Overseeding of Parks and Monuments

The Board has worked with Brightview Landscape to develop a plan to rehabilitate the grass areas at the four parks and eleven monument corners to make it more consistent and uniform.

These areas were sprayed for weeds in September, and then were scalped, aerated and overseeded with a perennial rye and Marathon grass blend. You should be able to start to see new growth soon, and these areas will look much improved in the coming months.

When areas are overseeded, extra watering needs to be done for a couple of weeks after to help the new seeds to germinate. Part of the reason this work hasn’t been done in years past is due to the drought-related water restrictions. The Irvine Ranch Water District will not increase the water allocation for overseeding. This year was the perfect year to begin the project, as the Association was able to save a lot of water and stay significantly under budget due to the rains in the first half of the year.

While we will see improvement with doing this type of project this year, it will need to be done the next two years as well in order to see  optimum results. The consistency in doing this type of program over a three year period will overtake the various types of weeds and grasses that are there and infill it with the desirable species.