Can You Fertilize The Lawn in Summer and Not Burn It?
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2021
- Fertilizing the lawn when it is hot out - will that burn it? Can you burn a lawn with fertilizer in heat? FREEDOM is an excellent fert for all grass types in summer:
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Following the recommended rate of 3lbs/1000. (spreader settings are on the bag) you are giving your lawn a cool 1/2 lb of N which is going to give you a nice green but not overly push anything.
If your lawn is under more severe stress, then Stress Blend is an excellent option as well:
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What a preposterous bunch of nonsense.
You seriously think I'm going to believe advertisers, packaging, and a fertilizer salesmen dressed up as a CZcamsr over SCIENCE?
"I've read dozens of fertilizer labels."
How many scientific papers about turfgrass have you read? How many have you read about fertilizing in the summer?
You sound like an elitist. For sure, I'm not college educated, just a common man like most. That said, what claim did I make in the video that can be refuted by science? and aren't labels designed to be interpreted by the common man?
@Thelawncarenut Packaging is intended to SELL product.
You are literally a salesperson, not "the common man." You're trying to sell fertilizer in this very video.
It is very much the opposite of elitist to advocate for truth which saves people money instead of trying to sell more bags of fertilizer to the naive.
@@coonhound_pharoah, I assume you must be able to provide some proof, or perhaps point to a scientific paper you have read, that fertilizing turfgrass in the summer is detrimental.
@@coonhound_pharoah so again I ask, what claim did I make in this video that contradict science? And who is the label intended for if not me and you?
@@Thelawncarenut The label is intended to SELL the product, provide the legally required information, and nothing else. It is not intended to give best practices. It is not intended to provide advice producing optimal results. You can't seriously believe lack of noting on packaging the suboptimal results produced by fertilizing most lawns across the USA during the heat of summer is meaningful. You seem to be claiming a product's package has everything on it but that simply isn't true, and you know it. But as a fertilizer salesman you gotta toe that company line don't ya?
"They would definitely put that on the package..."
No, they wouldn't. You are either extremely naive or deliberately lying in this statement. Fertilizer companies are happy to sell fertilizer to fools who will ruin their lawn in the summer only to buy more fertilizer in the fall. They will not put information on the package which might inhibit sales at ANY time of year. Believing otherwise is absurdly naive.
You go on for most of this video talking about temperature, and temperature of fertilizer, which is an irrelevant red herring. The burning from nitrogen is not a burn caused by temperature but a chemical burn caused by too much salts in the soil. Talking about the temperature of the fertilizer basically is announcing you have no clue what you are talking about, or you are purposefully distracting people to sell product.
Throughout the video you ignore the fact that the issue with applying fertilizer in the heat of summer is the suboptimal turfgrass this produces pretty much EVERYWHERE outside of your neighborhood. You talk about burn continually as if it is the relevant issue, but it isn't. It's a red herring you use to distract naive people and get them to buy more product. You talk as if your lawn is a representative lawn but it isn't.
Fertilizing a cool season lawn in the summer will cause the lawn to excessively top grow during times of stress and use too many carbohydrates in the process. It literally weakens the turf.
It's not that you said anything that "contradicts" science. It's that you're avoiding the science about this subject altogether by talking about irrelevant things like fertilizer burn and not addressing the ACTUAL effects of fertilizing in the summer in the VAST MAJORITY of your audience's case. And seriously, if you think packaging provides all the meaningful information about a product, you must have been born yesterday.
But hey, you go ahead and keep putting on a facade (a rich salesman pretending to be a "common man"...give me a break) and saying any nonsense you have to just to make a buck off your audience. It's obvious you're just here to sell fertilizer, not educate anyone about anything real.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate your thorough yet easy to understand videos.
I really appreciate you categorizing warm-weather vs cool-weather lawns with all of your statements. I learned a LOT from this video... subscribed!
I am so glad I found your channel when I decided to jump into doing my own lawn care. I’m constantly learning from your channel. Thank you. Hopefully one day I’ll have the honor to meet you in person.
Alan I’m still a newbie as I’ve been following you for the past two years, however my grass is improving and I enjoy beer and cigars even more. Keep up the great work we need it!
awesome thanks Matt!
