I made it to the end!!! Yay 🎉. You helped me to completely understand what I'm up against. Bought a house with front and back full of weeds and horrid crab grass that I pulled sooooo much by hand. Then came the want for a pool. Oh my. Equipment through my front yard, back yard, and now have dirt and weeds. I've been spraying the weeds with ground clear, ordered a tiller today, smaller than yours, of course, 😅. It's a small front yard, though. I bought Bermuda seed, and you taught me so much with the fertilizer I need to get busy with. Then the concrete guys left a good patch of concrete in the front, too. The sledgehammer will be next to break that up. 😢 I'm so glad I found your video. I'm down south in Corpus Christi, TX. Wish me luck as this old girl embarks on this adventure. Did I just say, old?;😅😅😅
Made to the end, Jason FANASTIC job you got me motivated! Might do a renovation this fall rather than overseeding. Man that KGB is BEAUTIFUL! Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing
Thanks for the Video, from Marvin in Englewood Colorado August 22 2023. I plan on removing all weeds, till, water and let the weeds that want to come back to remove and retill again and again, until nothing but dirt is left to before seeing: is not necessary. Thanks.
I love this! I just feel like this is more of a "real person" approach to lawn renovation....you don't have 5000 different specialized tools and meticulous measurements like so many do. No, you are a dude with a rototiller, spreader and sprayer, and your lawn looks fantastic! This made me feel like I can actually get this done! Thanks :) I've saved this vid so I can review it again, haha
Fantastic and informational video Jason! We just bought a house and the backyard is a train wreck with weeds and more weeds. I don’t think any lawn exists anymore but the steps your provided here seem to be more than enough to reshape the backyard into a promising green pasture. Awesome video and thank you for taking the time to make it. Truly appreciate it 🙌🏼 Wish me luck because it’s ~12k sq ft of land that needs this re-do. Good exercise I call it!
That's awesome and glad you found it helpful. I'd recommend at least considering doing it in sections like I have in the front. Spreads the labor and cost out over a period of time rather than all at once.
@@JasonSeiberlich I've been trying to learn about lawn care since we moved into our house several months ago so I get random lawn recommendations. I'll be doing a small overseeding project in a couple of weeks.
That's awesome. I did the same thing here because this lot was in absolute shambles. Still is to some degree. Figured if I was going to make it better may as well film it. Best of luck.
@@JasonSeiberlich did you consider going over the area you tilled with a roller or does the soil eventually smooth out on its own? I'll eventually need to till a section of the lawn but I'm not sure if I should rent a roller as well to smooth it out after tilling it up.
Thank you very much for this video. I have a 3,000 sq. ft. section behind the garage that 1/2 of it used to be our garden. Over 6 or 7 years the old KBG has filled in but it still looks like crap. I will be starting in May and do what you did. It will be fun!
One thing I will suggest at that size is getting dirt to top dress to deal with the low spots rather than till. Getting the grass clumps out over that big of an area is going to be miserable.
Cheers for the content, mate. I'm Australian, but doing this to my back yard right now, killing everything off at the moment. Going to be a big project.
Glad to hear it. A lot of stuff went wrong which kind of made it perfect for a video. Plus this process is 4 for 4 now, so I can feel some comfort in the advice contained being at least not awful lol
Thanks to your video, I removed the sod before tilling. I'm having a tough time removing all the small rocks, do you think they will effect the final results or should I not worry about them?
Hard work, good job. i just finishing up, approx 2500 sqft, 4 months work . Kill, Compost and till, level, seed, peatmoss, water in 90 degrees, rain delays and rain erosion, relevel more seed down. Im knocking out the weeds now, mostly nutsedge,spruge, and dollar weed, ...milorganite. Carbon X, All worth it now. Arden 25 bermuda, dark green.
Yard looks amazing Jason!! Thanks for all the tips, I am definitely looking forward to do a complete yard renovation myself next year with pure kbg mazama!! Keep up the great work!!
I just bought my first house a year ago from a couple that where in their late 90’s… so the lawn was TERRIBLE!!! Thank you so much for posting this video. I had no idea where to start with getting “green grass”. I live on Long Island. When is the best time of year to start the first step of killing off the existing grass?
