Great video. I need to start playing these videos around the wife so she understands why we spend so much time outside to maintain any sort of decent lawn.
That's what I'm talking about! LOL They might put her to sleep though if she's anything like my wife :D She loves the work I do out in the lawn but wants to know very little about the process.
Did my final vanity mow (which also chopped leaves) with the roller on Halloween. I only have maybe 1-2 quick mows left just for final leaf chopping. Lesco stonewall Pre emergent (and it had some type effect on unestablished Poa on the new side lawn) was spread 2 weeks ago when it was warmer- I'm pretty much done at this point. Not even experimenting again with dormant seeding this year. Thanks for all your help this season!
love hearing a story that just sounds like a win all around. Enjoy those last cleanup mows, like vacuuming the rug. Hope you have a great holiday season, all of them, Columbus, thanksgiving, Christmas, and new years. Hope you'll catch my shenanigans over winter. :D
The weather unfolded just right for a November 4th mow, so here I go! Then the Deere goes in the shed and the snowblower shifts to the garage until about May 7th. It's been a good run.
Thanks Brian - I like the unscripted! One suggestion would be to add those little chapter breakpoints and labels for each topic so the long er video is easier to navigate. Thanks again for the helpful information!
My Minnesota Midnight KBG accumulated a few inches of dandruff earlier this week, though it's mostly gone now. One final mow pending but I'm done for the season. 😢 Ok, maybe spread some SOP...😊 Ok, maybe some extra N with it...😂 Winners never quit! Quitters never win!
One of the best pieces of lawn care advice I ever got was not to throw down pre-emergent just out of habit, or because everyone seems to recommend it.. Make sure you actually have a crab grass problem first. I live in Idaho, and have now gone six years without it, and without crabgrass popping up. With 24,000 square feet of lawn to treat, that saves me a couple hundred dollars every season.
yep, once weeds are under control almost everyone can back off PE most years. I didn't apply it the last 18 months in my last house and this year I didn't although I probably should have. I didn't have any history in this house so I didn't know what I was up against. :)
Thanks Brian, Awesome as always. Looking forward to upcoming videos of winter lawn care for us lucky ones living in warmer winter climates like San Diego where grass is supposed to stay green all year long. . Opportunities for building great soil and deep root growth using cytogro, alfalfa meal, and humic acid like II learned from you. thanks for being a great teacher!!
Ohh man, you probably have a great looking winter lawn when it's not covered up by snow or ice. Fescue in the transition zone even in the off-season looks great IMO.
Me and you are in similar boats; I'm down in Ventura county and most lawns here are slowly growing all winter long. I really need to put out a series of videos this off-season for people like you and others that live in places that never really see full dormancy.
thinking about doing an organic granular to push spring green-up. Would there be less nutrient loss if I were to put it down in January/Feb and not November? I'm in eastern Mass and we often go long stretches in the winter without any snow pack. Would I be better off waiting until a snowless stretch to put it down?
I love that area during the winter! Down in Klamath Falls when we'd make our trips to the 5 corridor or all the way up to Portland area my family would always stop for food in towns with parks just to spend 30 min or so on green grass in jan/feb...so long as it wasn't too wet of course. :D
The wetness is the worst during the winter because it basically never dries out, its like grass growing out of mud 😂 right now down in coastal SoCal we have wet marine layer every morning 365 days a year. I am forced to do all my lawn activities at the end of the afternoon when grass is dry, its almost impossible though to get the dry factor during January...at least it looks nice though and doesn't grow as fast
Thanks a bunch, a few years ago I had my son who was three at the time fiddling with the camera while I filmed. I still enjoy rewatching those vids. :)
I might very well have four RUclipsrs one day! They will all know way more about grass than the average kid and they all know too much about video production. My oldest is already getting weirdly good at making videos and he's only 12! This girl is definitely going places, where, it's anyone's guess but she's so stinking smart :)
I like this uncut format. Question about fungal decomposers. Why would I bag my clippings/leaves but then put down an organic fert? Wouldn't the fungal decomposers handle the clippings/leaves just like the fert? I usually see bagging as wasting free organic matter, so I'm very curious about this. Thank you.
