Bringing Down Height of Cut in your Bermuda Lawn
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Today I'm performing a reset scalp on my bermuda lawn. I realize that my grass isn't 3 feet tall, but with bermuda, once you miss a couple mow days, you have to perform a reset scalp to bring your height of cut (HOC) back down. Without scalping, you'll have trouble maintaining a green lawn. Scalping during the growing season is like hitting the reset button on your lawn, and then you can set your desired height of cut. This will work with 1 inch tall bermuda as well as 1 foot tall bermuda. The principles remain the same.
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Just got my new mower, Revolution 26 and I LOVE IT! Finally able to get my yard down to one inch like I want it. Next year is full on leveling project with this new house.
Watching you do all that work makes me want to rip out my Bermuda and install artificial turf!
Yep. The necessity to scalp every so often is the worst part about Bermuda imo. I hate cutting grass and getting a scalp mark. Kills the good mow vibes.
Wow… big job!
That's crazy that you're not getting more rain. We've had 10 inches of rain in DFW just since May!
Hey Rhett, great job. Your front Elm is starting to really take off… keep on mowing!
Can’t wait to see the next video, been keeping my yard short. Thinking of raising it up a bit since I still get scalp marks when mowing. Running a regular push mower.
Well if you built your own verticutter, we gonna need a rundown on that puppy.
Haha well I built the reel for it. It was a flailing reel. I replaced it with a fixed blade reel that I assembled based off an old manual I found online and a forum post I used as a reference.
If you maintain at current height the grass will adapt and green up at that point. Reset HOC just eliminates the wait time.
Man! That's a lot of work! Do you think you could've just done the HOC reset and verticutting and avoided scalping altogether? I bet it's going to look great again once everything greens up but man, that's a lot of sweat equity. Good thing you're not dealing with a massive lawn.
You're neighbor re-sodded! Time to dominate!
Perfect timing- I've kept mine at 2" this year, thought I've been pretty good about mowing but I got some scalp marks the last 2 cuts. I think I'll take down to 1" before the next rain. This is the best my lawn has looked so I'm scared lol.
I usually end up starting the season at about 1.5”, slowly go up to 2, and then 2.5 is usually when I do a height of cut reset. It’s a lot of work but it’ll recover in like 9-14 days.
@@adamc1706 How long are you able to keep it at a certain height before you move up? Maybe I should just raise to 2.5? We're going to get less rain and more heat coming up so maybe I should do that if the length looks good
@@ImStuckInStockton it kinda just depends on the situation imo, I’d say there’s nothing wrong with bumping it up a notch and seeing how you like it. I’ve went up to 3” before and honestly it looked fine. It’s just the scalp next spring was a nightmare due to the amount of material.
@@adamc1706 That makes sense. I'm going to just bump it up. Thank you sir
I was on vacation and my yard hasn’t been mowed in 12 days - I was maintaining 1 inch HOC, and now it looks like a jungle. Time to reset I guess
T-nex user from Waco here. I find I’m having to reapply at least every 4 weeks. How often you apply and what oz per thousand are you applying?
Should I only do a HOC reset if my lawn is to thick/tall?
I'm new to lawn care. Would something like this break the pre-emergent seal? If so, do you have to stay on top of your post emergent treatment after scalping the yard? Asking because I think I need to scalp my yard and do some leveling myself. That said, I laid down some pre-emergent on my lawn about 7-8 weeks ago.
Hey brother you think it's too late to reset. I'm in Crowley Texas
Are you sure there dry spots could be fungus
How are you getting your gm 1000 to cut that down? I can barely get mine to do it even after a fresh backlap
What are the steps after scalping? What do I apply?
Hey! Do you use any PGRs?
Why not just mow over your lawn 2 or 3 times lowering the level each time instead of doing a full blown scalp?
First like!
Should I only do a HOC reset if my lawn is to thick/tall?