How to Plant Grass Seed | Dad, How Do I? [Video]

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How to Plant Grass Seed
You will need:

• A Rake
• Top Soil
• Grass Seed
• Peat Moss
• Multi-Use Sprayer
• Patience :0)

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0:00
hey kids so as promised
0:03
i’m gonna show you the method that i use
0:05
to fill in bare spots around your lawn
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you know you can also use it to
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uh to cover larger spots too
0:12
um you know and it depends on your
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climate that you’re in um and
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and all that and you know you want to do
0:18
it in a rainy season if you can
0:20
uh and then i mentioned about the
0:22
sprayer um on tool tuesday
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you know that’s good to kind of dampen
0:26
things down
0:28
um but you know you you kind of have to
0:30
deal with the weather whatever weather
0:32
you get you know if you get a hard rain
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then you might have to
0:35
back up and kind of put some more uh
0:38
peat moss on because you want to keep
0:39
those seeds covered so
0:41
anyway before i show you how to do that
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i do have a dad joke for you so
0:45
you know unfortunately i had to let the
0:47
kid go that i hired to mow my lawn
0:50
he just wasn’t cutting it ah so anyway
0:53
let’s get started
0:56
all right so here’s another area in my
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yard
0:59
we used to have something here i removed
1:02
it and then now
1:03
i want to get some grass growing here so
1:06
start off just breaking it
1:09
right i already kind of did a little bit
1:12
but
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yep okay
1:19
and then we’re going to add top soil
1:36
this is kind of a big area so probably
1:37
gonna have to go get another bag
1:39
basically we’re just gonna spread that
1:52
around
1:56
yeah i’m gonna go get another bag
2:01
here’s my other bag
2:09
[Applause]
2:22
this is kind of a low spot too so i
2:25
need to fill that in
2:34
okay
2:38
it’s good and you just kind of keep it
2:40
loose for now okay
2:48
okay
3:01
now we can go ahead and put our seed
3:03
down
3:08
i just like to do this by hand
3:44
okay
3:49
i like to use plenty just to make sure
3:51
i’m gonna do it
3:53
i want it to i want the grass to grow
3:57
it’s always worked for me to do that
4:21
and you just kind of want it where it’s
4:23
just
4:25
lightly covered like that and kind of
4:28
tamp it down
4:39
looking pretty good and then the last
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thing is that peat moss we want to put
4:42
peat moss over the top that’s the
4:46
that’s the final ingredient that my my
4:50
landscaper neighbor showed me
4:53
because i didn’t always have good
4:54
success with this but
4:56
if you cover it with the peat moss
5:00
it’ll keep that moisture in since we
5:02
added this top soil too
5:06
that helps to keep the moisture into
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because it’s kind of wet itself
5:09
but now we’re just going to sprinkle
5:11
that peat moss over the top
5:24
and i just do this by hand
5:40
fighting a little bit of wind
5:44
so it’s wanting to blow that way
5:50
see that just real light but this keeps
5:53
the moisture in
6:03
and this is in my backyard where my dogs
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are
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so i have this this um
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leftover piece of fence that i have that
6:12
i’m just gonna put around it to keep
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them from running in here
6:17
to protect it and we’ll keep coming back
6:19
and checking on this
6:21
and watch it grow
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okay back with my last little bit of
6:40
peat moss to finish this up
6:50
and in the area where i live in the
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pacific northwest
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we get a lot of rain you know uh
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we do have like two months of summer but
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uh
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april may is a good time to do this um
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especially april i think march april is
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the best time
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um because we get a lot of you know
7:10
april showers bring may flowers
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that’s very true in washington so
7:16
um yeah so i shouldn’t really have to
7:19
water this
7:19
because just because of where i live you
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know you might want to
7:23
but just don’t just don’t overdo it you
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know you just want to light
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lightly water it so that that moisture
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stays in there
7:30
um yeah so i and that peat moss will
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help hold that moisture in so like i
7:35
said you don’t have to water it much
7:37
and i’m probably not even gonna actually
7:39
water this because i think we’re gonna
7:40
get some rain today
7:42
so so that’s about it and we’ll keep an
7:46
