Love your honesty mate. The reference to not having kids is not lost on me. Loads of people who want to have a better lawn without the means to spend a load will really appreciate your content 👏🏼
Yea, and it's also about time. Even if you have tons of money, you will have much less time to do this lawn care yourself. I suppose you can pay someone. It's only for a short period of time anyway. Before you know it you're kids will be the ones mowing the lawn 🙂
I have a very shady lawn and in spring 2023 went through exactly the same transition that you have this year, and if my experience is anything to go by you'll come out of this winter in much better shape than you did with the rye lawns. I reckon once the viewers on this channel see the results (achieved by a regular homeowner) they'll all be ordering bent/fescue seed next year!
I'm hoping they will get through the winter well like you've said! I've followed some decent advice from those who've been the industry for a while (I've not done everything perfect, but I guess that's life), so hopefully some good results to come. The top lawn is looking massively different to this time last year already! Early days, but so far, so good!
I always enjoy your content whatever its about big man. I remember seeing, not sure where about using an Afro comb to lift the worm casts, It might have been Big Dan at DHLE, anything is worth a try, Just dont comb your hair after LOL.
Hi I'm in a similar situation, I have just switched to cutting with the battery powered rotary at 30mm and have given a good dose of liquid Iron hoping to get through the colder months until I get the heavy cylinder out at 20mm in late spring, fingers crossed you come through the winter well👍ps Afro comb for lifting the wormcasts prior to mowing
I've been planning on getting some iron down, but every time I have a free day it's chucking buckets! It's on my list for tomorrow. Afro comb - that's a good shout! Will be handy for a space like mine with it being so small.
I’ve now got the Webb in addition to the Hayter Hawk. Once I’d got cylinder adjusted correctly it cuts brilliantly and has vastly improved my lawn. I’ve also got VonHaus scarifier with the verticutter cassette from Moto-Tek, which is well worth getting
Great video. I'm looking forward to seeing how your lawns fair throughout the winter. After much debate, I decided to seed both my lawns using a bent fescue off the back of your videos and seeing similar results. I'm also in a new build which similarly to you, has a back lawn that's now in shade all day and a front lawn that's thriving being in sun all day. I've seen some success in recent months with horticultural gypsum. On heavy clay lawns like ours, it's supposed to improve drainage and reduce the bogginess. I initially went with the gypsum powder, but gypsum granules and liquid gypsum seem like better methods of application. It might do some good on your back lawn. Looking forward to the next video 👌 (get Fred back in the videos too!)
Cheers! Let me know how your lawn fairs this winter, especially since you've got some gypsum down onto it (not applied it to my lawns before). I'll get Fred in the next one or two - he'll be more than happy 🤣
Buddy love the channel. You, me and probably a thousand others are going through the same processes. I think that over the next year and certainly in the cooler months, those back lawns will be ok. It just takes time for the lawn to start putting out the side shoots both above and under the soil. I bet this time next year, your lawn will be banging. My lawn also suffers with worm casts. Just ordered some of DH stuff to see if that helps… I’ve found that a plastic rake rather than spring tine works better at dispersing them. Also it’s so much trial and error with all the fertiliser’s the best I come across is the miracle grow no rake… no idea what was in it, but Jesus, was like viagra for my grass last year. Think I can find it this year at the local garden centres… urrr no.. so been using just grow more and topping up the nitrogen with soluble spraying. Which has been a lot cheaper and given more than satisfactory results. I’m on a very clay soil, that I’m trying 3 or 4 yrs now to improve.
Cheers mate 👍🏻 What you're doing is bang on. It's all just trial and error with products to figure out what works best. It's all good getting the 'right' stuff down, but it's more important to to see how your lawn reacts.
I've been in full shade for a month now lol. It's thicker than it was in the summer apart from the diseased areas under the tree. I'm cutting at 16mm to help it dry out but it doesn't help much. I have to mow it when it's still damp.
I wish i could send you a photo of my lawn. It's a bent fescue as well, and it's looking good its startibg to turn yellow, and Igoing to add a feed this weekend
Try dissolved ammonia sulfate granules at a very low rate so not to give too much leafy top growth to deter the worms as it will make the soil more acid which they don't like.
I always get blown away with tge grass verge how green and well it looks compared to tge nest of tge verge , what I would do is chop that front section where the big weeds are at the front of the fence and stone pebble it up like you done with your rear garden so when ever you cut the verge there's no grass on the other side of the fence to trim and it will stay looking neat and tidy
yeah but he would need to dig quite abit of the soil out as you need the stone border to be lower then the actual grass, otherwise your be hitting stones with the mower potentially dangerously. i have stone borders in my garden and although i have nice plastic edging lawn level and the stones below lawn level i still get stones in the lawn, from birds i presume.
