How To Overseed A Lawn

Hi. I'm Mike and this is Dan, and we're from the Lawn Company. We have a wealth of experience in looking after lawns, large and small.

We're going to show you some handy tips on how to care for your lawn. I'm going to show you how to overseed a lawn with your chosen grass seed. It's important to apply the seed around the edges of the lawn first, not too heavily, or not too sparsely.

Be careful not to get it into the flower borders. Choose a non-windy day, ideally. Once you've done the edges of the lawn, there are various methods of application to help you do the job a bit quicker.

Follow your mowing lines. You could use this handy little spreader. Making sure you get the right setting, just walk up and down the lawn, applying the lawn seed evenly.

For a slightly larger area, there is no harm in getting out your trusty fertilizer spreader. Walk up and down your lawn, following your mowing lines until you get to the edges, close the hopper off, and without overlapping too much, make the return pass. Once the lawn seed's been applied, we need some top dressing material.

Gently broadcast this over where the grass seed has been applied. Work into the surface with the back of a garden rake, and this material, which is a soil based material, will just cover up those new grass seeds that you've just applied, and keep them nicely protected from the birds. Once you've applied the grass seed, it's important to water it, or just rely on natural rain.

That's how you overseed a lawn. .