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Thanks for your advice! Here are my comments:

The amount of materials you used would have made for a good start on a plot one fourth that size.

I agree, but this is the amount that Cisco the seed mfg recommended. I applied 125# of KBG on an acre of grass which included 75% over seeding and 25 new lawn. Maybe Cisco the supplier recommendation is for grass not turf.

Straight KBG is no problem, but if you want a high quality acre of turfgrass - its going to take a lot more budget than what you've been spending.

Please define the recommended amount of time required and cost for the acre of turf.
There are the tools I currently have available:
1. Wheel Horse ZTR w/ 16 HP Onan with the following pull behind accessories: 12 Volt 30 gal liquid sprayer, 100# lawn spreader, good size lawn cart, spike aerator, grass sweeper

2. Toro recycler mower, 5 HP Troy Built Tiller, 2 HP edger

3. Scott drop spreader, wheel borrow & many rakes and shovels

4. 400Â’ hose and 7 sprinklers

The key is fertility and hydration.

I already used gradual Cisco starter fertilizer. However, I have a 30 gal sprayer & have no problem of applying liquid fertilizer or weed & feed.

Depending on your property, I would suggest reducing 3/4th's of the turf area and letting it be grass.

IÂ’m determined to try for the acre but understand I will most likely be forced to reduce the size of turf to only the front and side yards.

To build that soil charge you want to check the PH and make sure its within a point of neutral. Adding a 1/8th inch of organic matter after an aeration and reseed would be great, but an acre is a massive task given you don't have a topdresser.

I measured the soil PH and it is in the range of neutral. I maybe able to purchase a dump truck of good top soil, lightly till the bare areas and over seed in the fall.

That acre is going to own your free time and wallet if you don't get the "turf" portion shrunk down to a manageable size. Get the outer grass established and then let it grow higher and go dormant in the summer. The KGB you have already started would make a good "rough", just make sure it gets a deep watering every month after it matures so it doesn't die off.

Hey, youÂ’re starting to scare me!
My lawn will consume all my time & money! How bad can it get? I love living in the USA and taking care of my lawn!

Thanks to everyone for all your help!
Stay in the fight & pray for rain!
Andy
 
#23 ·
Your plan should work fine, Andy. I know the signs, LOL. My daughter is an engineer. I would go with frequent applications of a granular turf fertilizer high in controlled release nitrogen, say 25-0-5 or similar, with 30, better yet, 50 percent of nitrogen in the slow-release form. Reduce the fert once grass is thick or if you cannot keep up with the mowing. Irrigation will be problematical once dry spells set in--but you know that.
 
#24 ·
what i have tried on a few lawns is mixing in about 30% transit rye......it germinates really quick and then the kbg fills in and takes it over. transit rye is an annual so its gone in a year (90%) the remaining stuff is gone the next year.
 
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