9 Things REGULAR People DON'T Know About Grass 

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As a state certified nurseryman and also with a degree in horticulture, it’s nice to see somebody on RU-vid. Who’s very informative, knowledgeable and who gives us good advice. Nice job, my man.

After watching lawn videos on the youtubes for three years, I can safely say your content is by far the best for the average home owner looking to make their lawn look good, without going over board. Essentially, you've triaged the things to focus on that give you the best bang for the buck. Even when you present information you've shared many time before, I enjoy how you teach it in a new way. Thank you.

Best course on grass I have ever seen. I used to have a landscape company in my old house where I had sod installed in the front yard. Best lawn I ever had. Now that I have a different house it needs different care. I am retired and like to be outdoors so lawn care is important to my health. This video is a keeper!

So glad to know that changing my focus this spring from pushing it hard with high nitrogen fertilizer. I went with Protene summer blend from GCI turf. Along with that I bought RGS and Humic12. Over the winter I put down Humichar as well. So transitioning to soil health. The yard looks great.! I get compliments all the time and for an old gimpy lady I’m very proud!

Great video. Well spoken and to the point. No unneccessary rambling.

I agree with most of what you said. I consider myself a semi pro for cool season lawn with many years of experience. You left out sharp blades, but not overly sharp. And you left out proper mulching with proper blades and keeping the deck clean after you mow.

Lordy me...amazing my lawn is alive. This is an entire course on grass. Extremely interesting and daunting. Went out and took clippings to identify what type of grass came with the house. Not easy. I think it's fescue. Appreciate the info on mower setting and watering. It's summer in Paso Robles, Ca and thought more water is better, however finding my ignorance is expensive and extensive 😞 Will tell friend to cut it higher now that I realize that is important. Thanks a million. Loves your videos including the kids and critters.

We rented a house in Washington and the landlord gave us instructions not to mow it at its lowest cut.. he told us to raise the latches on our mower to cut just the top and leave a 2 inch growth on grass. He says it creates its own watering system from the dew, and gives a healthy thickness of dark green grass for looks and feel ,he was right. Since then weve always cut the grass that way..

Excellent point...Feed the soil vs. Fertilize the grass..

Thank you so much for posting this brief but very insightful video, I feel like you've made it precise enough even for novices that aren't really into the care aspect of their lawn. It's really inspirational. I have quick suggestion, break down how to deal with different seasons, showing the process for each. I love my lawn but I find my neighbours do affects me too, so the more we share this information, the better we grow the lawn loving community.

This really helps explain a few spots in my lawn that don't fill in until late May and die off in the winter. I had no idea it was an annual grass!

Great video ! I'm in SC and use Lime every few months , cut high , let the weather water it , cut 3xs a week , mulch it most times , bag 1 time a month in July & August as it grows the most these 2 months and it avoids thatch. Scott's once in the spring , and yes I'm a fanatic about cutting. Sometimes every other day especially in the humid months of summer. I mow probably 8 months of the year BUT because it's kinda all red clay, irrate ,plug it in the spring and fall. Or it won't spread the roots. Lime- spring, summer and fall. I have the best one in my culdesac and they pay a guy😅 ! When I tell them it's just basically lime and cut often , Sharpe blade , change direction everytime...plug it spring/fall You'll have a great lawn anywhere!

Thank you for a very helpful video. I will stop worrying about the lawn appearing yellow/brown in spots when I mow in the spring and fall. I like to keep it short in the spring because we have plenty of rain and rapid growth. I mow short in late fall for the same reason. We usually have enough rainfall in spring to not water at all. July-October might water once or twice a week, depending on rain. I figure mowing every four or five days saves $40.00 a month on gym membership.

This can apply to pasture management as well. Great information

Recently I bought some Love Your Soil. Happy to know I was on the right track.

All great info and to the point. Thanks. I do practice what you have shared and my lawn shows it.

Great video! Thanks for taking time to pull this video together.

I'm a mega turf nerd for many years. Great video and info

I live in Eastern PA. I have a Toro Timemaster for my .65 Acre. I do not want a rider at my age of 56. Anyway, I cut my lawn(mainly tall fescue and Perennial Ryegrass) at 3.75" to choke out weeds and to reduce wheel ruts. Yes, I alternate mowing direction each cut. BTW, this video has great advice!

