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So, I heard 2 different advices from toobers, and you were a success, however i didnt test the other method, let me get to rhe point. I found a Sunjoe Scarifier in Ontario Canada at Home Depot, and it was the last one so i got it for $111.00 Wow. Hunnit and elvin dollas. So I waited till the soil biology and grass was visibly growing and cut a few times, as opposed to the other opinion of scarify before the roots wake up. Anyway i installed my crazy homemade organic input hopped up biochar/compost/soil mix, after i did it it looked rough as expected, but 2 days later its thickening up nice, and now we had rain for a few days, and the bluegrass grew over an inch in such a short time. Almost like the scarifying didnt harm it at all, followed immediately by the positive effects of the culminating factors, of warm sunny weather after cool rains. Just want fans of yours to know how awesome you are, at teaching new folks whats up, your ideas work, and i found bags of Vermont Castings Charcoal at Canadian Tire for sale, big bags. It doesnt say biochar, because it isnt biochar till someone charges the coal. So, anyway, its 36 bucks Canadian and it has a bulleted list of how its made right on the bag below rhe name, and those points say WE MADE WHAT YOU WANT. High carbon, Dense, no ash, recycled gases during burn of wood to make it ( pyrolysis) , cooked at a high temp. Basixally described making biochar. So get you some, then go watch vieeos on how to charge and crushit up to small pieces for the different applications. You want different size, for different applications. 🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭⚡💖🍁♻️🍁🙏🙏🙏✊🏻😎🍹
I actually use Roundup to kill my small pop ups of Poa that had come up from last years sod installation. About 10 days later used my Proplugger to take those spots completely out and will be filling in the holes when doing my sand leveling this coming weekend. For larger areas like yours , your plan made sense. 👍🏻💚🦸🏻
Curious, if you only get a small bit here and there why not just hand pull them...or just use the proplugger before anything? Why kill the spot with roundup if your going to plug it out of the ground 10 days later? Anyway, im considering one extra round of certainty this month to beat back the last touch of living poa and fescue that still there. Can't wait to stop seeing that patchy color though.
@@TurfMechanic I was curious to see how the Roundup would do with the ProVista KBG which is supposed to be Glyphosate tolerant. I decided to use the Proplugger because I wanted to clear out those areas so they could fill back in. Thought it would be quicker for the KBG to spread with the dead grass gone
nice experiment, probably too late but it would be cool to see a control, like one spot that wasn't plugged to see how much slower it is without the plug than with the plug and sand.
Low N fertiliser is better for Kikuyu. Otherwise you will be fighting thick stolon runners. Remember everytime you rake or scarify you will be pulling the roots off the runners and that will make the stolons spread without putting down roots into the soil. Bigger node spacing before grass leaves. Annual rye will kill the kikuyu in the spring
I’ve been watching your channel for about 2 years and learned a lot. My lawn is zoysia and I live in NJ. Last year, I did a very stupid thing. After doing some cement work I spilled about 5 gallons of the “cement wash water” on a section of the lawn. It eventually killed the lawn. This year I’ve tried planting some seeds but nothing is growing. I checked the PH and it the same as healthy parts of the lawn. HELP, any suggestions?
Try breaking up that area with a shove or tiller and add in some good quality top soil, mix it in as well as possible in that area with the existing soil at least 4-6inches down even more if possible up to about 12inches, add some starter fertilizer and you should be able to get some grass growing there again. I'd also recommend mixing in some organic material to help aid the "life" of the soil it's self.
I have a cool season lawn and a couple spots in my parkway strip are basically all poa. the heat has already killed off the poa, and now I'm not sure if I should re-seed those areas this fall, or make sure to cover the areas with my fall pre-emergent. seems like if I reseed, I'm gonna keep fighting the poa, but if I just do pre-emergent, I go from having dead poa this year, to having bare sport next year. any thoughts on what I should do this fall?
I burnt the motor out on my sunjoe last year in August I think so I junked it. I still have the green works and it works just fine. I used it in November here on the new home before buying the von haus. Still works great but as many people have complained about it over the years it only offers the flexible tine cylinder instead of in interchangeable cylinder with the hard tine scarifier. Von haus is on the expensive side but man it's nice, way better than the sunjoe imo so it's worth the extra bucks. Hopefully the motor lasts longer too.
@@TurfMechanic Do you recall if it was the smaller 12-amp/13in one or the 13-amp/15in one? It's only my 2nd season with the 13-amp SunJoe, but I have 7,000sq ft lawn and wondering if I should baby it now.
yeah, late October and early November we relocated. Since it was primary at the end of lawn season a lot of lawn viewers are just realizing we moved even though it's been roughly half a year now. Clif notes to catch up I've currently got a mixed bag mostly warm season lawn. I'm transitioning the front to a nearly pure Kikuyu and Buffalo grass and the back will get a slow transition to TTTF but that has been something I haven't taken much action on yet due to California flooding issues we had from December through early March.
I live in Canada, we have our own bunch of roving thieves up here, saw a guy who stole some lawncare guys little custom pressure tank sprayer on a trailer that a bicycle could have pulled, held about 30-40 gallons I'd say. It was deffo specialized for someone with a business, not a meth head. Damn man.😮
Been wondering what happened to that bare spot you had out front, did you ever find the cause? It’s fall/autumn here and I’ll be looking at doing exactly this with my poa :)
►►► Want to fix your lawn for the long haul but don't know where to start? I can help! Click here right now and get started today: turfmech.link/dont-know-where-to-start ◄◄◄
So, I heard 2 different advices from toobers, and you were a success, however i didnt test the other method, let me get to rhe point. I found a Sunjoe Scarifier in Ontario Canada at Home Depot, and it was the last one so i got it for $111.00
Wow. Hunnit and elvin dollas.
