You might also want to level your lawn using a soil mixture if you have noticeable depressions.
How to Care for Grass
The real work starts once your grass seed has been planted.
Here Baum outlines her top care tips for keeping your lawn in top shape all season long.
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While sod can provide an instant lawn, Baumexplains it typically comes with a noticeably higher cost.
If youre on a budget, grass seed is a more inexpensive option than laying sod, she says.
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