Jh Wyman - Almost human

What is the best time of year to lay any type of grass? If I had to pick a month or two out of the year to lay grass, I would say that it would be sometime probably in March and April. Those are the cooler times of the year, so you're not going to have to water as much up front. The moderate temperatures allow you to get away with a little bit less water. The grass is growing very vigorous that time of year, so it's putting down roots very fast. The blocks that you're seeing, the checkerboard lines, in your yard are going to disappear very fast, because the grass is going to grow together very fast. That would be the ideal time of year to lay sod. However, if you buy a new house, you cannot close on a house with no grass in the front yard. And you want to protect your foundation, so you you're going to have to, at a minimum that most towns are going to require you to put grass in the front yard and around the foundation. You can wait on the back yard, but if you wait too long the winter time weeds are going to come up and take over that back yard. Then we are going to be talking about the scenario where we have to spray and take out and incur a lot of extra expenses. We sell grass year round. The reason we do that is you're just covering up the dirt. You're keeping the weeds out. It's a lot nicer to look at the dirt, even if it's brown checker-boarded blocks of grass. People don't bring the dirt in the house. The dogs don't bring the dirt in your house. And they have something nice to go one as well. It does not hurt anything at all to go ahead and put dormant, brown grass out in your yard, even in the dead middle of winter. You can also plant grass in the Summer time. It's just not... Ideally I would say sometime in March or April. We plant grass all of the time. It's green. It's still going to grow together fast. However, it requires a little bit more care as far as water. You are going to have to water a little bit more frequently in the Summer time to try to fight off that heat that we have here. It is going to require, say, where in March or April you may get away pretty quickly. You may get to go to every other day waterings during the middle of Summer. In July you will have water that grass everyday probably for two weeks. It might only be for 45 minutes, but you will have to water every day, by the end of the day because that sun, by 4:00 or 5:00 has just wrinkled the grass up, nd you can see the leaves are folded up and it has a gray look to it. It will get crunchy very fast, and you do not want to stress new grass when it's that new with lack of water.