So I waited till the soil biology and grass was visibly growing and cut a few times, as opposed to the other opinion of scarify before the roots wake up. Anyway i installed my crazy homemade organic input hopped up biochar/compost/soil mix, after i did it it looked rough as expected, but 2 days later its thickening up nice, and now we had rain for a few days, and the bluegrass grew over an inch in such a short time. Almost like the scarifying didnt harm it at all, followed immediately by the positive effects of the culminating factors, of warm sunny weather after cool rains.
Just want fans of yours to know how awesome you are, at teaching new folks whats up, your ideas work, and i found bags of Vermont Castings Charcoal at Canadian Tire for sale, big bags. It doesnt say biochar, because it isnt biochar till someone charges the coal. So, anyway, its 36 bucks Canadian and it has a bulleted list of how its made right on the bag below rhe name, and those points say WE MADE WHAT YOU WANT. High carbon, Dense, no ash, recycled gases during burn of wood to make it ( pyrolysis) , cooked at a high temp. Basixally described making biochar. So get you some, then go watch vieeos on how to charge and crushit up to small pieces for the different applications. You want different size, for different applications.
🇨🇦👊🏻👨🏻🏭⚡💖🍁♻️🍁🙏🙏🙏✊🏻😎🍹
I actually use Roundup to kill my small pop ups of Poa that had come up from last years sod installation. About 10 days later used my Proplugger to take those spots completely out and will be filling in the holes when doing my sand leveling this coming weekend. For larger areas like yours , your plan made sense.
👍🏻💚🦸🏻
Curious, if you only get a small bit here and there why not just hand pull them...or just use the proplugger before anything? Why kill the spot with roundup if your going to plug it out of the ground 10 days later? Anyway, im considering one extra round of certainty this month to beat back the last touch of living poa and fescue that still there. Can't wait to stop seeing that patchy color though.
@@TurfMechanic I was curious to see how the Roundup would do with the ProVista KBG which is supposed to be Glyphosate tolerant. I decided to use the Proplugger because I wanted to clear out those areas so they could fill back in. Thought it would be quicker for the KBG to spread with the dead grass gone
nice experiment, probably too late but it would be cool to see a control, like one spot that wasn't plugged to see how much slower it is without the plug than with the plug and sand.
@@TurfMechanicThat would have been a good idea. That's why you have 28k subs and I have 646 lol 😂
ha! I think of experiments all day long; it's how I grew the channel :D
Low N fertiliser is better for Kikuyu. Otherwise you will be fighting thick stolon runners. Remember everytime you rake or scarify you will be pulling the roots off the runners and that will make the stolons spread without putting down roots into the soil. Bigger node spacing before grass leaves. Annual rye will kill the kikuyu in the spring
I’ve been watching your channel for about 2 years and learned a lot. My lawn is zoysia and I live in NJ. Last year, I did a very stupid thing. After doing some cement work I spilled about 5 gallons of the “cement wash water” on a section of the lawn. It eventually killed the lawn. This year I’ve tried planting some seeds but nothing is growing. I checked the PH and it the same as healthy parts of the lawn. HELP, any suggestions?
Try breaking up that area with a shove or tiller and add in some good quality top soil, mix it in as well as possible in that area with the existing soil at least 4-6inches down even more if possible up to about 12inches, add some starter fertilizer and you should be able to get some grass growing there again. I'd also recommend mixing in some organic material to help aid the "life" of the soil it's self.
I have a cool season lawn and a couple spots in my parkway strip are basically all poa. the heat has already killed off the poa, and now I'm not sure if I should re-seed those areas this fall, or make sure to cover the areas with my fall pre-emergent. seems like if I reseed, I'm gonna keep fighting the poa, but if I just do pre-emergent, I go from having dead poa this year, to having bare sport next year. any thoughts on what I should do this fall?
Having the same issue here in Michigan
What happened to all your other detachers? Don't last?
I burnt the motor out on my sunjoe last year in August I think so I junked it. I still have the green works and it works just fine. I used it in November here on the new home before buying the von haus. Still works great but as many people have complained about it over the years it only offers the flexible tine cylinder instead of in interchangeable cylinder with the hard tine scarifier. Von haus is on the expensive side but man it's nice, way better than the sunjoe imo so it's worth the extra bucks. Hopefully the motor lasts longer too.
@@TurfMechanic Do you recall if it was the smaller 12-amp/13in one or the 13-amp/15in one? It's only my 2nd season with the 13-amp SunJoe, but I have 7,000sq ft lawn and wondering if I should baby it now.
Hey man you should learn to blur you address is visible in this video
I've considered doing that lately and may start adding in that edit to future vids. Thanks
@@TurfMechanic I thought you lived in the mountains or something and had a cool season? Clearly you live in Camarillo and warm season turf???
yeah, late October and early November we relocated. Since it was primary at the end of lawn season a lot of lawn viewers are just realizing we moved even though it's been roughly half a year now. Clif notes to catch up I've currently got a mixed bag mostly warm season lawn. I'm transitioning the front to a nearly pure Kikuyu and Buffalo grass and the back will get a slow transition to TTTF but that has been something I haven't taken much action on yet due to California flooding issues we had from December through early March.
I live in Canada, we have our own bunch of roving thieves up here, saw a guy who stole some lawncare guys little custom pressure tank sprayer on a trailer that a bicycle could have pulled, held about 30-40 gallons I'd say. It was deffo specialized for someone with a business, not a meth head. Damn man.😮
Been wondering what happened to that bare spot you had out front, did you ever find the cause? It’s fall/autumn here and I’ll be looking at doing exactly this with my poa :)