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Same here I had one older customer who I told to water regularly call me back because the seed wasn't germinating and the lawn was bone dry. She said she watered it when I put it down and then thought that was enough as it looked wet in the mornings. Needless to say I had to reseed and give here a sprinkler.
Then they leave the sprinkler on overnight and wash all the seed away. Bloody right pain.
I've been feeding the birds too
free grass seed to all birds
no rain Aaaagggghhhhhh
We had this issue 3 or 4 years ago and so now only do renovation work in the autumn. It's worked well for us so far. I'm sure it can still work in the spring but we found that you're a lot more dependent on the customer at this time of year which is always a gamble! Hope it works out for you.
Struggling as well Sean.
Have 4 I am extremely worried about - one is 2000m2. Thankfully we did get 2mm of rain on Sunday so the most recent has at least had a little drink. Autumn renovations are a non starter for me - too much else to do and the weather can be very unforgiving by late August where I am.
Two attempts at re seeding a lawn , customer keeping up to the watering but nothing happening my guess its still too cold here in the North for the seed to germinate .
Also a shortage of topsoil , only Two pallets per supplier apparently . And now my mate tells me you think you got problems ? its not great for fishing either ...
Yes I've had similar problems slow recovery after scarifying. I haven't had chance to feed the few a do scarify which isn't helping . They all easy going clients and understand feed needs moister etc and it hasn't rained all month except for 7inch of snow a couple of weeks ago don't think thats quite the same as rain though. 3rd year in a row a think a dry spring here , that will mean its going to rain the majority of the summer instead
Well, we've certainly had the rain now! Results are still disappointing, as I suspect the temperatures just haven't been consistently warm enough yet.I visited one site today and the only thing that had grown was the pigeon who'd been gorging on free seed for the past 6 weeks! The customer is very disappointed as on my last visit I said we were desperate for rain and now I'm telling them that it's been too cold!
The fertiliser I put down at the same time doesn't seem to have kicked in yet on the existing grass. But you start doubting yourself - was the seed any good? , did I top-dress properly?
I think I'm going to have to buy some more seed at my own expense, run a rake over the surface to till the seed bed and see what happens!
Any of you guys seeing any results yet?
Snow and minus 5 with me yesterday(5th May)...
Established grass responding to fertiliser but newly seeded is mostly a disaster. Thankfully the half acre lawn seems OK.
Hydrangea, buddleia, and Camillias have all been utterly decimated by frost around here. Still seeing punters planting out in beds and borders despite EVERY garden centre warning to protect from frost!
Hey hoo....
I'm sure I should know the answer to this after many years...................... If you use a weed/feed fertilizer, does it stop grass seed germinating? I'm guessing its "yes" as I had great problems last autumn getting germination in what was ideal conditions but I'd fertilized it a couple of weeks earlier and it then occured to me that that was the problem . If thats the case, any idea how long to leave before you can reseed successfully?
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