I love that you offer tips on how to get results with store bought products even though you sell an alternative. I watch you because you seem like a great person.
This guy is hands down the coolest guy in the lawn business. I’ve learned so much from him and thank you sir so much! I just build my house and getting into learning grass more and how to keep it healthy and beautiful, and you are helping me out so much. Also, your math example, your calculations, are spot on and so easy to understand and again thank you sir!
I swear by Hydretain. I had a new lawn sodded [KBG], and boy, did it need to be babied. My lawn has a slope, and the top tends to dry out. This stuff saved it from getting fried in 90+ temps. I just ordered my 2nd bag of 15lb from your site. Ironite is amazing. It evened out the color of my lawn.
Allen, well I followed your instructions for my St. Augustine. I put down 4 pallets, about 2000 sq ft, in February in Port St Joe Fl. It took about 4 weeks to tell that it was going to grow . Now on May 21st it is probably the star of the neighbor hood. I ordered your fertilizer and put it down 2 weeks ago this weekend. I really don't remember the name, but it is for greening it up and WOW my wife came home today and said Our lawn looks like that "guys" you follow on RUclips...LCN, and a neighbor honked today while I was mowing with a new push reel mower, he also gave me a thumbs up! Thank you!
This summer I used Hydratain for the first time. My lawn was drying out because of this South Florida HEAT!! I LOVE IT. Also used it at my dad house and the lawn started to fill in and looking healtier. I started to apply it to the plants in my workplace office. We have a Peace lily by the front door that came back to life after the Hydratain. I'm impressed!!
@Lua Dipa well you obviously don't understand why Alyn does what he does. He makes his videos entertaining so they aren't just 30 seconds of boring information. He purposely gives more information than necessaryso that new people can get involved and understand how to fix problems in their lawn. It would be incredibly boring if the videos were only 30 seconds. You should understand that a lot of people actually enjoy maintaining their lawn. If you look at lawn maintenance like work, you are in the wrong place.
Allyn...i live in ohio.. i was told about the "burn comment" that years ago people used agricultural strength products on their lawns and it did "burn" because it was so strong. Im almost 70 now and remember alot of people that tried it. I assume over the years better products were made without the strength of the old to prevent that. I enjoy all of your videos!
Folks, I'm here to say that everything that Allen says is 100% true. My yard was just ok until I started watching LCN videos. Following the simple steps and paying attention to what the lawn is telling me has produced the greenest and most watched lawn on my block. My neighbors call me the lawn whisper and have been asking me why my lawn is greener than the neighborhood truegreen treated lawns. I've just as of late started pointing thin to the LCN videos. Thank you so very much Allen. You have my full gratitude and respect. Keep up the good work.
Great video I have always used store bought products 20 years plus with great results but like you said this year I decided to try the pro products and my grass is much thicker.
Been a few year's since I've done anything but mow. Yard was looking great thank to Allen's full course of tips and tricks. No crab grass but broadleaf's have taken over this year. My neighbors yards are looking way better than mine. Have to get back on it this fall and spring.
@mimiroberts9901 I use 24D amine consentrate and mix with water by directions. 24D ester is probably a little better but ester is what I bought, it's a little cheaper. Add an ounce of surfactant per gallon, you can buy it or use soap or shampoo. That breaks the surface tension of the water and makes it spread over the leaves instead of bead giving more surface contact. There's probably better stuff on the market but it's a good start and should knock down most or all of your issues. Spray a second time before 2 weeks for stuff that is just stunted.
We just moved into our new house in West Palm four months ago and I found your videos a few months back after our HOA sent a letter about our grass looking yellow and dead. Thanks to you I have the best looking lawn on the block. I dropped some stress blend down last month and picked up a four pack off lawn mastery. The RGS and and Humic 12 are no joke and if I don’t mow twice a week now the St. Aug goes crazy. Thanks Allen and can’t wait to drop some Sunniland Iron down next week now
I could never be on the HOA those people are crazy!!! I helped our new next store neighbor drop down Sunniland 6-4-0 this weekend and the smell is impressive!!!!!!
I love Ironite, used it for the first time this spring and noticed a huge difference! This summer I have decided to try out liquids, so I splurged and bought a backpack sprayer, and bought a gallon of the Hydretain on your website. My cool season grass has been very stressed from the unusual 90's we've been having every day with no rain, so hoping this product helps. I figured it was also a better liquid product to put down for a first timer, as liquid fertilizers would burn the lawn if over applied. I'm still planning to use only water in my sprayer for the first time, to see how much I use with my walking pace, along with getting use to the sprayer. I'm still scared of liquids so I'd rather not chance it :)
Hydretain.....thank you for this info as I am admittedly ignorant on this, should work well in my area where we are under constant water restrictions. Your video has me excited again about doing my own yard work. Seems like all the commercial grass care people do is just slap on more fertilizer and my yard still looks like crap....that changes today!!
Just want to thank you for making these videos. I built a new home last year and the sod was laid in our dry season here in south fl and it was terrible. Now I have it looking great.
