I ordered my GCI TTTF and it's on the way. Last year I didn't over seed because we have been in a drought for three years. Trees are dying even. I had a big oak I had to have cut down and the guys said they are backed up like crazy, that's how dry we have been. It happens every so many years in SE KS I just planted new grass when it started the next summer. The first summer I hit it hard with water and people would stop and even came to my door to ask what and how I did my yard. The next summer I didn't spend the money on watering other then to try and keep the roots alive best I could. This summer same dry, dry so I've lost even more grass. It was let it go or over seed and pray the drought is over next summer. That's what I'm doing.
I pumped water to my 2500sq ft yard all summer like crazy. It definitely shows it, i hope August is not at hot as june and July. Ill be doing a light dethatch then hopefully only spot seeding.
I’ve been in the same situation here in Concord, NC after full renovation with GCI Cool Blue last fall. I think I may overseed with GCI TTTF this fall and give up on the KBG. Being from KY, I love KBG, but without an irrigation system, and with the cost of city water, airbus a tough proposition here. After a brutal 6-7 weeks we started getting rain frequently in mid-July. Common Bermuda, Nutsedge, and white clover have all been trying to come back. I sprayed Sedgehammer a few days before tropical storm Debby dumped rain the last few days.
Your video gives me hope.. Charlotte, NC here.. had the same issues beginning of summer. Now, for the past 3+ weeks, we’ve getting daily torrential thunderstorms.. I’ve never in my life seen weather like this. It went from one extreme to the other. Now dealing with fungus
Pete, seeing you pulling the same garbage (c. Bermuda, nutsedge) makes me feel a whole lot better about mine. NE GA mtns here dealing with the same thing. Fall is coming!
Thank you as always Pete it’s definitely time to get excited for seeding and aerating! And get my order into GCI Turf this weekend!! God Bless Pete and your family!
Great Video! Can’t wait for aerating & over seeding. First week of September here in Northeast Ohio has been a perfect time. Hope all has been well Pete.
Live here just south of Baltimore. We've all been hammered this year! When I see a pro like you fighting Bermuda, I get a little discouraged with my little bit of knowledge. I have part of the front of my yard that gets that rotten wire grass, and I use tenacity all the time, but I hate the old man's white hair look. Maybe I'll try Drive xl next year. But for this fall there's a lot of dethatch and overseeding to be done.
Thanks for showing us your problems. I have nut sedge and creeping bent grass. I used mesotrione and it’s worked well. One more application and hopefully over seed.
If you're running a line that far, you might want to consider fiber. It looks like that's probably further than the max distance for twisted pair wire. Typically cat5 will only go about 320 feet. It's digital so an inch further than the max and you just get zero signal.
Per Ethernet standards, the maximum length of a Cat5e and Cat6 cable run is 100 meters (or 328 feet). It is possible to go further by using a POE repeater.
Pete, instead of running a hard line for internet just get a point to point system and shoot it wireless out to the shed. I e down the same thing works very well 👍🏾
@@GCITurf don’t use extenders use point to point, looks kind of like a dish. You just need line of sight. If you do decide on running a line only run fiber optic cable, no copper you will get hit will surge from lighting.
Just a thought to all who are overseeding this year who to those who run above ground gardening beds. Instead of traditional black cow/peatmoss combo or the mushroom dirt, try coconut dirt. The quality of mushroom dirt from our local landscaping/excavating company has gone downhill, meaning its got more mulch in it. I believe they are trying to stretch it out or just fool most,"shrinkflation". I found coconut dirt and its absolutely incredible. My flower beds and garden absolutely love it. I ordered enough for my spot overseed this year. Its pulverized coconut hulls. Neat stuff that absorbs and holds an incredible abount of water, buyer beware, its expensive
7 days ago I spread compost on my lawn in the Asheville NC area and overseeded it with GCI Turf type tall fescue and also some Kentucky Bluegrass seeds. I’ve been watering it frequently and lightly to keep the seeds moist. Now I’m noticing 3 to 5 inch white circles on the compost. I think it is actinomycetes from the compost. Is this something I should be concerned about hurting my lawn? Should I treat it with fungicide(s)? If so which fungicides? I've just changed my watering to less run time and also the last run time of the day has been moved to earlier in the day so it won't be so wet all night. Thank you in advance for your advice.
