How to Dethatch a Lawn a Different Way
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- čas přidán 10. 04. 2020
- How to Dethatch a Lawn a Different Way
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Kinda strange to see your boots "above" the grass and not sinking down about ankle deep. Will be interesting to see how this experiment goes. Thanks for taking us along.
oh yeah...talk about strange...I went from deep grass all year to i can see my shoestrings now...LOL
i read boots as "boobs"
Jeff Poplin just think a month later and the experiment bombed. Live and learn.
@@MichaelRei99 did it?
Whoever can invent a reel mower that can vacuum like a rotary should win an award.
That expensive Swordman is pretty close isn’t it?
that was one of the most satisfying things ive ever seen in my life... when you pulled that entire clump of poa triv and it came out perfectly. i almost wish i had some in my yard just so i could pull it out like that!
Blessed morning Pete, your lawn looks impressive even at that H.O.C I have to say that hands down the single best thing I done to improvmy yard was power raking.
Once you use a reel mower its hard to go back. Nothing cuts as clean. Great job, great video. I scarified mine last week and took a phenomenal amount of moss and thatch out, quite an eye opener left the turf looking great. Top job mate big up from Wales UK. Stay safe and god bless.
Wow that 2nd pull was so therapeutic!!!
It should be interesting to see how your turf reacts during the hotter months. I love your channel Pete. And I appreciate the time you take to help DIYers, like myself, improve their own lawns. I’ve learned so much by watching your channel.
I appreciate you friend
Spring time always cut my tall fescue about 3”1/2 in summer time I cut 4”. Pete I like your channel and I’m learning every time you post a video.thanks..!Pete 👍🏽
Loving the Content. Had my yard looking great through winter. In western NC. Having some henbit and clover issue right now. Have tried a few different approaches and so far they only stunt the growth but not stop. Love your content. Love your life guidance.🙏 thankyou for what your doing.
Another great video Pete I have to say watching your videos are so relaxing and very informative I have learned a lot about how to work around my yard here in Colorado thanks
Allett build and system is awesome. This is very similar to the Lawn Ginja's process . He refers to the junk as lawn debris . This is the best way to remove it
Very informative video. Here in the UK we refer to this as scarifying our lawns. Looking forward to your next one.
Holy hell I absolutely love these videos. Ive got mad respect for the size of turf youre managing, and managing very well!
Brother, that is a whole lot of prayer time right there. I took your advice to heart on that.
Thanks, Pete. When I need motivation to tackle a project outside, I pull up your channel to see what you're up to. Love your passion.
my pleasure friend
First time seeing any of your videos. I appreciated the calm and pleasant tone of your narration and very down to earth instruction. Thanks!
I’ve been waiting for this video after seeing the pictures on Instagram. Wish I had one to do my yard, I rake it but it’s a lot of work.
Thanks for giving back! You’re a great man, God bless you and your family!
Loving the try it and see approach! Nice to see someone willing to risk changing things up to learn.
Thank you Pete your videos have been very very helpful for me and my lawn care business eventually I will get on your email list many thank you‘s from cut to the chase landscaping
Lawn looks absolutely stunning.
You’ve got the best lawn on CZcams 👍
Signed up for your email list. I gotta do the same thing to my lawn and edge it again. Kinda let the grass grow way over. You do what I normally do, except I'm gonna raise my edger blade a little
Pete, looks like a really good start to a compost pile!
That Allett mower seems like it has so many purposes. Looks like you got some good kindling out of the lawn.
Starting to get into lawn care live in Oklahoma . Love hearing all the lingo just about a yard it gets very technical
Allyn the lawn care nut is a huge helper! His knowledge has a huge range and I trust him, and for more entertaining yard work, I actually recommend fried eggs golf, a son and his dad have a backyard course (9 holes, all within 120 yards of pin) and vlog the process of managing it and play games on it. Great stuff!
Just subscribed to your channel! And looking forward to purchasing your care guides. Thank you for taking the time to teach myself and others the proper way to do things. God bless and be safe!!!
Whitney
Happy Easter weekend Pete. I hope the family is staying safe. I’m not sure a low cut would work here in Georgia. Even on the highest setting, we can struggle during peak summer months.
Nicely done! Lawn looks better already!
Pete thanks for planting seeds. God bless
Pete man I appreciate / respect you being 100
Hey Pete, great tips on dethatch.. Keep'em coming.
Allett make the best cylinder mowers period
Looks great because the turf is super healthy but I’m still liking the tall grass but that’s only because I don’t like battling weeds plus I like the tall grass because it leaves deeper and darker stripes! Pete still and always will have the best looking yard in his neighborhood and every other neighborhood around.
Awesome machine!