Sharp blades (razor sharp) sure help to clip and recut those leaflets to smaller pcs that ultimately ends up in a nicer looking, healthier lawns. Great video!

I'm new here. Less than 2 minutes in, I'm intrigued. I like listening to you educate about grass. That's a first for me. Thank you. Subscribed & Liked.

Great info! Another thing while rare is to dig and look under the soil for debris if you have bare areas or areas that don't thrive or where sod dies off. I am one of those that discovered digging last week I had big rocks, bricks, soda cans and a 3'x10" concrete under the soil that extended from the driveway pour back when my home was built in 2000. I had to get a jackhammer to take it all out only because the builder was lazy and covered up their sloppy work.

You're on point with accuracy. Great video.

Great video. A lot of information. Hard to imagine watering less is actually better. I water everyday out here in CA. I will definitely cut back.

Very good video and well presented. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge. I would be interested to hear your views about using the mulching attachment that I have with my mower.

Have wondered for a couple of years how to spread top soil over the whole lawn. After leveling out an area once, it stayed very nice for about 3 years. Bought a drop spreader but never tried it.

Moving my lawn mower setting to the highest stack, game changer! Appreciate the video👍🏽

Excellent video for starters. Agree 💯!

Very, very good. I thought I knew a lot about lawns until I watched this video. Thank you.

Dang annual blue! I only identified it with my local UC master gardener at cooperative extension. There is no urban slide like the risk for crabgrass or a Bermuda.So i'm stuck with it after twenty years. Great video.

I am starting a weed garden. It's low maintenance and wildflowers are free. Dandelions are nutritious. 😋

This has been one of the best videos I found to give me some information I was looking for. I would really like to talk to you more about my grass type. I’m looking at changing my lawn up this year but I torn between a few different grasses. Please get back with me if you have time thank you.

Glad I’ve already been cutting my grass at lvl 3. Had a feeling cutting low and in one direction wasn’t a good idea 🙏🏽.

Great information. Thank you!

Brother you are an amazing wealth of knowledge thank you for all the help please keep these awesome videos coming

Food for thought, great topic

They sell annual blue grass seeds down here in Atlanta...at both the Home Depot & Lowes.. during the fall

Thanks for your tips. Knowledge needs to be shared and al will have happier lives. Thanks Bro. Definitely Subcribed!!!

Thank you sir. That was very helpful

QUESTION - My house was built with pool dirt filling the lawn to get the right level. Since it was finished late in the season, no topsoil was added. So needs lots of fertilizer for the grass plus irrigation system helps. Thought about top dressing but I have half acre. would cost a fortune. Short of a full Reno, any thoughts on improving the soil??? In midwest. Started with KBG plus PRG. I am overseeding with 4th Millennium TTTF, but its predominately KBG. Would love advice on soil improvement

Listen man ..I'm a regular person.i am in Florida ..I hate to say I didn't know this but you really explained it well.i hope you beat these I hesitate people....hit em hard scalped

Thank you for the good information

Learned a few things myself Brian thanks!

Very useful, thanks.

In Florida ...st.augustine has ti be watered a LOT!

You mentioned an interesting tip about treating the soil vs fertilizing the grass. Do you have more information about this ?

Great content as always. All good info.

This video would be more advantageous if TM would specify REGIONS-- Northern, Southwest, NW, etc., as each region has varying needs to maintain a good lawn (i.e. Cutting, Watering)

Thank You for the video very informative, I’m going to rototiller my backyard to plant grass seed here in southern Oregon what grass seed do you recommend?

Great infoThank you

Fish emulsion and liquid kelp are great to grow healthy roots and feed the soil. It may smell for a while but is a great benefit for the lawn.

I have a question about the soil amendments section. I agree that fertilizing alone is not the answer. But, can someone detail what it means to do "soil amendments" process. To me it means "ADDING" more soil, peat, or something which to me is stating adding more "HEIGHT" to a lawn. Which I have a current problem with the fact that my current yard feels like it's higher all the way aound the house. How do I ADD more stuff to the lawn yet prevent dirt from migrating up my house?

