Tom The Great wrote:
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:51:06 -0600, "John61"
wrote:

Hi,

My backyard lawn needs overseeding. I wonder if it's a good idea to do it
right before winter. We have a few month snow covering in Midwest Canada

My thought is to overseed right before snowing, and they will germinate
early next spring after snow melting. Or the seeds will die in winter?

Thanks,

John



I thougtht the same thing, but further south here in Pennsylvania. In
hind sight I've seen this, I seed early, snow on the ground, we get a
few days warm weather, seeds sprout, then a blizzard hits, sprouts
die.

I now generally seed in the fall, and several weeks before I use
crabgrass preventor.


If you put down the common pre-emergent crabgrass control products
several weeks before seeding, it will not only prevent crabgrass from
germinating, but the grass seed too. You can use Tupersan, but it's
expensive and why would you when seeding in Fall? At that point,
crabgrass, which needs warm temps to germinate is not a problem.





just my observations,

tom @ www.NoCostAds.com