Nice video. Cool season midwest guy. Follow local dyna green plan. Usually add ironite in May to supplement and get extra green and then July 1st when there’s no step due to summer heat I throw down milo to give that summer time green up while most other lawns are struggling. Domination! I’m also a believer in fungicide. Use monthly late May to late July and alternate as this can help fix that yellow/brown blades you see mixed in that can take away a green lawn when there’s high humidity or nighttime rain.
Great video. I too am in Florida ( West Coast ) and watch people all the time try to take care of St Augustine turf and they are clueless to the needs, I will recommend your channel. In your video you mentioned that your under a fertilizer ban, I think it would be very beneficial if you explained why. I am a fisherman that loves to fish the grass flats of Florida and have seen first hand how bad red tide will affect our fisheries. Although there is not concrete evidence pointing to Nitrogen run off it seems very logical to me. The use of Iron in the summertime as a supplement is a great idea. Keep up the good work spreading knowledge.
I'm in my 60's and growing up the adults used drop spreaders to fertilize and ended up with alternating green and yellow stripes. The overlap burned the lawn. Now most people use broadcast spreaders and like you said, the products are better.
Thank you soooooo much for great information. I've been really struggling with my lawn. I've watch other videos on what to do and what not to do to your lawn in hot summer months. None of them mentioned using iron. Also great information on fertilizers.
Really good information. I think the best so far. I m a new Gardner and made so much points clear. Thank you and love the way you explain exactly what to do about measurements really helps Thank you
when checking for plants grasses having enough water there’s a certain time of day plants will act look like they are in desperate need of water but they are actually using a defense method to protect themselves and once it cools off they will perk back up just like when watering I’ve noticed this happening in the SoCal heat the last few weeks obviously if you haven’t watered lately or don’t check on things regularly they probably are desperately in need of water.
I remember when Milo (coincidentally my dogs name) was $11/bag and nearly impossible to find. Now it's $16/bag and easily found with plenty of competitors out there. I still throw it down during the summer heat, but they should be throwing a little commission your way for building the brand!
Great video and it goes to show, for me at least, I'm learning a lot from you. Really appreciate your experience and knowledge, my grass was looking really down at the beginning of June and I decided to throw some ironite down, now my grass is doing a lot better and much greener and is due to one of your previous videos you mention to not over feed the lawn with nitrogen, almost two months later you make a video with the product I thought would be close to what you were talking about, I have also bought some of your carbon x early spring and had great result, as a first time home owner for a little over a year now, thank you for all your hard work!
Thank you for the videos! I'm in Maryland and bought an acre of land. It was nice after the weed n feed in the spring but now it's dead and over loaded with thatch. Most of the green is from crabgrass. I will dethatch with a machine from home depot and put down tall fescue or K bluegrass seed. What can I use to fertilize that wont stunt the new seedlings?
Key ingredient, water. I’ve never put anything on my lawn after spring until fall except water. Bluegrass and fescue stayed bright green every summer. After 4 years, roots were down 6-10”.
My pet peve is i don't cut before 630pm in the summer (in NC). If you cut healthy grass in the heat of the day, it will dry and wilt in the scorching heat.
Hey LCN, I burned my lawn almos 2 months ago with scotts weed and feed, I followed exact instructions and also set my scotts spreader however I realized it was dropping too much product very late. Now is all burned and not recovering, I started watering night and morning and almost the same burn yet, how can I fix? Thanks
Great Vedeo! My 2¢: Spend more money on Fertilizers that have no UREA or certainly where Urea is no more than 50% of total Nitrogen: if you can budget it. This pretty much rules out "big box" stores. I got Summer Patch here in Chicago last year when the monsoons of late July turned into the Mohovie desert sun and winds in August. My Scotts Step ONE is 7.20% Ammonical N and 8.30% "other water soluble" N and 11.70 % Urea N: approximately 43.00% Urea. Bought the bag before I learned that the Fusarium Blight fungus, now broken in to Summer Patch and Necrotic Ring Spot, former causing me to tear-out and replace my lawn at 2.35/sq.ft. x 486 square feet, gennerally have had Urea Nitrogen applied in the past. Perhaps Urea in Polymur may help avoid the fungus. However, after taking a kick to my crotch over a grand last summer in lawn replacement, I will now just look harder and spend more dough for higher quality Nitrogen in fsrtilizer to include looking in farm supply stores and just chalk it up to fungus insurance along with my fungicide applications.
thanks for the video, its an intresting way to go about getting better color . i go about it differently, i lime my turf during dormancy so as to adjust the pH, then in spring, after some months have passed and the pH has adjusted and unlocked the turf, i put out a 28-3-10 (50% slow release) with 5% iron, i always get a great result from doing it this way. the ironite way works ok, but i find ironite is short lived compared to doing it the way i do it.
For my St. Augustine here in Greater Fort Lauderdale I just water every day, no fert, occasional weed killer like three times a year at most, and mow every three to four days in the summer and once a week for the other seasons.
