HOW TO FIX WEED GRASS in ONE DAY // POA // AMG // COUCH GRASS // Yorkshire Fog
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- How to fix the BIGGEST problem on my lawn // POA // UGLY WEED GRASS - FIXED!
In the past I have killed my lawn off in the past to try and get rid of POA, annual Meadowngrass, and AMG to no avail.
However, in this video, I'm going to show you how to stop it for good, step by step
00:00 How to fix the biggest problem on my lawn
00:10 How to get rid of ugly weed grass on your lawn
00:34 What is a weed?
00:49 When is a weed, not a weed?
01:10 How to identify Poa, AMG, Annual Meadowgrass, Annual Bluegrass
02:11How to control AMG in your lawn
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"I'm an expert in my field". Ha. Very good.
I couldn't resist it 😁
Superb 😂😂😂
Scarified my not bad looking 50msq lawn a few weeks back, looked like the Somme when I'd done 2 opposing passes.. over seeded at 50gm/Msq and top dressed with a soil/ sand / compost mix, well raked level with the back of the rake which I'd extended with a strip of steel. Watered every 2 days when no rain etc. Looked grim for a few weeks but now it looks pretty good. Top dressing filled the hollows etc, AMG hardly present. Always raked the old lawn with a spring tine rake to 'fluff up' any AMG previously present. Other thing I've done is swap out the front rollers on the mower (1964 Qualcast battery electric one) with 2 small wheels, this stops the raised AMG stalks being flattened again by the front roller, lots more in the grass box too. Love the vids.... very instructional, swapped to all liquid feeds / treatments now too..
Thanks. A timely video. Just got back from 10 days away and the presence of Poa is noticeable. Nice explanation (as always).
Glad you enjoyed it
Let's go- BOOM! perfect timing as I have these wee blighters on my (parents) lovely lawn and didn't know how to deal with them!
Everyone has them, if you have a lawn they are there
Appreciate you showed 3 methods. I have a brush and rake, but no scarifier.
Good to know alternative methods
I've finally found a use for my otherwise useless oscillating saw fitted with the rounded blade, the patches of poa I was getting were the size of large dinner plates and the grass was tuft like, I tried cutting a cross hatch pattern into them, raking out and removing the material with a spring tine, then too dressing with fine compost and fine fescue seeds, it seems to be working well 😅, I also brush my lawn after cutting and watering to enhance the stripes, my neighbours possibly think I'm nuts, but they can't get stripes in their plastic lawns 😎
im glad i have just seen this video robbie i was just thinking of starting again with my lawn as im riddled with the stuff i think i have imported it from customers gardens as i use the same mower for mine and work i will just persist with a rake before cutting to lift the lateral growth
My lawn is small but you always show a great range of options. Thanks for including the short clip of the drill-attachment aerator! Great idea when buying/hiring bigger machines would be overkill 👍🏻
Happy to help 😁
Well done... another great video. Keep up the good work. 👍
Thanks 👍
Another great Vid Robbie. Very informative and helpful. I am going to try the rake method as I dont have a big lawn
The rake did a great job at lift the stems up. Give it a. Rake then get the rotary out and run over it first
Another great video Robbie 👍
Thanks Mike 😀 a lot of effort went into this one
great videos, keep it up! Greetings from Lithuania ❤️
Thank you 👍😊 🙏
Great video Robbie
Thank you 🙏
Great video Robbie 📹 👍
Thanks 🙏
"if your neighbours see you out brushing your lawn they're gonna think you're nuts" - Yup. mine have been watching me lying down on the ground watching for germination in my new seed, out watering at all hours, clumping round with a hollow core aerator I rented and forever takign before and after photos. I'm def the weirdo of the street.
Everyone is always someone else's weirdo 🤣
@@Premier_lawns_official if I can't get this grass looking good this year I'll be ringing you at the end of the summer!
your best vid yet. thanks
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Great video, still learning. Funny story. When I was a nipper a lady I knew used to Hoover the lawn after cutting. True story. 🤣🤣👍👽
Oh wow! 🤣
Keep up the great work
Thanks 🙏
just spent the day raking these weeds and mowing over them.Just seeing this vid now, happyni did the right thing
Rake away 🙂👍
Had our lawn turfed a few years ago, as soon as spring came around last year the POA started emerging. It's a really small lawn so now i'm raking the grass upright before every cut and cutting in different directions to try and weaken the POA and remove any seed heads as soon as they emerge. I expect this to be a never ending battle 😆
Endless....