Pete you forgot to feed your lawn sunblock before 4th of july. IRON and dawn dish soap and skunky old beer. also you have to let it grow to 4" 4.25" to shade the soil from drying out and retain it's morning dew. it's only for the 90+ degree weather. 97/100ºF is no mow weather until it rains 3 times in a week
Same stuff I have crappy bermuda that I can't get rid of and nutsege and like you just waiting for fall. I guess this video was done before all the rain from the two tropical storms. I spoon fed in anticipation of the storms and things are looking better.
Buy a mesh router system for the house and the new modem/mesh for the shed. You can buy the mesh system at Costco. Works great throughout the house and yard. It’s pretty simple to use after you trench the cable.
Pete- you mentioned the compost application applied earlier this year, could that be the source of your fungus? I’m in south eastern PA, most of our compost is sourced from mushroom growers. If it’s fresh from the growhouse it is rather sterile but unfortunately you often don’t know what fungus spores are lurking the older it is.
If you run the cable yourself they recommend not going over 328 feet without using some kind of repeater. Keep that in mind. Also if you had a new client with a bunch of large bare spots in common bermuda would you seed it and risk the color not matching or let it fill in slowly?
Pete, I’d soap test around those cypromeria. We are seeing cutworms across NC and SC attacking fescue. Being they are nocturnal you wouldn’t see them during the day.
im looking move to north Georgia and was wondering what is the best brand mower to buy since im looking to buy some new mowers when I get there. I currently live in Illinois and use Scag vrides but what do you suggest for north Georgia ? Thanks!
I have dry 'hot spots' in the yard due to the dense clay soil. They either need the all day soaker rains or flooded with a garden hose to keep up with the rest of the yard. This yard probably needs 2" of rain per week so it don't dry out. Ideally had I known about this during the home build and final grading of the lot, I would have had spent the money on getting all that clay dozed out and had premium top soil put in, that is more grass friendly.
I'm trying Pylex this go around for my Bermuda problem. One app a couple weeks ago and two more set for before the first frost. Seeing some bleaching and die-off. Saw a YT vid from BASF on how they recommend doing it. They say it could still take a couple seasons. It's a dang fight for sure.
Pete, is there a way to definitively determine if a fungus issue has been completely eliminated before overseeding? Wouldn’t an unresolved fungus issue contaminate any new seeding? Tnx 🙏🏻
Do you always bag your clippings? I keep running into the issue of my clippings clumping when mowing after watering which then suffocates/kills the lawn.
Whoa whoa whoa…you can’t toss that little nugget out there and walk away! What’s the issue with peat moss? I learned that from you. I’ve used that method half a dozen times. I never noticed any issues with using it. Please elaborate my friend. Great video!
would you have to yard you do if you had to pay for water?? I know it cost electricity and the cost of putting in a well. But if you watered the same as you do now would your yard be as nice it is if you had to pay for water?
CAT6 run (Ethernet) to a wireless router in your shed/building. Assuming you'll want WiFi in your building along with the ability to plug in... "Wireless Router" / "WiFi Router" 😃
@@GCITurf really I watch you all the time. I told my wife just yesterday that I don’t want to meet no athletes or movie stars I’d like to meet guys like Pete. I like to meet people who love Jesus. Ps I’d like to reach out to you about what we spoke about earlier this year about the spray buddy. Is that cool?
@@GCITurf I usually throw in couple oz’s of Baby Shampoo in my spray tanks when I blanket spray. It wont alter the pH and it helps prepare the soil to receive water.
@@TheForestFarmsteadyeah I’ve used them many times in 20 years. I simply don’t have the time to make all the applications to my turf that I need to. Busy life 😅
Have you tried Mesotrione??? I used that to zap a patch of bermuda to restart with different variety Sprinkler that you turn on manually: try replacing solenoid
I will use this excuse for when someone comments on my yard. Genesis 3:18 Genesis 3:18 In-Context 18 The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, 19 sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."
@@GCITurf You ever think about making it so that we can post pictures of our yard on your website and ask for advice or to share information. I know every time I buy products off of your website, it asks me to post a picture for a discount. However, most of the time I do not because I have not gotten around to applying the product and I will be showing my yard without the product being applied. But I think it would be a great way to interact with your audience and you will be able to give some advice and maybe even link a product off of your website that you sell that would help them. And if anything, you will be able to see what things your audience is dealing with and then you can answer a couple questions at one time in a video or something.
This video make me feel so much better Pete thank you about realistic content on your home yard today this time of year
It is what it is...
