Aeration Time / equipment - rent/Hire to plug and seed a lawn

[XXitanium]

https://www.lawnsite.com/threads/how-long-would-it-take-you-to-aerate-seed-1-acre.35967/

 

Broadleave junk is shading out my grass. Dandelions are "having a field day"

 

Figure most of an acre, flat, with hand-push or tow behind.

 

Does anyone have any success stories or tragedies to share?

 

At you Arizona folks. I'm not interested in tumbleweeds.

Edited June 3, 2020 by XXitanium
Aeration has an n in it.

[superhawk996]

I'm far from an expert.

 

I seeded my backyard with no prep, grass grew like mad.  It had rained a lot and there was more rain coming so I timed it to where I wouldn't have to do a fuck all for it to germinate.  I did add some kind of lawn fertilizer stuff, tiny white balls that are supposed to be time release stuff.  I spread that with the same seed spreader, a plastic hand crank thing.  I believe my soil is clay, super slick & sticky gooey mud when wet and close to concrete when dry.  No tilling, fertilizing, or any other stuff has been done as far back as I can remember, a few decades at least, if ever.  Now that it's been hot & dry it's starting to yellow, I've been watering here & there to maybe keep it alive.  A green fluffy yard is nice, but not a priority.  I mostly seeded to keep the yard from being a mud pit that gets dragged inside and to have it pretty for my B-day party that got Covided out.  For the next few months grass is mostly just a dust minimizer.

[googus]

What type of grass seed? 

 

Really depends on your yard. I would not plug ( aerate ) then seed. You will probably end up with dots of grass. I would cut grass really low, bag it, de- thatch it, lay down seed, starter fertilizer (high in nitrogen), possible straw depending on environment. 

 

If tou you want to spend $$ lay down sod or have someone hydroseed.