A BETTER WAY To Collect Your THATCH - Dethatching and Overseeding

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@Thelawncarenut 2 года назад

The only problem I see with this lawn sweeper is that now guys can't rake the piles into giant mountains for pics on Insta. How will anyone ever be motivated to de-thatch if they can't get likes on their pics of debris online? 😂

@DIYAllied 2 года назад

Ya the bag count doesn't have the same pop on Insta

@mikahl757 2 года назад

@@DIYAllied you can empty into clear bags and leave the bags where the raked piles would of been for your 📸 👍🏾

@rconn4501 2 года назад

@@mikahl757 You're smart. You're loyal.

@wiredawg2005 2 года назад

LOL

@Sophsfghds 2 года назад

Guys actually do that🤔🤔🤷‍♂️

@benharrison1069 2 года назад

Growing up my family lived near some train tracks (not as close to them as you are, Jimmy, but close enough). One morning a train came thundering pass about 5:00 and woke up my parents. I have a little sister as a result. Sometimes trains are good things. 😲😉😁

@soceur1977 Год назад

Came here just to see if the sweeper worked well with the thatch. Ended up watching entire vid..was very satisfying watching for some reason lol. Thanks!! Now time to get in my own yard.

@Jknudsen0523 2 года назад

Glad I’ll be able to use my sweeper in the spring.

@paulbaratta1566 2 года назад

I used my lawn sweeper and it worked like a charm! Great advice

@jaliejasuesoos6921 2 года назад

Which brand is your sweeper?

@adamlake5504 Год назад

Lol gotta love that Utah sky with the mountain line in the background. Great video

@kayakMike1000 18 дней назад

Damn. That lawn is crazy perfect!

@taylorIndependenceHall 2 года назад

Looks great Jimmy, beautiful back yard for the family to enjoy. Proud of you!

@repentandbelieveinjesuschr9495 2 года назад

Repent to Jesus Christ “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:5‬ ‭NIV‬‬ N

@Moondoggy1941 2 года назад

I used my lawnmower to pick up the clipping after I a de thatcher. It worked great.

@CHB_98 Год назад

That’s not dethatching you did you just powerraked

@Moondoggy1941 Год назад

@@CHB_98 How do you know if it is powerraked or de thatcher. I think I have a GreenWorks unit.

@CHB_98 Год назад

@@Moondoggy1941 power rake is the one with the thin tines on it that removes just dead grass. To detach you need to use the adapter with the blades on it. It will dig into you lawn making lines in the soil and remove any dead thatch. People use the words dead grass and thatch are two different things

@Moondoggy1941 Год назад

@@CHB_98 I will have to look at my dethatcher and see what attachment I was using, I think it was more like a spring not a blade, it pulled up a lot of dead grass, I was shocked how much, I have to reseed again this fall for my Fescue. The summers are brutal here, right now we are 110.

@CHB_98 Год назад

@@Moondoggy1941 yea same here I’m in Toronto and we had 2 months no rain this summer

@RDAmidwest 2 года назад

Lol, only us zealots would work so hard at removing fluffy organic matter only to apply a bunch of chunky organic matter! But hey, whatever works. And it does definitely work!

@TheIVBO 2 года назад

I use an Agrifab 45 inch sweeper and dethatch akke attachment on the front for 2 acres. Works great

@FrancoCody2121 2 года назад

Beautiful lawn

@LawnJourneys 2 года назад

Lots of raking after my thatch job. 24 30-gal bags street side. The municipal grass pick-up crew were counting them and laughing. At least they weren’t heavy 😆

@PrincessCutLawnCare 2 года назад

Sweet vid dude. Gonna pick me up a sweeper! Sick of taking my Honda and putting ruts just to pick things up

@jaymetheaccountant 2 года назад

Nifty little sweeper there Jimmy!

@vanawesome 2 года назад

man.. i'm so jealous of that lawn. It's freakin huge.

@PacificNorthwestLawns 2 года назад

The sweeper looks like a great idea. The backyard is gonna look even better than it already does. Well done Jimmy 👊🏼

@repentandbelieveinjesuschr9495 2 года назад

Repent to Jesus Christ “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:5‬ ‭NIV‬‬ M

@TheLawnSauce 2 года назад

These sweepers are a work out. 💪🏻 You need a flat flat low cut lawn to use this effectively. It doesn’t work good on longer grass with imperfections in the level of your lawn.

@duanesales3174 2 года назад

I’m loving the buried trampoline. My Father did the same thing for me & my siblings in the very early 70’s.