It's all about volume, a lot of clippings can accumulate in areas causing small bits of die off in dormant grass. Yes it will decay but because the physical volume of clippings is usually a lot more than an application of fert the fert doesn't mulch down dormant grass over winter. Also, application of something like feather meal is like 12% npk by weight vs 3-4% by weight of fresh grass clippings. As for the format I may do a few more of these every now and then. It's a good format for me to ramble and get a lot of ancillary information out that might not ever make a video topic on its own.
It is chill, sometimes it's nice to take a break from fast cuts broll. I'm rewatching it right now myself just to make sure I didn't say something I shouldn't have lol, it's almost relaxing even though it's my own voice 🤣
@@TurfMechanicawesome. Loved the family interaction. Makes my heart ache missing when my kids were little! It’s exhausting with little ones but you do miss it later so I’m glad you value your family so much! Happy Friday!
The KBG portion of your lawn looks great. Any chance you'd want to keep it in the coming years? I've been mulch mowing tall fescue all summer, so should us guys in So. Cal bag mow during the winter?
oh man, I have been planning on putting that boutique Whittet Kikuyu there once I'm sure the Bermuda is gone but it's been a full 12 months since I started thinking like that and now I'm loving the KBG and I'm very curious if I can keep it with minimal water input over a full growing season. I bought $150 worth of Kikuyu seed but I may sit on it a while longer while I nurture the KBG since it's so unique to this neighborhood, nobody has it here. as for the question about fescue in socal, if I ran a fescue lawn in socal and I was getting enough moisture on the lawn from rain/irrigation I'd just keep mulching clippings (assuming I didn't have notable weed seed heads in the lawn). I'm bringing the HOC up on my KBG and my ARG overseed for the winter because temps support growth and I want more sunlight to hit more grass leaf tissue. If you've got tall fescue here in SoCal, I'd keep it extra high and mulch clippings whenever I mowed. Remind me again where you are exactly down here, You've said before but I've forgotten. I need to start a file on all my favorite commenters like yourself. Too many details to remember :D
I'm south of you near LAX airport so I am close to the coast with cooler temps, occasional fog, mowing my tall fescue at 4" during summer, knocked it down to 3.5" for a few weeks now. I'd like to see how your KBG does at 2 or more inches. Would definitely help in the summer to hold more moisture.@@TurfMechanic
@@DirtygardenCA that's right, I remember now, el Segundo maybe? Anyway that area is very mild temps like Ventura, even more mild than here in Camarillo I think. Man you probably keep a really nice looking pad of fescue through the winter 🤗
Kinda, my front yard gets shaded out from about now until March, some areas stay wet and matted down so I went ahead with my push reel and keeping it a little under 2 inches. Backyard is better, full sun most of the day. Just looking fwd to turning my sprinklers off soon so I can rely on rainfall.@@TurfMechanic
I'm in North Carolina. I overseeded last week. Water ect. 3 days later the temperature dropped into the 30s for 3 nights. Tomorrow it's going to be in the 70s and low in the 40s. Am I lost. Should I keep Watering?
keep going, you'll be fine. couple years back i grew fine fescue in late oct early nov when overnights were getting into the low 20s. The stuff took 19 days to sprout and completely filled in. Looked perfect for the following season.
@TurfMechanic Ok Thanks. That's what I seeded tall fescue. Also aerated a couple days earlier. My yard is very shady. Would watering it with low temperatures hurt?
@@L7pushman water in the am as things come off overnight lows, at this stage you probably don't have to sprinkle more than once a day. Give it time, at low average soil temps it will take almost 20 days from time seed hit dirt
my full sun (rhizomatous) Fescue finally came up! about a week ago, but then it got cold for the last week, however now back to warm almost 60F....as soon as it popped I put down a starter fert and also some organic, altho way late for Iowa, as I didn't get a chance until Oct to start seeding(and we had nearly 100F days the last of Sept, which I had to also go to a wedding in, so a few 'excuses' on why this is happening so late) it took well over 20days to sprout, and I actually had given up on it and stopped watering - but now what? - should I mow it? as it doesn't even have a first mow yet... should I water it? I can still see starter fert sitting on the surface ... I have a little N Ext RGS left, spray that out and/or anything left of their BioStem pack?... or just leave it alone?
