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Recent Examples of overseed
Aim to overseed at least 4 weeks before the first killing frost in your region to give grass seed time to get established.
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Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2025
Even if your lawn is made up of warm-season grasses, which hold up well in Southern heat, cool-season types like tall fescue are used to overseed in the fall to keep your lawn healthy-looking year-round.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Sep. 2025
Even if your lawn is made up of warm-season grasses, which hold up well in Southern heat, cool-season types like tall fescue are used to overseed in the fall to keep your lawn healthy-looking year-round.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseed
reseed
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Long-pod poppies are annuals that will reseed if the pods are left intact.—
Andy Wilcox,
Better Homes & Gardens,
10 Sep. 2025
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Some flowering plants, such as hollyhock (Alcea), foxglove (Digitalis), and cardinal flower (Lobelia), are usually allowed to form seed heads so the plants can reseed in the garden for new spring growth.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Overseed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseed. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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