Seeding a New Lawn with Soil³ [video]

Do you want your lawn to take your breath away? Bet you do. With a little up-front effort in spreading Soil³ compost, your seeded lawn will amaze you.

Using Soil³ Compost for Seedbed Preparation

When seeding a new lawn, you'll need enough Soil³ compost for seedbed preparation and for a nutritious mulch and treatment after planting grass seed.

How Much Soil³ to Use

For amending the soil: 1 cubic yard BigYellowBag of Soil³ will cover 1,000 sq. ft. and 2 cubic yards of compost will cover 2,000 sq. ft.

For topdressing your seeds: 1 cubic yard BigYellowBag of Soil³ will will cover 2,000 sq. ft.

How to Use Soil³

1. Till Soil³ compost into your entire lawn area. Thorough how-to instructions on Seedbed Preparation are on our Super-Sod site.
2. Using a seed or fertilizer spreader, spread seed.
3. Follow with compost again, but this time as a nutritious mulch on top of the seed you spread. Using a compost spreader or shovel, distribute a very thin layer of Soil³ compost on top of seeds just to the point of lightly covering (no more than 1/4" thick – any deeper will smother the seed – adequate light speeds germination). Careful: not too much.
4. Water you seeds to keep them moist until they germinate.

Use a drum spreader like this one to help you quickly spread a thin layer of Soil³ compost on top of your seeds. This spreader puts down the right amount.

The Benefits of a Second Soil³ Compost Application as the Mulch

Using compost as a nutritious mulch over grass seed, instead of wheat straw, has many benefits. This is applicable in all seeded situations, from the home landscape to commercial sod production.

Wheat straw can smother seeds and seedlings, plus it brings in weed seeds. Since Soil³ compost is produced via a natural high-heat composting method, it's free of weeds. Additional benefits of compost over wheat straw include adding nutrients, and improving germination and speeding up lawn coverage in two ways: (1) moisture retention of the soil is consistent and (2) Soil³ compost is black and thus holds heat from sunlight.

Case Studies of Soil³ Compost Used with Grass Seed

Review our two case studies showcasing growing a lawn with Soil³ compost:

• Seeding a Zenith Zoysia lawn with Soil³
• Seeding an Elite Tall Fescue lawn with Soil³