When I first started, I definitely "burned" my lawn using a Scott's product. It was 100% MY fault. I put it down like it was Milo, really heavy, and my lawn turned brown for that season. I couldn't recover it fully, even watering it like mad. This was on a newer lawn though too, so that played a part. But I've learned "go by the label", measure accordingly, and less is always better than more.
Same happened to me even by following exact instructions from the back label for Scott’s weed and feed product. Mine is still brown after 2 months, how to recover? I have been watering but no progress, I have read in blogs that it will be left with bald spots after 6 months of “recovery”....
@@andresarme, Welp, I don't want to give you bad news, but in my experience, you won't be able to recover this year. It's like there's too much salt or something in the soil once you put too much fertilizer down. My grass turned brown, thinned out big time, and it actually took another full season to recover in my case. I even tried watering it repeatedly, everyday trying to dilute the excess fertilizer, but it still killed off my lawn. I did this my first year getting into lawn care. I threw the Scott's down like it was Milo and it was a huge mistake. I could see my lawn dieing within 2 days, and within a week, it was a disaster. I was sooooo pissed. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do but give it time once you've dropped excess fertilizer.
Drewg351 thank you for replying, great answer actually, now I definitely can set my expectations correctly. At this point my brain kind of told me that already but my hope was expecting a miracle. This is also my first year taking care of my lawn :( I’ll keep watering and waiting. Thank you again ;)
@@andresarme, yup. I researched online "what to do if you put too much fert down on your lawn" and it's pretty abysmal. The only thing you can try is heavy watering to dilute it somewhat, but it didn't work for me. Since that mistake, I've learned "less is more" if you're not using an organic fert. With organics like Milo, it's virtually error proof. You can go heavy with zero worries. The Scott's Fertilizer, it's best to apply strictly as recommended, and NOT just "throw er down". Best of luck. Sorry to hear about your dilemma. Good news is, it will eventually come back.
I know you have lots of experience walking out the square footage, but for inexperienced LCNs, the iPhone has a measurement tool built in to the phone using the camera if you want a more precise measurement.
I’m surprised I never saw this video last year but it popped up just now. I’ve NEVER heard of this Hydretain product and we live in an area with severe water restrictions. I’m DEFINITELY picking some of this up for our shrubs and flowers AND my lawn!
I just bought a house in South Dakota and the lawn (not sure what type of grass) was dormant and soil is hard clay... I put down starter fertilizer and holy cow it went nuts! Luckily I got the fertilizer down before our last snow and so I didn't even need to water it in.
You sir have helped me turn my new construction lawn into something I'm proud off . THANK YOU! was wondering if you have any tips on how to adjust cutting height on a push mower so that it can cut higher than manufactured preset? Basically I'm broke and cant afford an upgrade with a cut height of 4" 😊
So informative. I planted Bermuda in full sun, looked beautiful but developed yellowing to brown spots…l was told it was fungus. If so what fungicide can use and l apply during summer without burning my lawn 🔥 😮 Thanks, Rose
I just recently applied Ironite to my lawn and within a week my lawn was a beautiful green. It is also my understanding that this can be used in addition to your NPK dose.
Eyeballing it on the first shot I bet gives the same awesome feeling as when you’re doing laundry and you happen to grab the exact number of clothes hangers that you need🤣
The new ironite bags says to put a spreader setting of 5 on a Scott’s turf builder edge guard. 2 bags should have covered my 10,000 sqft lawn. I’m now having to go purchase 2 more bags. I think the setting 3 is still accurate.
Thanks for the video, is Ironite a one-and-done product until next summer? I would like to know "when to spread" these in my lawn: 1. Spread Ironite 2. 9-10 days later spread Vigoro or Milorganite 3. When can you spread more Ironite?
This video is full of knowledge. Thank you for taking the time teaching us about our lawn. I’m officially a lawn nut! Just purchased your stress blend fertilizer. I’m also subscribed to your weekly emails and I’m a member on Facebook! I’m excited about learning all I can.
The Hydretain plant is in partial shade so of course it would do better than the middle plant in full sun. A better way of testing would be to either test both plants with and without hydretain across similar days or you could move both plants to within inches of each other in the sun. Your yard mastery video on the same subject is far more convincing.
hey TLCN, I have got good news I pick up my toro super recycler, unfortunately, i do need to bag my lawn as it has a lot of winter seeds about to drop and I'm just starting to get my lawn in order for summer grass (Australian here)so I'll bag my front lawn but my back lawn i can just recycle it.
Totally off subject, but I love that UV covering over the pool and patio area. Was thinking about something similar to this for my home. Would love to see it in a full video of it's own.
I must be doing something right... I've intuitively done the "circle dance". lol I think this is what my lawn needs. I've watered regularly, but had mower problems and it ended up NOT being a dull blade issue. But I wasted half the season hacking my lawn and trying to troubleshoot it. *DOH!* Issue solved and now I'm dealing with a damaged lawn.
Very helpful video, quick question, I got about 3 acres and the big problem I have is, weed grass growing everywhere faster and taller than the grass, how can I get rid of it?
it depends on what the problems grass is, and what your grass type is. You will want to get a positive ID of both before taking a course of action forward.