I'm thinking of putting a few planters along the house-side of the fence next spring. It will add a bit of colour too. But I'm thinking of doing what you mentioned - just putting a layer of stones below just for the aesthetic.
Great idea 👌🏾 I look forward to seeing the improvements every year ,you should do a video of before and after from when you 1st started to how it looks now its a massive transformation 😍
Hi Decided to turf my lawn after seeing your video on tillers turf I would need to kill off my lawn As it’s November When should I start and also Would the quality I get be as good as yours
Sunlight is the biggest problem - your lawn is surround by buildings/walls. Try hanging some reflective sheets on the back wall. Emergency shelter blankets are really cheap. I put a bathroom mirror next to some plants outside and they really thrive
@@NoviceGardener Fair enough. I think you'll have to accept sections will die off in winter. It'll be interesting to see which variety is more hardy between your top and bottom lawns.
Love your honesty mate. The reference to not having kids is not lost on me. Loads of people who want to have a better lawn without the means to spend a load will really appreciate your content 👏🏼
Nice one, I appreciate that 👍🏻
Yea, and it's also about time. Even if you have tons of money, you will have much less time to do this lawn care yourself. I suppose you can pay someone. It's only for a short period of time anyway. Before you know it you're kids will be the ones mowing the lawn 🙂
I have a very shady lawn and in spring 2023 went through exactly the same transition that you have this year, and if my experience is anything to go by you'll come out of this winter in much better shape than you did with the rye lawns. I reckon once the viewers on this channel see the results (achieved by a regular homeowner) they'll all be ordering bent/fescue seed next year!
I'm hoping they will get through the winter well like you've said! I've followed some decent advice from those who've been the industry for a while (I've not done everything perfect, but I guess that's life), so hopefully some good results to come. The top lawn is looking massively different to this time last year already! Early days, but so far, so good!
I always enjoy your content whatever its about big man. I remember seeing, not sure where about using an Afro comb to lift the worm casts, It might have been Big Dan at DHLE, anything is worth a try, Just dont comb your hair after LOL.
Cheers mate!
I hadn't heard of it until someone commented about it - not a bad shout - and I'll take your advice 🤣
ive been going around with a dinner fork and a bucket and just scooping off the worm casts before i mow, atleast the big ones anyway...
Good shout! I've almost given up with them and just mow them down, but it's never the best thing 😅
Hi I'm in a similar situation, I have just switched to cutting with the battery powered rotary at 30mm and have given a good dose of liquid Iron hoping to get through the colder months until I get the heavy cylinder out at 20mm in late spring, fingers crossed you come through the winter well👍ps Afro comb for lifting the wormcasts prior to mowing
Yeah - I did iron sulphate today. It was slightly dark though so it might be tiger stripes tomorrow??? It helps with worm casts too
I've been planning on getting some iron down, but every time I have a free day it's chucking buckets! It's on my list for tomorrow.
Afro comb - that's a good shout! Will be handy for a space like mine with it being so small.
I’ve now got the Webb in addition to the Hayter Hawk. Once I’d got cylinder adjusted correctly it cuts brilliantly and has vastly improved my lawn. I’ve also got VonHaus scarifier with the verticutter cassette from Moto-Tek, which is well worth getting
I've had my eye on one of those, not sure I can get one for my scarifier. Will have to enquire.
Am looking forward to seebhownyour lawn hold up in the winter mate, especially with the crazy wetaher we have been getting of lately
This is the big test for it now! I keep looking back at the pictures from last year and thinking 'surely it can be as bad as that' 🤣
@NoviceGardener surely it won't be mate,as the density of the bent fescue is much more tighter than the Rye,fingers cross for you mate 👍🏿👌
Great video. I'm looking forward to seeing how your lawns fair throughout the winter. After much debate, I decided to seed both my lawns using a bent fescue off the back of your videos and seeing similar results. I'm also in a new build which similarly to you, has a back lawn that's now in shade all day and a front lawn that's thriving being in sun all day.
I've seen some success in recent months with horticultural gypsum. On heavy clay lawns like ours, it's supposed to improve drainage and reduce the bogginess. I initially went with the gypsum powder, but gypsum granules and liquid gypsum seem like better methods of application. It might do some good on your back lawn.
Looking forward to the next video 👌
(get Fred back in the videos too!)
Cheers!