@@GCITurf exactly it's God world 🙌🏼
You're like me "Let me just pull this one spot" 30 minutes later I can't stand up straight. 😂
I ordered my GCI TTTF and it's on the way. Last year I didn't over seed because we have been in a drought for three years. Trees are dying even. I had a big oak I had to have cut down and the guys said they are backed up like crazy, that's how dry we have been. It happens every so many years in SE KS I just planted new grass when it started the next summer. The first summer I hit it hard with water and people would stop and even came to my door to ask what and how I did my yard. The next summer I didn't spend the money on watering other then to try and keep the roots alive best I could. This summer same dry, dry so I've lost even more grass. It was let it go or over seed and pray the drought is over next summer. That's what I'm doing.
I pumped water to my 2500sq ft yard all summer like crazy. It definitely shows it, i hope August is not at hot as june and July. Ill be doing a light dethatch then hopefully only spot seeding.
I’ve been in the same situation here in Concord, NC after full renovation with GCI Cool Blue last fall. I think I may overseed with GCI TTTF this fall and give up on the KBG. Being from KY, I love KBG, but without an irrigation system, and with the cost of city water, airbus a tough proposition here. After a brutal 6-7 weeks we started getting rain frequently in mid-July. Common Bermuda, Nutsedge, and white clover have all been trying to come back. I sprayed Sedgehammer a few days before tropical storm Debby dumped rain the last few days.
Your video gives me hope.. Charlotte, NC here.. had the same issues beginning of summer. Now, for the past 3+ weeks, we’ve getting daily torrential thunderstorms.. I’ve never in my life seen weather like this. It went from one extreme to the other. Now dealing with fungus
yep, drought to drowning
Pete, seeing you pulling the same garbage (c. Bermuda, nutsedge) makes me feel a whole lot better about mine. NE GA mtns here dealing with the same thing. Fall is coming!
Thank you GCI turf for your content
@@Grinch83 appreciate you friend
Thank you as always Pete it’s definitely time to get excited for seeding and aerating! And get my order into GCI Turf this weekend!! God Bless Pete and your family!
Great Video! Can’t wait for aerating & over seeding. First week of September here in Northeast Ohio has been a perfect time. Hope all has been well Pete.
@@TaylorMadePM all good here. 8” of rain in 3 days from the hurricane. Dry today headed to play golf with my 2 boys
Broom works well. When our company was smaller back in the day we'd bring it with us in the springtime to de-thatch yards
Never seen Pete's yard look like this. Makes me feel better about mine, looks just like this.
Pete your grass looks amazing considering what we have been dealing with this season. I wish I had your problem. Blessings from CLT my Brother.
@@ogsan1296 love ya bro!
This vid has helped me more than you know. Ty sir
Wow Pete you are just like us. I thought you had gotten rid of that Bermuda but you got your problems just like the rest of us.
Live here just south of Baltimore. We've all been hammered this year! When I see a pro like you fighting Bermuda, I get a little discouraged with my little bit of knowledge. I have part of the front of my yard that gets that rotten wire grass, and I use tenacity all the time, but I hate the old man's white hair look. Maybe I'll try Drive xl next year. But for this fall there's a lot of dethatch and overseeding to be done.
Thanks for showing us your problems. I have nut sedge and creeping bent grass. I used mesotrione and it’s worked well. One more application and hopefully over seed.
If you're running a line that far, you might want to consider fiber. It looks like that's probably further than the max distance for twisted pair wire. Typically cat5 will only go about 320 feet. It's digital so an inch further than the max and you just get zero signal.
Per Ethernet standards, the maximum length of a Cat5e and Cat6 cable run is 100 meters (or 328 feet). It is possible to go further by using a POE repeater.
@@michaelmartin8235 I’ve got 300’ of line so we will see what happens 😅
I was going to say this same thing. Curious to see what happens when he tries this
Pete, instead of running a hard line for internet just get a point to point system and shoot it wireless out to the shed. I e down the same thing works very well 👍🏾
that's what I was thinking, like some sort of extender repeater system. work smarter not harder!
Tried 2-3 different ones. None worked. It’s to far away
@@GCITurf don’t use extenders use point to point, looks kind of like a dish. You just need line of sight. If you do decide on running a line only run fiber optic cable, no copper you will get hit will surge from lighting.