Great video! I’m thinking if we cut higher, water deeply once a week, is that enough during a hot spell? I’m in Oregon

Good stuff. Subscribed.

Where I am in Canada we have 100 degree temps in summer and minus 40 in winter with a short growing season I would like to see info on growing grass in this type of region.

Excellent video

Ok sounds great. But warm weather like St Augustine in Tampa Florida in many areas has a heavy clay base under minimal soil and the sand how do you fix it? Removal is not an option per HOA.

This is your best video to date, lots of good information. Bravo Zulu!

What do you recommend for “feeding the soil”?

love this channel

What would you recommend for the soil?

Oh man. Number 8. I was just about to take my deck down a notch because I'm getting seed heads a day or two after mowing. Now I don't know haha.

Great video. Especially the fertilizer part! I’ve had my mower set to 3.5” even though it goes to 4”. Just a bit better for me. I find that mowing taller as you say, sometimes the grass goes to seed itself, free over seeding. I have a customer who insists on watering every day at 7pm… which I’ve tried saying multiple times that it’s not good to water that often.

Good stuff!

I have a question I hope you will answer. How soon can you water liquid firt after putting it down? Thanks in advance.

And now on to cameras. Not everyone knows this, but most cameras have manual focus, which can be used to prevent focus 'breathing.' Cameras also often have manual exposure to override the default metering which may not be ideal.

I've gotta say, I actually agree with most of what you said, especially about feeding the soil. When soil chemistry is balanced, nutrients become available to the plant. I used to aerate and seed lawns in the Fall and made all of my fert apps in Fall as well. In VA, cool season turf grows most of it's roots in Fall. I got away from Spring apps for a couple of reasons. Fertilizers all used P when I started out. Back in the '70s, I heard it at every pesticide recertification: P is one of the main reasons for algae in our waterways. Algae uses the oxygen in the water and eventually kills the fish. They kept telling us, if we kept using P in the Spring, they would regulate it. After 40 years, they did. Another reason I don't fertilize in the Spring: weeds, broadleaf and grassy. Why fertilize Poa Annua? The best way to manage Poa is to not fertilize it. Many people put down fertilizer with pre-emergent for grassy weeds or with a broadleaf weed killer. Herbicides prune roots. What do we need in the drought times? Roots. Spring fertilizing causes excessive top growth. Excessive top growth causes what? Root pruning. Grass already grows like crazy in the Spring! Besides, when you mow properly, the clippings contain nutrients that microbes break down for the plants to reuse. Microbes become more active in the summer. If I used anything in warm weather, it would be organic because it is low N and microbes break it down. I know it works because that's how I did it, and it is environmentally friendlier. Thank you for making a video I can be proud to share!

I like your channel. Although my lawn is green and healthy, I have a problem on how high or short I should be cutting it during spring, summer, and fall. I have an inground irrigation system that I run on odd days. This was put in in 2018 and I am starting to see that I don't need it to run every other day. I end up mowing the lawn every three days, One issue I have is grass laying over on top of itself. It will kill the grass below it and my Greenworks Pro 80V battery operated lawn mower doesn't have enough power to lift the grass for an even cut. In some spots, I have to rake it up in order to get a better cut. Frustrating!

Good points. New sub

What is considered to low? I feel like the highest setting on my cub cadet rider (6) still cuts lower then the grass would like.

How would the carbon out gas if dug up? Is it not converted to a sugar or solid during photosynthesis?

I live in Canada what is a good product to use to get rid of clover???

Thx Brian

Leave the clippings on your lawn. Mow it a LOT. In the fall get all your neighbors leaves and spread them over your lawn and chop them up. Healthy dirt is good. Tall grass is a mulch.

