im a 22 year old living in an apartment in Ohio, with no yard/lawn of my own to work on. you've made me fall in love with the idea of taking care of my own lawn and start doing research and planning for when i get my own home with one to take care of in just over a year :) thank you
Good Luck on getting your own home when your so young, it’s always nice to see young one’s getting involved in doing their yards, most your age would be sitting in front of the tv playing games or on the computer, I’m Old and love to read the comments to Ben from you young ones....Good Luck on achieving your goal from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍
You're so lucky living in Ohio where the medium house price is 156k - Where I live it's 1.6 mil...I have to rent.......you should be able to buy your own home soon....Ben is a great tutor and I have found will answer any of your questions....I've been in the 'game' for over 40 years and still get stuck...I've had many a convo with Ben....Remember when it comes to lawns.......rocket science is easier!
Watching this with a foot of snow outside in October and -20c tonight in Calgary. Oh I miss summer already. We have about 7 more months of this before I can get outside in my lawn. Well at least I have your videos to watch throughout our winter.. cheers and great video..
I have found Kikuyu loves to be cut at 12mm with a greens mower....but, heavier the better.......it has such a stunning 'finish' after a cut. One thing I have come across is it's best not to water it too much, unless you want to dethatch multiple time in a season....which I don't think even Kikuyu can tolerate being interfered with too much in a season. It's such an underrated grass.
I only have a spring tine scarifier but seems to really work well at pulling up thatch unfortunately my lawn was so bad i had to pull it all up and re seed. Hard work but done in a weekend and the results are great. Did it at the best time though in the uk September so think that helped
Ordered one of the masport units here in nz at start of September,, everywhere out of stock till late November. Glad to see it does a good job, pity mines gonna arrive a bit late in the season.
that's pretty amazing, but with kikuyu how often would you have to do this? and how often would you have to re top dress to level? awesome Vid as always champ.
Would you be willing to do something about the grass on the other side of the street (only a small patch of course). It would be really interesting to see if you could change the look of the grass using your methods! Also love your vids mate!!
The house I brought had that type of grass and the dead stuff underneath was almost 2 inches deep, the never really cleaned up the lawn. Runners were rampart everywhere. The amount of green bins I filled was insane.
Nice one, great to see there is a basic electric dethatcher in Australia. Hey btw have you ever thought about growing a native grass lawn like weeping grass, microlaena stipoides? I've just heard about it and it sounds good for our cool and (usually) dry areas
@lawntips, Ben, can you give us some tips on when and what situation to use the roller with spring tine vs the one with steel blade ? Got a similar machine interchangeable rollers.
How big is the battery ie ma/hr not volts? I have the ozito version, 2x 18 volt batteries, I use the 2500ma/hr ones and they will do my whole 100sqm yard. Or if mowing (1 battery at a time) between them they'll mow and edge (there's a lot of edging, I have kerb plus footpath on a corner block).
Interesting how everything is going battery - even Makita - I'm just put off with how long batteries last before needing a recharge... for the home user it's great though :)
Top vid today mate! For the last 2 years I've been using the cheap plastic "ozito" electric mower from Bunnings. It's terrible, broken 3 of them... at least they replace them for free on warranty. Now I'm looking to get a good quality petrol rotary. Your Bushranger seems to go alright? Any recommendations cheers.
👍 catcher off for sure and pick it up with the rotary might get some more time out of the battery. Might grab one for my kik. You doing a core aerate and top dress for Matt’s place?
Nice work fella. I looked at one of the Earthway spreaders, you pleased with yours? To be honest i checked it out as ive seen you use your, but was dissapointed with the finish, didnt really look durable. Shindaiwa make a nice looking unit I saw in our mower store recently. Thoughts. Keep the green side growing bro😉
Jealous that you get to start your season. This is the first year I really put a lot of effort into my yard and the results paid off. I live in upstate New York and the lawn is on fire right now. Lush and green but only have a couple mows left unfortunately.
Great vid. I've done some panic buying of some Eureka Kikuyu, I've got 5 pallets coming next Friday to lay, was going to do it in stages but Victoria is basically out of turf at this point and I couldnt even get the Village Green variety that they offer in Victoria, so I grabbed all I could. Thankfully I've got all the advice I need right here on Lawn Tips. Going to be putting in some rain bird sprinkler heads aswell. Wish me luck!
As much I would like to get something like this, we have a relatively small yard. Would you recommend that a dethatcher rake would do an equally good job? Obviously will be a lot more work but $40 compared to $499?
I use a 20$ hand coring tool and a 20$ detaching blade on my rotary push mower for my home lawn. Have done so for 20 years and its immaculate. You dont need lots of expensive things to have a nice lawn.