Thanks robbie great help
No problem 👍
Enjoyed this.. smashed it (like when you stood on the camera with your spike sandals), and learned something new. Great tips Robbie!
I damaged the camera with that shot, it's never been right since
@@Premier_lawns_official oops.. mine blew over last year. Cracked screen ever since.
"Your neighbours see brushing your lawn will think you’re nuts ! Don’t blame me "😅😅😅
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Some great tips on things just about anyone can do, all purely mechanical things! I’m in the US (Long Island, outside NYC) and poa is soooooo bad this year! We are all scrambling.
Do you guys verti cut too?
@@Premier_lawns_official I hadn’t thought to do it for that purpose. I have a sunjoe, but I mainly use it to dethatch or to get super aggressive with the scarifier when I’m seeding. I would think it would cause lots of seeds to fall off onto the soil, no?
Good man Robbie. Lawn was looking great up until couple weeks back now im over run with weed grasses, nightmare
Superb video again, any tips on lawns that are getting taken over by clover, best ways to get rid. Thanks
Poa Annua is one thing. I need a plan to go after Poa Trivialis which took advantage of the long cook spring and set about wrecking the TTTF in my back yard.
Whoa big yard beautiful home
Thanks 🙏
Have followed the steps really obsessed at the minute to be fair lol want that percect lawn its an addiction lol
You could be doing worse things lol
@@Premier_lawns_official 100 percent lol
This is an excellent video, thank you. One question and sorry if i missed it, doesnt the weed grass just grow back post-cut?
4:31 Exactly what i was thinking and i also need to tell my wife beforehand.
Greetings from Poland - same Poa problem here :-)
Hello there!
Using the rake ready help lift the poa so was able to cut the seed heads off... looks 100% better 👍👍👍👍
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I literally just use a hand weed remover to dig out poa and Yorkshire fog in NZ. It's a bit laborious but as long as you keep on top of it it at least it also pulls out the root system too.
I tried that last year, this it's like an Armageddon
Thank you for this, my grass is riddled with POA this year. I'll continue to scarify and cut!!
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Watching your channel has been really helpful, my grass is looking so good can you give me any advice on what to feed my grass without attaching the many badgers we have who love to some times make a mess of the lawn , and thanks to you my lawn looks good now
badgers are a disaster, not much you can do
Hi, enjoying all your videos. After raking the grass to get the weed grass vertical, does cutting it with the mower stop it coming back ? Surely it will just grow again as the roots are being left in.
Thank the Lord for CC.
Excellent advice thank you.
If you want to get rid of those unsightly stripes on your lawn, save yourself a lot of effort yet cut your grass every day get a robot mower. They are great and your lawn will thrive.😬 p.s. mine is called Robbie!
Hahahaha best comment all day, my robot is called Robbie too and that's me!
Got the same thing here in the netherlands. I take ten minutes a day to remove weeds from my 100m2 lawn.
Little and often is key!
Robbie I’ve got so much poa at the moment. I have come to wonder if I’m creating the environment for poa to thrive. It certainly likes the products I apply and I wonder if the scarifying I’ve done has spread the poa even more and allowed the chance to spread with less competition. Having said all that seeing you also struggling with it gives me hope as your lawn always looks spot on.
Jason you just need to do what you can. I need to scairfy more this year
Great methods of getting rid of the horrible seed heads and cleaning it up. It's interesting isn't it how there was almost a line of poa down the shaded side and not so much on the rest. This is exactly what I have found. Anyway why did the Irish scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field (couldn't resist either) 😂
Did you hear about the magic tractor, it went down the road and turned into a field
@@Premier_lawns_official 😅 I'd imagine if we were in the same room there would be a lot of groans from people.
Another excellent video. We have a small area (20m x 20m) that used to be a field. It is mostly AMG unfortunately. Regular cutting and overseeding has helped a bit but I think I’m maybe best starting again. I don’t want Wembley but it would be nice if the grass was better quality. What time of year would you start again? Is there an organic method that will return the area to a seed bed that I can overseed? Thanks in advance
Noticed last year that my garden suddenly had a lot of poa and then this year OMG!!! going to try the scarifier technique like you said but how often should I tickle it out? Once a month? Once every 2 weeks? Great help as always Robbie 👍
As often as you can!
