Maintenance

Just as the professionals do, the success to healthy grass is to have a program of correct proportions of water, fertilizer and to cut the grass with a sharp blade to a minimum height of 3 - 3.5 inches.

During seed germination, keep the soil and mulch damp or moist using a sprinkler, oscillating or pulse type. On hot days, light watering in the morning and evening for up to 10 minutes or more may be required. Any pooling or guttering of water means your overdoing it. Once grass starts to appear, don't cut back on the watering. Monitor the soil and mulch for dampness and moisture. Once the grass obtains a height of 3 - 3.5 inches, you can start mowing but never more than 1/3 of the grass. Keeping that 3 - 3.5 inches will help maintain moisture and allow the grass to thicken. Fertilize with a premium starter fertilizer after 6-7 weeks. This will strengthen the root system and feed your newly established grass. Un-germinated seed will still come up in the growing season when the conditions are right.

For areas not irrigated, we suggest hydroseeding with a more drought tolerant seed blend available to us. You can still have that great looking, healthy grass but it requires more time and patience when relying on Mother Nature. This particular seed blend of grasses once established, RETAINS ITS COLOR, requires NO WATERING and mowing only ONCE A MONTH. Talk about saving water and your hard earned $ dollars. And you thought hydroseeding was only for the ditches! Seed blends have come a long way and Enviro-Grow can help.