I see a lot of videos and articles about adding potassium in the Summer to help combat stress. If you did a soil test in the Spring on a cool season lawn and your potassium was optimal is it wise to still add it in the Summer? If so, how much before it is too much and affects your numbers negatively? Or if its to supplement what is lost in the Summer during stress how much on average would be okay to add how often? I never see anyone talk about that. I have looked and looked but everyone either talks about adding it for stress with no guidelines or scenarios or they talk about it for deficiencies (Which seems obvious). If you're optimal in the Spring should you not add any at all in the Summer to combat stress even if it may look a little stressed? I'm struggling to understand. Thank you for all that you do and your great content!!! I always look forward to watching your videos here and listening to you on Lawns Across America.
I noticed some hitch hikers on your left arm or at least that’s what we call them. I believe they are called beggar lice or something like that. I always pick some up while walking thru the woods in the summer. Love the videos.
Enjoy your videos because your very informative and full of great facts. I do use the first product that you use in this video but should I be watering everyday ? Thanks for all your help
I happy I came across your channel…We recently moved to FL and had St.Augustine grass installed in our back yard about a month ago - I just fertilized it with Scott’s turf builder bonus S weed and feed about a week ago and noticed yesterday that the center of our yard is thinning. I will admit I did not water for a few days in hopes it would rain. It’s still green - but will it thicken back up? Will the ironite help? Thanks so much!
Thank you for the great video. I have a centipede lawn that I dropped some milorganite down on about 2 months ago (Florida Panhandle). I want to get one more fert down before the cool down season. I though centipede fert was 15-0-15 but all the stuff in this video is well above that. That's not a concern?
In GA, had some spurge popping up around the yard. Put down spurge power as a spot treatment... worked well, but now I have a bunch of brown circles in my grass. It’s been two weeks, any idea when that’ll bounce back? Would ironing help it along?
Safe the $50 people and put it towards a bit better / nicer of a spreader!! The scotts ones for $54 are really worth about $19 tops imo.. Tractor Supply has really nice higher end models.
I love that you offer tips on how to get results with store bought products even though you sell an alternative. I watch you because you seem like a great person.
This guy is hands down the coolest guy in the lawn business. I’ve learned so much from him and thank you sir so much! I just build my house and getting into learning grass more and how to keep it healthy and beautiful, and you are helping me out so much. Also, your math example, your calculations, are spot on and so easy to understand and again thank you sir!
And he's also a math wizard !!!! sorry I have to find something a little simpler you are way over my head .
Him and BYD for sure
I swear by Hydretain. I had a new lawn sodded [KBG], and boy, did it need to be babied. My lawn has a slope, and the top tends to dry out. This stuff saved it from getting fried in 90+ temps. I just ordered my 2nd bag of 15lb from your site. Ironite is amazing. It evened out the color of my lawn.
One of the most important videos online about lawn burn. Powerful. Great work.
Allen, well I followed your instructions for my St. Augustine. I put down 4 pallets, about 2000 sq ft, in February in Port St Joe Fl. It took about 4 weeks to tell that it was going to grow . Now on May 21st it is probably the star of the neighbor hood. I ordered your fertilizer and put it down 2 weeks ago this weekend. I really don't remember the name, but it is for greening it up and WOW my wife came home today and said Our lawn looks like that "guys" you follow on RUclips...LCN, and a neighbor honked today while I was mowing with a new push reel mower, he also gave me a thumbs up! Thank you!
And just like that, you became my go to lawn expert! Im longterm from this point forward now!
Oh man, imagine being the LCN's neighbor. "Can I do a treatment on your lawn?" Um....HELL YEAH!
[In my Stone Cold Steve Austin voice...]
Well HELL YEAHHHHH!!!
🍻👍😎👍🍻
Who knew lawn care could be fun?!
This summer I used Hydratain for the first time. My lawn was drying out because of this South Florida HEAT!! I LOVE IT. Also used it at my dad house and the lawn started to fill in and looking healtier. I started to apply it to the plants in my workplace office. We have a Peace lily by the front door that came back to life after the Hydratain. I'm impressed!!
awesome !!!
dad's house vs dad house
I see there's thumbs down on this video. I don't understand how anybody could find anything negative here.
Great video as usual. Thumbs up from me!!
Thank you !!
@Lua Dipa well you obviously don't understand why Alyn does what he does. He makes his videos entertaining so they aren't just 30 seconds of boring information. He purposely gives more information than necessaryso that new people can get involved and understand how to fix problems in their lawn. It would be incredibly boring if the videos were only 30 seconds. You should understand that a lot of people actually enjoy maintaining their lawn. If you look at lawn maintenance like work, you are in the wrong place.
@Lua Dipa I got that video to Lua - 48 seconds tells you everything ruclips.net/video/hzDRVxkYvV8/видео.html
@Lua Dipa yeah and it's probably boring as shit.
When his videos are sponsored, he let's people know. His sponsorships are very rare
Plain jealousy!!!