Best time is probably going to be August. In the mean time, I have a beginner program playlist from last year that can walk you through steps to this point. May even be surprised on where you get with just that.
`Question -- Is it necessary to spray and kill the existing grass or weeds if you use a plow ? --- Wouldn't plowing be sufficient without spraying ? -- Thanks for your video.
You would still have all of that root mass that may be able to regrow. But, I wouldn't call it necessary by any stretch if you were going to do it. Ideally you'd plow, water for a week or 2 and kill whatever grows, then seed.
@@JasonSeiberlich I guess I was also wondering if the herbicide down in the ground could also keep new grass seed from growing. However your lawn looked terrific !
If you had to do it over, would you till again? I’m debating. I have a HEAVY thatch layer and I’m not sure a dethatcher will get through it after I smoke the lawn. We own a tiller but I heard bad stories about the dirt settling.
I think I would. It settles, but it still settles fairly uniform. Probably done it 8+ times now and, outside of a skid steer or tractor, it would be my preferred way to do a renovation.
Hopefully you see this and are able to reply back! Me and my husband just moved into a new house. The houses were built on a field and they left the grass as it was. So theres toonnsss of cockleburs/grass stickers, whatever you want to call them, the neighbors and all have the same problem. You cant even enjoy being outside because of it. My question is, would this process be good for getting rid of them? Or is there no luck with the neighbors being so close and seeds being blown around? I have no idea about any of this but I'm willing to try anything!
It will be a start. One thing that you could try is an addition step to fallow. This would be instead of seeding right away you water for a week or 2 to let more weeds germinate and then kill them off. You can do that as many times as necessary. There will always be some weeds, but you can greatly reduce that and then continue to control via hand pulling, pre and post emergent herbicides.
Looks great. I like a video showing beginning to end. It keeps me from searching for follow-ups. You lost me on why you think the weeds came in on this phase vs the 1st phase where you didn't have a weed problem....
I used tenacity (mesotrione) in the first seeding. Purslane (weed not controlled by mesotrione) took over so I thought it didn't work. I didn't use tenacity in this seeding and all of those weeds kinda took over. So tenacity did work the first time i was just fooled by the purslane. Hope that makes sense.
Does it matter if you kill the grass before or after the tilling? I was thinking of Tilling, raking off the grass and THEN spraying any left over grass before seeding.
I'm not sure it makes a huge difference one way or the other. Ideally you'd probably kill, till, water a bunch to get everything you just disturbed to germinate, then kill all that, then level and seed. But, ain't nobody got time for that. I think torched/dead grass is a little easier to manipulate than healthy grass. That's why I've done it in this order.
Glad you made start to finish video. One suggestion. Maybe just a short clip of each step rather than the whole spraying and mowing lol, just a couple rows we get the picture. And question, the weed you didn’t know looked like Dallis grass 🤔 if it was then tenacity won’t get it. Takes perfect timing with Celsius and a couple other brands but the best method is pulling it by hand. I’m fighting that stuff now and I just put non selective on it last night and I’ll fill in the dead grass with oversees. That stupid Dallis grass is indestructible!!
As a city-slicker i can't believe the enormous waste of property just dedicated to a lawn WOW, thats a big enough area to put another house on. Ive had nothing but trouble just trying to repair my 1200 sq ft of lawn since last year, but then again i didn't know a thing about any of this stuff, so now im stuck with dead weeds and bare dirt. Now ive learned enough after spending a small fortune and breaking my back that i think i have a winning plan for the spring......i hope😊
Sick burn, dude. You got me. But, if you're actually curious why someone might seed rather than sod, here we go. Sod is not fool proof. I still would have had to purchase and effectively manage irrigation in exactly the same way I did for this project. So, no time or cost savings there. For sod, I would have also had to either till the same way or cut out all of the existing material and then either bring in more material to create the bed for the sod or till again anyway. And, finally, I paid $200 for the seed to do my whole 7000 square foot front yard. Looking online the prices I'm seeing put sod anywhere from $300-$500 per 1000 square feet. So as much as $3500 for sod or the $200 for seed. But, yea, I guess sick burn. You got me.
Wow, i cant believe the weeds in there, it looks like you planted weeds. My God, is this what im in for in the spring?!?!? Im just about tired of doing this crap, im almost at the point of throwing up my hands and saying screw it and just have weeds for a lawn!!
