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Outdoors > Lawn > How to Over-Seed Bare Spots in Your Lawn

A step-by-step method for adding new grass seed to repair a damaged lawn

Start by raking away the leaves, dead grass or thatch to expose bare soil wherever the turf has completely died. Grass seeds need to be in contact with earth before they will grow.
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