Growing the Turffalo & Now Sundancer

Recently I've decided to rip out my fescue, kentucky bluegrass lawn, and replace it completely with buffalo grass. I was prompted by how my Turffalo has not only managed to stay green, but is thriving without irrigation, while my fescue and bluegrass is withering away.

Yard June 2nd before I started ripping it out. 

This go around, instead of spending a good chunk of change on more Turffalo plugs I decided to use
seed. I was going to buy the Bowie variety available down the street at a local nursery. Bowie was bred by the University of Nebraska and released in 2001. I found an even newer variety available b called Sundancer, also released by the University of Nebraska. I bought it from Curtis & Curtis out of Clovis New Mexico. It was only $16/lb.

Yard after having old grass removed. Remaining grass is last years Turffalo

I hired a couple of teenagers to help me rip out the old grass. After raking the dirt, and breaking down the clumps it was time to spread the seed.

My yard is 270 square feet, so I spread the buffalo grass seed out to the equivalent of 2 lbs/1,000 sq ft.

After I spread the seed I raked the dirt bury the seed as much as possible.

Half a pound of buffalo grass seed. It has been pretreated with potassium for quick
emergence once watering starts. 

Adding seed to spreader. 

 I'm watering for 10 minutes, four times a day until the seed sprouts, then I'll begin to dial the water down.

I'm doing my best to update on a timely basis. Keep coming back to check my progress.

Seed after spreading and watering.