eye on it i’m going to put this
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uh this little wire fence around it
7:55
just something to keep my dogs off it
7:58
doesn’t quite go all the way around but
8:00
hopefully that’s a deterrent to keep
8:02
them from
8:03
from running in here the best obviously
8:06
if it went all the way around
8:09
and even if it’s sitting on top a little
8:10
bit i guess it’s not that big a deal
8:13
to keep them
8:17
like that shouldn’t hurt anything and it
8:21
should be
8:22
a deterrent from them coming around here
8:24
and digging so
8:26
okay so this has been about two weeks i
8:28
just wanted to show you what that looks
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like and
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see how the peat moss is kind of up a
8:32
little bit
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so what i’m going to do but you got to
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be really careful normally i just leave
8:37
this alone
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um but if you want to
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just remove that but then just be very
8:45
gentle with this right
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so that the grass can kind of peek
8:52
through
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you just don’t want to dig up those
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seeds so be careful
8:59
be careful if you do this
9:04
because that peat moss holds that
9:05
moisture in for you
9:44
okay so we’ve got some good some good
9:46
growth i think here
9:47
um and we’ll be able to fill in too once
9:50
we see where all the
9:51
seeds sprout from but um yeah so
9:55
yeah it’s been about two weeks um since
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i
9:58
since i planted this i planted it on a
10:00
thursday two weeks ago and it’s been
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uh today’s a friday so um just wanted to
10:04
kind of monitor this for you so you can
10:06
see what we’re looking at and then
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you know hopefully in a couple more
10:09
weeks it’ll grow even taller and we just
10:10
leave it alone don’t mess with it right
10:12
mow the rest of your grass just leave
10:13
this alone
10:14
because you don’t want to disturb those
10:16
seeds so
10:24
okay so i just wanted to show you what
10:26
this looks like now this has been right
10:28
about three weeks
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okay and you can see that the
10:32
peat moss is kind of clumpy still and so
10:35
you just kind of
10:37
you know brush that in and uh so you can
10:40
see that there’s still some bare spots
10:42
so what i would do now um is i’ll
10:45
sprinkle a little more seed you can even
10:47
see some of the seed is exposed i think
10:49
maybe you can see that if not
10:50
there’s some seed that’s still exposed
10:52
so i’ll just put a little more peat moss
10:54
over the top of that
10:55
and then hopefully those will sprout but
10:57
like on these outside edges over here
10:59
where um
11:00
doesn’t look like things are sprouting
11:01
i’ll just kind of patch that in too
11:04
with some more seed and then a little
11:06
more peat moss
11:07
on top so so remember the steps are just
11:10
to recap
11:12
you want to kind of break up the ground
11:14
underneath
11:15
then you want to put down um some
11:17
topsoil
11:18
and then you put the seeds down okay and
11:21
then you kind of tamp them in
11:23
and brush that over good so that they’re
11:25
seated in there
11:26
right and then you put the peat moss
11:30
just real fine layer of peat moss
11:32
and then you use that um that sprayer
11:35
that i showed you
11:37
so that it doesn’t disturb it you know
11:39
you might i live in a fairly mild
11:41
climate we haven’t had a whole lot of
11:43
rain
11:43
um like we normally would this time of
11:46
year for some reason we haven’t
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um so uh you know if you can
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that’d be the ideal situation where you
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kind of you know baby it a little bit
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where you
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use that sprayer nice and easy and then
11:58
you come the next day and you see that
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some of the seeds are exposed and then
12:01
you
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go ahead and put a little more peat moss
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on it um
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yeah and you go from there you know
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so if if you get a hard rain all you got
12:12
to do is just kind of come back out
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and then just cover it back up with the
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peat moss because if those seeds are
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exposed they’re not gonna
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they’re not gonna grow so you gotta make
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sure that they’re covered so they can
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germinate
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so anyway i hope this was helpful for
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you thanks for watching and god bless
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you

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