I sure hope all the amendments you added dont affect your pond. Hopefully the grass will start growing before the fall storms start rolling thru. Keep us all posted. It's looking good!!
With that hard clay, you should plug aerate it once a year. Then rake up those plugs and rake in good sand/compost mix for nutrients and to add in moisture retention. After a few years of doing that you should have a nice thick lawn. A good thick and weed free lawn sometimes takes a min of 3 years to get established. The Scott's program really works. Its also good to set your mower at it's high setting . A tall grass shades the soil well, keeping the soil cool and preventing weed seeds from germinating. I keep my push mower at one notch from it's highest setting and I have the best lawn in my neighborhood. I only lower the setting as fall sets in, lowering it one notch every other cut until the mid level just before winter hibernation. Love this channel. So inspirational to get up and do stuff! Keep up the great work.
Looks like a nice home. I have nothing but sand, I just mulch all the leaves from the countless trees around me each year and well everything grows, and grows and grows.
I hope the grass really does get better for you with all your hard work on the ground. Keep up the good work and videos and thanks for sharing with us.
I certainly applaud your efforts. I'm afraid you have taken a long ways about to failure though. The products you added would be great for an established lawn or a new lawn with some organic matter rather than mostly clay. Without peat moss, leaf mold, manure, or rotted straw being added first and worked in to aid water penetration to the root zone most rainfall will merely wash the top inch or so of nutrients and leave you with a lawn subject to the effects of drought,,, such as dead spots, weeds, washouts, and reapplication of more chemicals. Sure,,, you can possibly get the green lawn you desire,,, just do not expect it quickly or easily. Sincerely,,, the best of luck to you.
sweet nice toy that drag i use one on drive way for people and i all so use a wood 4x8 chain to the back to brake up lumps to and in the spring i do yards and field to get water down to the roots
I made sure that my grass mix had annual rye grass in it. It will start quicker and help hold the soil while the other slower germinating grass gets established. So far the rye grass is already coming up. But I watering it daily.
I'm sure you're amendments will help somewhat but i think you may done more work than was needed with the tractor. Just put straw down, seed and consistently water it for a couple months. It takes time to grow back in. Use local grass hay from your field with the straw and water.
This is my first time seeing any of your videos. Was trying to find and see if you did an update video but I didn’t find one. Did you ever do an update video? If so can you provide a link.
I want to encourage you to check out the no till method, so much easier. I hope you get grass soon for all the hard work you've done. It'll be beautiful!😃
it's a nice well produced video.. but to learn from it we need an update with how it turned out, and any tweaks you'd make. But I do appreciate that you live a busy life there on the farm. all the best.
Hi from New Zealand grow up on farm we had clay soil in Northland but are lots other types too! Fact it helped lived on a farm had old hay [ does bring grass seeds] . I hate think number of buckets we filled from when cows been put in back tray of tractor'. But we would carry down the odd one down too! Also from under hen house under pine trees had wonderful soil huge trees. Dad brought a hand held digger it real good at digging but take off on me at times feel like i was going end up through fence. The as tractor couldn't in there. the Feijoas and rose garden the way etc. .Mum planted some roses, and many other flowers we helped gardens made vegetable garden bigger was only small one On section already many citrus., grapes, plum's, four types apples, peaches we had side farm road when sold his trucking business [ had that twenty years fixed all ten truck's] brought the milking cows and big house . Quarry was our first side farm buying other side increased number paddock's could use. Sheep and Cattle mostly on hills not milked. Clay soils get a bad rap. In winter they are sodden and easily compacted. They take longer to warm up in spring and by summer they've turned to concrete. The fine particles stick together so there is poor drainage and lack of aeration leading to poor root growth. Back-breaking and expensive suggested solutions to improving heavy clay include replacing it all with friable loam or digging in trailer loads of sharp sand and gravel. But the news is not all bad