What to do, when to do it, and when it is worth paying someone. Written for houses and condos in Oakville, Mississauga, Milton, Burlington and Etobicoke — with the local schedules and bylaws that actually apply here.
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The seeding window in the western GTA is short: warm soil, cooler nights, and enough weeks left before frost. Here is how to tell whether your lawn needs seed at all, and how to put it down so it takes.
In the GTA, overseed between mid-August and mid-September. The soil is still warm enough for fast germination, the nights have cooled off, and seedlings get several weeks of growth before the first hard frost. Spring seeding puts your grass in a race against every weed in the yard, and it usually loses.
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