@@srttavares1 I had a professional set me up so it should be good to go 🤷🏻♂️
@@GCITurf can’t wait to see a video of how it turns out
Just a thought to all who are overseeding this year who to those who run above ground gardening beds. Instead of traditional black cow/peatmoss combo or the mushroom dirt, try coconut dirt. The quality of mushroom dirt from our local landscaping/excavating company has gone downhill, meaning its got more mulch in it. I believe they are trying to stretch it out or just fool most,"shrinkflation". I found coconut dirt and its absolutely incredible. My flower beds and garden absolutely love it. I ordered enough for my spot overseed this year. Its pulverized coconut hulls. Neat stuff that absorbs and holds an incredible abount of water, buyer beware, its expensive
7 days ago I spread compost on my lawn in the Asheville NC area and overseeded it with GCI Turf type tall fescue and also some Kentucky Bluegrass seeds. I’ve been watering it frequently and lightly to keep the seeds moist. Now I’m noticing 3 to 5 inch white circles on the compost. I think it is actinomycetes from the compost. Is this something I should be concerned about hurting my lawn? Should I treat it with fungicide(s)? If so which fungicides? I've just changed my watering to less run time and also the last run time of the day has been moved to earlier in the day so it won't be so wet all night. Thank you in advance for your advice.
Pete you forgot to feed your lawn sunblock before 4th of july. IRON and dawn dish soap and skunky old beer. also you have to let it grow to 4" 4.25" to shade the soil from drying out and retain it's morning dew. it's only for the 90+ degree weather. 97/100ºF is no mow weather until it rains 3 times in a week
@@aprilgeneric8027 thank you for the education. I appreciate it.
Same stuff I have crappy bermuda that I can't get rid of and nutsege and like you just waiting for fall. I guess this video was done before all the rain from the two tropical storms. I spoon fed in anticipation of the storms and things are looking better.
Buy a mesh router system for the house and the new modem/mesh for the shed. You can buy the mesh system at Costco. Works great throughout the house and yard. It’s pretty simple to use after you trench the cable.
@@robvolpi3247 that’s what I have. Just need to burry the cable
Pete- you mentioned the compost application applied earlier this year, could that be the source of your fungus? I’m in south eastern PA, most of our compost is sourced from mushroom growers. If it’s fresh from the growhouse it is rather sterile but unfortunately you often don’t know what fungus spores are lurking the older it is.
@@mattlane7888 I have no clue bro. That’s a great question that I’ll have to research.
Look forward to hearing what you learn, always enjoy your content and your HUSTLE!
If you run the cable yourself they recommend not going over 328 feet without using some kind of repeater. Keep that in mind. Also if you had a new client with a bunch of large bare spots in common bermuda would you seed it and risk the color not matching or let it fill in slowly?
@@David-qs4ih might be hard to match the color. I’d aerate the bare spots and push with N
Pete, I’d soap test around those cypromeria. We are seeing cutworms across NC and SC attacking fescue. Being they are nocturnal you wouldn’t see them during the day.
@@PaulSmith-yk5cp already did that. I’m clean
im looking move to north Georgia and was wondering what is the best brand mower to buy since im looking to buy some new mowers when I get there. I currently live in Illinois and use Scag vrides but what do you suggest for north Georgia ? Thanks!
You should try plugging the burmuda spots. that should get rid of it if you plug a large enough area.
Maple tree roots have a tendency to send out long runners
I have dry 'hot spots' in the yard due to the dense clay soil. They either need the all day soaker rains or flooded with a garden hose to keep up with the rest of the yard. This yard probably needs 2" of rain per week so it don't dry out. Ideally had I known about this during the home build and final grading of the lot, I would have had spent the money on getting all that clay dozed out and had premium top soil put in, that is more grass friendly.
After getting some grub damage in about 450 ft.² getting new sod bluegrass, perennial rye mix can’t wait Monday. 1st time getting sod.
Flauzifop works good on that Bermuda, but you have spray two or three lightly because it can put a wippin on the fescue
@@brandtstone7744 been there done that multiple times. You are correct it’s very hard on fescue
do you think an echo pas system broom would do good enough to beat the dead grass loose for better seed contact?
@@strykerv1620 probably so
I'm trying Pylex this go around for my Bermuda problem. One app a couple weeks ago and two more set for before the first frost. Seeing some bleaching and die-off. Saw a YT vid from BASF on how they recommend doing it. They say it could still take a couple seasons. It's a dang fight for sure.
Lack of rain yikes. It's rained 10-11 inches here in Michigan this month
Pete, do you pre-germinate your seed?
@@Sleytrader no. It’s a waste of my time IMO
Pete, is there a way to definitively determine if a fungus issue has been completely eliminated before overseeding? Wouldn’t an unresolved fungus issue contaminate any new seeding? Tnx 🙏🏻
Disease is almost always weather dictated.
