Sowing Tips Whether you are sowing a cool season grass or a warm season grass, sowing seed is all the same. When you are planting a new lawn, you have to have a spreader. If you do not have one personally, you can rent one. You should apply a top dressing to your lawn. This will help to hold in moisture. Who wants to purchase fertilizer if it is not needed? Likewise, you may hurt your lawn by adding things to it that it does not need. Lawn grass grows best when it is planted in soil that has a pH of 6.2 - 6.5. What this means is that your lawn grass will receive the most nutrients if it is planted in soil within this pH range. Many of these varieties grow much better if they are started from sod or plugs instead of seed. That is the reason why you can get long expansions of sod and turf lawns in such mild climates. There is another different climate zone, which comes under the name of a transition zone. You can consider this to be in a lower elevation area, and the grasses, which grow, here are Ryegrass, Red and Tall Fescue, Kentucky Bluegrass, as well as a number of combinations of other grasses with Kentucky Bluegrass. Sod is living and breathing and it can die. You should never schedule a delivery of sod until you are ready to install it. Sod should never be stored for more than a couple of days, or all you will have is a bunch of dirt and dead grass! When you go to purchase sod, you should make sure it is freshly cut. They clean up all the unwanted dust and filth and help in making the lawn and rooms more presentable. Lawn spreaders are used for small lawns whereas the sprayers are used to spray water at larger areas. Most of the people who have private gardens and lawns prefer to use the lawn spreaders to water. The sprayers are used in gardens and various public parks. Once your new lawn has passed the two week time period, you can reduce watering to two or three times per week. How often you water your new lawn at this stage will depend upon your environment. A new lawn in a dry climate or in an area that is experiencing significant drought may need to be watered four or five times per week.