Let me know how your lawn fairs this winter, especially since you've got some gypsum down onto it (not applied it to my lawns before).
I'll get Fred in the next one or two - he'll be more than happy 🤣
Buddy love the channel. You, me and probably a thousand others are going through the same processes. I think that over the next year and certainly in the cooler months, those back lawns will be ok. It just takes time for the lawn to start putting out the side shoots both above and under the soil. I bet this time next year, your lawn will be banging. My lawn also suffers with worm casts. Just ordered some of DH stuff to see if that helps… I’ve found that a plastic rake rather than spring tine works better at dispersing them. Also it’s so much trial and error with all the fertiliser’s the best I come across is the miracle grow no rake… no idea what was in it, but Jesus, was like viagra for my grass last year. Think I can find it this year at the local garden centres… urrr no.. so been using just grow more and topping up the nitrogen with soluble spraying. Which has been a lot cheaper and given more than satisfactory results. I’m on a very clay soil, that I’m trying 3 or 4 yrs now to improve.
Cheers mate 👍🏻
What you're doing is bang on. It's all just trial and error with products to figure out what works best. It's all good getting the 'right' stuff down, but it's more important to to see how your lawn reacts.
It looks spot on like you said was thinking of going with bent fuscue mix which one did you go with
It was a mix of the two - 40/60, bent/fescue
I've been in full shade for a month now lol. It's thicker than it was in the summer apart from the diseased areas under the tree. I'm cutting at 16mm to help it dry out but it doesn't help much. I have to mow it when it's still damp.
You sure you've not got leatherjacket grubs? My lawn had loads in back in April. Nematodes dealt with them
@@hiredark No grubs. It's fusarium as there are spider web structures on the grass when wet and foam forming when it causes damage.
@@stevenbelcher5658 Yeah I had that. You see them in the morning. Then I had red patches too. Basically the lawn has been flooded/wet for ages
So much moisture at the moment - hard to cut on a dry day!
@@NoviceGardener Same here man.
Hi mate, tanx for the upload is there any chance of doing a video on how to do stripes using the web cheers bud 👍
Can do - I'll see what I can sort in the next few weeks. I just a day off now without much rain!
I wish i could send you a photo of my lawn. It's a bent fescue as well, and it's looking good its startibg to turn yellow, and Igoing to add a feed this weekend
Can always ping something over on Instagram
@NoviceGardener please do
Try dissolved ammonia sulfate granules at a very low rate so not to give too much leafy top growth to deter the worms as it will make the soil more acid which they don't like.
I'll have a look into this, cheers
Thanks
I always get blown away with tge grass verge how green and well it looks compared to tge nest of tge verge , what I would do is chop that front section where the big weeds are at the front of the fence and stone pebble it up like you done with your rear garden so when ever you cut the verge there's no grass on the other side of the fence to trim and it will stay looking neat and tidy
yeah but he would need to dig quite abit of the soil out as you need the stone border to be lower then the actual grass, otherwise your be hitting stones with the mower potentially dangerously. i have stone borders in my garden and although i have nice plastic edging lawn level and the stones below lawn level i still get stones in the lawn, from birds i presume.
I'm thinking of putting a few planters along the house-side of the fence next spring. It will add a bit of colour too. But I'm thinking of doing what you mentioned - just putting a layer of stones below just for the aesthetic.
Great idea 👌🏾 I look forward to seeing the improvements every year ,you should do a video of before and after from when you 1st started to how it looks now its a massive transformation 😍
Hi
Decided to turf my lawn after seeing your video on tillers turf
I would need to kill off my lawn
As it’s November
When should I start and also
Would the quality I get be as good as yours
If I was you, I’d hang on until spring. You’ll get better results. It should be just as good. Mine was the bent/fescue on soil
Sunlight is the biggest problem - your lawn is surround by buildings/walls. Try hanging some reflective sheets on the back wall. Emergency shelter blankets are really cheap.
I put a bathroom mirror next to some plants outside and they really thrive
Not sure the Mrs would allow this unfortunately 😅
@@NoviceGardener Fair enough. I think you'll have to accept sections will die off in winter. It'll be interesting to see which variety is more hardy between your top and bottom lawns.
I guess your back lawn doesn't get enough sunlight photosynthesis is important and there's no substation
It's a nightmare for sunlight!
My lawn has been in the shade for a month now,clay soil and a dog.
I'll just start again in Spring😂
I'm not going to loose sleep and money.
Clay soil, a dog and shade is the killer combination! 🤣
Pesky worm casts on top of shade not a very good combination, I have the same on my north facing lawn
It's a nightmare!
Thanks