Lawn Rejuvenation Part 2of4 - OverSeed, Top Dress, & Level
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- This is part two of my lawn rejuvenation series.
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Location: California Central Coast
Great videos! You're diligent with your lawn which motivates me too.
Thank u for sharing ur process. I get to admire ur work by watching. Its nice, simple & great music. Good luck with the grass!
Thanks Okami 🙏🏼
This 4 part lawn repair video is the best on RUclips by far.
Thanks 🙏🏼
One of the best videos on any subject on You Tube. To the point, great music, good information. Thank you for not wasting our time. Just the right length too.
Thanks 🙏🏼
I would sell my soul for a lawn which looks as good as this one before the treatment xD
Watching you mix that sand and dirt. I had to use 45 yards of compost/sand/soil mixture to level my yard. I was lucky the supplier could mix that up at their yard before delivery. I paid some guys a “day” rate for their services. Took a few days but they got it all out there and pretty level. I mainly did mine to provide better nutrient base for my zoysia grass. Lawn topping is under rated for a great looking yard.
I just wanted to say thank you so much not only for this fantastic video, but your replies in these comments. Building the leveler and getting my lawn right has helped me immensely during this quarantine. Thank again!
i've been spreading lawns for many years and i love those hand spreaders so much more when i can use them.
Just got done watching all 4 segments. Very well done! Just finishing up stage 1, sunjoe also. Stage 2 of your video helped me decide on my lawn leveling strategy! I'm also switching to KBG. Going for the lower cut lawn look now. Plus, KBG has great repair qualities that TTTF doesn't!! Tenacity is something I use as a post/pre emergent anyway. A very good product. Again, great job and good tips!
Thanks Eddy! KBG is a heck of a grass especially at lower height of cut, best of luck with your project 👍🏼
Good idea on the DIY levelling jig, those lawn leveling rakes are eyewateringly expensive.
Like your DIY-levelling tool!
Enjoy watching other people who care about their lawn as much as I do.
I feel the same way. My wife thinks I'm crazy, but I could watch yard work videos all morning, then go out and do yard work all afternoon.
I would be worried that I would suffocate the seeds top dressing over w soil. I will be leveling then applying seed. Making good soil contact with you great idea of the board.
Thanks for good job. Your grass it look nice
4.12 I think the technical name for the mini-drag is a "Lute" go down your local hire centre and ask for the weekend rate on a Lute for your lawn and watch bewilderment. I asked for a "Tariff" once and the guy said "What does it do?" I responded with "It tells you fee for each tool hire per day etc."
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If you live near DENTON, Texas the municipality here sells pre mixed compost. This makes for easy application. Good video.
1 MILLION VIEWS!!! 👌👌👌👌🥇🥇🥇🥇 that's mad lol congratulations my friend 👍
Thanks Rob! This is my one-hit wonder video 🥇 😁
@@ShortCutLawn well wish I could get a 1 hit wonder lol
That water pressure! 😯
A push broom would have been great for getting the soil & sand into the bottom layers of the lawn and exposing more grass blades. Nice work though. A nice lawn is definitely a labor of love. I recently seeded a Zenith Zoysia lawn and used a drag mat to level my lawn before seeding, but I still have some top dressing to do next year in a few spots.
Coming up to 950,000 views, hats off to you shortcut 👍👍🥂🥂🥂
Just hit 951K, that’s crazy 😳 thanks Rob 🙂👍🏼
@@ShortCutLawn something tells me someones shared this video on some gardening site somewhere in the world as it's certainly gone viral!! 👍👍 all credit to you my friend
I’ve never thought about that but that’s a possibility, started with one share and it snowballed from there. This video single handedly brings traffic to my channel.
@@ShortCutLawn is funny how one video can totally change a channel 👍👍 anyways Merry Christmas to you and your family, hope you have a great and safe Holiday period 🎄🎄
Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and your family as well 🎄
Amazing lawn! You're an inspiration 🙂
I really like your drag idea! I was gonna have a cinder block or my dumbells on a 2×4 on a cardboard!
Blackbelt Work Brother, Thank You So Much, 👍🏾👊🏾✌🏾🇳🇬🇺🇸
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Use a chain link fence 6' x 6' works great.
I just looked it up, i think i like it 👌🏼
Thanks for video good job ! Is it necessary to over seed or seed when you level ?
