Where's my grass?

Hi all.

I sowed a load of lawn seed about 10 days ago. Still no sign of any grass appearing though. My dad reckons I did it too early for our area.

Will I need to do it again or should I be a bit more patient?

 

more patient

Soil is cold, so germination will take a while ... stop worrying about it and you'll find it has germinated (like a watched-pot never boiling )

 

its to cold to germinate leave alone for now , it will soon start to sprout.

Spruce

 

Hve a liittle holiday that will you you off the lawn :D

Spruce

 

Too early, I think, Clueless.
But grass is tough stuff - try stopping it.
Wait til the weather warms up a bit and it will pop up. You'll see.

 

Sorry Dave, but my pet pidgeons were looking a bit thin, and as I was passing your place.......

 

I guess I am being impatient.

The back garden is north facing too, so it will no doubt take a little bit longer. Although existing plants and weeds have started to grown, the new batch of weeds don't appear to have arrived yet, whereas in the front garden (south facing and sheltered), new weeds have been appearing for a couple of weeks now.

In view of this, I might re-dig the lawn area anyway, and re-seed in a couple of weeks. Purely because the lawn area I've prepared was a bit of a rush job so is a long way from perfect.

 

Hmmm ... an area of the lawn I re-turfed two years ago is still clearly visible as being "different" to the rest of the lawn. Whereas areas that I have reseeded have blended in such that they are no longer noticeable. Might depends what sort of grass was there originally I suppose - in my case it might be the quantity of weeds in the seeded area that make it look the same as the rest of the lawn!

 

Tangential, but!

I read of someone growing some "lawn" in seed trays - so that if a bit of the lawn became damaged they could replace it like-for-like with same grass type (would need to include same-weeds and same-moss in my case!)

I'll get my coat ...