Been using the LCN system (bios & Flagship) for about 2 months now, can honestly say my Tif419 has never looked better in the 15 years since I put it down as sod. Still using a lawn care service but “throwin’ it down” between the “paid” visits. Thanks Allyn! 👍
I love this guys logic and boldness. Thanks for talking like a man.
Love the simple way you break things down Allen. Good stuff 👍👍
thank you!
Great video Allyn always full of knowledgeable content because of you my lawn is turning around have a long way to go but I can see a difference year to year
I live in the south where temps reach the upper 90's. As a golfer I see golf courses in my area fertilizing during the summer months and the courses look beautiful with no burning.
You guys have it so easy ! In Middle East we fertilise no problem 100, 120, 130 degrees. This time of year it doesn’t ever go below 110.
Reading alot of comments on different lawn channels gotta admit LCN changing lawns across America LCN is like the mayor of grass can't thank you enough man you need A spot on TV
Excellent info :) we're super restricted here with irrigation, only get to water our lawns once a week up here in Ontario and within specified times during that day. However I'm back to fertilizing and doing what I can to keep it nice for my boys, Keep up the great content.
Just recently redid the yard with st augustine sod. Started looking up videos on how to be "that yard guy". Stumbled across your videos and love them. It is very helpful considering im in Land O Lakes, FL. Keep up the good content!
cool thank you Jacob!
Great info Al. Good to get the record straight on this subject.
I’ve just started a renovation on the lawn, there was too many different grass types, just looked bad and was not consistent in colour even when fertilised so I’m digging it over, levelling it and some decent grass seed and with a bit of luck, I will have a lawn to be proud of. BTW your videos are the best way to end the week.
Another fine LCN video. 👍👍 For us cool season lawn types we’re checking out right now and will be going into Summer dormancy. Definitely will be sucking up Nitro when we can. ❤️ that nitro.
Just order my first bag of FlagShip can’t wait to get your product I live in New Jersey you have so many good reviews And your videos are awesome my friend so excited to throw down on my lawn hopefully I get good results and you have a customer for life
Great explanation and knowledge gain. I am a new home owner and added new sod and this video explained everything I needed to know to get started. Thank you very much!
This video had me cracking up the whole time. You are the best, Allyn!!
Good points. I’m irrigated and getting the summer stress blend down this weekend. Loved results last season.
That grass is absolutely THICC!!! I'm in the Houston area and have been reworking the soil for 2 years to get better roots but I have another year or two to anywhere close to that dense of grass!!!
My neighbor was struggling this year with his lawn. I forwarded a link of your site to him a few weeks ago. He is so happy and his lawn has turned around. Unfortunately I created a monster and am afraid I will have to share my lawn domination. But isn’t this what it’s all about? Thanks LCN Alan
You do a great job of explaining, keeping it simple as possible. 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😁
Just threw down 2 bags of Freedom that I received Thursday. Cut the grass after it was 90 degrees with a heat index of 98. Waiting for the rain later this afternoon so I don’t have to run the irrigation system. Can’t wait to see the results of Freedom.
hoorah, thrower down!!
@@Thelawncarenut Freeeedoooooom!
@@Thelawncarenut God Bless America 🇺🇸!!!
Same here, a few days ago I threw down a full dose of Milo here in northern Louisiana, highs for the time being are 92-99. Looking good.
once again - the right advice at the right time. Perfect!
Lovely explanation on how the fertilizer works.
Beautiful St. Augustine yard Al, grass looks awesome.
The best lawn tips, always; thank you!!!
You're welcome !!
Wish you talked more about watering and how it impacts fertilizing. Great video as always though.
Thanks for this video and yard mastery products are great made a big difference in my lawn
awesome bro!!
No rain up in here in Pinellas county. Lawns are still green. Judicious watering and your fert/nutrient advice are getting us through the worst of it. Send some of that Hillsborough county rain our way!!! Thanks for the vids Al.
Reading this now in Pinellas. I just got my first rain of the year on Wednesday. Hot, dry year so far
@@allbayfishing9456 For sure... water restrictions on reclaimed water and fert bans are working against us too!