Allyn...i live in ohio.. i was told about the "burn comment" that years ago people used agricultural strength products on their lawns and it did "burn" because it was so strong. Im almost 70 now and remember alot of people that tried it. I assume over the years better products were made without the strength of the old to prevent that. I enjoy all of your videos!
the ole "my buddy the farmer gave me some stuff" trick - I've been there before too!
Folks, I'm here to say that everything that Allen says is 100% true. My yard was just ok until I started watching LCN videos. Following the simple steps and paying attention to what the lawn is telling me has produced the greenest and most watched lawn on my block. My neighbors call me the lawn whisper and have been asking me why my lawn is greener than the neighborhood truegreen treated lawns. I've just as of late started pointing thin to the LCN videos. Thank you so very much Allen. You have my full gratitude and respect. Keep up the good work.
Love it! It's awesome when you put in the work and get the rsults and others notice!! 👊
@@TheLawnCareNut 👊
Great video I have always used store bought products 20 years plus with great results but like you said this year I decided to try the pro products and my grass is much thicker.
nice!
Been a few year's since I've done anything but mow. Yard was looking great thank to Allen's full course of tips and tricks. No crab grass but broadleaf's have taken over this year. My neighbors yards are looking way better than mine. Have to get back on it this fall and spring.
never a better time to start than now! you got this bro!
What do you use to get rid if broadleafs? I'm in Georgia and I have Bermuda sod.
@mimiroberts9901 I use 24D amine consentrate and mix with water by directions. 24D ester is probably a little better but ester is what I bought, it's a little cheaper. Add an ounce of surfactant per gallon, you can buy it or use soap or shampoo. That breaks the surface tension of the water and makes it spread over the leaves instead of bead giving more surface contact.
There's probably better stuff on the market but it's a good start and should knock down most or all of your issues. Spray a second time before 2 weeks for stuff that is just stunted.
Wow huge difference in your neighbors yard. A benevolent dominator.
We just moved into our new house in West Palm four months ago and I found your videos a few months back after our HOA sent a letter about our grass looking yellow and dead. Thanks to you I have the best looking lawn on the block. I dropped some stress blend down last month and picked up a four pack off lawn mastery. The RGS and and Humic 12 are no joke and if I don’t mow twice a week now the St. Aug goes crazy. Thanks Allen and can’t wait to drop some Sunniland Iron down next week now
Love it!!! You should fun for president of the HOA now!
I could never be on the HOA those people are crazy!!! I helped our new next store neighbor drop down Sunniland 6-4-0 this weekend and the smell is impressive!!!!!!
I take it you are not under a fert ban?
You bought a house knowing it’s part of an HOA? Wow!
My lawn and I both love pumping some iron
it shows.
Thanks for all the detailed advice you bring us Allyn! Not just the how's, but the why's. Great content keep it coming!
thank you for watching Brett!
I love Ironite, used it for the first time this spring and noticed a huge difference! This summer I have decided to try out liquids, so I splurged and bought a backpack sprayer, and bought a gallon of the Hydretain on your website. My cool season grass has been very stressed from the unusual 90's we've been having every day with no rain, so hoping this product helps. I figured it was also a better liquid product to put down for a first timer, as liquid fertilizers would burn the lawn if over applied. I'm still planning to use only water in my sprayer for the first time, to see how much I use with my walking pace, along with getting use to the sprayer. I'm still scared of liquids so I'd rather not chance it :)
SJ maybe water more or different time
Hydretain.....thank you for this info as I am admittedly ignorant on this, should work well in my area where we are under constant water restrictions. Your video has me excited again about doing my own yard work. Seems like all the commercial grass care people do is just slap on more fertilizer and my yard still looks like crap....that changes today!!
Perfect personality for this role.
Just want to thank you for making these videos. I built a new home last year and the sod was laid in our dry season here in south fl and it was terrible. Now I have it looking great.
I use a $10 Sprinkler in the mornings works awesome!!
Exactly, and water in the late afternoon for 10 or 15 minutes to avoid heat stress.
Nice video. Cool season midwest guy. Follow local dyna green plan. Usually add ironite in May to supplement and get extra green and then July 1st when there’s no step due to summer heat I throw down milo to give that summer time green up while most other lawns are struggling. Domination! I’m also a believer in fungicide. Use monthly late May to late July and alternate as this can help fix that yellow/brown blades you see mixed in that can take away a green lawn when there’s high humidity or nighttime rain.
Great video. I too am in Florida ( West Coast ) and watch people all the time try to take care of St Augustine turf and they are clueless to the needs, I will recommend your channel. In your video you mentioned that your under a fertilizer ban, I think it would be very beneficial if you explained why. I am a fisherman that loves to fish the grass flats of Florida and have seen first hand how bad red tide will affect our fisheries. Although there is not concrete evidence pointing to Nitrogen run off it seems very logical to me. The use of Iron in the summertime as a supplement is a great idea. Keep up the good work spreading knowledge.
