Grass seed with attached water

[micky]

They used to sell grass seed with a layer around it to soak up water so
you didn't have to water newly seeded areas so often.

But I can't find it. Do they still make it? Didn't it work?

[Cindy Hamilton]

Google is still broken for you?

https://scotts.com/en-us/shop/grass-seed/

--
Cindy Hamilton

[trader_4]

I avoid that stuff like the plague. You buy 10 pounds of grass seed, you
get 2 pounds of seed and 8 pounds of coating. It likely has benefit, but
it's questionable how much. Any water is going to evaporate in sun and
wind and need to be replaced to get good germination. I usually use
a light coating of peat moss to help for spot reseeding.

[Frank]

You should know micky by now.

[micky]

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 31 Mar 2023 08:51:03 GMT, Cindy Hamilton

<hami...@invalid.com> wrote:

>On 2023-03-31, micky <NONONO...@fmguy.com> wrote:
>> They used to sell grass seed with a layer around it to soak up water so
>> you didn't have to water newly seeded areas so often.
>>
>> But I can't find it. Do they still make it? Didn't it work?
>
>Google is still broken for you?

You often ask this but this time I had said that I can't find it. Was I
looking in my dresser?

>https://scotts.com/en-us/shop/grass-seed/

This is no help.

[micky]

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:40:53 -0700 (PDT), trader_4
<tra...@optonline.net> wrote:

>On Friday, March 31, 2023 at 12:56:27?AM UTC-4, micky wrote:
>> They used to sell grass seed with a layer around it to soak up water so
>> you didn't have to water newly seeded areas so often.
>>
>> But I can't find it. Do they still make it? Didn't it work?
>
>I avoid that stuff like the plague. You buy 10 pounds of grass seed, you
>get 2 pounds of seed and 8 pounds of coating. It likely has benefit, but
>it's questionable how much. Any water is going to evaporate in sun and

Hmmmm.

>wind and need to be replaced to get good germination. I usually use
>a light coating of peat moss to help for spot reseeding.

Trying to cut own the physical steps as much as possible. Large back
pain since end of December. (Don't know why it started then.) Physical
therapy doing no good.

[trader_4]

If you want water retention, get a bag of hydraulic mulch and spread a thin
layer of that after seeding. Something like this:

EZ-Straw-2-5-cu-ft-Straw-Mulch at Lowes

Landscape place may have better, cheaper.

[Bob F]

Just sprinkle sifted soil over the seed, or rake the seed gently into
the previously loosened soil.

Then set up a timer to turn on the sprinkler for 5 minutes every few hours.

[Bob F]

I "invented" an exercise that quickly stops my middle of the back pain.
I use an exercise rubber band. I stretch the band around the stair post,
grab both ends in my hands, and stand with the band lightly stretched
with the band on my left side behind me and my shoulders twisted at the
waist to an easy limit to the left. I then slowly rotate my shoulders to
the right, pulling the band to wrap around my waist, without moving my
hips, as far as I can rotate, then slowly rotate back. Repeat that a
bunch of times, then do the same exercise on the other side.

If I do this as soon as I sense the middle back pain, it quickly goes
away. My idea was to exercise the muscles that stabilize the back in
rotational movements. The motion sort of duplicates the motion I used to
use when paddling my white water kayaks. I did not have back aches when
I was doing that activity.

I started doing this after several weeks of PT exercises did me no real
good. You could ask your PT whether this might be useful for you.

[Ralph Mowery]

In article <e79fa1c5-271c-4df6...@googlegroups.com>,
tra...@optonline.net says...

>
> I avoid that stuff like the plague. You buy 10 pounds of grass seed, you
> get 2 pounds of seed and 8 pounds of coating. It likely has benefit, but
> it's questionable how much. Any water is going to evaporate in sun and
> wind and need to be replaced to get good germination. I usually use
> a light coating of peat moss to help for spot reseeding.
>
>

I agree, look at the package for the ratio of seed to coating that
probably does little good, especially if you pepare the soil.

[micky]

In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 31 Mar 2023 12:27:45 -0400, Ralph Mowery

But do they sell this stuff anymore? That was the original question
that no one answered.

[Dean Hoffman]

This doesn't either but it has some tips on grass germination. Make it germinate
before planting, for example.
<https://www.naturesseed.com/blog/a-guide-to-grass-seed-germination/>

[Bob F]

https://www.amazon.com/grass-seed-fertilizer-mulch/s?k=grass+seed+with+fertilizer+and+mulch

Took me 5 seconds to find