I planted the wrong grass seed, how do I fix it?
Accidentally grabbing the wrong bag of seed can leave your lawn with unwanted clumping varieties like K31. To fix this and successfully grow grass this season, you must decide if it is too late to turn back or if you should rake the newly laid seed out of the soil to start over with a better bag.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Raking out the newly laid seed immediately
- 2Stopping watering to let the seed fail
- 3Letting it grow and killing it later with glyphosate to reseed
- 4Watering the lawn more frequently
- 5Grabbing whatever seed is nearby to fill empty spaces
- 6Buying more seed and soil to try patching the area again
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“After learning about how terrible K31 is, I am wondering if it is too late to turn back now.”source ↗
“would it be a good ideas for me to rake the seed out of my lawn, I really want to grow grass this fall season and I will go to town to get a different bag of seed.”source ↗
“I’m unsure why the edges grow much larger than the middle of the grass area.”source ↗
“I just laid scene on the soil within the empty space I’m concerned with. This was a little over a week ago, not much progress.”source ↗
“I just bought more seed and soil to lay down, but I’m just a little lost with how this all happened and how can I fix this?”source ↗
“The clumping form was me not laying down correct Bermuda grass seed and grabbing any seed next to me - completely my fault.”source ↗
Where this came up
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