Yikes- I think people don't realize how many living beings they're hurting putting all these poisons into the ground. Please think twice before you do this. I'm looking for a more environmental way to have a nicer lawn...
Glyphosate nor the herbicide have any soil residual. Tenacity can stick around for maybe 30 days. Fertilizer is converted into elements used by the plant. Curious where you're putting "poisoning the living beings" in this chain of events.
I made it to the end!!! Yay 🎉. You helped me to completely understand what I'm up against. Bought a house with front and back full of weeds and horrid crab grass that I pulled sooooo much by hand. Then came the want for a pool. Oh my. Equipment through my front yard, back yard, and now have dirt and weeds. I've been spraying the weeds with ground clear, ordered a tiller today, smaller than yours, of course, 😅. It's a small front yard, though. I bought Bermuda seed, and you taught me so much with the fertilizer I need to get busy with. Then the concrete guys left a good patch of concrete in the front, too. The sledgehammer will be next to break that up. 😢 I'm so glad I found your video. I'm down south in Corpus Christi, TX. Wish me luck as this old girl embarks on this adventure. Did I just say, old?;😅😅😅
Made to the end, Jason FANASTIC job you got me motivated! Might do a renovation this fall rather than overseeding. Man that KGB is BEAUTIFUL! Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing
Best of luck either way. The uniformity of a renovation definitely can't be matched. Not necessary to have a nice looking yard either, though.
Watched it all here in Ireland. Very informative Jason. Thanks so much. Damien 🙏
Thank you.
Thanks for the Video, from Marvin in Englewood Colorado August 22 2023.
I plan on removing all weeds, till, water and let the weeds that want to come back to remove and retill again and again, until nothing but dirt is left to before seeing: is not necessary.
Thanks.
Watched it from A to Z. Good work Jason!!!
Thanks man. Appreciate it.
I love this! I just feel like this is more of a "real person" approach to lawn renovation....you don't have 5000 different specialized tools and meticulous measurements like so many do. No, you are a dude with a rototiller, spreader and sprayer, and your lawn looks fantastic! This made me feel like I can actually get this done! Thanks :) I've saved this vid so I can review it again, haha
Awesome. That's really the approach I've tried to focus on. Same approach to having a putting green as well.
Fantastic and informational video Jason! We just bought a house and the backyard is a train wreck with weeds and more weeds. I don’t think any lawn exists anymore but the steps your provided here seem to be more than enough to reshape the backyard into a promising green pasture.
Awesome video and thank you for taking the time to make it. Truly appreciate it 🙌🏼
Wish me luck because it’s ~12k sq ft of land that needs this re-do. Good exercise I call it!
That's awesome and glad you found it helpful. I'd recommend at least considering doing it in sections like I have in the front. Spreads the labor and cost out over a period of time rather than all at once.
@@JasonSeiberlich great idea! It will be my wife and I on a DIY journey so time is definitely on our side
My man I didn't know you had a lawn hobby. Great transformation.
Ayy. Yea man. Do you also have a lawn hobby or how'd you stumble on this?
@@JasonSeiberlich I've been trying to learn about lawn care since we moved into our house several months ago so I get random lawn recommendations. I'll be doing a small overseeding project in a couple of weeks.
That's awesome. I did the same thing here because this lot was in absolute shambles. Still is to some degree. Figured if I was going to make it better may as well film it. Best of luck.
@@JasonSeiberlich did you consider going over the area you tilled with a roller or does the soil eventually smooth out on its own? I'll eventually need to till a section of the lawn but I'm not sure if I should rent a roller as well to smooth it out after tilling it up.
@@delt19 probably should roll. It will eventually settle over time and I plan on samd leveling over time.
Good video. Very resourceful for someone trying to learn all of this
Enjoyed watching the process start to finish. Looking sharp dude.
Awesome. Thanks.
Thanks!! I can’t decide if I’m excited to know I can do this or dreading all that work. But it has to be done! Thanks for showing me how.
You are welcome. Can always do a little bit at a time too. No requirements or rules to do a huge area at once if it seems to daunting.
Full vid watcher here...loved it. Great job. You got a new subscriber.
Hell yea. Thank you.
Thank you very much for this video.