for gardeners. Heavy clay is often fertile as nutrients aren't lost by leaching and it retains moisture in dry weather. With a bit of know how gardens can flourish on clay without breaking the bank or your back. Gypsum Adding gypsum aggregates clay particles too. Don't add it every year though as it can increase salinity. Northland and Auckland them get all weathers of sun,wind, rain, storms, some places flooding [ no snow] can everyone in a day at times! ll grew roses in Auckland had 40 bags and bags compost boot car be full back section we put into vegetables. hard going elderly couple stopped mowing it . Well it was six plus foot high! No didn't have tractor as it was clay soil too! A garden begging for colour and structure, I’ve loved every minute of creating our garden! Clay soils get a bad rap. In winter they are sodden and easily compacted. They take longer to warm up in spring and by summer they've turned to concrete. The fine particles stick together so there is poor drainage and lack of aeration leading to poor root growth. Back-breaking and expensive suggested solutions to improving heavy clay include replacing it all with friable loam or digging in trailer loads of sharp sand and gravel. Heavy clay is often fertile as nutrients aren't lost by leaching and it retains moisture in dry weather. With a bit of know how gardens can flourish on clay without breaking the bank or your back. Grow potatoes to help break up heavy clay soils plant them straw or hay . Other thing to help clay soil is pea straw with lucernu. As with all garden planting, be sure to give your plants a best possible start by adding garden mix like any good compost in generous quantities to each planting hole. Ideally always dig the hole twice the root ball [ or rise the bed ] width and half the depth and then backfill with garden mix to allow the tender young roots of your newly planted investment to take hold and easily feed from the soil whilst getting established. Clay particles clump around the humus so aeration and drainage improve. Fork lightly into the top layer of soil or let the worms do the work for you. Keep adding mulch layers as they break down and lots animal you know what.
Great leveling job ... that's going to be a beautiful lawn. You might want to research lawn nitrogen seeping into ponds ... but am sure you'll work it out.
Very nice work! I tried to do some cutting around our property today, but it's been WAY too dry! Had dust coming up like you did. Oh well, sometimes if you're going to do anything worthwhile you got to get a little dirty. Here's to hoping for some rain this week.
Was that seed applied at 10 pounds per 1000 square feet? A good seed to use is perennial rye. It germinates in 5-8 days so you know if it's going to work or not. Composted hay is a good soil amendment for clay soils. Nice video!
No sure of the rate of seed. I tried to ensure it was over seeded. I used a grass mix, some kentucky31 fescue and annual rye grass. Keeping my fingers crossed.🤞
Hey Guy, You had your soil tested at your local county extension office? You can always use the pond water below to water your grass, it will add a boost to the soil with lots of Micro-flora and fauna, this will act like superfood to your soil jumpstarting the microbes in it. Also add Humas type material some of these you can get for free. Wood stove ash, leaves, soiled hay , or straw, wood chips or sawdust. Just about anything that is or was a plant at one time. Keep the soil very very wet until the grass seed germinates (rice patty kind of wet).
A movie with out an ending... Mann - I had great hopes when starting this video.... Thought I would hear about how, when & were to use and (ADD) topsoil when trying to lawn seed an area... I hate to post a negative comment 0 but I hope your lawn turned out notice??? - Cant tell from here : )
I get the impression you are throwing good money after bad. Hope all that worked. I have a slope beside my house with no top soil. I dumped wood chips on it but a lot of them washed away. I still keep throwing sticks, twigs and and grass clippings on it. Always hoping for a gentle rain.
Great job to redo your yard to grow better grass. Umm wonder if y’all plan to build a nice round fire pit with stone pavers around it plus nice chairs to sit down and cook hot dogs 🌭 or s’mores or anything 😉
Hope it works out for you,even in Pa I had a lot of trouble with planting grass send in some areas. How did you make out with the hay situation? You guy's have a nice weekend. God bless
Hi, when you first mentioned erosion behind your walkout walls, I immediately noticed the the down spout for your gutters was right next to the washed away area. Would you reconsider relocating where this water spout directed it's water load.