if you've got new sprouts and RGS then yeah, I'd hit it with that especially if you still have warm day time temps. I'd personally keep the grass short, cut lower than if it was early sept and water it to keep the soil damp. This time of year soil will stay damp a lot longer very easily so you don't need to go overboard. I'd be concerned with letting the grass leaves grow too long in low light and cold overnights. It'll lay down on itself quickly in that environment. See if you can get it to root as much as possible this month, hope for good weather for a few more weeks, and keep as much light on it as possible (no tree leaves). Only mow when the turf is dry and standing up as much as possible. fescue is shade tolerant type so daylight duration will be less of a problem as it might be for KBG. Good luck Ben!
@@TurfMechanic thank you! it is about 2~3in tall, and not seeming close to ‘flopping over’ yet(I try to mow new grass right before that, or when it gets taller than I’d like to keep it) still growing very slowly, but full green and didn’t fail right away in the sub freezing night lows…. kinda on the thin side a bit, and I had straw cover down that is still sorta there to protect the soil …… it just warmed up today to 56F after the bottom low night of 27F for my yearly Halloween party(outside) and today was wanting to “give it some attention again” so awesome timing to get your advice!!!! think today I can hit it with the RGS, and water that in good…. then it should be warmer for a week, and I’ll see if I can give it a lite mow and anything else oh, loved this video, and your daughter plus cat I thought were good too!
I just looked up Memphis soil temp historical trends and see you on average bottom out at 40-degree soil temps for a couple months straight. That means a tall fescue is likely to mostly brown out in most years due to a combo of soil temps in low 40s and short days with low intensity sun. You are likely to see green until around 12/10 give or take and then things will start picking back up again around late Feb. You probably have a month left but will still have sluggish growth.
You probably could, never thought about it like that before but you'd still want to water the spots heavy after dogs pee to actually start flushing the salts away
They just outlawed lawn for businesses here in California, will go into effect in a year or so I believe. This was done for environmental and water shortage reasons. Just a matter of time before they ban residential lawn…..
I make a distinction between urea and ammonium sulfate, urea needs biology to convert the nitrogen into plant available whereas ammonium sulfate, a pure synthetic, doesn't need to be converted. Because of this urea (which I commonly refer to as semi-synthetic) is mostly wasted in soil temps under 50 while ammonium sulfate can still be used in soil temps into the 40s.
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Great video. I need to start playing these videos around the wife so she understands why we spend so much time outside to maintain any sort of decent lawn.
That's what I'm talking about! LOL They might put her to sleep though if she's anything like my wife :D She loves the work I do out in the lawn but wants to know very little about the process.
That little girl sure is having fun while daddy is helping us with our lawns, thank you sir.
I'm just watching a dad in his natural habitat 😂.
I ought to just stick the camera on while I work sometimes and call it a YT Live 🤣
@@TurfMechanic ,😂
100%
you are the grass professor, I feel like I’m going to take a test next week, wow lots of info write a book ag students can read
Did my final vanity mow (which also chopped leaves) with the roller on Halloween. I only have maybe 1-2 quick mows left just for final leaf chopping. Lesco stonewall Pre emergent (and it had some type effect on unestablished Poa on the new side lawn) was spread 2 weeks ago when it was warmer- I'm pretty much done at this point. Not even experimenting again with dormant seeding this year. Thanks for all your help this season!
love hearing a story that just sounds like a win all around. Enjoy those last cleanup mows, like vacuuming the rug. Hope you have a great holiday season, all of them, Columbus, thanksgiving, Christmas, and new years. Hope you'll catch my shenanigans over winter. :D
Lawncare commentary great. Dad commentary priceless!
When I'm old I'm going to love all the random dad footage I've captured running this channel. :D Thanks for chiming in!
The weather unfolded just right for a November 4th mow, so here I go!
Then the Deere goes in the shed and the snowblower shifts to the garage until about May 7th.
It's been a good run.
Thanks Brian - I like the unscripted! One suggestion would be to add those little chapter breakpoints and labels for each topic so the long er video is easier to navigate. Thanks again for the helpful information!
