You apply it in 2-3 months. I talked to a guy. My grass is already greening up, it's always wonderful in Weymouth. Your method is way too late and weeds already get established.
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Honestly Ray, we know how OCD you are with measuring. As long as you were there and believe you did everything as best as you could, then that’s all that matters. Seriously.
And on top of that, Dendrite brought up an excellent point about timing of your brush off with respect to bands. Sure it wouldn’t make a 6” difference, but your coincidental timing made it minimalize compaction.