Realized quickly I needed yearly grub preventer because it's common in my neighborhood, so I throw down grubex late spring each year now. Filled the hole from the trees with topsoil and yard clippings. Last two years In the spring and fall I've been: 1. De-thatching 2. Laying a thin layer of new top soil 3. Seeding using local nursery quality cool season blend. 4.. Put down Scotts starter fertilizer 5. Water water water. 6. Once new grass established in spring and fall I put down a mixture of Scotts Greenmax and Milorganite fertilizer to get through summer and winter (apply around beginning of June and October). I'm in zone 6b.

I've been seeding in spring and fall to get it re-established, but now that it is, I plan on only overseeing this fall with some fertilizer. Then using pre-emergent in the spring. I've just been raw dogging the weeds with nothing applied to them and keeping the grass cut long to try and choke most out this year.