My Minnesota Midnight KBG accumulated a few inches of dandruff earlier this week, though it's mostly gone now. One final mow pending but I'm done for the season. 😢
Ok, maybe spread some SOP...😊
Ok, maybe some extra N with it...😂
Winners never quit! Quitters never win!
Don't forget that random January mow just to vacuum the lawn! 😁 That midnight should still hold color pretty good for a few weeks yet I'm sure.
Great stuff! Thanks for taking the time to create this. Very helpful :)
Your daughter is adorable! Also, you're a great dad.
Always appreciate comments like that Dave! 😊
One of the best pieces of lawn care advice I ever got was not to throw down pre-emergent just out of habit, or because everyone seems to recommend it.. Make sure you actually have a crab grass problem first. I live in Idaho, and have now gone six years without it, and without crabgrass popping up. With 24,000 square feet of lawn to treat, that saves me a couple hundred dollars every season.
yep, once weeds are under control almost everyone can back off PE most years. I didn't apply it the last 18 months in my last house and this year I didn't although I probably should have. I didn't have any history in this house so I didn't know what I was up against. :)
I've heard of this but putting money aside, is there a BENEFIT to not using a pre emergent?
@@TurfMechanicis there a benefit to not using a pre emergent? Money aside
Thanks Brian, Awesome as always. Looking forward to upcoming videos of winter lawn care for us lucky ones living in warmer winter climates like San Diego where grass is supposed to stay green all year long. . Opportunities for building great soil and deep root growth using cytogro, alfalfa meal, and humic acid like II learned from you. thanks for being a great teacher!!
Your yard is looking great Brian!
Thanks Matt, it's finally starting to get there. Looks like it's going to looking great for the Aussie season 😁
Another extremely helpful video Brian. Also fun to see you “dadding” while you work 👍
G'morning Brian. Thanks for putting out a great video.
My tall fescue is doing awesome in Kansas. Nature's seed, is top notch
Ohh man, you probably have a great looking winter lawn when it's not covered up by snow or ice. Fescue in the transition zone even in the off-season looks great IMO.
Lawn season doesn't end the Bay area growth slows but I still cut once a week, also there's plenty of leaves and some weeds to deal with.
Me and you are in similar boats; I'm down in Ventura county and most lawns here are slowly growing all winter long. I really need to put out a series of videos this off-season for people like you and others that live in places that never really see full dormancy.
thinking about doing an organic granular to push spring green-up. Would there be less nutrient loss if I were to put it down in January/Feb and not November? I'm in eastern Mass and we often go long stretches in the winter without any snow pack. Would I be better off waiting until a snowless stretch to put it down?
My perennial rye doesn’t go completely dormant, i live in the Portland metro area in Oregon.
It’s nice having a green lawn all year!
I love that area during the winter! Down in Klamath Falls when we'd make our trips to the 5 corridor or all the way up to Portland area my family would always stop for food in towns with parks just to spend 30 min or so on green grass in jan/feb...so long as it wasn't too wet of course. :D
@@TurfMechanic lol yeah that can be an issue. My grass will grow but it’s so wet I can’t even mow😂
The wetness is the worst during the winter because it basically never dries out, its like grass growing out of mud 😂 right now down in coastal SoCal we have wet marine layer every morning 365 days a year. I am forced to do all my lawn activities at the end of the afternoon when grass is dry, its almost impossible though to get the dry factor during January...at least it looks nice though and doesn't grow as fast
Lol love the unedited version! Don’t touch the camera! Lol so cute. Love your videos
Thanks a bunch, a few years ago I had my son who was three at the time fiddling with the camera while I filmed. I still enjoy rewatching those vids. :)
I loved it uncut too, this is my life working from home too. Ha!
It's a great way to live Matt, that's for sure. Wish more people got to experience it like this.
Great video, your daughter is adorable. Maybe she will take over the Channel one day.
I might very well have four RUclipsrs one day! They will all know way more about grass than the average kid and they all know too much about video production. My oldest is already getting weirdly good at making videos and he's only 12! This girl is definitely going places, where, it's anyone's guess but she's so stinking smart :)
@@TurfMechanic that's awesome. You are very blessed to have such great kids.
