Sam Bauer
Seeding your lawn this fall? (Part 1 of 2)
There's still a little time left to seed your lawn this season so we thought we would share a post originally published in 2015.
By Sam Bauer
Now is the time to start thinking about seed selection and purchasing. Depending on the condition of your lawn and your goals going forward, I may recommend one of several renovation options and seed mixtures. Ideally, this work would be carried out from mid-August to mid-September. Renovation strategies can be grouped into four categories:
Alumni
What are our former graduate students, postdocs and researchers doing now?
Sam Bauer received an M.Sc. in Applied Plant Sciences in 2011. His thesis work focused on late fall nitrogen fertilization and methods for increasing creeping bentgrass in golf course fairways. Later, he joined UMN Extension as Extension Educator for turfgrass, a position he held until 2018. He is now the executive director of the North Central Turfgrass Association and a consultant, working on a number of turf-related projects in Minnesota and the surrounding states.