Right I have about 40 feet if flexible downspout running the gutters out to the pond. But I need to bury some drainage pipe to do the job right. I will have to do that after the grass grows up. Maybe next year.
Man....you have a lot of clay in that soil. I would plant a cover crop of rye grass, orchard grass and any other grass that would help put roots into it and build up some organic matter. Heck with the fertilizers for now. Use the manure from the animals and incorporate that in the soil too. Maybe in 10 years you could put lawn grass seed down.
Great job Evan. The gypsum consist of calcium sulfate, so you might want to add a little more lime where you apply the gypsum so the ph does not get too low ;)
I almost mentioned that in the video. I noticed it added sulfur which usually lowers the PH. I ended up putting down 2 bags if pelleted lime and one bag of ag lime. With extra in the area of the gypsum. 👍
I used 2 -40 bags of pelleted lime and one bag of ag lime. Hopefully it will raise enough to grow the grass. I can take another PH reading and see how much it changed.
There should be, when you expand the description. But if you are looking my the channels video page, the videos should be in chronological order newest to oldest.
Be careful not to get any leaching into your pond using all those chemicals. Should try some more natural methods, but good luck. Check out Greg Judy look how he grows pastures.👍🏻
I put down 5 bales of straw so far. It was enough to cover the side of the walkout wall. The straw has definitely helped. Grass started growing there first. May add more straw in some vital areas, but it would take 20 to 30 more bales to cover it all.
@@CountryViewAcres use some old hay...from in the barn or maybe a neighbor or someone may have some to get rid of.... you've got to mulch with something or your seed won't germinate in the clay
You are removing carbon material,I.e.woodchip,flattening a clay top layer and planting seed? I hope you like clay in your pond after the first downpour. Build your soil first,carbon then more carbon following by even more. Grass won't thrive in sub soil,feed it don't starve it and you shall reap the rewards. Good luck.
Dude, you have all the topsoil you need in your woods. Including composted leaf matter. All great stuff for your lawn.
I sure hope all the amendments you added dont affect your pond. Hopefully the grass will start growing before the fall storms start rolling thru. Keep us all posted. It's looking good!!
Nothing more fertile than a forest! Regenerative permaculture is the best, bar none!
With that hard clay, you should plug aerate it once a year. Then rake up those plugs and rake in good sand/compost mix for nutrients and to add in moisture retention. After a few years of doing that you should have a nice thick lawn. A good thick and weed free lawn sometimes takes a min of 3 years to get established. The Scott's program really works. Its also good to set your mower at it's high setting . A tall grass shades the soil well, keeping the soil cool and preventing weed seeds from germinating. I keep my push mower at one notch from it's highest setting and I have the best lawn in my neighborhood. I only lower the setting as fall sets in, lowering it one notch every other cut until the mid level just before winter hibernation. Love this channel. So inspirational to get up and do stuff! Keep up the great work.
Looks like a nice home. I have nothing but sand, I just mulch all the leaves from the countless trees around me each year and well everything grows, and grows and grows.
I bet the lawn will really be beautiful next spring. Great job Evan.
Really nice property and home !
I hope the grass really does get better for you with all your hard work on the ground. Keep up the good work and videos and thanks for sharing with us.
I certainly applaud your efforts. I'm afraid you have taken a long ways about to failure though. The products you added would be great for an established lawn or a new lawn with some organic matter rather than mostly clay. Without peat moss, leaf mold, manure, or rotted straw being added first and worked in to aid water penetration to the root zone most rainfall will merely wash the top inch or so of nutrients and leave you with a lawn subject to the effects of drought,,, such as dead spots, weeds, washouts, and reapplication of more chemicals. Sure,,, you can possibly get the green lawn you desire,,, just do not expect it quickly or easily. Sincerely,,, the best of luck to you.
sweet nice toy that drag i use one on drive way for people and i all so use a wood 4x8 chain to the back to brake up lumps to and in the spring i do yards and field to get water down to the roots
So what does your lawn look like now? I would like to see the results.