I like this uncut format. Question about fungal decomposers. Why would I bag my clippings/leaves but then put down an organic fert? Wouldn't the fungal decomposers handle the clippings/leaves just like the fert? I usually see bagging as wasting free organic matter, so I'm very curious about this. Thank you.
It's all about volume, a lot of clippings can accumulate in areas causing small bits of die off in dormant grass. Yes it will decay but because the physical volume of clippings is usually a lot more than an application of fert the fert doesn't mulch down dormant grass over winter. Also, application of something like feather meal is like 12% npk by weight vs 3-4% by weight of fresh grass clippings. As for the format I may do a few more of these every now and then. It's a good format for me to ramble and get a lot of ancillary information out that might not ever make a video topic on its own.
Great video to chill and wake up to 😎
It is chill, sometimes it's nice to take a break from fast cuts broll. I'm rewatching it right now myself just to make sure I didn't say something I shouldn't have lol, it's almost relaxing even though it's my own voice 🤣
@@TurfMechanicawesome. Loved the family interaction. Makes my heart ache missing when my kids were little! It’s exhausting with little ones but you do miss it later so I’m glad you value your family so much!
Happy Friday!
Thanks, from Hampton Roads, VA.
The KBG portion of your lawn looks great. Any chance you'd want to keep it in the coming years?
I've been mulch mowing tall fescue all summer, so should us guys in So. Cal bag mow during the winter?
oh man, I have been planning on putting that boutique Whittet Kikuyu there once I'm sure the Bermuda is gone but it's been a full 12 months since I started thinking like that and now I'm loving the KBG and I'm very curious if I can keep it with minimal water input over a full growing season. I bought $150 worth of Kikuyu seed but I may sit on it a while longer while I nurture the KBG since it's so unique to this neighborhood, nobody has it here. as for the question about fescue in socal, if I ran a fescue lawn in socal and I was getting enough moisture on the lawn from rain/irrigation I'd just keep mulching clippings (assuming I didn't have notable weed seed heads in the lawn). I'm bringing the HOC up on my KBG and my ARG overseed for the winter because temps support growth and I want more sunlight to hit more grass leaf tissue. If you've got tall fescue here in SoCal, I'd keep it extra high and mulch clippings whenever I mowed. Remind me again where you are exactly down here, You've said before but I've forgotten. I need to start a file on all my favorite commenters like yourself. Too many details to remember :D
I'm south of you near LAX airport so I am close to the coast with cooler temps, occasional fog, mowing my tall fescue at 4" during summer, knocked it down to 3.5" for a few weeks now. I'd like to see how your KBG does at 2 or more inches. Would definitely help in the summer to hold more moisture.@@TurfMechanic
@@DirtygardenCA that's right, I remember now, el Segundo maybe? Anyway that area is very mild temps like Ventura, even more mild than here in Camarillo I think. Man you probably keep a really nice looking pad of fescue through the winter 🤗
Kinda, my front yard gets shaded out from about now until March, some areas stay wet and matted down so I went ahead with my push reel and keeping it a little under 2 inches. Backyard is better, full sun most of the day. Just looking fwd to turning my sprinklers off soon so I can rely on rainfall.@@TurfMechanic
I'm in North Carolina. I overseeded last week. Water ect. 3 days later the temperature dropped into the 30s for 3 nights. Tomorrow it's going to be in the 70s and low in the 40s. Am I lost. Should I keep Watering?
keep going, you'll be fine. couple years back i grew fine fescue in late oct early nov when overnights were getting into the low 20s. The stuff took 19 days to sprout and completely filled in. Looked perfect for the following season.
@TurfMechanic Ok Thanks. That's what I seeded tall fescue. Also aerated a couple days earlier. My yard is very shady. Would watering it with low temperatures hurt?