Not bad for a battery powered 'scarifier' Pitty about the blade design and rotation! Everything comes at a price! Want one of the best designed scarifiers, find a second hand Graden GS04 Made in Australia
Hi Ben, sorry I haven’t been watching too many videos on RUclips lately, I just haven’t been into it, I’m trying to get back motivated in my poor neglected Sir Walter from the past few months of Sadness, would you recommend this for Sir Walter grass to help it come back to life...it’s looking a little Sad 😔 and neglected 😩. I’ll have to catch up on your videos that I’ve missed. Best Wishes and Kindness from Janelle 😊
im a 22 year old living in an apartment in Ohio, with no yard/lawn of my own to work on. you've made me fall in love with the idea of taking care of my own lawn and start doing research and planning for when i get my own home with one to take care of in just over a year :) thank you
Good Luck on getting your own home when your so young, it’s always nice to see young one’s getting involved in doing their yards, most your age would be sitting in front of the tv playing games or on the computer, I’m Old and love to read the comments to Ben from you young ones....Good Luck on achieving your goal from Queensland Australia 🇦🇺👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍
@@-nellie-m3711 lol go you!
@@-nellie-m3711 nothing like a good stereotype. Tipping you don’t know any 22 year olds
@@Superfly1503 ummmm, what’s that supposed to mean, I have 3 grown sons of my own Thank You Very Much...All Well Mannered and Respectful and Kind...
You're so lucky living in Ohio where the medium house price is 156k - Where I live it's 1.6 mil...I have to rent.......you should be able to buy your own home soon....Ben is a great tutor and I have found will answer any of your questions....I've been in the 'game' for over 40 years and still get stuck...I've had many a convo with Ben....Remember when it comes to lawns.......rocket science is easier!
Watching this with a foot of snow outside in October and -20c tonight in Calgary. Oh I miss summer already. We have about 7 more months of this before I can get outside in my lawn. Well at least I have your videos to watch throughout our winter.. cheers and great video..
Thanks Ben really appreciate your work.
"Honey our neighbor is out walking his lawn mower again?"
Great work mate the battery scarifier did better than I thought.
That's a cool little unit there. Looking forward to seeing how Matt's lawn turns out this year.
Good guy Ben is renoing everyone's lawn this year.
Hey Ben, you are so close to 100k! Great vid too!
Love these vids. Would love to see a weekly vid based on your lawn care plans
More Kikuyu vids please. If you ever get a chance to fix spongy Kikuyu that would be great to see.
Another great vid Ben.
Currently refurbishing a Ryan Ren-O-Thin Dethatcher/Scarifier to get stuck into my Kikuyu in two weeks.
I have found Kikuyu loves to be cut at 12mm with a greens mower....but, heavier the better.......it has such a stunning 'finish' after a cut. One thing I have come across is it's best not to water it too much, unless you want to dethatch multiple time in a season....which I don't think even Kikuyu can tolerate being interfered with too much in a season.
It's such an underrated grass.
More Kikuyu videos!
Can’t wait to see the result that’s awesome
All these electric scarifiers that are now out. To think I used to do it by hand with a thatch rake twice a year all these years is crazy :)
I only have a spring tine scarifier but seems to really work well at pulling up thatch unfortunately my lawn was so bad i had to pull it all up and re seed. Hard work but done in a weekend and the results are great. Did it at the best time though in the uk September so think that helped
Ordered one of the masport units here in nz at start of September,, everywhere out of stock till late November. Glad to see it does a good job, pity mines gonna arrive a bit late in the season.
I have a corded sunjoe that works well too.
Mate this is too perfect. Just ordered an 240v scarifyer and have been wondering how you go scarifying kikuyu without scalping it as well. Thanks!
What did you go for
@@MegaMaddutchman It's Draper branded, dunno who actually makes it. 2 in 1 scarifier/aerator. Should have it this week.
@@wtfmimshag hey mate how'd it go? Also do you remember a cost. Cheers mate
that's pretty amazing, but with kikuyu how often would you have to do this? and how often would you have to re top dress to level?
awesome Vid as always champ.
I feel you need a victa in your life bro😜 Hey you kept that quiet (the Al-Ko) It actually looks like a great machine for a smaller lawn
Would you be willing to do something about the grass on the other side of the street (only a small patch of course). It would be really interesting to see if you could change the look of the grass using your methods! Also love your vids mate!!
🌞Love to *scarify* with my Allett!🌞😎👍
The house I brought had that type of grass and the dead stuff underneath was almost 2 inches deep, the never really cleaned up the lawn. Runners were rampart everywhere. The amount of green bins I filled was insane.
Nice one, great to see there is a basic electric dethatcher in Australia. Hey btw have you ever thought about growing a native grass lawn like weeping grass, microlaena stipoides? I've just heard about it and it sounds good for our cool and (usually) dry areas
@lawntips, Ben, can you give us some tips on when and what situation to use the roller with spring tine vs the one with steel blade ? Got a similar machine interchangeable rollers.
What fertiliser did he use? What is grooming and PGR?
How big is the battery ie ma/hr not volts? I have the ozito version, 2x 18 volt batteries, I use the 2500ma/hr ones and they will do my whole 100sqm yard. Or if mowing (1 battery at a time) between them they'll mow and edge (there's a lot of edging, I have kerb plus footpath on a corner block).
