Your lawn in South Dakota will face different conditions and challenges that can affect its health and appearance. Fortunately, there's an effective way to get it back in its best shape: overseeding. Overseeding is a lawn care service that involves spreading grass seeds on your patchy lawn to encourage new growth. It will thicken your turf, making it denser, more beautiful, and better equipped to fight diseases, insects, and weeds. The best time to overseed your lawn is in the fall when conditions are ideal for seed germination. You'll also want to pair it with aeration so they have excellent contact with the soil and optimal access to the nutrients they need to grow.

What is overseeding, and how does it benefit your lawn?

Overseeding is a lawn care service that involves sowing seeds on an existing lawn to introduce new grass growth. It is a reliable way to make your lawn thicker and denser, which is especially beneficial if it is thin and patchy. As the seeds germinate and grow, they will fill in those patchy areas with healthy, green grass.

Overseeding results in a lusher, more beautiful lawn, and it strengthens its defenses against stressors and makes it more resilient! A dense lawn can choke out weeds, preventing these unwanted, invasive plants from establishing themselves. Additionally, it has a better chance of naturally fighting off diseases and insects! Even if your lawn gets infected with a disease or infested with insects, it can recover quicker when it is full and dense.

When is the best time to overseed your lawn?

The best time to overseed your lawn is in the fall. After the hot summer, your cool-season grass may look worse for wear because it often struggles during this season and needs much-needed rejuvenation. Overseeding in the fall is the perfect opportunity to restore its lush and vibrant appearance. Plus, the cooler air and soil temperatures in fall create an ideal environment for the grass seeds to germinate and establish. By overseeding when conditions are suitable for optimal grass growth, the seeds will have the best chance of developing and more quickly yielding new grass.

Overseeding in the fall thickens your turf before the winter arrives, essentially preparing it for dormancy and setting it up for success come spring.

Should you pair overseeding with any other lawn care service?

Overseeding is a great service in and of itself, but you can get better results when you pair it with aeration. Aeration is a lawn care service that involves pulling up soil cores from the ground to loosen hard, compacted soil, creating pathways where vital nutrients, water, air, and sunlight can pass through to reach the roots of your grass. The process results in hundreds of holes in your lawn where the grass seeds can fall. In these holes, they will have excellent contact with the soil and optimal access to the resources they need to germinate. Aerating first makes overseeding more effective and results in an overall healthier, greener lawn!

Call us today to schedule our overseeding service!

Here at Sharp Lawn Care, we offer our overseeding service to commercial and residential properties, as well as HOAs, in Sioux Falls, SD, Sioux City, IA, and nearby areas in South Dakota, including Tea and Harrisburg. We offer this service in the fall as an add-on to our Sharp Aeration Package. When we overseed your lawn, we will use a high-quality turf-type tall fescue seed blend because it is shade, drought, and wear tolerant! If you're in the Sioux Falls, SD area, you can call us at (605) 251-6880, while clients in Sioux City, IA can call us at (712) 253-8024 to schedule our overseeding service.