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The banking is fine dry soil and the seed just slides to the bottom. I’ve gently sprayed the soil with water, but when the soil drys in the sun, the seed slides down again.

Take some cotton…wet it, and place seed in the wet cotton. After a few days, you’ll see the little plant sprouting out of it. Then remove it and put it into dirt.

Although September is usually a good month for sowing in the South of England, due to lack of rain, the seed I sowed 4 weeks ago is only just beginning to sprout and is struggling with competing weeds. With only half of the lawn completed, should I finish the job or wait until spring? And in your opinion why?

It’s been raining for days on end, here. Yesterday I went out in the drizzle to transplant some marigolds, and after it was all said and done, I watered them in simply to make sure that there was soil touching all the little hair roots. Seems silly, with all the rain that is continuing to come down, but necessary.
With grass seed, if you’ve sown it on wet ground, chances are it’s going to germinate quite well. Unless it’s raining every day, though, you’ll want to water it. It must stay moist for at least a week to 10 days. And even then, you don’t want it to dry out severely.
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