lawn a week and I tell each one of my customers they have an option they can hire me to install sod for them and their lad will instantly look like this or I can sit down at their kitchen table and in 5 minutes teach them how to overseed their lawn and make it look like a pro did it guess what that's what you're going to learn today I'm going to show you what I show each and every one of my customers how that they can cheat save thousands of dollars and do the job themselves so let's get started all right here we go this white board is your lawn and this pepper is your seed now I'm going to show you the pattern this is the most critical element A lot of people think that you want the more seed the better you really want to get a big pile of seed and that's going to give you a lush green lot nothing could be further from the truth when you have a pattern like this what happens is the seeds compete against each other and they kill each other off that's the last thing you want in this case what you want and there's no fancy tools let's get this straight I when I overseed my Lawns I do it with these tools right here I prefer not to use a broadcast spreader I prefer not to use a walk behind spreader I prefer to good to use good old fingers and looking at my pattern and making sure that I have it and and to do it light the first time so here's your seed you're not going to get it right the first time this may be a little bit difficult to see so we will zoom in and that's perfect you you don't have to see it the first time you you do the seeding but you spread the seed down and then if you have gaps in your coverage right here I have a little bit of a gap then I go back back through it and then I fill in those little gaps and what you want is an even distribution with a little bit of space in between and then you lightly rake that into the subsoil and you water it and then you have patience it's as simple as that okay as promised here's a closeup of that pattern oh here I am messing it up it's too heavy in one spot that's going to kill your grass this is all seed remember I'm spreading it out this is just like if I was raking it in the [Music] lawn there you go simple as that an even distribution with space in between doesn't get any easier guys and gals there's no reason to hire a pro to do something you can do with your own fingers have a good one my friends as the grass germinates and comes up then you'll come back later and you'll Reed again now question you should ask me is what kind of seed do I use Simple go to Menards go to Lowe's go to Home Depot it's all the same they all have quality seed now if you have a yard anything like mine if you look in the background beyond the deck you'll see that there's areas of sun there's areas of shade your standard landscapers mix is going to cover it but if you don't have any trees in your yard get a sunny mix or if you have a highly shaded area that never sees Sun get a shade mixture here's a tip for you if you go with sod if you lay sod you still have to overseed yes you do why because all sod is growing in direct sunlight there's no tree trees on a sod farm they don't grow sod underneath trees plain and simple so that's a sunny mixture most people's yards have one or two trees in it and what happens is when you put that sod that's accustomed to being in direct sunlight in shade it's going to die now it's not going to die in 30 days 60 days it's not even going to die that summer but in 3 4 five years that sod's going to die okay so what you do is you over seed the sod with a shade mixture and what that does is that allows the shade mixture to grow in as the sun mixture dies off keeping your lawn lush green and looking beautiful under any circumstances so what's the second most critical component to seating a lawn well that's your base material that is making sure that you have a good layer of black dirt down now a lot of times you hear the quote you got to put four in of Base material down that's hogwash okay you never put you never layer the soil in a 4 in layer where if this is your subsoil this is clay or sand you just slap 4 in of black dirt down cuz if this was Clay what would happen is that grass that grass would be too rich this the the black dirt would be too rich for it and it would root systems would go down and hit that clay layer and then get stuck okay so you what you really want to do is you want to mix black dirt into the upper layer of soil whether that's a clay whether that's a sand or whatever it doesn't make a difference you want to incorporate it in that gives your seed a deeper base for it to germinate it's just easier to work with so the two critical elements even distribution of the seed and having a good layer of uh subsoil for it to grow in simple as that don't overseed too heavily when I say too heavily remember avoid that when you get that you're going to have a dead spot in your lawn [Music] instead if you do get that rake your seeds out break them out so it's spread evenly across the board with a nice distribution a nice pattern in between voila it's just like I had a rake and I was going over my yard that's the key that's how the pros do it you can do it too save yourself thousands of dollars in slding a yard or give me a call I'll go s your yard for you have a good one God bless love you guys