Fantastic video. I'm a newby to it all. When you scarifier the lawn does that mean you set your mower to the lowest setting and go over the lawn?
That’s scalping, which you would do if you can’t get a scarifier and you would end up with a somewhat similar result
Hi, Ben. Love the video, mate. Are you going to top dress this Kikuyu after applying the fertiliser?
Yes! Kikuyu, talking my language.
Interesting how everything is going battery - even Makita - I'm just put off with how long batteries last before needing a recharge... for the home user it's great though :)
Yeah I agree man, hard when batteries go flat so quick
Top vid today mate! For the last 2 years I've been using the cheap plastic "ozito" electric mower from Bunnings. It's terrible, broken 3 of them... at least they replace them for free on warranty. Now I'm looking to get a good quality petrol rotary. Your Bushranger seems to go alright? Any recommendations cheers.
👍 catcher off for sure and pick it up with the rotary might get some more time out of the battery. Might grab one for my kik. You doing a core aerate and top dress for Matt’s place?
Would the brush attachment of the swardman pick the rest of the dead grass off after you scarified it mate?
Great review!!
Please can I check if the AL-KO Scarifier also mow?
And how often do you scarify the lawn?
Nice work fella. I looked at one of the Earthway spreaders, you pleased with yours? To be honest i checked it out as ive seen you use your, but was dissapointed with the finish, didnt really look durable. Shindaiwa make a nice looking unit I saw in our mower store recently. Thoughts.
Keep the green side growing bro😉
Ben, do you know what hedging plant that is to the side of the lawn?
Is kikuyu kind of like St Augustine we have here in the US?
Bro.... where did you get your pants from?? Always liked them
Jealous that you get to start your season. This is the first year I really put a lot of effort into my yard and the results paid off. I live in upstate New York and the lawn is on fire right now. Lush and green but only have a couple mows left unfortunately.
Great vid. I've done some panic buying of some Eureka Kikuyu, I've got 5 pallets coming next Friday to lay, was going to do it in stages but Victoria is basically out of turf at this point and I couldnt even get the Village Green variety that they offer in Victoria, so I grabbed all I could. Thankfully I've got all the advice I need right here on Lawn Tips. Going to be putting in some rain bird sprinkler heads aswell. Wish me luck!
Hey Ben, can you get these with a grooming reel? As I have buffalo and only want to take off the top thatch
Hey Ben. In the process of trying to get rid of thatch in my kikuyu with just a rotary mower. How low can I take it without completely killing it?
Kikuyu is very resilient. You can go pretty hard
What music do you listen to? I saw you hat you had AirPods in.
Any update on this lawn please?
Is that Sir Walter Buffalo grass?
As much I would like to get something like this, we have a relatively small yard. Would you recommend that a dethatcher rake would do an equally good job? Obviously will be a lot more work but $40 compared to $499?
Dethatcher rakes are great! They just don’t get the below ground thatch which is a bummer
@@LawnTips thanks, good to know.
I use a 20$ hand coring tool and a 20$ detaching blade on my rotary push mower for my home lawn. Have done so for 20 years and its immaculate. You dont need lots of expensive things to have a nice lawn.
@@billybamboozle6812 Hey Bill you got a link to the to those tools and attachment?
@@PapadumGeek the blade needs to match your mower so keep that in mind or use a universal.
Can you scarify couch that has become very thick and spongey. I'm trying to reduce the thickness of a non cared for couch
Sure can man! If you have a watch of last weeks video with Brenton we did exactly that
@@LawnTips thanks mate will take a look
Not bad for a battery powered 'scarifier'
Pitty about the blade design and rotation! Everything comes at a price!
Want one of the best designed scarifiers, find a second hand Graden GS04
Made in Australia
Hi Ben love your Videos
Would you recommend doing this on Sapphire Buffalo? Have heard different advice would love yours. Location South Coast NSW
Enjoy the kik vids
My Kik looks shit, always ugly runners on the surface after mowing with the reel mower, alway brown dead stuff in with the green leaf.
Hi Ben, sorry I haven’t been watching too many videos on RUclips lately, I just haven’t been into it, I’m trying to get back motivated in my poor neglected Sir Walter from the past few months of Sadness, would you recommend this for Sir Walter grass to help it come back to life...it’s looking a little Sad 😔 and neglected 😩. I’ll have to catch up on your videos that I’ve missed. Best Wishes and Kindness from Janelle 😊
Battery gear has come long way, I have moved over stihl battery range for garden maintenance.
Tell matt to buy 50m of blue line and jus hook in to your bore lol. Charge him of course lol
Wonder why we can’t buy Kikuyu seeds in the US. I guess it’s invasive.
Listed as a federal noxious weed in the USA
Yeah very invasive. It does act a little like a weed. Gets into garden Beds very easily
How is the trampoline not killing the grass? Mine absolutely destroys it.
Hi
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