{"id":586,"date":"2025-10-28T22:17:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T04:17:55","slug":"timeline-for-new-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/timeline-for-new-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeline for new grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guidelines:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Growing season is 6 months in West Texas, roughly April to October (last spring frost to 1st fall frost);<\/li>\n<li>Apply 2 \u2013 3 lbs of nitrogen fertilizer per 1,000 ft per year.<\/li>\n<li>Spring fertilizer: roughly 6 weeks after last spring frost;<\/li>\n<li>For initial application, till fertilizer into the soil with the seed.<\/li>\n<li>Mow when grass is 1\/3 to 1\/2 higher than desired mowing height.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>April 1: Till ground, spread fertilizer, spread seeds, water.<\/p>\n<p>May 15: Apply fertilizer that is four to six parts nitrogen, one part phosphorus and two to four parts potassium (16-4-8 fertilizer).<\/p>\n<p>July: Apply additional fertilizer.\u00a0 Look for slow release.<\/p>\n<p>October 1: Cutoff for autumn ferilizer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guidelines: &nbsp; Growing season is 6 months in West Texas, roughly April to October (last spring frost to 1st fall frost); Apply 2 \u2013 3 lbs of nitrogen fertilizer per 1,000 ft per year. Spring fertilizer: roughly 6 weeks after last spring frost; For initial application, till fertilizer into the soil with the seed. Mow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/timeline-for-new-grass\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Timeline for new grass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmilimited.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}