New Lawn for new house - looking for input and advice

[bigtiller]

I'm trying something new this year.
No Mow May.
It's pushed by bee keepers to give the pollinators an easy spring.
I don't know if I can make it to the end of the month.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

 

[KennyG]

My experience with the box blade is that is great for moving material and getting a rough grade. I've never been able to get the surface level enough to seed. I built a small land plane out of scrap angle iron and concrete block weights and it's great for getting a good lawn surface. Unless you are a real master, the box blade will just be frustrating.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

I’ve had good success with 24-D and Sticker Spreader, but you also need nitrogen. Clover loves nitrogen deficient soil... so you need to fix that, or it will crowd out grass

 

[Diggin It]

I don't spray clover. I plant it.

 

[Jimmy Joe]

I had great success with a rock rake behind the tractor after rough leveling with a box blade. It's basically an auger with teeth on it, it pushes the rocks and debries if you have any to the side and fills in the low spots with soil. I then spread the seed and rolled it with a cultipacker to push them into the soil worked great did two acres no mulch in late August in Wisconsin Kentucky bluegrass and red fescue were the main seeds with some rygrass mixed in for a cover crop.

 

[Torvy]

I don't spray clover. I plant it.

I never understood being too picky about grass varieties in a rural 'lawn'. If I wanted to maintain a pristine lawn of Bermuda or Zoysia or St. Augustine, I would just keep the place in town. Nothing wrong with clover out on the farm if that is what grows in your area.

Note: for those of you up north, those names are grasses that grow well for lawns down here.

 

[Bill Guenthner]

I don't spray clover. I plant it.

Most of my “grass” is about half dutch white clover, with red and crimson on the tree edges and right-of-ways where I don’t mow as often.

 

[ovrszd]

I’ve had good success with 24-D and Sticker Spreader, but you also need nitrogen. Clover loves nitrogen deficient soil... so you need to fix that, or it will crowd out grass

Agree. I'm a firm believer in Sticker Spreader or an equivalent.

 

[ovrszd]

I never understood being too picky about grass varieties in a rural 'lawn'. If I wanted to maintain a pristine lawn of Bermuda or Zoysia or St. Augustine, I would just keep the place in town. Nothing wrong with clover out on the farm if that is what grows in your area.

Note: for those of you up north, those names are grasses that grow well for lawns down here.

I view it as my responsibility. I don't maintain my property for viewers. I maintain my property for me. When people say "you sure keep your place nice" I just smile and say "it's my job".

The last time I lived in town was 1975 so I can't relate to that comparison.