A question I have that doesn't seem to get much attention is how much can a tree effect the lawn? I have a tree that is bigger than the lawn. My neighbors tree in the joined yard is bigger than the lawn. How much does this affect the soil? I've been using Humic and Kelp. The instructions on the fertilizer says "every 4-6 weeks". At 6 weeks the lawn looks like I'm not fertilizing at all. At 4 weeks it looks OK, but not really healthy, then I apply fertilizer and within 3-4 days it looks better, has a good week, has an OK week and then begins to decline until I repeat the cycle. I did a two week application and the lawn went nuts, it grew faster than it would in the hot summer and because there is urea and a shot of iron, it turned a beautiful green. The lawn is very resistant to animal urine. The spots repair very quickly or aren't visible at all. Any damage to the lawn has it bouncing back quickly. I'm mowing every 2-3 days, to cut the tips off. I have KB, Perennial Rye and Fescue. Should I keep and advanced schedule for fertilizer despite the instructions? I figure we will see when the grass visibly fall off and try that schedule. I am probably looking at three weeks. I am applying the humic and kelp between. BTW I had two dry spots I tackled with baby shampoo and got them to go away. I haven't aerated in a few years.

Im in Charlotte,tall fescue,love it,got some creeping Charlie going on,tried some liquid herbicide,still em 2 weeks later,, maybe i should re spray some more?

Wow, I knew seven out of the nine things. That's two more than last year! Great video, keep um coming. 😎

love your channel new subscribers 🎉

I use humic acid... best, most effective thing I've done for a great lawn

Amen to the deck height!

Great information. How do you amend your soil and how often do you recommend mowing your lawn? 😊

Good video. I just like to add that there are organic fertilizers and synthetic. Most people use synthetic which does nothing to improve the soil. Organic fertilizers (such as alfalfa pellets) improves the soil. Synthetic chemicals can cause problems doing heavy rains when run off from the lawn carries the these chemicals down the street in our waterways. Some of our water ways are chocking with aquatic grown due to run off from lawns and farms. Organic fertilizers work more slowly which is something people do not like, they want to see a gold course in front of their house within a week. Organic fertilizers take time but are better for the environment and in the long run improve your soil so you do not need fertilizer every year.

Great info! Appreciate the video. Sub'd.

Great info!!! Although I wonder if I missed how do you amend the soil when the grass is already growing . Just spread amendments on the top or do you need a special tool? Thank you!

? 👍 Thank you!!! Learned alot. Where do I go to ask/find out what's the best grass for the area I live in. (lawn & garden& Building homes etc.supplys have NO IDEA WHAT specific PLANT,TREES,DIRT,COMPOST, etc., they will use their cell phones or ask someone else. The soil here is like cement!!

what is the best way for enriching soil

So have Augustine and have a ring maybe more like a band where it’s practically dead the crop circle will not go away Any idea? Tried a grub solution didn’t work…

If I mow my yard on the highest height setting, I'll get a letter in the mail from the city. How many inches do you suggest?

Studying this boss rn, so many people have been talking about touching it

As a bermuda guy... the only thing that applies is soil. But I can see where the average person will get good info.

Great video.

I love this delivery. And the nonsense idea.

Will Kentucky blue grass grow in NE FL

Any suggestions on how to remove orchard grass without killing the entire grass?

Well here's the thing about fertilizer. If you have a bare spot (and I've had a LOT of them), sure, there might be soil issues, and probably are. But if you can get grass to grow there using fertilizer, and the grass takes root, then the process has been started in that location. You can then amend the soil by mulch cutting the grass (grass clippings have a significant amount of nutrients). The average homeowner is not going to amend their soil *manually, by using some bag-of-stuff (edit). For that type of homeowner, the most important things are, as you have said, "mowing high", overseeding, overseeding, overseeding (did I mention overseeding?) because weed control is about crowding out weeds, and, if necessary, using fertilizer to get grass plants growing everywhere you want it. Edit: Also, don't kill weeds using herbicide. We don't know what that stuff does to us. Dandelions are your friend - they restore ph balance and aerate the soil.

Thanks! What’s your water bill down there compared to what it was in Oregon? Maybe I should ask this in the summer

Good video

How much compost I should put on my yard.

I've been a golf course superintendent for thirty years and I always noticed people and landscape people start out at the beginning of the season cutting the grass way to high starting out. Should cut it low as long as you can and as temps get hotter and as your grass starts to look a little brown after about 3 to 4 weeks raise your mower up one notch higher and keep doing that and your grass will stay beautifully green all summer and survive the hot summer as the grass is cut a little taller every few weeks. I mow my own yard every other day and it looks like thick green carpet and with very little watering. Just keep up with the preemergent and fertilizer.