Wow Amazing Hard work
Looks good, here's where i go different. Instead of shoveling dirt onto the lawn try throwing it at a good angle, it spreads itself evenly believe it or not.. Might sound like a lot of work but its actually quicker and you get near perfect coverage. You avoid raking afterward which you dont want to do if you just spread an even amount of grass seed. With the hand throwing method just stand with the wheel barrel beside you and dont move till your done the whole area 360 degrees around you, then move the wheel barrel ahead 10 or 15 feet and do it again. finish, turn on sprinklers and your done. You dont want to rake afterwards cause you just move way to much seed around and you dont have to use you drag behind thing cause ...well...its spread perfect. Master the throw and you'll change your ways i promise. Ill make a video one day. Nice lawn btw
You sound passionate and knows what you’re doing, but i have a feeling you didn’t quite get what i was doing. I can’t blame you, that’s the down side of not narrating verbally, time lapse didn’t help either. One example was the raking, I wasn’t raking it to spread the material, it was to break up the wet crust that was forming on top of the turf. The drags main purpose was to level and spread the material. KBG seeds are so tiny that it’s almost microscopic 🙂 so when you put it down on a turf it goes straight down and gets locked in between the grass plant. Believe me, dragging the material which happens on top doesn’t disturb the tiny grass seeds that are in bottom. If it’s newly seeded bare dirt and you drag, that’s when you have a problem. You seem knowledgeable and thats cool, my video format mislead you a little bit.
Great video neat and clean process,
Thank you 👍🏼
Change the music and I'll give you a thumbs up.
Great video! I have only one question. It's a bag of compost for seven bags of sand, right?
Great video
Your yard is super nice very neat
Excellent Tips
Excellent idea on the flattening tool. Built one for free and it did an I me iste job. Thanks.
Just FYI, most material yards will mix materials for you with their loader if you ask. Save your back. Nice video 👍🏻
That’s good info Mark 👌🏼 thanks.
great lawn before, I'd like to see a photo now 9 months on. But I think a mechanical dirt spreader would have made a more even job.
Mine next? Lol. Thanks for posting this vid. Ive been needing to do the same.👍
Wow! Awesome video!😎👊☕️
Thanks George!....This one finally made it to your recommended videos? 😁👍🏼
ShortCut Lawn yup! I watched it last month and watched again after it was recommended!😎👊
ShortCut Lawn last year. I meant to write. 😎👊
Hmm,..so people are getting “re-runs” I guess it’s time to make some new ones! 😂
ShortCut Lawn hahahaha! Always good to have recommendations. 😎👊 You out out some good content. Keep it going man!🍺
Great video. I'm going to do exactly what you did. Thank you
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wow dude awesome!!!
GREAT VIDEO!~
Thumb up for DIY tool! Great video
Awesome video. Thank you. What was the cost of this project?
Здорово придумал!!!!!!!!! Спасибо за идею!!!!!!!!!
To be honest, if my lawn looked as good as the "before" I'd be happy.
your lawn was already pretty much leveled.
Your KGB Turf looks Amazing!
Good work ethic on your yard man keep it going
This is going to look even better this year! Loving it 💚
I hope so 🙏🏼🙂
Awesome someone with as much maybe more energy then me 👍🏻.and also a perfectionist. I wish I had that flat bed to bring the compost mixture 🤔😆
Alright 😁👍🏼
Great video .... just made my own lawn level from your design. Cheers.
Are you gonna upload a video using it? 😁
Thanks man. Good shut.
You have a nice yard , good job 👍
My backyard suffered after a long winter and dog's pees. There are multiple patches that need to be restored. I was watching many videos and saw just a few times where sand with compost was used which surprised me a lot. Why sand with compost and not normal soil?
IMO you don’t need sand/compost for fixing bare spots. If you’re going to seed those small bare spots a light layer of normal soil is good enough or you can use peat moss to lightly cover the seeds to keep them from drying out. Remember, key to quick and successful germination is proper watering, do not let the seeds dry out.
The main purpose of sand on this video is for light leveling of the lawn, I added compost to give it a little nutrition.
@@ShortCutLawn Oh in my case in backyard I have big spots of dead grass, multiple little areas with no grass or rare grass. In front yard it will require leveling as there are many bumps in the ground and when I cut the grass with lawn mower the surface is not flat. So... in few words is not just over-seeding. As you said peat moss is needed when you want to overseed the lawn to avoid seeing ground through the grass. In my case it looks like the backyard is missing lot of grass and (I hope I understand correctly) sand with compost should do the job. I almost ordered soil only, but then I saw few videos with difference between soil on top of grass and sand+compost on top of grass. Just the soil will make another layer that will prevent the grass that's already in the ground from breathing while sand+compost will let it breathe and on the same time will help new seeds to germinate. Please, let me know if I understand the idea correctly.