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I can see it now!!!! Beautiful !!! Well done!!!
I need to do the same exact thing to part of my property. Thanks for the tutorial. Lets see how it works!!
I made sure that my grass mix had annual rye grass in it. It will start quicker and help hold the soil while the other slower germinating grass gets established. So far the rye grass is already coming up. But I watering it daily.
I love your property with lake lawn acreage nice place
Great work and it looks awesome. If this doesn’t work the fourth time use sod. Good luck!
Great job Evan !
Excellent video we will be going through the same thing house being built now may have to wait until spring
I'm sure you're amendments will help somewhat but i think you may done more work than was needed with the tractor. Just put straw down, seed and consistently water it for a couple months. It takes time to grow back in. Use local grass hay from your field with the straw and water.
Water the entire area daily.
Your house looks awesome.
Good Luck
Thanks, I have my fingers croseed.🤞
Another informative & entertaining video. I look forward to what your grass is going to look like. Art in CA
Looks great, can't wait to see how it turns out!
Me too. 🤞
Great job!
This is my first time seeing any of your videos. Was trying to find and see if you did an update video but I didn’t find one. Did you ever do an update video? If so can you provide a link.
I want to encourage you to check out the no till method, so much easier. I hope you get grass soon for all the hard work you've done. It'll be beautiful!😃
what is the no till method?
Good luck 👍⛈
it's a nice well produced video.. but to learn from it we need an update with how it turned out, and any tweaks you'd make. But I do appreciate that you live a busy life there on the farm. all the best.
Nice job. Just found your channel through suggested videos. I subbed. Look forward to seeing your improvements. Good channel. ... Hank
I have clay in my back yard. It has taken me 8 years to get nice black soil. Now I use my own composted stuff to amend my soil.
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) grows best in clay soil.
i wish you lived next door to me,you have all the tools
Would love to see an update on this to see how it turned out. Did you ever do anything about your downspout situation?
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Too much work but I applaud the effort.
Where's your help though? I certainly hope it works out for you. Thx for sharing
Evan, good job preparing the area for grass. You certainly have covered all the bases. Grass has to grow now
Hi from New Zealand grow up on farm we had clay soil in Northland but are lots other types too!
Fact it helped lived on a farm had old hay [ does bring grass seeds] . I hate think number of buckets we filled from when cows been put in back tray of tractor'. But we would carry down the odd one down too!
Also from under hen house under pine trees had wonderful soil huge trees. Dad brought a hand held digger it real good at digging but take off on me at times feel like i was going end up through fence. The as tractor couldn't in there. the Feijoas and rose garden the way etc.
.Mum planted some roses, and many other flowers we helped gardens made vegetable garden bigger was only small one
On section already many citrus., grapes, plum's, four types apples, peaches we had side farm road when sold his trucking business [ had that twenty years fixed all ten truck's] brought the milking cows and big house .
Quarry was our first side farm buying other side increased number paddock's could use. Sheep and Cattle mostly on hills not milked.
Clay soils get a bad rap. In winter they are sodden and easily compacted. They take longer to warm up in spring and by summer they've turned to concrete. The fine particles stick together so there is poor drainage and lack of aeration leading to poor root growth.
Back-breaking and expensive suggested solutions to improving heavy clay include replacing it all with friable loam or digging in trailer loads of sharp sand and gravel.
But the news is not all bad for gardeners. Heavy clay is often fertile as nutrients aren't lost by leaching and it retains moisture in dry weather. With a bit of know how gardens can flourish on clay without breaking the bank or your back.
Gypsum
Adding gypsum aggregates clay particles too. Don't add it every year though as it can increase salinity.
Northland and Auckland them get all weathers of sun,wind, rain, storms, some places flooding [ no snow] can everyone in a day at times! ll grew roses in Auckland had 40 bags and bags compost boot car be full back section we put into vegetables. hard going elderly couple stopped mowing it . Well it was six plus foot high! No didn't have tractor as it was clay soil too!
A garden begging for colour and structure, I’ve loved every minute of creating our garden!
