DIY lawn care, recommendations and general DIY projects. I will keep videos short and to the point. I will share exactly what I do to my lawn using mostly basic items easily obtained from your local stores. I dont believe you have to spend alot to have a great looking lawn. I will also post general DIY things I do around the home outside and inside. Subscribe and turn on the notification bell to have the best looking lawn in your neighborhood.
If you spread the weed barrier fabric appropriately and put enough pea gravel down just the weight alone of the pea gravel will not allow the fabric to resurface. Also you do not want your pet walking on the mold spray. The spray is toxic and over the long term can be hazardous to your dog’s health. I suggest spraying the mold off with some vinegar, wait about 10 minutes then follow-up with a light water pressure washer once a month. You don’t need to use toxic chemicals. Be smart!!!
@TheALG planning big project coming spring for bermuda in south TX. My procedure are dethatched, aerated, level with mix sand/compost/top soil, then seed and water afterwards. Does that sound like proper procedure? I keep thinking aerated after leveling so seeds can sink in. Thanks
@TheALG thanks for reply, currently my lawn is over thatched, alot of bare spots and brown. I checked for grubs and spray fungus treatment. It's new build home about to be 1 year. Was tempting to detached, but read up about not for fall do to bermuda
Do you think it was a problem putting down your pre-emergent now that a hurricane is passing through? I know pre-emergent needs rain to push it down, but where I am we've had 8" already since yesterday, and I wonder if this can prevent the pre-em from working as well.
Put mine down today with the Earthway 2170. I used the Vigoro Pre-emergent he has on the far left @ 01:54 on Setting #15 🤷🏾♂️. If you Google the Earthway Spreader for your model it will give you the formula. Good luck.
@ChrisZheng-z7s fungicide is on a case by case situation. Only put it done if you have a problem or if the conditions are right for fungal issues. Depending on where you are, it is too late for grub control if i am understandingthe question correctly. Your best bet is an insecticide to help keep things under control.
Still 95ish degrees here in central Texas, looks that way for the next few weeks. Soil temps are 85ish. I'm waiting it out and will do it in late October when soil temps hit just under 75, that's my go time! In the mean time I'll scarify, 13 13 13 fertilizer, spectracide triazicide bug granules and spot spray for weeds. Still plenty to do since summer temps just won't stop.
I rotary mow. I raise mower up a notch when it starts looking scalped. When I am up to 2” and it looks scalped I reset back to 3/4 inch. Usually mid to late June. I let it get super thick and stop mowing mid September. That’s the best pre-emergent. I like a thick tuft through the winter.
After it has crusted over, I water for 2 more days on the heavy setting about 4 times. I then don't do anything to it for at least 1 week. I left my forms for well over a month but that s a bit overkill.
@cityboysllc it's too late since you started the watering. What I would do is wait until everything is dry then do a skim coat to make sure everything is even.
@@TheALG so really quick, Day 1 - 3 mists 30 mins apart Day 2 - 7 showers 1 hr apart Day 3 - 3 showers 3 hr apart Day 4 - 3 showers 3 hr apart Am I done watering now? I’m in AZ so it’s not cold here and no rain. 64sf slab 4 inch height.
I have the option of celebration for 195, or tahoma 31 for 280. I think I like the color of celebration better but tahoma seems to be the best overall. Killing my Monaco front yard tomorrow, I have 3 to 4 weeks to decide lol Does celebration have less brown stalk like tohama does?
I can't speak about tohoma, but I can tell you my observations about celebration bermuda. I love that it grows low and gets dense. The color is amazing with its dark green appearance. It doesn't develop the brown stalk easily, but like any bermuda, if you let it get 2 or 3 inches high, it will get the brown stalk under the green. It does grow fast and is very forgiving of scalp marks or any accidental damage. I mostly got the celebration bermuda because it is shade tolerant. While it does do ok in the shade, the small area that gets 3 to 4 hours of direct light is not doing great, but the area that is getting at least 5 hours is doing fine. Keep in mind, most bermuda needs at least 7 hours of sun, so the celebration bermuda does have shade tolerance, but 4 hours is pushing it. The short story is more sunlight, the better it will be. The one and only complaint I have about celebration bermuda is in the early spring, it develops these ugly seed heads, which stays for about a month but goes away as it gets hotter. I have tried mowing lower to get rid of it, but the seedheads pop up again. I realize it is something I will have to live with, but other than that, I love my celebration.
I put a ~5 inch deep trench (not wide) around all my beds that are next to bermuda. Looks great and don't have any more problems with bermuda sneaking through and into the beds.
I know landscape fabric sounds good in theory, but in practice it seems problematic. The deterioration and ripping of landscape fabric - as you found out - seems to be inevitable in all landscapes. One possible solution to prevent bermuda from creeping into landscape beds is to insert a physical barrier between the lawn and bed. I have heard about this but haven't seen it commercially sold, but it would be something like a 6" deep, thin "wall" that prevents rhizome spread underground (the above-ground edging would prevent stolon expansion). I think a DIY barrier out of wood, plastic, or treated metal could work, but I just haven't figured out how to go about this.
I always use a commercial grade landscape fabric. The stuff I use comes in a 100 ft x 36in roll. If you are going to put stone down, this is my go to fabric. If you are landscaping a flat area with mulch, then use this fabric. If it is a raised bed with mulch, I never use the fabric, because the mulch will just slide down. I use alot of stone in my beds because we have alot of cottonwood and maple trees that dump seedlings into the mulch. Good job!
I'm all for raising the height of a tree, but I'm not cutting down trees in favor of better bermuda. I value the curb appeal and the beauty of nice trees better than a slightly more green yard.
Good technique- I watched this similar video with two white dudes. One of them ripped off the frame and it damaged a large portion of the slab and they under watered the slab so it was totally shit job.
Doesn’t work in Florida. I’m out there weekly doing this and it still makes it into the beds. Gotta put an underground edge about 6-8” below ground. That’s the only way to prevent it.