I'm in my 60's and growing up the adults used drop spreaders to fertilize and ended up with alternating green and yellow stripes. The overlap burned the lawn. Now most people use broadcast spreaders and like you said, the products are better.
I really luv your vids because you explain everything including comparing prices with Home Depot and Lowe’s. Thank you Sir for sharing your knowledge!
glad you like it! Hope you get awesome results!
Thank you soooooo much for great information. I've been really struggling with my lawn. I've watch other videos on what to do and what not to do to your lawn in hot summer months. None of them mentioned using iron. Also great information on fertilizers.
Really good information. I think the best so far. I m a new Gardner and made so much points clear. Thank you and love the way you explain exactly what to do about measurements really helps
Thank you
when checking for plants grasses having enough water there’s a certain time of day plants will act look like they are in desperate need of water but they are actually using a defense method to protect themselves and once it cools off they will perk back up just like when watering I’ve noticed this happening in the SoCal heat the last few weeks obviously if you haven’t watered lately or don’t check on things regularly they probably are desperately in need of water.
I remember when Milo (coincidentally my dogs name) was $11/bag and nearly impossible to find. Now it's $16/bag and easily found with plenty of competitors out there. I still throw it down during the summer heat, but they should be throwing a little commission your way for building the brand!
if I had a dog, I'd name him Milo too.
Each Spring season Ace Hardware Stores run a sale on milorganite for $7.99 a bag
It's more like 20 bucks a bag now and I'm really mad at LCN for causing the price to go up!
Great video and it goes to show, for me at least, I'm learning a lot from you. Really appreciate your experience and knowledge, my grass was looking really down at the beginning of June and I decided to throw some ironite down, now my grass is doing a lot better and much greener and is due to one of your previous videos you mention to not over feed the lawn with nitrogen, almost two months later you make a video with the product I thought would be close to what you were talking about, I have also bought some of your carbon x early spring and had great result, as a first time home owner for a little over a year now, thank you for all your hard work!
Great to hear you are getting results and gaining experience! That's the most rewarding part!
Will stress blend help with the summer heat.
Nice to see it work North, South, East, West and Down Under in Australia.
Thank you for the videos! I'm in Maryland and bought an acre of land. It was nice after the weed n feed in the spring but now it's dead and over loaded with thatch. Most of the green is from crabgrass. I will dethatch with a machine from home depot and put down tall fescue or K bluegrass seed. What can I use to fertilize that wont stunt the new seedlings?
Key ingredient, water. I’ve never put anything on my lawn after spring until fall except water. Bluegrass and fescue stayed bright green every summer. After 4 years, roots were down 6-10”.
Excellent video presentation's. Live in southern Ontario Canada but value your expertise on lawn care.
My pet peve is i don't cut before 630pm in the summer (in NC). If you cut healthy grass in the heat of the day, it will dry and wilt in the scorching heat.
The week is not complete without an LCN video! 👍
Thank you!
Im addicted to fertilizing my lawn. I purchased screamin green and stress blend two days apart.
After watching your videos, I need to start taking better care of my lawn.
Thanks for sharing 👍👍
that's the idea!
Thank you ....I need to add .....finally someone mentioned the best type ...thanks ....thumbs up and I subscribed
Hey LCN, I burned my lawn almos 2 months ago with scotts weed and feed, I followed exact instructions and also set my scotts spreader however I realized it was dropping too much product very late. Now is all burned and not recovering, I started watering night and morning and almost the same burn yet, how can I fix? Thanks
Pool cage came out nice 👌
I appreciate the insight on the hydretain. Definitely picking up some of this stuff...
Thanks bro! It really expanded our living space, super cool.
Great Vedeo!
My 2¢: Spend more money on Fertilizers that have no UREA or certainly where Urea is no more than 50% of total Nitrogen: if you can budget it. This pretty much rules out "big box" stores.
I got Summer Patch here in Chicago last year when the monsoons of late July turned into the Mohovie desert sun and winds in August.
My Scotts Step ONE is 7.20% Ammonical N and 8.30% "other water soluble" N and 11.70 % Urea N: approximately 43.00% Urea. Bought the bag before I learned that the Fusarium Blight fungus, now broken in to Summer Patch and Necrotic Ring Spot, former causing me to tear-out and replace my lawn at 2.35/sq.ft. x 486 square feet, gennerally have had Urea Nitrogen applied in the past.
Perhaps Urea in Polymur may help avoid the fungus. However, after taking a kick to my crotch over a grand last summer in lawn replacement, I will now just look harder and spend more dough for higher quality Nitrogen in fsrtilizer to include looking in farm supply stores and just chalk it up to fungus insurance along with my fungicide applications.
And.... Another Great video for my records on lawn care. Thank you!
you're welcome! thank you for watching.
It amazing how much knowledge you be laying down. Thanks
Great no nonsense guide, I appreciate this video and will return for more information.
thanks for the video, its an intresting way to go about getting better color . i go about it differently, i lime my turf during dormancy so as to adjust the pH, then in spring, after some months have passed and the pH has adjusted and unlocked the turf, i put out a 28-3-10 (50% slow release) with 5% iron, i always get a great result from doing it this way. the ironite way works ok, but i find ironite is short lived compared to doing it the way i do it.