I have a 3,000 sq. ft. section behind the garage that 1/2 of it used to be our garden. Over 6 or 7 years the old KBG has filled in but it still looks like crap. I will be starting in May and do what you did. It will be fun!
That's awesome, man. Thank you very much and best of luck.
One thing I will suggest at that size is getting dirt to top dress to deal with the low spots rather than till. Getting the grass clumps out over that big of an area is going to be miserable.
Cheers for the content, mate. I'm Australian, but doing this to my back yard right now, killing everything off at the moment. Going to be a big project.
Best of luck.
Man, I liked this video so much, I watched it AGAIN! It's better now that I know a little something about cool season grass! Lol
Glad to hear it. A lot of stuff went wrong which kind of made it perfect for a video. Plus this process is 4 for 4 now, so I can feel some comfort in the advice contained being at least not awful lol
Thanks to your video, I removed the sod before tilling. I'm having a tough time removing all the small rocks, do you think they will effect the final results or should I not worry about them?
Don't worry about them.
Hard work, good job. i just finishing up, approx 2500 sqft,
4 months work . Kill, Compost and till, level, seed, peatmoss, water in 90 degrees, rain delays and rain erosion, relevel more seed down. Im knocking out the weeds now, mostly nutsedge,spruge, and dollar weed, ...milorganite. Carbon X, All worth it now.
Arden 25 bermuda, dark green.
Hey that's awesome. Mine went pretty smooth. Just some weed issues that are easy to deal with.
Yard looks amazing Jason!! Thanks for all the tips, I am definitely looking forward to do a complete yard renovation myself next year with pure kbg mazama!! Keep up the great work!!
Thanks, David. Best of luck.
What's up Jason! You're cool as af. Lol I love you're videos. Keep them up. Lol
Lol thank you
@@JasonSeiberlich you still have the best lawntube video, the "don't you dare overseed video." You're awesome 😎. Lol
I just bought my first house a year ago from a couple that where in their late 90’s… so the lawn was TERRIBLE!!! Thank you so much for posting this video. I had no idea where to start with getting “green grass”. I live on Long Island. When is the best time of year to start the first step of killing off the existing grass?
Best time is probably going to be August. In the mean time, I have a beginner program playlist from last year that can walk you through steps to this point. May even be surprised on where you get with just that.
`Question -- Is it necessary to spray and kill the existing grass or weeds if you use a plow ? --- Wouldn't plowing be sufficient without spraying ? -- Thanks for your video.
You would still have all of that root mass that may be able to regrow. But, I wouldn't call it necessary by any stretch if you were going to do it.
Ideally you'd plow, water for a week or 2 and kill whatever grows, then seed.
@@JasonSeiberlich OK--- Thanks for the response and info.
@@JasonSeiberlich I guess I was also wondering if the herbicide down in the ground could also keep new grass seed from growing. However your lawn looked terrific !
@jackdraper2849 certain herbicides can for various periods of time. Glyphosate does not.
@@JasonSeiberlich OK-- Thanks again for the info.
If you had to do it over, would you till again? I’m debating. I have a HEAVY thatch layer and I’m not sure a dethatcher will get through it after I smoke the lawn. We own a tiller but I heard bad stories about the dirt settling.
I think I would. It settles, but it still settles fairly uniform. Probably done it 8+ times now and, outside of a skid steer or tractor, it would be my preferred way to do a renovation.
@@JasonSeiberlich I’m leaning that way. We have a rear tine tiller for our garden and we use it every year. It would make short work of the yard.
Tilling sod can be kind of miserable. But you eventually get there.
Nice job Jason.
Thank you.
Thanks for the video Jason. It motivated me to do my own. Thumbs up and subscribed.
Hopefully you see this and are able to reply back! Me and my husband just moved into a new house. The houses were built on a field and they left the grass as it was. So theres toonnsss of cockleburs/grass stickers, whatever you want to call them, the neighbors and all have the same problem. You cant even enjoy being outside because of it. My question is, would this process be good for getting rid of them? Or is there no luck with the neighbors being so close and seeds being blown around? I have no idea about any of this but I'm willing to try anything!
It will be a start. One thing that you could try is an addition step to fallow. This would be instead of seeding right away you water for a week or 2 to let more weeds germinate and then kill them off. You can do that as many times as necessary.