Liking the background music! 👍💯
Pete, maybe try growing grass in a small dedicated spot used specifically for back-up patching, like where you pulled the poa or for urine spots. As for raising the bar by further lowering the HOC @1.75 in, my guess would be better at 2 inches during July-August time frame. Hopefully your irrigation system will be the saving grace. Happy Easter! ~ mike
Looking forward to how this experiment turns out!
Beautiful grass you have😲😲👌👌👍👍 I just wish that I knew how to take care of my lawn like you do??😟😟
Now THAT is a lawn. I do not think I have ever wanted to lay down and roll around in some grass, but this lawn.. yeah, I'd do that!
Lawn has been so much better compared to everyone else since using your products, send me a sprayer, lol...
Ul find ul use less water and send the root system further down which will protect the grass against heat greetings from Ireland you got a great new mower there
Can't wait to see the battery allent work. could be intrested in purchasing it. Happy Easter Pete and family. stay safe. Keep up the great video
gonna film that after church tomorrow
Thanks for the chance to win Pete! Love your videos
God bless you Pete. I always enjoy your videos.
Great video and explanations Pete , hope to win a sprayer !! God bless you and your family and God Bless America!!!🤘
That's some really nice equipment. Wish I could do lawn care for a living. Much better to be outside in some grass than inside of a dirty concrete plant fixing shit.
I was looking at a few Power Equipment Rental places to see if any of them had a dethatcher for sale, but no luck. Thinking about doing lawns on the side. Tell you what, raking a yard full of thatch is not fun. I did my lawn last month with a tow behind. Was sore for a week. haha
Great job! Lawn looks amazing!
The stuff you pull out of your yard would look great in mine!!
I've been waiting a while for this video after seeing previews on Instagram
Looking great Pete!
Happy Easter!
You 2 bro!
Great looking lawn.
Dag gum You must have had a whirl wind of clippings behind you going down the road .... hahaha
Nice machine and a beautiful lawn
Your grass seed is working out well for me. Putting in customers yard.
thank you friend
Happy EASTER to you and your family thank you
Great video Pete...very educational. Did you realize your shirt colors were matching the color of the sky and grass.
had no clue
Looks great Pete. Happy Easter
You have a beautiful yard and property!
Wow, that's a lot of walking with that Thatcher, at the end of the day my legs would fall off. Not to mention that all of the thatch debris is in a pile that has to still be loaded into a truck. My system I've built requires little if any effort, it's a older john deere 445 with engine mounted turbo bagger unit that has a modified Thatcher unit. The Thatcher attachment is hydraulically controlled separately from the mower deck, I can drop the Thatcher on the dime to precise locations with no effort except to push or pull a hydralic lever, when the Thatcher drops the mower deck instantly sucks up the thatch without cutting the lawn because I have the engine speed turned down just enough to create lift for the thatch to be lifted off the lawn and the deck high enough where as it is not cutting the lawn. Every drop of the thatch which is then collected into the triple bagger unit, once full the bags are tossed into dump truck and ready for disposal. Once on the dump truck it's just a matter of taking the load to my private compost site and flipping a switch to dump the days load of thatch/yard waste onto the compost pile for mixing into topsoil for later use, once the compost and topsoil are ready for sale their is a ****bonus**** because all grass clippings & yard waste debris is mixed into my topsoil are sold as organic composted topsoil which is worth big $$$$ in the organic gardening world...
Btw Over aerating a lawn can lead to insect problems as a overly thick lawn leads to insects finding homes between the topsoil and the dead thatch layer which is almost always present in any lawn especially super thick lawns. (This then leads to having to treat the lawn for insect problems)
Happy Easter Pete!
Awesome stuff pete!
You not lying about it being a lot of work. Just did half my yard and it was like 15 50gal bags full. I’m trying something new to see how much of a difference it makes.
I bought some of your seed last fall, could have come in better if I hadnt left for a week, but it's coming along.
Got to love that Allett mower! Your yard is looking on point! Blessings to you and your family pray y’all stay safe: Psalm 91
Amen Brain!
Have a great Easter weekend Pete. ✝️
The stripes are popping looking good! Happy Resurrection Day Pete to you and your family!
I'm curious to see if you get more weeds in the shorter fescue. Thanks for taking one for the team!
Good question
I am curious as well
We're watching you up here in East bend North Carolina
That battery one... Dang, if I had the moneyyyyy!
Lol 1 3/4 in. I'd be mowing dirt half the time. Great yard bro.
What an awesome machine!!
If you have a lot of poa mixed in what’s the best way to get rid of it, put premergant down in the fall and spring maybe? Don’t really want to kill whole yard off
More great Lawn Care Education!
You just explained why you SHOULD NOT MULCH mow. Thatch chokes your turf. Bagging is king.
