[jzinckgra]

It's been very dry since June in our area of Maine. In fact, for the last several years, it rains very little between Jun-Sept. We just reseeded and renovated ~3000sqft section of lawn last weekend using Hogan's tall fescue blend. We're on a well and we've been watering 3x per day at 8min per zone, just keeping things wet. The forecast calls for no appreciable rain for the next 7-10 days. My fear is the seeds will start sprouting in a few days, but we'll not be able to water deeply to establish good root depth/development. Will the seedlings just die or will they be ok if we can at least keep watering as we are now? Without mother nature there's just no way to water deeply as even though we have a 500' drilled well, I want to be careful of not running it dry. Our area is now classified as moderate drought. So tired of putting in lots of effort on lawn work to then see it fail. Frustrating.

8 mins might be a bit much, but I dont know your system. Just need to keep them damp.
Don't need to be doing the longer deeper waterings for a while if you just dropped seed. By then hopefully the fall rains will show up.

Not sure why so many are against spring renos. Get more rain, no huge thunderstorm down pours. Start early enough it'll be well established before summer heat.
Mine turned out great IMO. I had extremely dry, hot summer. Summer still hasn't left, still 90⁰f all this week, no rain. Just my opinion.... im doing another spring reno.

The area gets sun a good portion of day and seems to dry out rather quickly, but maybe just because the peat moss and soil look dry the seed is still moist? If so, I'd cut back to 5min cycles. The good news is I think we're past any more super hot days. Highs in the 70's, maybe an 80 day for the next couple weeks, then it cools down some more.

 

[jzinckgra]

Your soil will do the talking for you. Is it drying out during the day? You are probably ok, but get out there and CHECK the soil. Don't guess, check it.

Well, just over one week in from seeding. Grass is sprouting in some areas and not in others. It's weird, we spread 8 bails of peat and a lot of it ended up clumping in areas rather than evenly spread out. We spread by hand. Most of the grass that is coming through is an areas where the peat is. One fairly large slope area has very little growth and is prone to drying out quickly.
The issue with watering is the soil is bone dry underneath. When we water, we're only wetting the surface. There's just no way to water enough from our well to get the soil moist even a 1/2" below the surface if not more. We desperately need rain and there is little to none in the next 7-10 days.