Power seeding is your local lawn service’s answer to some tough landscaping questions. What’s the fastest way to establish a new lawn after construction? Power seeding. What’s the solution for areas where grass is very slow to grow and a lawn has proven tough to establish? Power seeding.
Let’s learn more about power seeding and why professional lawn services love it so much.
Grass, like any plant, grows from seeds. Grass seed is extremely fine and tiny. Traditionally, the way people planted grass was by scattering it in an even layer on the surface of the soil. This could be done by hand or by using a machine.
If conditions are perfect, this type of broadcast seeding can result in great grass growth. However, if it’s too windy, too rainy, too dry, too cold, too hot, or in any other way less than ideal, the growth rates produced by broadcast seeding can drop off rapidly.
Grass seed grows best when it has maximum contact with the soil. Additionally, grass requires a pretty hefty dose of nutrition to start growing properly. Power seeding addresses both of these issues by mechanically inserting pelletized seed – think seeds that have been coated with a layer of fertilizer and nutrition – directly into the soil. This results in maximum seed-soil contact and results in rapid grass growth.
One of the advantages of power seeding is you don’t need to kill your existing grass to plant more grass. Power seeding can be used to enhance areas of the lawn where the growth is slow and patchy.
While power seeding can be performed any time, the approaching spring time is the next viable opportunity to have the local lawn service power seed your lawn. As to what type of grass is best for your lawn, that’s a conversation best had in person with the lawn service, after they’ve had an opportunity to observe your local soil conditions and microclimate. Power seeding has often proven to be the best way to get grass growing in heavy or compacted soils.