Threw down some Stress Blend yesterday. Only thing I wish was changed is make all the prill sizes the same for easier more even spreader feeding. Used my Brinly which is similar to an earth way on #15/16 and had to open and shut multiple times through passes to get to feed evenly and not plug.
I’d love some extra content for us non-irrigated lawns. 🤙 love the channel
+1
We have to drag sprinklers around the yard
Yea I agree I have a lot of clients ask for fert but I advice them not to if they don’t have irrigation or wanna be dragging a hose around some advice would be great to make those extra dollars slinging fert!!
My neighbors think I'm crazy while I wait 10 min to keep moving the sprinkler around my yard😂. So yes I'm in for the non irrigation people. I am the irrigator in my Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator voice 🤣😂😎
Allyn, mate me on ocassion turn off the sound and watch ya hands, ell mate ya prolly were a great sock puppeteer! Anyway, great content just had 90 temps here, happy ya set me mind at ease regarding the temps. Cheers mate!
I live in Texas and put down some fertilizer last week, had some left and overnight the prills became wet as if they were absorbing water? I also "spilt" some on the grass and it definitely burnt a nice little patch lol. Oh and btw don't leave fertilizer on your driveway etc, they leave rust like marks if you don't blow then off right after applying. just some more tips.
I purchased flagship for the first time this season, I read the instruction, I believe I can only apply it in the spring and fall, I did not use a weed killer, my lawn look awful, I applied first application in April and afterwards lawn looked amazing, I have cool season lawn
I was thinking people always meant a chemical type burn when they talk about ferts..maybe because the lawn is already heat stressed.
I'm of the same belief. Salts causing a reaction.
Ditto, I am not concerned about actual heat. Just to be pedantic, there are exothermic reactions with some chemicals that, when wetted or in the presence of something else, do heat up. Still, I don’t thing of fertilizer this way with how we use it.
Yes, the chemical in the granular formula. I thought urea would burn a lawn at high temps.
Yeah, pretty ridiculous to talk about temperature burn from fertilizer. Anyone thinking that should be nowhere near a lawn.
You’re 100% correct. It’s not a heat thing w fertilizer, it’s the chemical reaction with the grass , no matter how hot.
So much great info here putting myths to rest. Thank s for this video.
Great Tips! The Lawn is a Beauty!
Thanks for sharing! We should be able to mow and fertilize when we are able to.
All of a sudden its hot and dry here, some of my front yard is stressing out. Looking for my next fertilizer application, delaying until we get rain. Maybe some 7-0-20 Stress Blend. Normally i would just use the Scotts Summer with bug control. Too much nitrogen, i need my lawn to slow down. I need to start mowing my lawn in reverse, wheel tracks have smothered the grass near fence lines.
Thanks for educating me.
Quality as always. Thanks.👍🏻
Awesome video as always Allyn
Thanks for the tips!
This man is greatest lawn care expert
good stuff explaining how you burn vs not burn. 👍👍
Thank you for explaining what those seed heads are! I have them all over my Bermuda grass and I thought it was a weed.
Man your St Aug looks phenomenal. Mine is still struggling from that bad freeze we had in TX but getting there. (Still Top5 in the neighborhood though). This is a do over year.
Great information as always Allyn. 👍🏼
thanks bro!
As a new homeowner, I have definitely been wondering this.
6:11 Some weed and feed ferts specifically say to apply when wet for granules to stick to weeds. Thus they can also stick to blades too.
Thanks Bro , Great Video
Excellent video! Thanks!
I haven’t been able to turn my lawn this green all year. It’s growing like crazy and the blades are thick. But it’s light green and yellow. I have to wait for it to grow to see the dark green. I’d do anything to have it this green
I like your tundra 👍👌
Is my dream pick up!
thank you, mine too. I plan to own it until I die.
No closed caption for those that are hard of hearing? Love your product anyway. Keep it up.
