If you have Chinch bugs then you either use tons of pesticide or you overseed
every year just to try and keep up with the voracious insects. The northern
chinch bugs tend to fly from one area to another quite readily unlike the more
"stay in one place" ones in southern climes, so pesticides won't get rid of
chinch bugs in the north anyways. Newer types of lawn grass seed with endophytes
can be used to overseed infested areas and have proved to be very chinch bug
resistant. You have to overseed every year though...

BT


"Joseph Meehan" wrote in message
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In another thread "overseeding" was noted as if it were standard
maintenance practice.

My experience is limited to Ohio and I am sure there are differences in
different areas, but is this standard practice? From personal experience I
have never seen this useful except for specific problems.

Why would a healthy lawn require or benefit from overseeding?

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Joseph E. Meehan

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