Did I waste money?

[xbredcattle]

Southeast la - planted my rye grass/clover mix about 10 days ago. The hillside that I planted has sprouted with a good cover but the bottom portion of the field has not. I plant into a seed bed and the bottom was cut more than the hillside. I cover the seed with a spike tooth drag. Any way I could have covered the seed to much and it's too deep for surface growth? Any insight would be great

 

[Kingfisher]

I don't know but can you "drown" ryegrass? Did you get a lot if rain?

 

[regolith]

You could bury it too deep if some silt washed down off the slope, but I think you'd see if that was the case. Don't know how deep it would have to be to not germinate.
Ryegrass plants will drown -but I think it's something like four days under water and they start rotting, ten days and they're dead. Seed, more like it just washed over to the neighbour's.

 

[littletom]

Doubt you got it to deep with a harrow, a disk you can. .