Robbie, can you make a video about renovating a new build lawn?
Great video Robbie. Where would you recommend getting a cylinder mower like the one you have?
I bought mine from Gumtree. Keep an eye out on ebay or local machinery auctions too
Been fighting poa for a couple years. Tenacity x3 or pull it out right away. Preemergent in fall
We aren't allowed it here in the UK
Hi very professional job again,can you send me some details so I can buy good seed grass and fertiliser plz
Hi,
Love your videos very knowledgeable and it’s a great educational video we do get AMG where we live in Bolton uk..
Is it control or eradicatating possible…
Lee
Lee its not a bolton problem, its a worldwide problem
I think the way to deal with poa annua is to put down a pre emergent late Aug. here in the northeast US.
Very difficult to kill post emergent. Unless you use Glyphosate…….it’s an annual weed so if you continue pre emergents every year your have less and less. My .02 cents
We don't have those chemicals in the UK
I've got sections of my grass that look like crabgrass its grows long and very stiff looking grass but it never dumps seeds on my lawn it also grows in like a swirl shape and lays flat on the grass, im not sire what it is but have quite a few of them at the moment, when ever i mowe over them they look like thier dieing 2 days later but come back green after a few days.
Awe mate the POA in the garden & trompt your camera.
Really sorry lad.
Tell you what - best wishes - youll get it worked out.
Need some hot sun to cook it out.
Thanks for making the content.
Marvelous house too btw.
Thanks!
For me the thing that works best is to just remove the Poa patches altogether. Just dig them out completely, fill the hole up with soil and reseed. After 4 weeks the lawn looks perfect again. I do this each year in early May. That way the Poa patches never grow larger than the size of a 12“ record and each year there are fewer patches to treat…
I did that all last summer. Worse than ever 😂
@@Premier_lawns_official Ok I‘ll give your method a try, maybe it is the better one..
This is what I'm doing.
Pain in the backside though.
Great video robbie,
How long after overseeding would you wait to verticut so as to avoid damaging the new grass
I held off a month. That may not be long enough. You will have to weigh it up for yourself
@@Premier_lawns_official thanks, in exactly the same boat, shall wait another couple of weeks!
Great video as always. Few questions, do you think verticutting will kill it / stop it growing back? I have a cartridge for the allet mower. I also play a lot of golf and a lot of greens are riddled with poa but it looks decent. How do they keep it so nice?
40% of golf greens are poa and they have verticutters with blades super close together..so no but it keeps it down...i think the best thing is do what wimbledon did ..they used fescues and bent grasses up until the 90s..they had poa problems because fescue grows seeds dies grows seeds dies..so poa can get in..someone invented dwarf rye and now they dont get much poa because rye grows..it doesnt seed its nut off and die..so poa has less chance of getting in..wembley and wimbledon use mm50 seed for £5 per kg but you have to buy a big bag..or just get johnsons tuff grass from b&m..that is also dwarf rye..no point using anything else in the uk unless you have a golf green and you would use bent.green keepers would be better using dwarf rye on the fairways and tees but..they are so called experts and think they know better..reality is they are 30 years behind the rest of the world..so id scalp the lawn verticut up and down side to side and overseed with dwarf rye.top dress done
Daniel check out this video as that should help answer your question czcams.com/video/lKinScbUEAs/video.html
I don't mind amg too much, but do you have any tips for getting rid of Yorkshire fog. Great video by the way.
Do the same thing, verti cut
Hi Robbie, thx a lot for your tips. I have a great poa problem too just in the moment. Should I overseed after verticutting and mowing at this time? Or after June?
Greetings from Germany
carsten
The more verti cutting the better. Can't do it enough
I have an electric scarifier with two cartridges one is a verti cutter the other is a rake cartridge would using the rake cartridge on the highest setting work ?
Love the thumbnails
Thanks
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In Australia it is also known as winter grass, you can treat it with a pre-emergent herbicide like embargo or once established a product called bow and arrow
All the pre-emergent herbicides are banned in the UK/Ireland
@@Premier_lawns_official why is that ??