Only one complaint and its not your work or dedication it's your truck I cant believe they produced such a thing ....great work though !👍🏾
Hi, great video, what kind of block work retaining wall is in the garden??
Its a 16” retaining wall block
Compost tea is the best fertilizer
I actually want to try that in the future.
@@ShortCutLawn I’ve been doing it for a few years it’s the best thing you can do for any kind of plant
@@ShortCutLawn how do you like the short bed truck?
Can I just use topsoil and peat moss also as top dressing for the overseed after i scarify the lawn with the sunjoe.
Perfectly fine 👍🏼
@@ShortCutLawn thks your lawn is great 👍 I'm trying to get there too.
Real slick lawn leveler, but Kentucky Blue is a whole lot of pain for not much gain. There are just easier grass types to work with, but good luck with it anyhow. Great video.
What do you mean? What grass type is better?
@@themoistgreenorganic I used a Scott's product called Thicker Lawn on one section and a Premium Kentucky blue grass in another. The Scott's product has completely filled in a bare spot caused by snow mold in about 4 weeks. The Kentucky blue grass will take about 8 weeks. Who wants to look at a whole in your lawn that long. The pest and lawn ginja had the same results with his blue grass.
Yeah as more of a amateur, I did a Scott’s PRG overseed in my front lawn with good results. This fall I want to go to the next level with a SSS BG seed and see how it goes. I might fail, I don’t have in ground irrigation, a battery sprayer or reel mower, but maybe with my greenworks dethatcher and watering I can have some success.
If I've never top dressed and leveled my (bumpy and patchy) yard before does it make more sense to do the overseeding as the last step after top dressing rather than first like you did? Just walking over my yard barefoot I can't imagine I would be able to keep the layer of top dress under .5 inch like you advised and still fill in the low areas.
With your situation you have the right idea, go ahead and level it and overseed afterwards it’s perfectly fine. Just make sure you have good seed-to-soil contact, seeds needs to covered and moist for it to germinate.
dang you make it look so easy. I just put down sand over 2500 and Im beat.
giving the caterpiilar driver a six pack would do the job, he could mix it before puting it on your truck
This is good stuff. Great tip. Done something similar but not to this extreme. You got it dude!
Nice, but was your 8 ton in material not to much for your 1500 sm size?
it’s .8 ton, you missed the dot 👍🏼
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Great technique. Awesome job.. would you tell me what kind of sprinklers you using for watering?
Thanks Arturo 👍🏼 I’m using Rain Bird 4” pop up sprinkler heads.
Awesome bro haha 👍
Graet vedio! Keep up the work👍👏
Awesome!
Yes I bought turf.
What is the sprinkler system you have in your yard
Rain bird heads with Rachio 3 wifi controller.
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Just bought a home. Is it wise to seed over weeds? Or should I RIP everything up and start from scratch. I'm in south Jersey
If you can start fresh its best, if you can afford to bring a skidsteer in go that way. If your not made of money like the rest of us rent a power raker and tear the shit out of your lawn grass weeds everything. Buy ALOT of seed and over seed it. The biggest thing now is do what he did, you must put fresh dirt over the seed to act as a warm blanket, and water sunnnnnn. Read my other comment to original poster. Even leaving the weeds in when your grass comes and gets thick it starts to choke the weeds out and patriotically when walking around in you fresh soft grass pull a weed iff you see one and have some potting soil to put them to bed with haha. Water early mornings when you have gras but seeding water when the top of blanket soil is drying out, not when its dry not when its wet but right in the middle where its still moist but the sun is warming the blanket nice and toasty...youll have grass in 4 to 7 days. Good luck
What’s up larry,.. If you’re dealing with small amount of weeds then just spot treat it to save time and money. If it’s a lot then just nuke it (if you’re comfortable using RoundUp) and start fresh. 👍🏼
Thanks its about a quarter acre of land. Thinks clear it out and reseed. Thanks guys
Hi, if a lawn was reseeded along with horse manure(almost fresh. not compost), what weed killer to use prevent growth of weeds?
Try Tenacity.
Sweet I think I need to do this to level newly seeded lawn
That’s a lot of work but then again this is the way to do it.