Thanks for flying the Red, White and Blue :-)
Allyn, want to thank you for your videos. Here's a quick lawn success story from northern Louisiana. Past videos of yours explained how to feed/maintain a lawn for beginners like me using off the shelf brands. My neighbor for 4 years never applied anything, and cut his grass way too low in order to hide the weeds. Then our new HOA kicked in and his weedy bermuda lawn suddenly didn't comply. I started turning it around within a few months with the heaviest recommended dosages of two separate applications of Scott's Triple Action granular, and one heaviest recommended app of Anderson's post-emergent granular with nitrogen, all three were 5-6 weeks apart. Then I hit it with Image weed killer spot spraying to treat the worst spurge and creeping charlie imaginable. While the lawn is about 75% fixed and a ways to go, the improvement is amazing. Yesterday two guys stopped by to ask me what I did. This fall I'm thinking of adding Flagship, a pre-emergent, and an insect control granular. Thank you again for the knowledge you imparted, I would have never had the confidence to thrower down this aggressively, and it has worked.
Thank you Capt! Enjoy the mow, bro!
EXCELLENT video, Allyn! Some people "soak" their granules in water and apply them in liquid form. Is that good? The instructions on the packet did not suggest that.
Green shocker and lean & green from andersons are game changing
“ a scared “ ?
lol 🤣👍🏻
Holy crap your lawn looks good in this video!
Thank you !
Interesting... good to know, thanks man. From Italy!
Great advice!
I bought a bag of Freedom. I'll do a light application this weekend....
I applied some stress blend this evening. I think have my bermuda so thick that I had to go back and get those prills off the blades lol.
I live in East Central Florida and I started this season with a very marginal lawn. Neighbors were using lawn care companies and their lawns looked great. I decided I was going to be consistent in following Allyn’s recommendations through his Yard Mastery App utilizing Liquid fertilization and Flagship granular. I’ve now caught up to the professionals and starting to dominate my neighbors. I just follow the yard mastery app and it tells me what product to throw down. I read the directions on the label of the product and when completed entered into the App and it tells me what product to throw down next and a target date to do so. If I can do it you all can too. I’m spending a whole heck of a lot less money than my neighbors with their professional lawn services. Thank you Allyn.
that's awesome bro!!! nice work man!!!
I did the same down here in WPB. I switched to liquid weed killer and it was a game changer. Allyn has helped me pass my neighbors lawns. Just throwin it down and it shows.
Nice job. A knowledgeable and caring homeowner beats a paid service any day. You know your lawn better than a guy who visits 50 yards a week, and you gotta live with the results.
Good morning Alan. Love to watch your videos and have learned a lot from them. Customer has new St. Augustine sod down for 3 months now. Seems like it doesn’t want to grow like most of our yards. Irrigation is spot on. What would you recommend to help this? No bad spots just not much growth. We are in central Florida just so you know.
I would hit it with Flagship now and again in a month. Let's hope the rainy season kicks in too. It's been dry and that doesn't help.
The Polymer is a plastic like semi-permeable membrane. Water will diffuse into the prill and the amonnia or other nitrogen source will slowly diffuse out. Heat doesn’t matter, but if there are a high percentage of the prills cracked, the nitrogen will be released immediately.
*Don't forget a spreader that doesn't regulate as it should. It happened to me, I won't mention the brand, but I did get several years of good service from it. Because of the size of my yard and having a couple of landscaping spots in the middle of the yard I use a drop spreader. I was applying my final higher nitrogen fert for the spring (TTTF) and I didn't notice as I started out pushing, but suddenly I realized I'm going through too much fert! I reset my calibration and tested (3 times.) nope, way to much fert dropping. That thing was disassembled and in the trash it went. Sure enough, that area was BURN! Just like the ol' Deep Purple song. Spent a month looking into a "better" drop spreader and found one. Gandy Agriculture makes drop spreaders. They are expensive, but the calibration system seems to be dead on and simple. So far, it does a great job. My son is very interested in it. I told him, save your money or wait. It'll be headed your way after your older sister reads my Will/Living Trust.* 😁
Thanks for sharing👍👍👍👍
Great info LCN. I enjoy cigars and great fertilizers myself. I have Kentucky Blue live in NM average temp 95 degrees. Only used milorganite sod is 2 months old. What blend can I use? I was thinking new lawn starter fertilizer and freedom?
Hey Alan I have been following you and laying down your products for a couple months. My question is my lawn needs leveling and I live in Charleston SC, when is a good time to do that?
