2007-10-25 19:32:49 · 15 answers · asked by courtney d 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Rent a "peat roller" from the local rental center, buy a couple bales of Canadian "sphagnum" peat moss, load up the roller with some of the peat moss and roll over the seeded area, covering it to a depth of about 1/4 to 3/8 inch deep with the peat moss. This will keep the ground and seed moist helping germination and at the same time, will keep the local ornithological specimens with wings from eating the seed. Peat moss works alot better than straw hay. The straw hay being so coarse, inhibits the germination of the seed. The peat moss is just a slight barrier to newly germinating seeds. It also breaks down and acts as a soil supplement to your turf and doesn't have to be raked off at a later date. It is a better and easier product all around. Hope this answers your question.
**Billy Ray**
2007-10-25 19:49:45 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Billy Ray♥ Valentine 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cover the area with straw... that's the best way. This also helps keep the area moist, which is what you want for growing grass. After the grass grows, or in the spring, you can simply rake up the straw.
2007-10-26 02:39:21 · answer #2 · answered by Mary G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to plant your seed into a small box as your nursery, put inside or where there no birds to eat the seed, you have plant them or transfer them if they have already grown up in to 5-8 inc. transfer them into pot.
goodluck!
2007-10-25 22:39:25 · answer #3 · answered by hazelle 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Put up a scarecrow or put out a big, predator-looking toy or something. My courtyard at work has a big owl statue sitting up high to scare them off
2007-10-25 19:35:52 · answer #4 · answered by specndim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hay around on the ground would make it harder for the birds to get to it...or put rice all throu the yard but than the birds blow up
2007-10-25 19:36:32 · answer #5 · answered by tony c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Put burlap over the area that you planted. Water it every day. You can get burlap in any good lawn and garden store.
2007-10-25 19:42:09 · answer #6 · answered by Smartassawhip 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
bird seed nearby
2007-10-25 19:35:00 · answer #7 · answered by I♥agoodhug 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an expert and I'm not sure if it really works, but I had heard that tying plastic bags around your fence might scare them away.
2007-10-25 19:43:17 · answer #8 · answered by jason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rope it off, and hang long white strips of rags, the rags blow in the wind and keep the birds away
2007-10-25 19:35:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sprinkle moth falkes you can buy them in publix they wont hurt the animals but they will stay away
2007-10-25 19:35:29 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