@@RC3230 because of the stupid EU which we have thankfully now left. Well, some of us have.
@@raftonpounder6696 yes.. EU bans anything that works in the garden, sodium chlorate, Sybol, proper creosote etc...
You can't use most of the stuff in the EU due to regulations. You're left with some mild solutions or natural ones.
Great advice which I will have ago at trying to get my lawn to look better. Do you have any ideas on how to get rid of ants in the lawn?
Here you go premierlawns.co.uk/how-to-control-ants-in-your-lawn/
@@Premier_lawns_official sooner have ants than give them my vodka:}
Great video again Robbie. My lawn looks pretty good but the patches of weeds that stand out the most are Poa and also Yorkshire Fog. What's the best way to fix patches of Yorkshire Fog?
Ross pretty much what is in this video
@@Premier_lawns_official Excellent, thanks Robbie. Appreciate it
This inspires me to tickle a meadow. 👍
You can do it! 😂😂😂
Is that brush spreading all the poa seeds?
Would you recommend the scarify cartridge (with the blades) as opposed to a power rake cartridge (with the springs)
Yes, not a big fan of springs
a guy on youtube learned me to use a fork lol, since the roots are so shallow.
Poa A. is a prolific seed producer and nothing short of a yearly program of preemergent + xonerate + a kicker (Tenacity/Pylex) will provide consistent control (PoaCure is great but only available if you are a golf course). Most everything done here is just spreading the seed heads. In my climate Poa germinates nearly year round and I've had to do considerable research to come up with a management strategy as well as quite costly chems (mentioned above). If I couldn't get access to those chems and PRG was a good grass choice, I would renovate every 3 years or so. Manual removal with Poa A, if you miss just a few plants that drop seeds, will become impossible the following year. Lastly, Poa A tends to root very shallow and checks out during heat waves. You can take advantage of this if your climate allows, as they will drop seeds before dying and then once temps drop and rainfall comes back it will regerminate. Time your pre-emergent correctly and don't aerate during that germination window.
preemergent + xonerate + a kicker (Tenacity/Pylex) are all banned in the UK/EU
very interesting, here in the U.S. midwest Poa is also a problem, most use a pre-emegent to control it as well as other crabgrasses, one weedy grass extremely tenacious is quack grass, which spreads by rhizomes and is perennial. if anyone has had success managing it please comment. thank you!
Verti cutting is your best bet
quack grass, and I know it will get out of hand if left to go. you cannot dig this out. I take a small paint brush ,and brush roundup on the leafs. If you spray it, it will kill a lot more grass than you intended. The roundup will control. keep doing it till you don't see it any more. If you try to dig, the rezones will just keep going and create more.
I think a good suction rotary mover would be better to collect and cut the raked grass it would also suck more of the seeds of the annua?
Might do 👍
Proper verticutters are too damn expensive in the UK. I've been using the thick blade cartidge on high settings to lift the grass but i'll try the scarifer cartidge with thin tines next on high settings which should do a better job but i'm worried it might take too much good grass out too.
Keep it on a high setting. You are only looking to tickle the surface
@@Premier_lawns_official because of your videos and few others that i've been watching for the last 2 years everytime someone comes around and see my garden they go wow and say that's the best looking lawn they have ever seen. So thank you for your videos and teaching us all the ways to improve our lawns.
bosch verticut.the blades are about 10mm apart ..which is closer than the allett cartridge and good for overseeding .the height setting is -10mm,-5mm,0.+5mm..about £100....dont get me wrong they are not super close like a commercial golf green verticutter but like you say they are at least £2000..the scarifier cart is alot less aggressive than you think..its more of a brush
I bought a cheap electric scarifier , removed the scarifier head and dismantled the cutting blades . I then sharpened them up with a grinder until they were as thin as a knife .
I found that on a high setting it does a fair job between cutting and lifting the lateral growth . After this , the lawn does not look like it has been wrecked . Overall it is a help with the Poa . Just a pity we could not get a product to eliminate it .
“Honey the crazy guy is out there brooming his lawn again”
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How's it doing this year?