Hey Al! I was in your Patreon coaching years ago and my yard has been doing well until I moved into a new house. The house is so new it is new new. There is hard packed red clayish (Virginia) construction soil under the sod they laid. So I have terrible soil. Where they dug out for irrigation pipes, the grass is much greener. So I assume that the soil is looser and roots can grow deeper. What advice do you have for brand new sodded lawns, with no soil nutrient values? There's no worms, bugs, ants or anything in the soil yet to help convert it into 'topsoil'.
The person who designed the 1776 Bag better have gotten a raise! 🇺🇸💰Great video Allyn. Currently facing a big breakout of leaf spot on my St. Aug. 3336F is on the way 🙏🏼
Your grass is outstanding 👌, I live in Fort Myers, are there different types of Zoysia grass because I've never seen blades of Zoysia as thick as yours.
Right but your grass can handle the hot weather in the Northern states are grass does better in cooler Temps. I have seen with my own eyes that granulars can burn your grass it happened to me. My grass usually looks nice. It was True Green & I was not happy. Scotts was the best I miss there fertilizing service.
I HAVE burned my lawn, and it happened exactly as Mr. Hane said. The first time my tow behind spreader didn’t turn off and dumped a pile in one spot. And yesterday my push spreader got caught on a broken limb I didn’t see and I dumped a bit. I am sure it will burn there too. If you FOLLOW exactly as this channel explains you will NOT burn your lawn. When in doubt take the lawn care boot camp offered.
If you accidentally spill fertilizer in one spot..it will burn regardless. It's concentrate urea..so the spot is dead. Best thing to do is water that area down to break it down... I'd recommend replacing area when it's cooler later on or when we get into the rainy season.
Thank you Sir!
(Cool season grass) I have 3 spots that are stressed , around my leach field vent cover, propane tank access in ground and in front of one of my windows. The heat seems to radiate off those objects… The rest of my lawn looks great and is thick but I want to throw down some summer fert lesco 30-0-10 slow release should I apply it to my non dormant lawn or wait for the stressed spots to perk up?
Won't burn my lawn. Its so lush and green. Just put down yard mastery stress blend. So many mushrooms in lawn now lol. But green which is good.
Great info
Great video Al! We got some bad Brown Patch going on just north of you 😭.
yeah I know it's starting to creep up
Literally just got my Freedom fert delivered on the porch. Cant with till the 4th to Thow er' Down!!!!!!!!
hoorah thrower down!
What camera are you using? Video is very clear and vibrant. Great content as always!
I use a GoPro Hero 9. It's an awesome little camera right out of the box.
For Florida, that is a damn nice lawn!
Hybrid bermuda north Carolina June 34-0-0 and July couple small spots.
I would like to see feedback on stimulating growth during the heat can be negative for cool season grasses I have heard this from several turf specialists but would like to know more Detail.
Am I still able to throw down granular fert after 06/01? I just aerated, overseeded and spread Scott’s starter lawn then Milorganite on 05/13. Lawn is looking great and I want to continue to treat through the summer.
Great video
Curious. I have a centipede lawn, when do you recommend fertilizing I already applied once in April or may can't remember but I live in Florida as well
I have had problems keeping my grass alive under shade trees even though I have planted shaded seeds, your recommendations? Thanks
Thank you for your work on the Tube. By the way with the mustache wind sunglasses you resemble a Swedish Chef in witness protection or undercover. I'm not exactly sure why a Swedish chef would wear sunglasses but that's a few guesses.
ha ha!! I get Ned Flanders alot too.
Muy bonito pasto...bravo
Thanks so much
Also mowing high during extreme heat relieved the stress on the grass .
I’m in South MS and temps are in the mid 90s in June. My soil test came back and my N is4.25, P is 2.91 and K is 7.18. My zoyzia is 1 year old and struggling. The soil test suggested Yard Mastery Starter 12-12-12 and Hi-Step Micros. I also have HumaChar to help the improve to soil condition (lot of clay). Is it okay to use the 12-12-12? The lawn is growing but it’s not even green all over. I did de-thatch and aerate last month and that seems to be helping. (I let it get too long over the last year and there was a ton of dead gras layer).
That broadcast on that echo spreader looks nice. I’d like to move on from plastic wheels myself.
it's very much worth it to get the Echo