With the chance of Hurricane Isaac pushing some rain our way this weekend, I recommend seeding your lawns starting this week. I always use the first of September as a guideline for optimal seeding conditions.
I recommend verticutting your lawns and removing all of the old dead grass and plant material with a bagger or rakes and trash bags. Then you will incorporate your seed into the top 1/4" of the soil. You don't want to go too deep but you must get seed soil contact to germinate seed.
Apply a starter fertilizer at the time of seeding and then begin to water the lawn. It needs a good soaking daily and if you have an irrigation system I recommend running three cycles per day of approximately 10 minutes per cycle until all of the seed is uniformly germinated. Then you can reduce your watering to once per day if there is no rain to supplement the soil moisture level.
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