Overseeding your lawn is one of the most vital tasks when it comes to maintaining a healthy lawn. Unfortunately, only a few people are aware of its importance. Yet, most homeowners are puzzled as to why supplementing the grass consistently with a new batch of seeds is necessary when the grass still looks so stunning. This is because grass will die when their time comes. Just like humans, grass plants will also deteriorate after five to six years and their reproductive abilities will decrease.

But by overseeding your lawn, you get to compensate the slowing down of your grass' reproduction. Overseeding can lead to two colossal benefits when you implement this every five to six years. First of all, you can always guarantee your lawn to maintain its high level of density as well as its thickness. If the grass becomes thin, you can always regain its thickness by overseeding.

Overseeding can also promote your grass to be resistant from various diseases which is the second benefit. By sowing some seeds in your grass, their protection against diseases will strengthen.

Remember that your main goal is to have a lawn that will always look like having a brand new type of grass. To have some assistance, try going to some garden centers that are selling different kinds of grass. You don't have to buy them; all you need to do is assess them carefully. You will notice that as you spread the grass blades, the soil can be hardly seen. If you perform that method to your own lawn and you can already see the soil even though the spreading of the grass blades has been performed, you definitely need to overseed it.

But since overseeding your lawn is kind of laborious to accomplish, try doing it for about 5,000 to 6,000 square feet per session.

To do the first step, simply mow the area that is needed to be overseeded. Remember to switch the mower only to its lowest setting.

Now here comes the hard part. By using a grass rake, rake the area where you will do the overseeding activity thoroughly. All that will be left is the soil and some stubble. The rationalization for raking is because you cannot expect germination to ensue if the grass seed cannot directly contact the soil.

Once any kinds of debris have been removed, the grass stubble can function as the seed bed. The main function of the stubble is to provide protection to the seed in case a heavy rain will occur.

Lots of seed should be utilized since the primary factor to be successful here is watering. Sadly, majority of homeowners fail to follow this important reminder. The moment when the grass seed has been dispersed and moistened due to the water, never let them dry out. Moisture should always be present until germination takes place to its full extent and you can achieve that by watering the new seed at least twice a day and continue that routine for at least two weeks. Now here's something that's not indicated on the seed box: by not watering the seed for a day, you already lose 30% of the full germination.

Finally, mow your overseeded lawn if you can observe the old grass reaching to at least three inches in height. By overseeding your lawn, it will always look thick and amazing.