For the past four years, I have had a service doing my chemical application. The past three years I have told them not to put the pre emergence on the Eastern half of my front yard (One side of the driveway) where I need some heavy seeding. Since I am not home when he comes, I can not supervise his work. None of the seed I planted grew. So last year, I threw some seed in an area he does not treat to see if it was a seed issue. Well, all of that seed came up but not in the treated area. So this tells me he is treating the whole area with pre emergence
Well, I am done with them (The lawn service) and will be doing it myself this year. It appears we (And most of the US) are having an early spring, so I plan to work on my yard this weekend and get some seed down. I will put the pre emergence on the rest of the lawn,and just the fertilizer on this portion. Then if no grass grows, I can't blame them.
I will let you know how it comes out.