For my St. Augustine here in Greater Fort Lauderdale I just water every day, no fert, occasional weed killer like three times a year at most, and mow every three to four days in the summer and once a week for the other seasons.
Allyn the lanai looks GREAT! I might have to do that over my entire house. Make it like an old school Holiday Inn Holidome.
Ha ha !!
I've been mowing my grass 3 times per week since march.. I'm in west TX, bermuda grass , looking beautiful 😎🤠
When I first started, I definitely "burned" my lawn using a Scott's product. It was 100% MY fault. I put it down like it was Milo, really heavy, and my lawn turned brown for that season. I couldn't recover it fully, even watering it like mad. This was on a newer lawn though too, so that played a part. But I've learned "go by the label", measure accordingly, and less is always better than more.
Same happened to me even by following exact instructions from the back label for Scott’s weed and feed product. Mine is still brown after 2 months, how to recover? I have been watering but no progress, I have read in blogs that it will be left with bald spots after 6 months of “recovery”....
@@andresarme, Welp, I don't want to give you bad news, but in my experience, you won't be able to recover this year. It's like there's too much salt or something in the soil once you put too much fertilizer down. My grass turned brown, thinned out big time, and it actually took another full season to recover in my case. I even tried watering it repeatedly, everyday trying to dilute the excess fertilizer, but it still killed off my lawn. I did this my first year getting into lawn care. I threw the Scott's down like it was Milo and it was a huge mistake. I could see my lawn dieing within 2 days, and within a week, it was a disaster. I was sooooo pissed. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do but give it time once you've dropped excess fertilizer.
Drewg351 thank you for replying, great answer actually, now I definitely can set my expectations correctly. At this point my brain kind of told me that already but my hope was expecting a miracle. This is also my first year taking care of my lawn :( I’ll keep watering and waiting. Thank you again ;)
@@andresarme, yup. I researched online "what to do if you put too much fert down on your lawn" and it's pretty abysmal. The only thing you can try is heavy watering to dilute it somewhat, but it didn't work for me. Since that mistake, I've learned "less is more" if you're not using an organic fert. With organics like Milo, it's virtually error proof. You can go heavy with zero worries. The Scott's Fertilizer, it's best to apply strictly as recommended, and NOT just "throw er down". Best of luck. Sorry to hear about your dilemma. Good news is, it will eventually come back.
I know you have lots of experience walking out the square footage, but for inexperienced LCNs, the iPhone has a measurement tool built in to the phone using the camera if you want a more precise measurement.
Thanks for this info as I want to measure lawn area.
I’m surprised I never saw this video last year but it popped up just now. I’ve NEVER heard of this Hydretain product and we live in an area with severe water restrictions. I’m DEFINITELY picking some of this up for our shrubs and flowers AND my lawn!
Thanks, years hired professional lawn feeding, doing mine this year. Lots of moss out back, thanks on Ironite and Milorgainite
Really appreciate your effort to explain what and why. Very informative, again appreciate it.
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I just bought a house in South Dakota and the lawn (not sure what type of grass) was dormant and soil is hard clay... I put down starter fertilizer and holy cow it went nuts! Luckily I got the fertilizer down before our last snow and so I didn't even need to water it in.
You sir have helped me turn my new construction lawn into something I'm proud off . THANK YOU! was wondering if you have any tips on how to adjust cutting height on a push mower so that it can cut higher than manufactured preset? Basically I'm broke and cant afford an upgrade with a cut height of 4" 😊
What a great tutorial! I didn’t intend to watch it all but it didn’t seem like 28 minutes
If you care about your lawn watch this channel. Develop your fall and spring plan of attack.
So informative. I planted Bermuda in full sun, looked beautiful but developed yellowing to brown spots…l was told it was fungus. If so what fungicide can use and l apply during summer without burning my lawn 🔥 😮 Thanks, Rose
Great stuff. Can’t wait to get back at it! It’s been a loooong winter.
Hey 17 here (I’m weird lol) The good thing about living in Texas is that I can grow grass constantly
I just recently applied Ironite to my lawn and within a week my lawn was a beautiful green. It is also my understanding that this can be used in addition to your NPK dose.
yep, sure can.
Eyeballing it on the first shot I bet gives the same awesome feeling as when you’re doing laundry and you happen to grab the exact number of clothes hangers that you need🤣
The new ironite bags says to put a spreader setting of 5 on a Scott’s turf builder edge guard. 2 bags should have covered my 10,000 sqft lawn. I’m now having to go purchase 2 more bags. I think the setting 3 is still accurate.
It’s funny how some people don’t like ironite. It works great in summer time for both cool and warm season grasses.
This works on Kentucky bluegrass?
Thanks for the video, is Ironite a one-and-done product until next summer? I would like to know "when to spread" these in my lawn:
1. Spread Ironite
2. 9-10 days later spread Vigoro or Milorganite
3. When can you spread more Ironite?
ironite twice in summer about 60 days apart would be fine if you are applying regular fert (vigoro) also
Thanks for covering what you covered. Wow! What an education I just received!
