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Thanks mate! :)

Nice work mate, PH is one of the most important things to get control of, much more than NPK levels or anything else. So it´s good that you are tackling that problem. But I don´t think you need to test the PH every few weeks, usually PH corrections take a looong time, so just be patient and consistent and you will get there, no doubt!

Tjena, jag köpte den via svenska Amazon, finns en länk i beskrivningen. Dock om du orkar så kolla på Ebay på en som heter Chemico Back Lapping Paste, den är vattenbaserad och sååå mycket lättare att bara skölja bort sen när man är klar. Dock finns den bara i UK så enda sättet att få tag på den är via Ebay. Jag köpte därifrån utan några problem.

Hey Mate, not had that many heavy rainfalls here so I´m not sure, So far I don´t see any excess water anywhere, but I think the true test will be after winter, see how fast it dries up.

@AveGuy1 ok dude 👍🏼

That might very well be a possibility, was actually considering just putting rocks, but didn't really know what would work best, let's see. The slope is created for drainage purposes, we are not allowed to touch it. So I am not too worried about subsurface drainage issues to be honest it's just the surface drainage I want to fix. We'll see how it works out 🤷🏻‍♂️

Awesome mate, glad you found it helpful 😊

Verticutting is, as it says in the name, vertical cutting, it doesnt go down into the soil, it's a pruning technique, really, for me it has nothing to do with reducing thatch or anything like that.

I don't really like to use it when I have this much Poa, it's just going to spread even more seeds from the seed heads it cuts 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hey David! Fancy seeing you here 😊 I watch all your videos, even though I have a lot of rye 😉 Forgot to mention the scarifying part. Good feedback! How does bent do during harsh winters? I'm guessing UK winters are a bit milder than ours here in Sweden.

@@SamsLawn Hi Sam, when I have a few minutes spare, I do see whose making videos and your honesty and truth often makes better watching than some other YTubers. Bent covers most of the UK, as its native and due to the ph and long term conditions of the soils here. Ryegrass fails here as a guarantee and has far less skill required. Many rye lawns look ok now (its only July !) and wont look great for too much longer. Bentgrass does well in winter and is the reason why the UK is so green with no effort (our countryside never gets re-seeded, ever) Rye is part of a transition grass in many countries of course, where some species go dormant, but its part of a commercial failure aimed at buying seed, year on year)

Hey mate! Nice, welcome to the rabbit hole dude, once you go down this road you will obsess about grass like never before 😅 When you seed you can just spray the seaweed, it helps a lot with germination, the rest you can wait until the grass has come up a bit and you have mowed it a couple of times. Then you can just do this every month. I try to do it when it´s cloudy but no rain, I always avoid spraying stuff on the lawn when the sun is hot. Doesn´t leave much room does it? No sun, no rain and it should be cloudy, easy! 😅 great to have you here mate, keep me posted on your lawn progress!

@@SamsLawn Sounds easy enough indeed since we usually only have rain or sun😂🙌 I am already so deep in this rabbithole that there is no going back😄 Think I spent the last 3 days watching your vids🙈😅Just ordered the cocktail ingredients so will see how it goes 🤩🙌 Thanks for your help so far and keep brining more awesome lawn videos👌

Hey Mick, thanks mate! Feels nice to hear that it´s not just me with all the Poa 😅 it´s crazy this year, the lawn is soo patchy, I´ll try to show you in a video. But it is what it is, it´s just grass, I rather drink whisky or play soccer with my son than dig out Poa all day long :) Thanks for dropping by dude!

Hey Mate, so far we haven´t had any rainfall where this would actually come into play, I think unfortunately I need to wait until all the snow melts after winter to see if it makes a difference. However, it was so fast and easy to do and it didn´t cost much so I think it´s still worth to test it.

I know mate, I agree! So far no other type of grass has beaten the RPR to be honest, it really pops! And it grows so fast that it doesn´t give Poa and other weeds space. But I want to see if these will do better over winter. If not and I have to reseed anyways, then I might just go back to the RPR since the lawn is so full of Poa at the moment, soo patchy...

Depends on the material really. Peat moss would let more through than top dress, sand would also let more through. So it´s hard to say. When I use top dress I usually do two passes since one is a bit thin, but that´s personal preference, I think one pass would do just fine.

Thanks mate, didn´t know it was pronounced that way. Glad you found the video helpful :)

Hi Lucy! Thanks so much! Sounds awesome, if only my lawn was without poa! Some parts are looking very patchy with poa. The turf for the matches are real, they had some issues with them since they had so much rain and they use the turfs so much during the tournament. But they said they put a lot of effort in the turf for the finals and it looked amazing!

For sure mate, that´s one of the downsides with robomowers and why I use mine carefully.

haha helt rätt!! Sen kommer skiten ändå tillbaka 😂😉 LÅT MIG VINNA!!! 😂😂

Tjena, jag bor i Stockholm. Tror inte att vintern är problemet som så många andra tror. Har säkert sämre tolerans men en hel matta dör inte enbart pga, tror iaf inte jag. Finns andra i stockholm med exakt samma grästyp, dessutom bara minuter från mig där det inte dog. Så det är nog en kombination av saker skulle jag säga. Kul att din klarat sig bra! Har introducerat andra grässorter i min matta nu men rent estetiskt tycker jag fortfarande att RPR var den klart snyggaste grässorten.

