One big point you should mention Mr Ferguson is sharpen your mower blade. I use to do everything for my lawn but neglected my mower blade and it showed. Now I sharpen the blade regularly myself and instead of tearing the grass blades I get a beautiful cut. Really makes a big difference. Great informative check list Mr Ferguson! Enjoy your Southern ,down to earth, style ! Stay well.
This is VERY important. A dull blade wit rip causing a white tip on the grass. I sharpen my blades constantly because it makes the difference for sure.
I would add a few things to this list. 1. Liquid Aeration: loosen up that soil to make it as easy as possible for the roots to go deep. 2. When temps go above 85-90, water areas that are in direct sunlight for a few minutes at the highest heat point of the day. I believe Pete calls this "syringing", though I have no idea why. It cools down the grass at high-heat. No worry about fungus since it will evaporate very quickly. This is easy with a sprinkler system using a smart controller like Rachio. 3. Reduce/eliminate Nitrogen fert in the middle of high heat. No reason to encourage growth. 4. Keep up with humic/fulvic/kelp applications to help the lawn with stress. 5. Stop edging sidewalks and driveways when temps > 85. I know it will look a little bad, but the extra shade on the edges of concrete will help keep that area slightly cooler. I always had dead spots near my concrete until I started doing this. If you want to go more advanced, look into plant growth regulator and make those roots go super deep.
Many years ago when I lived in Las Vegas I was able to grow a K31 fescue lawn from seed and keep it healthy all summer long. It only required irrigation every day but it held up in 100+ temps. Some of the fescues today are more heat and drought tolerant and need less water.
Appreciate the content. One tip. This video could have been done in half the amount of time. While you had the paper prepared in your hand, you rambled a bit. Please don’t take this the wrong way. Just want to offer some constructive criticism. Really appreciate the knowledge you’re sharing. You’re just losing me with the rambling
I hear you, however it’s just my nature to explain things further for people. Some appreciate it, some get annoyed. I try to limit that but it’s something I personally appreciate. Meaning, I’d rather have more info then less and not know fully what’s being spoken. I do appreciate you commenting! Thanks a ton.
@@MrFergusonLawn you dropped a lot of good tips. I am a new subscriber. Just don’t want your knowledge to get lost. Thank you for putting out good advice. We can all use it. Looking forward to more 👍
One big point you should mention Mr Ferguson is sharpen your mower blade. I use to do everything for my lawn but neglected my mower blade and it showed. Now I sharpen the blade regularly myself and instead of tearing the grass blades I get a beautiful cut. Really makes a big difference. Great informative check list Mr Ferguson! Enjoy your Southern ,down to earth, style ! Stay well.
This is VERY important. A dull blade wit rip causing a white tip on the grass. I sharpen my blades constantly because it makes the difference for sure.
@@farmall51 New to blade sharpening- how many times can you re-sharpen a blade safely before having to buy a new replacement blade?
Agree, although the ya not just a Summer tip, but year around!! Thanks.
Thanks for the info
Pleasure is mine!
Id love to see you remake this video updating what you learned last year and what your plans are for 2023
Great idea!
I would add a few things to this list. 1. Liquid Aeration: loosen up that soil to make it as easy as possible for the roots to go deep. 2. When temps go above 85-90, water areas that are in direct sunlight for a few minutes at the highest heat point of the day. I believe Pete calls this "syringing", though I have no idea why. It cools down the grass at high-heat. No worry about fungus since it will evaporate very quickly. This is easy with a sprinkler system using a smart controller like Rachio. 3. Reduce/eliminate Nitrogen fert in the middle of high heat. No reason to encourage growth. 4. Keep up with humic/fulvic/kelp applications to help the lawn with stress. 5. Stop edging sidewalks and driveways when temps > 85. I know it will look a little bad, but the extra shade on the edges of concrete will help keep that area slightly cooler. I always had dead spots near my concrete until I started doing this.
If you want to go more advanced, look into plant growth regulator and make those roots go super deep.
Appreciate it. As I mentioned, there is likely 100 tips for lawns in high heat, and these are great. Appreciate the advice!
Watering areas in direct shun when it's above 85 is very helpful. Not as effective as hydretain or potassium, but helpful
I have tall fescue and I live in Texas and I manage to keep it green all year only by using milorganite and by watering.
Great video. I've already found my dry spot...my brand new patch of Jonathan Green Black Beauty.
Yea I found a few recently too...too early for dry spots!!
Many years ago when I lived in Las Vegas I was able to grow a K31 fescue lawn from seed and keep it healthy all summer long. It only required irrigation every day but it held up in 100+ temps. Some of the fescues today are more heat and drought tolerant and need less water.
Absolutely. It is doable!
Do we need to tag Pete for that intro
hahaha, long as he would laugh and not get upset lol
It was Pete from GCI.
Bingo!
Wow, I thought I'd accidentally clicked on Pete's video. :)
Hahaha nice intro. I see you had your hair done before you filmed today?
Ha, yea came from work so it wasn't bed head this time
You took the intro from Pete!
Pete
Appreciate the content. One tip. This video could have been done in half the amount of time. While you had the paper prepared in your hand, you rambled a bit. Please don’t take this the wrong way. Just want to offer some constructive criticism. Really appreciate the knowledge you’re sharing. You’re just losing me with the rambling
I hear you, however it’s just my nature to explain things further for people. Some appreciate it, some get annoyed. I try to limit that but it’s something I personally appreciate. Meaning, I’d rather have more info then less and not know fully what’s being spoken. I do appreciate you commenting! Thanks a ton.
@@MrFergusonLawn you dropped a lot of good tips. I am a new subscriber. Just don’t want your knowledge to get lost. Thank you for putting out good advice. We can all use it. Looking forward to more 👍