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It is fairly late but you can do it. I would seed at a slightly heavier rate. Then seed rye or oats as a cover. The oats or rye will grow in cooler weather. So even if the grass seed does not grow this fall it will be protected and will grow come spring.
 
I straight seeded alfalfa on Sept 15, 1983 on set-aside ground. Had an excellent stand. HR NW of MPLS. Decided if it didn"t go in them, I"d wait til spring....rained again that nite. Normally seeded in spring with barley nurse crop.
 
I planted grass seed in lawn on Dec 2. It snowed on Dec 4th. I thought I lost everything. Next spring, the seeds germinated, lawn was the best I've ever seen.
 
Go ahead and seed it. With all the rain we are getting it will be up in ten days or sooner and will be green before the ground freezes. Last fall here in northern Iowa I clear seeded brome grass Sept 1 and it did not rain seemingly for ever. A few showers later on got it going just enough to be about an inch tall before we froze. This spring it greened up but grew slowly. Now it's looking great.

A couple of falls ago the combine cut off some brome grass in the corner of a grass waterway on my farm when the beans were being combined. The next spring I had a nice stand of brome grass out there where the straw chopper sowed the brome seeds on the bean stubble. The fall rain worked the seed in and got it going and the next spring it took off. Jim
 
Thanks for the compliment, but it"s just from memory. Yeah, some guys would write that on the drill box lid! We bought our second farm Fall of 1982, had that field in set aside the next year, (remember PIK program?) picked rocks and cleared a couple of trees, finally got it plowed and ready to seed by early Sept. Then rain delays beyond a safe seeding date, so it was that day or never that year.

BTW, I do record first day in the field each year, and sometimes freeze-up. Earliest permanent freeze was Nov 6,... latest? Wanting to go disking New Year"s Eve but was too muddy! Interesting reading over 42 years.
 

I had one of my best catches here in NH years ago from September 30th. Our town planted ball fields last fall, in four sections. Late Sept. Mid October did well. late October and mid November sections will have to be redone.
 
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