For sure, gold courses have the same problem and they have mostly sand based turfs.

@@SamsLawn 😢

Good for you mate! Go get em! If you have a few plants here and there then pulling it definitely is worth it! But this year it´s just too much, I rather spend my time doing something else this year.

hahahaha yeah... maybe just a little bit :D

Oh really?! Sounds like something I need to try! Would be great if works! Thanks for the tip!

haha seems to be everywhere this year! Never seen this much!

Hey mate! thanks a lot, glad the pre-germination worked well for you! Yeah, I think raking it and mowing is the best solution. It will help stop the spread and you can spend your valuable time doing other things rather than pulling Poa and reseeding all day :)

I actually looked at some perennial poa, it didn´t look too bad at all, not at all the same "ugly" lime green colour as annual poa. Maybe we should all just get poa and quackgrass lawns, I bet they will outcompete everything else :)

Awesome mate! Glad it worked well!

Thanks a lot, appreciate it! Glad I didn´t bore you :)

Hey mate! Sounds like a sweet setup you have! I was actually looking into a Hayter mower, they seem so good! But also very pricey for a second mower :) I think I might just be going the same way as you, cutting more and more with the rotary, I usually don´t mow that low anyways, I also have the Allett on the highest setting, cylinder mowers are awesome, but to get good value out of them you really need to be cutting lower I think.

Hey mate, I actually tried to get hold of your iron based weed killer, but it was not allowed in Sweden unfortunately, just because they have labeled it as a herbicide for some reason. To bad, I think this works great! At least gives us something to use.

Usually try to do that once in a while with the cylinder mower, but it´s not great for that. Will do it more now with the rotary, think it will make a big change.

haha, well if it were only a few plants then for sure, but when it spreads this much, there are better things to do with your time :D

Hey Tod, thanks mate, glad you find the videos helpful. Canada and Sweden definitely seem to have the same restrictions, even if we didn´t have them I wouldn´t use all those chemicals, it´s just grass, not worth it to just treat the symptoms. Depends what type of grass your existing grass is and what you have in that new bag?

@@SamsLawn thanks for getting back to me. The existing grass as well as the new stuff I want to use is 100% perennial rye.

@@todmanning Awesome, then you can just do whatever you feel like mate, perennial rye is so fast to germinate so you can either a full reno and get rid of everything and getting a fresh start with the same type of seed, or do a partial reno, perennial rye will grow fast and crowd out everything else fast. Usually different perennial rye seeds also blend well together so, I would say both options would work just fine.

Hey Mate, I think this is the best approach. Pulling it all the time and reseeding does work too, but if you have it all over, then it´s never ending seeding and watering. As you say, just do this, keep on smiling and just live with it and control it as best as we can :)

Quackgrass is actually easier to deal with, you can mow it low and deplete it and keep it from spreading. The Poa though, such a hassle! I think the state of my lawn this spring gave the Poa a chance to germinate. Also the fact that I decided to plant Kentucky Blue Grass. Most of the Poa spread is on the side where the KBG took forever to germinate. Rye will normally germinate and take over before the Poa ever gets a chance. But what can you do, at least it´s green :D

It´s really exploded this year!

haha, well, there are other things in life to do as well, not just pulling Poa and seeding :D But for sure, I will give it a good fight, go down swinging :)

@@SamsLawn me too lol

Nice comment! ;)

@@SamsLawn You asked for it! ;) I like your videos Sam.

If you only have a few plant here and there, then you can definitely just keep pulling them and seed. I usually do that and it works pretty well, not 100% but close enough. But this year I don´t know what happened, it just exploded! Probably because my lawn was so weak during spring so it gave the Poa a better chance to establish.

no it wont but roundup will not kill dormant seeds

@@SuperChalkster thats what I mean, it may return even after Roundup

@@adrianphotovisions2308 Probably even worse since the competition is then gone.

@@adrianphotovisions2308 no plnat survives roundup, but it dont work on seed only living plants. so if you hve seed in the soil which is very likely then yeah your get some more, even birds can poop them out on your lawn so keeping it 100% poa free is quite a challenge

Avoid core aeration if you do not want dormant seeds coming up from under the turf. Solid tine when the ground if tending towards dryness because this will shatter or break the soil without lifting it to the surface. Large area get a firm in with a vibrating Aero- vator.

Hey Robert, thanks mate, appreciate it.

A robot will spread the seeds even more unfortunately. So unless you do not collect the clippings (seed heads) you will help it spread even more.

Awesome dude! Sounds great! Glad it worked well for you too!

I agree, cylinder mowing is hyped. It is fun when you mow low but for most people the rotary mower is the way to go, 100%!

Maybe, but I have tried a few robomowers now and Luba is the one that works best and has the best build quality, best app too. So far.

Glad it helped :)