Clay soils get a bad rap. In winter they are sodden and easily compacted. They take longer to warm up in spring and by summer they've turned to concrete. The fine particles stick together so there is poor drainage and lack of aeration leading to poor root growth.
Back-breaking and expensive suggested solutions to improving heavy clay include replacing it all with friable loam or digging in trailer loads of sharp sand and gravel.
Heavy clay is often fertile as nutrients aren't lost by leaching and it retains moisture in dry weather. With a bit of know how gardens can flourish on clay without breaking the bank or your back.
Grow potatoes to help break up heavy clay soils plant them straw or hay . Other thing to help clay soil is pea straw with lucernu.
As with all garden planting, be sure to give your plants a best possible start by adding garden mix like any good compost in generous quantities to each planting hole. Ideally always dig the hole twice the root ball [ or rise the bed ] width and half the depth and then backfill with garden mix to allow the tender young roots of your newly planted investment to take hold and easily feed from the soil whilst getting established.
Clay particles clump around the humus so aeration and drainage improve. Fork lightly into the top layer of soil or let the worms do the work for you. Keep adding mulch layers as they break down and lots animal you know what.
lyn cobb I like your suggestions. Looks like to try.
You need to till with a rotery tiller and ad tons and tons of organic matter.
I’m in the same boat man. The struggle is real hahahaha.
Great leveling job ... that's going to be a beautiful lawn. You might want to research lawn nitrogen seeping into ponds ... but am sure you'll work it out.
Very nice work! I tried to do some cutting around our property today, but it's been WAY too dry! Had dust coming up like you did. Oh well, sometimes if you're going to do anything worthwhile you got to get a little dirty. Here's to hoping for some rain this week.
1:40 Did you test the soil to see if it's acidic or what indicated it needs lime?
Better hope there is no rain storms soon. Maybe you need a flat water filled roller.
Hopefully, it works this time around and by Thanksgiving, you have a lush green lawn. It certainly has enough nutrition!🤣🤣🤣😇😂👍
Was that seed applied at 10 pounds per 1000 square feet? A good seed to use is perennial rye. It germinates in 5-8 days so you know if it's going to work or not. Composted hay is a good soil amendment for clay soils. Nice video!
No sure of the rate of seed. I tried to ensure it was over seeded. I used a grass mix, some kentucky31 fescue and annual rye grass. Keeping my fingers crossed.🤞
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) grows best in clay soil.
My fingers are crossed.
Mine too! 🤞
Hey Guy, You had your soil tested at your local county extension office? You can always use the pond water below to water your grass, it will add a boost to the soil with lots of Micro-flora and fauna, this will act like superfood to your soil jumpstarting the microbes in it. Also add Humas type material some of these you can get for free. Wood stove ash, leaves, soiled hay , or straw, wood chips or sawdust. Just about anything that is or was a plant at one time. Keep the soil very very wet until the grass seed germinates (rice patty kind of wet).
And the rest of us are over here with our half acre saying…”yeah i think i could manage that with a shovel and a rake…
A movie with out an ending... Mann - I had great hopes when starting this video.... Thought I would hear about how, when & were to use and (ADD) topsoil when trying to lawn seed an area... I hate to post a negative comment 0 but I hope your lawn turned out notice??? - Cant tell from here : )
I get the impression you are throwing good money after bad. Hope all that worked. I have a slope beside my house with no top soil. I dumped wood chips on it but a lot of them washed away. I still keep throwing sticks, twigs and and grass clippings on it. Always hoping for a gentle rain.
remember low nitrogen spring, summer high NIT. in winter you still need to fertilize in our winter months.
Tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea) grows best in clay soil.
Ozark Hill Country feels your pain, Bud, for certain. I will feel it most literally, as my broke ass is doing it by hand! Topsoil is key.
Great job to redo your yard to grow better grass. Umm wonder if y’all plan to build a nice round fire pit with stone pavers around it plus nice chairs to sit down and cook hot dogs 🌭 or s’mores or anything 😉
I think Rebekah wants me to build a fire pit. Maybe one day.
