A couple of days ago:

@Green I would like to see the progression of this area. Any interest in not overseeding this area and just pushing it with fall N to experiment/document?

I did that another year, and it didn't totally fill back in. Close, but not 100%. So I'll definitely be going with grass plugs (and possibly some overseeding). There's a good amount of fine fescue, which is slow to recover and slow to fill back in, so it needs help. There's also a good amount of KBG, but I really need some Tall Fescue in that spot to help keep something green and keep the soil temps down in the Summer. I have 3 lbs of Scotts coated TTTF seed with Faith as one of the cultivars (so actually 1.5 lbs seed). It's not going to go very far, but I have KBG and FF seed I can also use.

There might be another area that's not as bad that I can just push with N a bit after it greens up, but of course the fine fescue can only be pushed with N so much (not very much...maybe an extra half pound).

 

Hi Green,

Is there a lot of KBG in this area ? KBG can survive longer during drought periods.

Maybe half of it is KBG. But between Winter and Summer damage, these areas get hammered bad. Almost a losing battle.

I was surprised that my neighbor's mostly FF lawn came back as well as it did last year.

 

Another neighbor's front lawn is mostly brown (mostly FF and some KBG, as well as weeds). He said it looks like most of the Creeping Charlie and Violets he had went brown. He's hoping they're dead, since he doesn't want to use chemicals. It will be interesting to see what happens.

 

Another neighbor's front lawn is mostly brown (mostly FF and some KBG, as well as weeds). He said it looks like most of the Creeping Charlie and Violets he had went brown. He's hoping they're dead, since he doesn't want to use chemicals. It will be interesting to see what happens.

The violets will certainly be back. They are aholes...