This video is full of knowledge. Thank you for taking the time teaching us about our lawn. I’m officially a lawn nut! Just purchased your stress blend fertilizer. I’m also subscribed to your weekly emails and I’m a member on Facebook! I’m excited about learning all I can.
Thank you so much for cracking open the hidden lawn care egg!
Great content. My lawn is definitely struggling. Gonna try some of these things
Tks for the great details and useful video
I just used triple 16 fertiliser on my grass, when can I use ironite after applying fertiliser, and when should I use fertiliser again after ironite.
Screened in covering for the pool looks nice. Bug free swimming!
thank you! extends our living space too which is really nice.
Another fantastic video of yours.
I Love everything about them.
Top Quality my friend.
God Bless you and your Family 👍
Incredible difference!
Thank you I can’t wait to get my lawn right!
The Hydretain plant is in partial shade so of course it would do better than the middle plant in full sun. A better way of testing would be to either test both plants with and without hydretain across similar days or you could move both plants to within inches of each other in the sun. Your yard mastery video on the same subject is far more convincing.
hey TLCN, I have got good news I pick up my toro super recycler, unfortunately, i do need to bag my lawn as it has a lot of winter seeds about to drop and I'm just starting to get my lawn in order for summer grass (Australian here)so I'll bag my front lawn but my back lawn i can just recycle it.
Totally off subject, but I love that UV covering over the pool and patio area. Was thinking about something similar to this for my home. Would love to see it in a full video of it's own.
I must be doing something right... I've intuitively done the "circle dance". lol I think this is what my lawn needs. I've watered regularly, but had mower problems and it ended up NOT being a dull blade issue. But I wasted half the season hacking my lawn and trying to troubleshoot it. *DOH!* Issue solved and now I'm dealing with a damaged lawn.
What was the issue?!
WhAt was the issue?!
Seriously awesome footage. Been following a while and must say your approach is golden. Thanks for sharing the knowledge to us nuts. 👍😜
My charcoal grey YM hat will be here Tuesday, can’t wait to start rocking that cool hat!
nice!
Very helpful video, quick question, I got about 3 acres and the big problem I have is, weed grass growing everywhere faster and taller than the grass, how can I get rid of it?
it depends on what the problems grass is, and what your grass type is. You will want to get a positive ID of both before taking a course of action forward.
Omg!!! I love your videos. You are very detailed and give the info i need to the T. Thank you🙏🏽🙏🏽 for sharing your great info.
One of my favorite videos...thank you
Dude your the man!.. thanks for all the tips!
I see a lot of videos and articles about adding potassium in the Summer to help combat stress. If you did a soil test in the Spring on a cool season lawn and your potassium was optimal is it wise to still add it in the Summer? If so, how much before it is too much and affects your numbers negatively? Or if its to supplement what is lost in the Summer during stress how much on average would be okay to add how often? I never see anyone talk about that. I have looked and looked but everyone either talks about adding it for stress with no guidelines or scenarios or they talk about it for deficiencies (Which seems obvious). If you're optimal in the Spring should you not add any at all in the Summer to combat stress even if it may look a little stressed? I'm struggling to understand. Thank you for all that you do and your great content!!! I always look forward to watching your videos here and listening to you on Lawns Across America.
So what’s up with milo is this better or should I stay with Milorganite
I noticed some hitch hikers on your left arm or at least that’s what we call them. I believe they are called beggar lice or something like that. I always pick some up while walking thru the woods in the summer. Love the videos.
Your new pool screen looks great!
thank you!
Enjoy your videos because your very informative and full of great facts. I do use the first product that you use in this video but should I be watering everyday ? Thanks for all your help
You are awesome…your hat gives me life!!😊
Good info not too much blablablablabla straight to the point 👍
I'm in houston,tx...my lawn is dried out and very thin yo say the least...I wanna thicken it up and make ot full as well...
I happy I came across your channel…We recently moved to FL and had St.Augustine grass installed in our back yard about a month ago - I just fertilized it with Scott’s turf builder bonus S weed and feed about a week ago and noticed yesterday that the center of our yard is thinning. I will admit I did not water for a few days in hopes it would rain. It’s still green - but will it thicken back up? Will the ironite help? Thanks so much!
Thank you for the great video. I have a centipede lawn that I dropped some milorganite down on about 2 months ago (Florida Panhandle). I want to get one more fert down before the cool down season. I though centipede fert was 15-0-15 but all the stuff in this video is well above that. That's not a concern?
In GA, had some spurge popping up around the yard. Put down spurge power as a spot treatment... worked well, but now I have a bunch of brown circles in my grass. It’s been two weeks, any idea when that’ll bounce back? Would ironing help it along?
Safe the $50 people and put it towards a bit better / nicer of a spreader!! The scotts ones for $54 are really worth about $19 tops imo.. Tractor Supply has really nice higher end models.