Needing the BEST non selective herbicide. What is your go to?
@@chrisfisher916 best non selective I know of is round up - gciturfacademy.com/collections/cool-season-weed-control/products/gly-pho-sel-pro
Do you always bag your clippings? I keep running into the issue of my clippings clumping when mowing after watering which then suffocates/kills the lawn.
I rarely bag clippings. Like 1% of the time. Mow more often and the clippings won’t be as bad
Whoa whoa whoa…you can’t toss that little nugget out there and walk away! What’s the issue with peat moss? I learned that from you. I’ve used that method half a dozen times. I never noticed any issues with using it. Please elaborate my friend.
Great video!
would you have to yard you do if you had to pay for water?? I know it cost electricity and the cost of putting in a well. But if you watered the same as you do now would your yard be as nice it is if you had to pay for water?
Heck naw. No way I’d pay for county water to water my yard. Paying for water is nuts 😂
Pete im gon have a Sun Drop for ya!
Make sure you lay an extra conduit when you run your Ethernet cable for future use. Just in case lol
I want to make the switch to GCI from Johnathan green BBU any coupon codes out yet?
Where do you get your compost from? I’m in Eden
Do you know if you’ll be having any grass seed sales soon?
@@Los714 Black Friday is the next sale. Not sure if we will have one this fall
6:00 if you have moles or voles in the area, they like to chew the wires and tubes and create themselves a watering hole.
CAT6 run (Ethernet) to a wireless router in your shed/building. Assuming you'll want WiFi in your building along with the ability to plug in... "Wireless Router" / "WiFi Router" 😃
This must be a few days old Debbie brought a lot of rain on the east coast
correct I filmed this last week. All my videos are 1-2 weeks behind real time. I stopped rushing to edit them because hardly noone watches anymore.
@@GCITurf really I watch you all the time. I told my wife just yesterday that I don’t want to meet no athletes or movie stars I’d like to meet guys like Pete. I like to meet people who love Jesus.
Ps I’d like to reach out to you about what we spoke about earlier this year about the spray buddy. Is that cool?
@@P-47D_theJug email me anytime friend. And yes I would love to meet you someday! Jesus is KING! I appreciate you watching!
@@GCITurfwhat happened to the gal that was editing your vids for you?
@@kylemackenzie398 she’s still doing about 90% of them
I have to reseed my yrd. Every year after “killing” the Bermuda every summer
Did you ever try a Wi-Fi booster? Shouldn’t need to hard wire it.
@@dllanzy tried 2-3 different ones. None worked
@@GCITurf that stinks. I figured you tried. Just making sure
What about ornamec for the Bermuda?
It don’t work long term
Wouldn’t soil softener help with some of that?
@@TrentDobbs I’ve never heard of a soil softener. What do you recommend?
@@GCITurf I usually throw in couple oz’s of Baby Shampoo in my spray tanks when I blanket spray. It wont alter the pH and it helps prepare the soil to receive water.
The underhill H2O maximizer pellets work great on dry spots
@@GCITurfSounds like he’s referring to a wetting agent
@@TheForestFarmsteadyeah I’ve used them many times in 20 years. I simply don’t have the time to make all the applications to my turf that I need to. Busy life 😅
Can you overseed KBG?
Yes
What state do you live in ?
@@Charles-nk3ep NC
Have you tried Mesotrione??? I used that to zap a patch of bermuda to restart with different variety
Sprinkler that you turn on manually: try replacing solenoid
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I will use this excuse for when someone comments on my yard.
Genesis 3:18
Genesis 3:18 In-Context
18 The ground will sprout thorns and weeds, you'll get your food the hard way, Planting and tilling and harvesting, 19 sweating in the fields from dawn to dusk, Until you return to that ground yourself, dead and buried; you started out as dirt, you'll end up dirt."
@@christopherbriggs9526 ha ha. I’d call that a evidence based “reason”. It’s based on Gods holy word 🙌🏻
@@GCITurf You ever think about making it so that we can post pictures of our yard on your website and ask for advice or to share information. I know every time I buy products off of your website, it asks me to post a picture for a discount. However, most of the time I do not because I have not gotten around to applying the product and I will be showing my yard without the product being applied. But I think it would be a great way to interact with your audience and you will be able to give some advice and maybe even link a product off of your website that you sell that would help them. And if anything, you will be able to see what things your audience is dealing with and then you can answer a couple questions at one time in a video or something.
@@christopherbriggs9526 sounds like a great idea. Or you can email me the pictures and questions I’m glad to help
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