Thanks for the video. Very precise and detailed. What does the plaster sand do? Is it a must for good results?
Thanks,...sand is for leveling only, it has no effect on the overall health of the grass.
Couldn't you have used a spreader to top the seed? I use a Landzie Compost & Peat Moss Spreader. The only thing about that is you have to stop and refill every five mins.
What do you think of the Wizz seed spreader?
Love it and I use it all the time, not so good with bigger prills though like Ironite.
Nice! I'm trying to make a decision on what bluegrass I'm going to pick for a little reno this fall.
Hey Ryan,.. yeah you may wanna check out this Bluebank from seedsuperstore, it’s 4 stars across the board with the exception of shade tolerance. It’s considered “Super Elite” so I don’t think we can go wrong with that 🙂⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Correction: Bluebank is actually 4stars in shade tolerance but 1 on spring green up and 3 in leaf texture.
I got mixed up with Regenerate Tall Fescue which I might use on our small front lawn.
I dig the drag
any reason, you didn't use a large push broom and push the piles in esp there wasnt much grass? so how many times do you have to do that to build up the organic matter in the foundation of the turf, and what seasons? thanks!
Nice backyard space! Do you have a video on how you made that drag?
Thanks Brian!
No, I literally built that the same day in under 15mns :)
I will be making another next week and hopefully make a video about it.
Btw,.. Sub#153 on your channel 😎👍🏼
Good deal!
Thanks for the Sub!!
Greetings from England. You've done a super job and a great video of it. What timber is the mini drag made from please? Is it 4 by 2.
Thanks. Yes it is 4x2
@@ShortCutLawn thank you
What is the ratio of compost to sand? 1 to 1?
Why not use a rotory spreader for the top dressing? Would it not give a more even later?
VERY GOOD VID, liked it. concise and clear. how much for the 5lb of super store seed? thanks cheaper than getting seed at lowes i guess?
Thanks J 👍🏼 price is a bit more than Lowes and HD, but you’re getting top notch quality.
very nice work, I admire your videos, by the way the music was very nice; if you don't minde tell me the title song...and sorry for my bad english.
great job! not sure how he got the paver not to fall out of the leveling apparatus??? how many times do you have to do that, once a year? and what season? thanks
J Marciano cause they weigh 10 lbs each
Spring and fall
Excellent! I'm excited tio do the same 😃
WOW! How much water pressure do you have at your house? I enjoy your videos.
Thanks. about 75-80psi
Where did you go to get the sand and compost? And how much did that cost?
Liked & subscribed. I'd top dress & level then over-seed. Good project. Hint: if you want a fine ornamental lawn, purchase a Pink Flamingo and set it in your lawn - great result guaranteed.
🤔 topdress, level, then oveeseed? Sounds like a Connor Ward process?,...oh and the pink flamingos? hmm? 😁
When lawn is leveled, how long does it take until we have to level again?
All depends on use/traffic. Once a year is about right if you want to maintain that flat look.
@@ShortCutLawn man, maintaining a golf course lawn is not cheap.
Yup 👍🏼
Nice editing
What a project!!
your neighbor has a dump trailer.... js a few bucks and you can walk at the end of the day!
I probably need 10 dump truck loads to level my yard lol. I noticed some spots keep dipping I wonder if it is the septic lines causing that. I am afraid to add too much dirt on top of them.
Good Stuff 🙏👌
I like seeing the drag in action I was wondering if something like that would work but I wasn't sure
Just caught this my friend...awesome, AWESOME job. Solid stuff all around. The compost is gonna pay dividends, easily the best way to inoculate the soil with the proper microbiology and start getting all of the benefits of a proper soil food web. Your soil structure/nutrient cycling/disease suppression/ drought resistance/weed control will all come into place by getting that biology in the soil...I gotta make it a point to watch more of your videos. Good stuff. Love the non speaking visual/subtitle element. Music was perfect! Reminds me of some vintage Miles Maeda(he was a chicago house music DJ in the early 90’s did a bunch of Chicago raves before people knew what raves were...when they were 100% guerrilla. Should be able to google him but his good stuff was way back in the day when he was mixing records and recording it to cassette...
Thanks Mark!....(sorry for this superrrr late reply)
I figured my use of organic compost will interest you 😁 i love this stuff man, aside from occasional use of synthetic fert for a quick boost on top growth and color i hardly use any other supplement. Im sure i can go an entire growing season without using any synthetic fertilizers.
Thanks for the support 🙏🏼