Overseeding With AquaSmart Coated Ryegrass

Get great results using less water when overseeding with AquaSmart coated ryegrass from Ewing. Music by audionautix.com Transcript: Hey, it's over seeding time out here in Arizona once again and we're out here at Hohokam Stadium, which is the new spring training site for the Oakland A's. We're going to be using Ewing Eagle rye-grass seed that's coated with Aquasmart. Step one in the over seeding process out here in Arizona, which is common practice is cut back the water, about 8 days prior to over seeding process. Out here at Hohokam Stadium what they did was, they verti-cut the grass in 2 different directions and they did that twice. Then they come back and they scalp the turf to a half inch. Once they're done scalping that means they're ready to lay down the seed. Typical watering practices once you lay down your rye-grass seed, is 5 to 7 times per day, for about 6 minutes each time for 10 days. What you can see is a lot of with specks on the turf right now, what that is, is the seed that is coated with Aquasmart and the water that it absorbs from the irrigation. Once we use Aquasmart coated seed, what they're going to do here at Hohokam Stadium, is they're going to actually water it 7 times per day, for the first 3 days. Then they're going to cut their water back by 50 percent. Then we're going to see where we stand in 10 days. We're back out here at Hohokam Stadium, the spring training site for the Oakland A's. Where 10 days ago, we were here for the over seeding process, where they put down the Aquasmart coated rye-grass seed. What the grounds crew wound up doing was cutting back the seed amount by 35 percent. Then on top of that, cutting back to water by 40 percent. As you can tell, the results are really phenomenal.