Fescue Overseeding for Georgia Lawns
Overseeding is one of the most important lawn care tasks, yet few homeowners take the time do it. Overseeding compensates for that natural slow down of the turf’s reproduction and insures your lawn stays thick and dense, or if it has thinned, overseeding will make it thick again. An additional benefit is disease resistance as the new varieties of seed you sow this year will have better disease resistance than those varieties already in your lawn.
Tender Lawn Care offers expert overseeding services in addition to our lawn treatment program. We take care to use the latest high-quality seed that will thrive in your particular soil, light, and moisture conditions.
What is Aeration & Overseeding?
- Core aeration is the process of perforating the surface and pulling out plugs of soil to alleviate thatch and compaction.
Aeration creates new space in the soil, allowing roots to expand to encourage thicker growth. It helps break down thatch build-up and decrease compaction in the soil. Performing core aeration prior to overseeding prepares the grass seed to establish deeper root systems.
- Fescue overseeding involves spreading grass seed over an existing fescue lawn to promote new growth.
Following core aeration, new grass seed is planted to help fill in patchy areas of weakened grass. By overseeding in the fall, it gives the new seed ample time to germinate, establish, and grow into a lush, green fescue lawn before the warm weather returns.
Benefits of Fescue Overseeding
- Loosens the clay soil, allowing oxygen, water, and nutrients to reach the roots
- Helps roots grow deep so the lawn can better tolerate drought, heat, and fungi. This also improves recovery.
- Controls thatch by providing oxygen to the microorganisms that break down the thatch layer
- Improves drainage in the soil, and overall health of the root systems.
- Promotes new growth in thin, bare areas to produce a thicker lawn and strong turf density.
- Better weed control. The surface of your lawn acts as a barrier to protect it from weeds. The thicker and healthier your lawn is, the better defense it will have against weeds.
Annual fescue overseeding is the key to maintaining a thriving, healthy fescue lawn in the Atlanta area. Contact us today to get a quote!
