Discard the dead center. When replanting, remember to give ornamental grass a site where its beauty can be seen behind other plantings and where the wind will rustle its canes. Spring lawns should be sodded because weeds will be rampant and weed control chemicals will harm new seedlings. For either a seeded or sodded lawn, add at least 4 inches of sphagnum peatmoss or weathered manure. Then add superphosphate at the rate of 15 pounds per 1,000 square feet.
Kentucky bluegrass is still the preferred grass, but turf fescue is popular also.
It's a real water saver. Mow the lawn short, collecting the clippings. Leave the lawn fertilizer bags in the shed until May. You will only create a hay crop that must be mowed often. If you used a winterizer fertilizer, your lawn is greening up already, but if not, withhold the fertilizer till May to get back on the right schedule. .