What fertilizer for new grass planting? - Page 3

 
Some states have county agicultural services that provide soil test
services for about $15.    Lesco, if there is one near you, does too.

But the kits you can buy online or at garden centers work fine for
testing PH.   I would not rely on them for anything else.  You can
also use a ph test kit for spas/pools.   Just put about a 1/4 of a
tube worth of soil in it, then add distilled water and the test
chemical.

A PH around 6.5 is the target.

Starter fertilizer isn't going to do much to rejuvenate a 25 year old
lawn with problems.  If you have fescues for example, the plants don't
spread to form new ones.   What's there can expand and grow larger,
but if it;s taken a big hit and is on the decline, best to either
overseed or kill it and start over in the Fall

 In article
 trader4@optonline.net wrote:


  I'll probably overseed it in the Fall. Now is probably a little late
in Indiana? ALso , the grass is all sod, if that makes any differenc.

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