"Fisher Price" wrote in message
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- Cover the ground with an opaque tarp for two weeks to kill the weeds
- bring in good topsoil, enough for 2-3 inches depth of coverage, 20%
oragnic for fast growth
- seed using high quality brand name seed, eg. Scot's

Will be much cheaper than sodding or hydroseeding, even if you use the
expensive topsoil. Using good soilk and seed, along with regular watering
91-2 times a day depending on how wet your weather is) should get you
grass
in under two weeks. I did it in July and had new grass in six days, but in
2-3 weeks it was much more mature and spread out.


I agree. If you have rocky soil, you wouldn't want to till amendments into
it for grass, just put topsoil/compost on top. Compost is usually more
expensive than topsoil, but many times topsoil doesn't have organic
matrerial. I would mix the two 50/50. Let the grass grow in good soil. To
stay away from chemicals, the tarp/black plastic method is advised.