@@L7pushman water in the am as things come off overnight lows, at this stage you probably don't have to sprinkle more than once a day. Give it time, at low average soil temps it will take almost 20 days from time seed hit dirt
Thanks bro
my full sun (rhizomatous) Fescue finally came up! about a week ago, but then it got cold for the last week, however now back to warm almost 60F....as soon as it popped I put down a starter fert and also some organic, altho way late for Iowa, as I didn't get a chance until Oct to start seeding(and we had nearly 100F days the last of Sept, which I had to also go to a wedding in, so a few 'excuses' on why this is happening so late) it took well over 20days to sprout, and I actually had given up on it and stopped watering - but now what? - should I mow it? as it doesn't even have a first mow yet... should I water it? I can still see starter fert sitting on the surface ... I have a little N Ext RGS left, spray that out and/or anything left of their BioStem pack?... or just leave it alone?
if you've got new sprouts and RGS then yeah, I'd hit it with that especially if you still have warm day time temps. I'd personally keep the grass short, cut lower than if it was early sept and water it to keep the soil damp. This time of year soil will stay damp a lot longer very easily so you don't need to go overboard. I'd be concerned with letting the grass leaves grow too long in low light and cold overnights. It'll lay down on itself quickly in that environment. See if you can get it to root as much as possible this month, hope for good weather for a few more weeks, and keep as much light on it as possible (no tree leaves). Only mow when the turf is dry and standing up as much as possible. fescue is shade tolerant type so daylight duration will be less of a problem as it might be for KBG. Good luck Ben!
@@TurfMechanic thank you!
it is about 2~3in tall, and not seeming close to ‘flopping over’ yet(I try to mow new grass right before that, or when it gets taller than I’d like to keep it) still growing very slowly, but full green and didn’t fail right away in the sub freezing night lows…. kinda on the thin side a bit, and I had straw cover down that is still sorta there to protect the soil …… it just warmed up today to 56F after the bottom low night of 27F for my yearly Halloween party(outside) and today was wanting to “give it some attention again” so awesome timing to get your advice!!!!
think today I can hit it with the RGS, and water that in good…. then it should be warmer for a week, and I’ll see if I can give it a lite mow and anything else
oh, loved this video, and your daughter plus cat I thought were good too!
Great info. I think you need a bigger chair 😂
That chair is awesome, I've been filming with it for 3+ years now 😊 it's slowing becoming a channel mascot 😁
what about Tennessee i have a tall fescue lawn
I just looked up Memphis soil temp historical trends and see you on average bottom out at 40-degree soil temps for a couple months straight. That means a tall fescue is likely to mostly brown out in most years due to a combo of soil temps in low 40s and short days with low intensity sun. You are likely to see green until around 12/10 give or take and then things will start picking back up again around late Feb. You probably have a month left but will still have sluggish growth.
Could i put gypsum for preventative dog pee damage?
You probably could, never thought about it like that before but you'd still want to water the spots heavy after dogs pee to actually start flushing the salts away
@@TurfMechanic Going to pick up my line and some gypsum see what happens
Are you in California?
They just outlawed lawn for businesses here in California, will go into effect in a year or so I believe. This was done for environmental and water shortage reasons. Just a matter of time before they ban residential lawn…..
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You're a A's fan?
Die hard As fan. This year was hard to watch but I'm excited for a better year next. Where will they be, not sure yet but I'll be with them.
@@TurfMechanic I hope the City gets it together so they would stay, Oakland really sucks.
@@mikeo8890 it's crazy to think they used to have four pro teams in various sports and now are on the verge of having zero 🤦
The politicians have other priorities like creating homelessness.
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The kid know how to work dad while on camera...😊
Lol, she is in charge a lot of the time most days 😂
Little confused when he says use synthetic fertilizer in november, but then says don't use urea... urea is synthetic... the most common synthetic
I make a distinction between urea and ammonium sulfate, urea needs biology to convert the nitrogen into plant available whereas ammonium sulfate, a pure synthetic, doesn't need to be converted. Because of this urea (which I commonly refer to as semi-synthetic) is mostly wasted in soil temps under 50 while ammonium sulfate can still be used in soil temps into the 40s.
Pretty sure we're all here now just to touch the camera.
Lol 😆
Has your daughter have peddels on that bike
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Just get to the point.
Maybe I will in the next video 😀
Maybe you can just edit it yourself or summarize what Brian's saying since you're such a wordsmith and rude too.