Dormant seeding
University of Minnesota Turfgrass team in the media – 2/27/25
Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work! See the February 2025 Edition of MGCSA's Hole Notes for Revisiting an older strategy: Dormant seeding to renovate or improve turfstands by Turfgrass Extension Educator Jon Trappe.
University of Minnesota Turfgrass team in the media – 6/26/24
Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work. See the June 2024 Edition of MGCSA's Hole Notes for Creating thriving bee lawns: The next research steps by Kristine Moncada and Andrew Hollman!
Dormant planting demonstrations
By Andrew Hollman
Although up to recently there was still snow on the ground, clear days with abundant sunshine bring hope of new growth on the vegetation in our landscapes and memories of warmer days.
University of Minnesota Turfgrass team in the media – 11/9/21
Check out our team’s latest efforts in educating the public about our work. Kristine Moncada and Maggie Reiter wrote an article for UMN Extension Yard and Garden News!
Read the article - Dormant seeding bee lawns - to find out the latest on dormant seeding a bee lawn this fall. To learn more about dormant seeding a regular turfgrass lawn, check out another article from Extension - Dormant seeding.
November is the time to dormant seed
The optimal lawn seeding window is mid-August to mid-September. If you missed that time frame, but you still want to seed this fall, my recommendation is to wait until November to seed. This practice is called dormant seeding and is certainly an effective way to introduce new species and/or varieties of turf into your existing lawn.
By far our most popular post on this site has been the one on this topic, so we are re-posting an article originally published on November 1, 2013.