Looking good! Mine is starting to warm up
That Allett is impressive.👍
Pacific Northwest Lawns I think you misspelled ‘expensive’.
Hope ya ready to mowing every 2 or 3 days 🤣👌 keen as to see how this progresses over the season
My neighbor cut his fescue lawn at 1 1/2 inches and looks great all season but his lawn dries up quick . If he water his lawn which he does not it would look good. Myself I cut mine at 31/2 inch or on the highest setting my mower cuts and with proper irrigation I have the best lawn in the neighborhood.
I have been cutting tall fescue t 4" - 4.5" for 15 years...this is only a one time experiment I am doing this year
You are a hard worker! Between family and business it takes a lot of work.
@@Dstromb232 agreed
I love the carpet look of really short grass, but yeah I think it's easier to keep it healthy by keeping it longer.
Good job Pete. God bless
Ughhhh! I wish I would have known about this channel a few weeks ago...I've been looking for a backsprayer for weeks.
Can’t wait to see how you fix that KBG back there
My yard hasn't been cared for well last couple years due to too much going on in my life. I mowed it low the other week because it was badly matted and I wanted to just get a fresh even cut to start the year. I mowed it about 2" tall and bagged the clippings. After that the whole yard died, nothing but 2" thick of dense thatch. A couple days later virgin blades started popping through. I have a new yard now, but still unbelievable amounts of thatch. I'm not even going to attempt to "take care" of my yard anything like you do Pete. Not at this point in time. But I have been thinking about renting a de-thatcher to clean up the mess I created the last couple years from irregular mowing. I atleast want to mow it regularly this year.
Keep mowing it at that height and it'll kill off the weeds. Roots will eventually takeover the weeds since you're not letting them grow.
Just put the side blower attachment on and you'll be set
@@llamacebu216 That's what I'm doing anyway just by necessity, don't have time to do anything more. I did have to raise the deck one notch though, I was cutting dirt in several places. My yard was poorly graded and very uneven. The problem still remains, that thatch isn't gonna remove itself. Not untill it completely turns to dirt anyway, I'm curious how long that would take.
That homeowners Allett at the end looked fire.
bad to the bone bro
Hey Pete, hope the you and your family are staying happy and healthy. I just wanted to reach our for some advice if you got the time. Now when you dethatch will overseed also? Will you also be aerating your yard too? I live in Michigan and I’m in the midst of converting to an all Tall fescue yard and seeking advice on when to dethatch/aerate/overseed. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks
Hey Pete, you mentioned Mirimichi Green getting rid of your POA Tivialis. Can you tell us more about how you used it? I have sprayed yard every two weeks with Tenacity for about for the last two months and I still don't think it going to be eradicated. It is definitely damaged it, but it's still there.
Good gracious alive. Great video.
Keep putting preemergent where you’re pulling the trivialis. Fall preemergent. Plug it with grass from another area of lawn and seed THAT area.
That’s a bad machine there brother, I need this done on my yard I would be less afraid to do it with this machine
I think fescue looks good cut low because I like the tight look. I may be one of the very few who like fescue cut low. I've been cutting mine at 2.5" and I may go to 3" during the summer months. I went down to 1-7/8" when I overseeded, which is the lowest I've ever cut it. My fescue lawn produces very little if that, but when I had a 100% bluegrass lawn, I was dethatching at least every other year. Bluegrass provides a better looking lawn, in my opinion, but it requires more work than fescue. I am working more bluegrass seeds into my lawn now that I have pruned the trees and getting more sunlight on the lawn.
Interesting video - thanks.
Poa Trivialis is the enemy of my lawn in NJ. GCI tall fescue went down in the fall and looks great. Paul
Pete. How many times have you cut your lawn this year before power racking it. Third cut in NJ since March 16. Just wondering?
@@user-ly3du9pk2m at least 8-9 times so far
That mower is a beast with all the attachments. I have never detached my lawn but this video makes me think I should do it sometime. If I remember correctly the best time for cool season is in the early or late fall? Thanks again and Happy Easter!
early fall if you using a typical thatching machine
How's the maneuverability and maintenance on that larger Allet? We are still non essential here in MI.
I've been trying to find the retail on that electric reel mower. Can't find it anywhere...
I pull the non grass items out of the grass as well... Then i treat that area with a liquid killer to help kill any roots that didn't come up. Then i will replant that area after a couple weeks with grass.
Pete, don't mess around with that triv. Dig it / spray it out ASAP.
It’d be great to see if you can reduce chemicals needed for lawn maintenance this way. As well as risk reduction to yourself and your environment, cost reduction of products is another potential benefit.
You opinion on the allett I’m getting ready to purchase one
Ready to win a sprayer Pete - Happy Easter!
would it help to go in against the stripes you made to get even more out?