I’ve been enjoying your videos since the end of last season. I have a small lawn with some AMG and am using a robotic mower… is there a way to actually kill/remove the AMG? Won’t these grow back after this process? Thanks!
This doesn't kill it, it weakens it, little and often is key
Tencity / meso sc4 kills Amg
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I used a weed burner with a small tip with succes, the seeds will burn/ be killed before the actual gras is burned. You will hear the seeds pop, just be careful not stay on the same spot to long then you will actually kill the grass.
Great tip 👍 👌
What’s your view on using compost tea and increasing the mycorrhizal fungi to reduce poa annua?
I went down the compost tea route last year and it's worse than ever....
Will the gras die once its raked up en mowed?
If you keep cutting the weed grass will it eventually go and allow the good grass to thrive?
The brush is better for taking down earthworm mounds
I scarified my lawn 1month ago and my lawn is full has loads of this stuff. Is there no type of chemical or product I can use to get rid of this weed , I also have loads of crab grass roo approx 35% of my lawn
Will the POA die at some time? Or do you just keep mowing the grass and the POA?
Does this verticutting technique only work for short cut lawns? I have 3" KBG and I am considering buying a cheap home unit like a sunjoe or ryobi to try out.
Best to do a patch test and see how it preforms
Hold on. You’ve shown us how to trim the weed grass by raising it up and then mowing it. Is there a way to get rid of it? Did I miss a bit?
My grass has leather Jack's in it iv recently notices so many bare soil patches and whole lawn is just crab grass I give up. 😢
Now I know hot get rid of that stuff
Great video, I'm redoing my front lawn, I've used weedol lawn weedkiller to kill the weeds before I scarify. Do you know how long it is after the weedkiller that I can reseed? I've looked online but can't find a definite answer, thanks.
I'm not sure as I don't use that product myself
4 weeks Daniel
your out standing in your field ;)
Yep!
Hi Robbie, would a landscapers rake be better or to stick with spring time rake?
No I don't think it would be strong enough to get into the lawn the way the spring tine rake does
@@Premier_lawns_official thanks mate, I'm off to buy a spring time rake.
I’m looking at the black & decker electric lawn rake, would that work?
I'm not familiar with that
Do the cylinder mowers front roller just lay it down again?
Great question. Yes and no
The roller does help bend the grass over, adding to the stripe
But its main purpose is to keep the cutting unit stable ensuring it moves straight and cuts at a consistent height.
Where did you get the spike-shoes from? Seen many online but most of them have bad reviews.
I wouldn't recommend them
What was the bit you had in your drill at 6:45 please Robbie? It looked smooth but that could have been because it was sinning, not sure.
Hi Mike I think it was a Milwaukee masonry sds drill bit
Thanks for the help Robbie.
Hi mate,
Q. Where do I now buy the boston seeds it seems they do not deliver to N.Ireland is there a stockists here?
Not sure, maybe contact them
How do you get rid of creeping buttercups without digging out? What can I put down
Here you go czcams.com/video/8_svxGjPdi4/video.html
@04:31 xDD ahaha , yea if i would see someone brush their lawn i would think the same XDDD.. until i watched this video =)
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Hello Robbie. I had a new lawn laid 2 months ago & the grass looks of a good quality. I have been cutting it regularly but keeping it long as I was instructed but already I can see I have various spots of course grass. I have been cutting it out with a knife filling the hole with good quality soil & seeding the patch. Is this the correct course of action?
Yes but it will be a loosing battle
@@Premier_lawns_official Appreciate you you finding time to reply Robbie
@@Premier_lawns_official LOL Gotta love that kind of blunt honesty!
I heard of a man who grew grass in trays in the greenhouse so he always had a ready supply for filling in where he'd dug up weeds. He cut the new plug with the same cookie-cutter type tool he used to remove the weed, so it would fit perfectly. How narrow the line between genius and madness.
I had to scarify 6 times this year
All these fertilisers you have to buy have a big cost. When you can make your own for free ,from grass clippings other plant weeds in bucket of water steep for 4 days all the nutrition you need for a Lawn that what I use mix 5 to one with water
40 years ago a lawn seed mix would be rye grass and AMG
I should just sow the lot in AMG. Problem sovled!
@@Premier_lawns_official 43 years AMG was popular in lawns and nobody bothered about it
Don’t blame me 😂