This video reminds me why this is my go to lawn and grass channel. I love the detail that is provided.

I love to see baby grass grow. It's so exciting.

Good work

best guy out there doing his THING

This is 100% the best video for an amateur like myself, especially since I have a tiny front lawn.

Another great video. I love how you speak in layman terms. Very easy to follow. I have a newly seeded lawn, 5 weeks old. When should I fill in the bare spots as you outline in your video? Thank you so much Peter

This is such a great video! You explain the process very clearly. Thank you!

I learned something new tonight! Thank you

did this last March. it works.

Perfect! I’ll be needing this in the spring. I did follow your video of pre germinating seeds in order seed the spots the squirrels dug up and they germinated wonderfully before yesterdays first frost. Some parts under my two 40 year old oak trees I’m sure will have some damage from the millions of leaves that fell 😒

Great video! Cheers from a gardener in Australia. 🙂🤙

I threw seed on my bare clay soil and covered it up with peat moss and it germinated in 5 days lol. I did spread lime and gypsum when i seeded as well. Watered 4x a day for 15mins each and 19 days later it has been filling in nicely!

Congratulations on how much your channel has grown 👏. I love how you take your time to educate everyone through y 4:36 our experiences and also how your always trying different methods. So much better than some other channels where people only seem to be bragging about their lawn. So thank you so very much Brian.

I've got tons of bare spots. This is a perfect video for me right now. The two issues I have right now are leveling my lawn and bare spots. Lol

Awesome video! I just seeded and have a bare spot due to runoff from my sprinklers and a few rainy days. I'll probably try this in spring? I think it's too late now. Tempts are dropping.

Excellent video, as always, Brian! And very timely for me as this is exactly what I'm doing this week here in northern New Jersey. I had one additional and optional step to suggest; something that has worked well for me in fixing bare spots. To get the seeds to germinate as quickly and effectively as possible, I have found that pre-germination works really well, particularly if you're choosing slower germinating grass types like tall fescue and KBG. And because there are so few seeds needed for bare spots, the pre-germination procedure is much easier to accomplish compared to seeding/reseeding a large lawn section. I just place the required handfuls of seeds in a fine mesh drawstring bag, place them in a quart sized plastic container (a couple of dollars at Home Depot), fill it with water, and cover it with a lid. And I change out the water every 12 hours. I do this for 4-5 days and then when it's time to seed, I can simply add some milorganite or sand directly to the quart container to help with the seed spreading. I then follow pretty much the exact steps you laid out in your video. Following this procedure has really speeded up and improved the germination, at least in my experience. Just something I wanted to suggest.

Thanks 😁👌👌

Fabulous video and very clear - thank you for taking the time to provide instructions. I am in Canada so cold weather is fast approaching and we have a huge problem with birds eating the seed - I have already tried deterrents like spinning silver foil and white plastic bags but the birds get used to that and are brazen. I will be buying some of that crop cover cloth you demonstrated. Again, thanks for an excellent video.

my Rye grass came up and already got its first light mow, but I had put that seed down first; I figured the Fescue would have beaten it(and I put that seed down a few days later, almost two weeks ago now) as this other area is 'full sun', however I haven't really gotten too many sunny days and instead a wave of sub 50F cloudy days and colder nights with some good rains mixed in ....now I'm coming back to some mid 60F's days with mild nights; but this video gave me have hope, that sometimes we might not see any germination until well into the third week - thanks!

I used some topsoil from Home Depot a couple years ago to level a couple spots and come spring i had a crap ton of weeds in those areas.

Cool stuff as always. When do you hold off on the repeated daily watering? How long after germination do you go into normal watering cycle.. if even nessecary.Thanks!

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What exact crop cover are you using? What's a good/cheap option?!

is peat moss kind of compost ? i cant find it here

Excellent Video! I did see a dandilion near the bare spot though :) LOL! I would probably pull that :)

Great, informative video! But is there no need to add starter fertilizer to area being seeded? I'm about to start my own repair of several areas.

Thoughts on using mushroom compost as a topping instead peat moss?

Some of my fescue lays down and my mower won't cut it, I've been raking to try to get those areas to stand up and get cut, when I rake it up there's a bare spots, I've seeded most of the bare spots but I found some more, I don't think I will plant tall fescue again, It just grows too wild.

What if I'm doing this with red dirt/mud/clay? Same process?

Always great info thanks again brother

If i understood correctly... you wouldnt normally add topsoil unless you were trying to adjust the height of the ground, such as in your situation with the tree roots. Then you followed up with a light layer of peat. For my purposes, if i didnt add topsoil, the birds would eat all of the seeds. ( unsurprisingly, for me, no birds when i overseeded in the fall, like September... but tons of birds when i did in the spring)

So, what is it mate, meditation or vegetation?

Has anyone ever told you that you look exactly like Ebon Moss-Bachrach?

I would have cut the tree roots out and raked in the grass seed before putting peat moss down.

"No muddy dirt spots" I think we can all relate

Five minutes after I walk away, birds swarm and eat all of the grass seed I've spent my money and energy on. Gotta figure out a way to prevent this without using a net of some sort.

19 days for just sprouts??!? Wow, so long.

Moist Moist Moist Moist Moist Moist

It's already late fall? 🤦🏾‍♂️

Way too many seeds. You only need one seed per square inch. Have you ever seen when grass chokes itself out that's when you know you have too many seeds

I have a spot at the road edge where the new bluegrass is a hard start. I put up a barrier to keep off, and its coming along. I should have done this step there, on top of the scarifying I did. It didnt score deep enough, and the soil is pretty hard. I added gypsum for the 1st time last spring, and I added a biochar compost mix but it hasnt had a chance to soften the soil using biology yet. A hand rake woulda made a yuge difference.

I loved using peatmoss but the price doubled this past year. It's now $36 per 3cu. ft. bag.