Did it work…I’m looking for part 2
porated into the soil. Adding GYPSUM aggregates clay particles too.
Hope it works out for you,even in Pa I had a lot of trouble with planting grass send in some areas. How did you make out with the hay situation? You guy's have a nice weekend. God bless
The hay is planted, but we need rain. The alfalfa is coming up but not much orchard grass yet. It has been really dry here.
Why not put a rain barrel at the bottom of that downspout. Water for the garden.
Hi, when you first mentioned erosion behind your walkout walls, I immediately noticed the the down spout for your gutters was right next to the washed away area. Would you reconsider relocating where this water spout directed it's water load.
Right I have about 40 feet if flexible downspout running the gutters out to the pond. But I need to bury some drainage pipe to do the job right. I will have to do that after the grass grows up. Maybe next year.
Man....you have a lot of clay in that soil. I would plant a cover crop of rye grass, orchard grass and any other grass that would help put roots into it and build up some organic matter.
Heck with the fertilizers for now. Use the manure from the animals and incorporate that in the soil too. Maybe in 10 years you could put lawn grass seed down.
Great job Evan. The gypsum consist of calcium sulfate, so you might want to add a little more lime where you apply the gypsum so the ph does not get too low ;)
I almost mentioned that in the video. I noticed it added sulfur which usually lowers the PH. I ended up putting down 2 bags if pelleted lime and one bag of ag lime. With extra in the area of the gypsum. 👍
Glad to hear it. Great job on the soil amendment video :)@@CountryViewAcres
add rice hulls to amend clay - see Hickory Ridge Homestead
Is there an update? Do you have grass growing now?
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At what rate does one apply gypsum and how often does it need to be done?
What about humus? You should have just covered the whole area with woodchips and left it until Spring.
Need a soil test to know what amendments are needed. That is not near enough lime for a ph of 5, if that's what it is.
I used 2 -40 bags of pelleted lime and one bag of ag lime. Hopefully it will raise enough to grow the grass. I can take another PH reading and see how much it changed.
put out some winter wheat on it to
I put out annual rye grass to help nurse the grass along.
Have you thought about hydro seeding it?
No, I want use what I have access to, without having to rent it. My fingers are crossed and hopefully it will grow 🤞
Is there dates on the videos can’t see any , just trying to do them in sequence.
There should be, when you expand the description.
But if you are looking my the channels video page, the videos should be in chronological order newest to oldest.
Be careful not to get any leaching into your pond using all those chemicals. Should try some more natural methods, but good luck. Check out Greg Judy look how he grows pastures.👍🏻
Put straw all over the seeded area....then water.....
I put down 5 bales of straw so far. It was enough to cover the side of the walkout wall. The straw has definitely helped. Grass started growing there first. May add more straw in some vital areas, but it would take 20 to 30 more bales to cover it all.
@@CountryViewAcres use some old hay...from in the barn or maybe a neighbor or someone may have some to get rid of.... you've got to mulch with something or your seed won't germinate in the clay
@@CountryViewAcres Never use hay as it has a high content of weeds
Next time mix fall rye with the grass
You need top soil, not clay. You can add stuff to the clay but it will never be nutrient rich. Clay is not soil.
You need 10” of top soil on top of clay
At the next board meeting you need to get AFE approval for a bigger fertilizer spreader
Bwaaahahaha! Good one!
Yeah that little spreader is terrible. I have been looking for a used one. Hopefully I will find one soon.
You are removing carbon material,I.e.woodchip,flattening a clay top layer and planting seed? I hope you like clay in your pond after the first downpour. Build your soil first,carbon then more carbon following by even more. Grass won't thrive in sub soil,feed it don't starve it and you shall reap the rewards. Good luck.
No roundup this time?
No round up this time. Just good old tilling.
Are y'all in bama
Fletcher Green Illinois
Oh nice
Chicken poo is very high in nitrogen