When you can see the lawn (soil) as the snow melts. The seed will sit
there until the temperature is reasonable for germination.

It helps to put some straw mulch down over large bare spots to keep the
spring rains from washing the loose seed away.

If you can find the sod that was peeled away by the snow plow, and if
the roots haven't been damaged too much you can just put it back on the
bare spots and it will grow there. It's a jigsaw puzzle to get the
pieces back without making too many lumps in the lawn.

If the lawn just has bare spots away from the plowed areas it is
probably grubs, not winter.

JC wrote:
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Can anyone suggest a rule of thumb for when to plant grass seed on a
winter/snowplow damaged lawn?