There will always be some weeds, but you can greatly reduce that and then continue to control via hand pulling, pre and post emergent herbicides.
Looks great. I like a video showing beginning to end. It keeps me from searching for follow-ups.
You lost me on why you think the weeds came in on this phase vs the 1st phase where you didn't have a weed problem....
I used tenacity (mesotrione) in the first seeding. Purslane (weed not controlled by mesotrione) took over so I thought it didn't work. I didn't use tenacity in this seeding and all of those weeds kinda took over. So tenacity did work the first time i was just fooled by the purslane. Hope that makes sense.
So you didn't wait 30 days after using grass killer to put down seed?
Glyphosate has no soil residual. So you can seed same day. Some other active ingredients require a waiting period.
Ok.... that's good to know and thanks for the fast response. I didn't really expect one since it's been two years. I'll definitely subscribe
This gave me hope!
Great to hear.
Does it matter if you kill the grass before or after the tilling? I was thinking of Tilling, raking off the grass and THEN spraying any left over grass before seeding.
I'm not sure it makes a huge difference one way or the other. Ideally you'd probably kill, till, water a bunch to get everything you just disturbed to germinate, then kill all that, then level and seed. But, ain't nobody got time for that. I think torched/dead grass is a little easier to manipulate than healthy grass. That's why I've done it in this order.
Glad you made start to finish video. One suggestion. Maybe just a short clip of each step rather than the whole spraying and mowing lol, just a couple rows we get the picture.
And question, the weed you didn’t know looked like Dallis grass 🤔 if it was then tenacity won’t get it. Takes perfect timing with Celsius and a couple other brands but the best method is pulling it by hand. I’m fighting that stuff now and I just put non selective on it last night and I’ll fill in the dead grass with oversees. That stupid Dallis grass is indestructible!!
Appreciate it. Worked more recently to make videos more succinct. Still no idea what grass type it is, but did just pull it as it came up.
I just used Martin's Eraser Max, specifically designed to kill Dallisgrass, and it worked great!
Where did you get that really wide spray wand setup?
It was an Amazon purchase from solo. Think the only options now are Chapin.
What’s that machine you used to break up the old grass? I did to rent one
A tiller? Is that what you're asking about? The yellow thing.
Yes. Thanks so much. I killed the grass and need it. I was doing it by hand.
great video.
As a city-slicker i can't believe the enormous waste of property just dedicated to a lawn WOW, thats a big enough area to put another house on. Ive had nothing but trouble just trying to repair my 1200 sq ft of lawn since last year, but then again i didn't know a thing about any of this stuff, so now im stuck with dead weeds and bare dirt. Now ive learned enough after spending a small fortune and breaking my back that i think i have a winning plan for the spring......i hope😊
When is the best time of the year to do this?
Best is fall. But any time of year will be fine just require more love and care.
Dude...might want to look into a new invention called "sod"
Sick burn, dude. You got me. But, if you're actually curious why someone might seed rather than sod, here we go.
Sod is not fool proof. I still would have had to purchase and effectively manage irrigation in exactly the same way I did for this project. So, no time or cost savings there. For sod, I would have also had to either till the same way or cut out all of the existing material and then either bring in more material to create the bed for the sod or till again anyway.
And, finally, I paid $200 for the seed to do my whole 7000 square foot front yard. Looking online the prices I'm seeing put sod anywhere from $300-$500 per 1000 square feet. So as much as $3500 for sod or the $200 for seed. But, yea, I guess sick burn. You got me.
Sod? That's no fun.
You lost me at glyphosate
Wow, i cant believe the weeds in there, it looks like you planted weeds. My God, is this what im in for in the spring?!?!? Im just about tired of doing this crap, im almost at the point of throwing up my hands and saying screw it and just have weeds for a lawn!!
It's just spraying once a year and I've pretty much eliminated my weed issues. Don't even need to spray every year any more.
Yikes- I think people don't realize how many living beings they're hurting putting all these poisons into the ground. Please think twice before you do this. I'm looking for a more environmental way to have a nicer lawn...
Glyphosate nor the herbicide have any soil residual. Tenacity can stick around for maybe 30 days. Fertilizer is converted into elements used by the plant. Curious where you're putting "poisoning the living beings" in this chain of events.