5 Ways To Kill Your Summer Lawn (Accidentally)
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- For cool season lawns it's easy to accidentally kill off parts of your lawn temporarily or permanently. Brown lawn spaces in the summer aren't always a sign of dead grass but those areas can die off completely if you aren't careful.
In this video I've listed off five ways many lawn owners of cool season grasses kill their lawns but there are other lawn care mistakes that people everywhere make each and every summer.
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I want a shoulder pat from the Master. I missed the window on Mesotrione. I scrambled all winter to get the ingredients up to Ontario Canada from the various searches and fails. Blue Marker, Surfactant, MESO have all been aquired. The reason i skipped it, even tho a lot of my bluegrass didnt take last yr on the dead soil, and heavy weeds, is I finally figured out compost making & have been adding it slowly to the lawn, with biochar. I dont want to harm the biology I worked so hard to create and help thrive. Here is my thinking: 1)Make or find a organic surfactant that goes away fast. 2) Feed the lawn total health till end of August, at which point I will do what you show in the supercharge your meso vid, and your overseed video for Bluegrass, as well, as I will have leaf compost ready, more pyrolitic compost, and biochar ready. I will scarify it to make sure my seed goes in and sprouts, and I have rigged up rain water collection, and will rig up a membrane submersible pump to water with. I dont have many customers yet, and I want to make a show lawn for myself and my street to enjoy. My lawn for what its worth has clover, spurge, creepin charlie, dandelions, all kinds of well established plants. I want the strongest biology i can have before adding Meso. I am a little worried right.
Also starting grass patches in old raspberry containers, lots of vent holes and recycling the plastic...comes with a lid to protect seeds.
Any help you wanna offer Brian? I know I can always miss something or improve on an idea.
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By thw way, I like the way you gave it to that animated dude (not gonna mention the chanel name) crapping on the lawn you tubers saying they all BS. Good for you standing up for the community 👍🏾
appreciate that; thanks for the pat on the back; at the end of the day we're all just regular people putting our pretty faces forward trying our best to add value while doing what we love
Now I want to know which one? Lol
Me at 0:47 and then walking away from the lawn food haha...
😆 well plant based lawn foods are ok...no time is a bad time for that at least 😊
I'm actually going to try a late spring scalp and dethatch to clear out the dying/dead speedwell in a yard. It has 50% shade coverage, and we're suppose to be getting the Spring type weather (soaking rain + 75 degrees) we should have been getting in May starting this weekend. Im confident it will bounce back in about a week based off how well it's been growing even through the mini drought we had.
awesome, take advantage of the spring weather and long days; I'm doing the same; hacking deep into my back yard right now as we're sitting in the low 70's all this coming week.
I just did a soil test, and it came back deficient in NP and K. (like way low), So I put some fert down. I hope I didn't mess up anything, but I got a big bag of bluegrass (20 pounds), so if I have to re-seed, I guess I'm ready. 🙃 Love the video, keep um coming plz.
Sometimes those tests can be eye opening; how was your ph? if it's in the optimal zone then just basic fert at the 8-2-5 ratio should make a difference pretty quick.
Dont plant the bluegrass now. Wait till temps starts cooling off at the end of August. Takes a long time to sprout, and summer heat may kill it before it establishes roots. I have 2lbs ready to go, and I wanna try seeding, but waiting is the hardest part.
I'm in California new to lawn at my new home the lawn looks good and established my question is on watering during the heat of 105 degrees do we still just water 2 or 3 times a week more or less? And for how long should the timer be on and should you due 2 watering in the day 1 early morning and one late evening..just don't want to kill my lawn. Prior owner watered every day twice a day. Any help will be greatly appreciated Randy
What's up Brian?
Very well said always great info thanks again brother
Thanks a lot Allen!
What do you say about getting Bermuda grass out of a fescue lawn??
So does my healthy cool season lawn need anything in July?
how do you know (or how can you find) the salt index of granular fertilizer?
Look at the ingredient label and Google that ingredient + salt index to start researching but to summarize ammoniacle nitrogen or ammonium sulphate or urea or sodium nitrate and others are high while things like urea-triazone, methylene urea, biosolids, or plant/animal sources of nitrogen such as alfalfa meal, blood meal, soybean meal, feather meal, are all very low on the index.
@@TurfMechanic GREAT QUESTION, GREAT ANSWER. I am screenshotting this and memorizing it. I am winging it as a New Company, and Brians my 1st CZcams professor. I have learned TONS from You Brian, and I go off to other sites and learn Biochar, Grass Identification, Tools, Homemade tools like rollaerator, JADAM, Korean Farming, Big Agricultue Horrors, Organic Regenerative Practices, then come back here and learn something from the basics that I flew past.
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We’ll you answered my question about doing a leveling project here in June for a warm season turf. How low should o cut if I do a leveling project?
I would blanket advise you to cut as low as you possibly can but probably don't take a weedeater to the dirt. If you've got st aug then I'd probably not go below an inch and a half though as it likes being on the taller side and is meaty enough that it will probably be able to recover if covered up a bit (full disclosure, I've never leveled st aug before so I'm open to others opinions on that one). If you level in June, cut low and fert heavy with fast release stuff to help the lawn regrow through the material fast. Water heavy prior to leveling too; it's better to get a ton of moisture into the soil then level than it is to level and then water heavy. Good luck!
Long question. I live in southern Ohio and have KBG/tall Fescue mix. I have been trying to correct a high alkaline soil since last season. It's June 16, we just had a heavy rain, and temperatures will be in the mid to low 80s for the next 7 days. Would it be ok to spread and water ammonium sulfate/nitrogen mix into the soil, or is it too late in the season already? I was also thinking of spreading some seed into the bare spots at the same time. Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
My neighbor cuts grass every week no matter how hot it is. His grass is so thin, you can literally see the dirt 🤦
I neither know what I'm doing nor am I super prepared so I'm in trouble.
that's what the internet is for, LOL - not to toot my own horn but you could fall asleep watching an obscene number of my vids to get up to speed. :D Seriously though it's not rocket science; it's my job to make some videos making it seem as such and others to make it seem super simple. Start simple and take it form there. I made my summer lawn care guide video a couple years ago; it's not the most fast paced video but it can get you started pretty good; all it takes is a sitcom's worth of time to kill: czcams.com/video/RHh-JXqKJkk/video.html
If I firtilize and cut my lawn to soon will that stress out lawn ?
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I might accidentally on purpose kill my front lawn
Hahaha!
If it's here in NJ- since everyone's lawn looks really bad anyway now (except mine), I'd probably be recommending using the next 6-8 wks to fully kill off everything and to fully prep the soil, and maybe get an extra wk or 2 of growth if you can plant by 3rd wk of Aug. Don't cram like I did! or you may end up with harder-to-kill weeds in the really-nice grass next season.
@@mattb9664 I’m trying to kill quackgrass and I’m ready for collateral damage. Gonna start in 2 weeks.
as Matt said, don't underestimate how long it takes to kill off hard to kill stuff, start the kill early and plan on multiple applications. I've been trying to kill the established kikuyu off my parkway strip for nearly three months now and it's still coming back. I may try light tilling after my next glyphosate app followed by a few weeks of solarization. Embrace the process, don't start late and get discouraged by slow progress. Good luck!
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