@Quicksilver1068 Год назад

Awesome video thank you!

@shiftycarmack8019 2 года назад

I used my 42" agri-fab that I picked up at a garage sale... best 20 bucks I've ever spent!

@ShafikKassam 2 года назад

Awesome stuff!!! Thanks for the great video. I subbed!!!

@shane6002 2 года назад

Hey Jimmy great video thank you very much for mentioning me glad it worked out for you l will definitely be using one next year

@hawaiiantimes7702 2 года назад

I have 18k sq ft of lawn and got a tow behind lawn sweeper for the riding lawnmower. Best investment ever!!! Especially in the fall for all the leaves too. That’s a lot of work and even more water to put down for overseeding. I’m almost 3 weeks into overseeding about 11k sq ft and my wife’s probably gonna freak out when the water bill comes. Great video

@repentandbelieveinjesuschr9495 2 года назад

Repent to Jesus Christ “In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:” ‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2:5‬ ‭NIV‬‬ M

@Patman2608 Год назад

I’ve used one for years, and they’re great. I use it twice in the spring and twice in the fall.

@stevengroover9633 2 года назад

Literally used the sweeper on my lawn 2 days ago and thought that someone should do a review of it to pick up before overseeing. Bam, just found this video.

@jaliejasuesoos6921 2 года назад

Which is the best walk behind sweeper on the market?

@jeffreyking279 2 года назад

I need my tractor just watching you!

@wishypropertymaintenanceltd 2 года назад

Great idea

@bigtexas3077 2 года назад

I always use my 52" leaf sweeper to pick up my thatch. About time I see someone else doing it. Mine is a pull behind 52" craftsmen. I love it!

@unknowngaming4265 2 года назад

Backpack blower gives the grass a good clean

@hwkfans 2 года назад

Dethatched for the first time about two years ago, 5k yard. Had 20 lawn bags in the driveway. Dethatched again last month. Only 6 bags. I also bagged this past season. Firm believer that to much mulching and not enough bagging does not help ones yard.

@trevormuggeridge4560 2 года назад

First Aussie 😁. Hard work pays off. 😎

@lingwong7120 Год назад

Good job 👍🏽

@scottiemanners 2 года назад

Just picked up an old school push mower with no motor for my .25 acre yard with a catch bag connected, not sure what the de-thatching is supposed to do seems like a lot of work when I would rather let my lawn be cut so shorts it dies and fry's in the sun haha (darn the french for inventing a manicured lawn for their fancy country estates as a sign of elitism and not having to work but having the money to hire staff to manicure it for them). You could use the grass clippings for a great compost pile, grass breaks down quickly and mixed with leaves or sawdust or cardboard you could create your own biodiverse soil! And be careful with all those chemicals, my uncle worked for Scott's his whole life and died of cancer in his 60s

@123gamesboy 2 года назад

De thatching helps control moss and weeds in your lawn, don’t know what it’s like over in the states. Removing the thatch also helps stimulate new grass grow either that be from the existing roots of the grass or from the new grass seed you would throw down after putting a nice new layer of top dressing. For a 25acre property yeah you probably wouldn’t be able to do it with a push scarifier, but you can get a nice rake that does the same thing that you can attach to the back of your mower

@bigby6023 2 года назад

Do you recommend using on st Augustine grass since they spread with runners. Will it pull out the grass roots ?

@flybyav8tor 9 месяцев назад

This is great, I have an ok yard right now, my problem is the size. My yard is 101,000 SF. 150lbs of seed and 500 lbs of 11/25/0 n my truck as we speak. Do you know of any accounts that focus on larger properties I can follow. Not finding much content on large properties with your level of quality content.

@leeandrajosephson 2 года назад

Yay! Your video was recommended to me!! We're getting ready to overseed and throw down on some bare spots! Thanks, Jimmy! 😁

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

I love it when my videos pop up on my friends pages! I have another video coming out soon about seeding bare spots! Look for it in the next week or so!

@markbrooker505 Год назад

I saw a few comments on possibly using blowers to stack up the thatch , I have used blowers in the past but are they are really hard on the topsoil ..

@jamzach4 2 года назад

Great idea with the sweeper. Great video Jimmy !

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

Thanks, Scott!

@Breakthrough8Motivation 2 года назад

Would be cool to see a garden back there

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

We do have a garden area. We produce tomatoes, cucumber, squash, strawberries, blackberries, and pumpkins currently. Hopefully it will continue to evolve and we will do more in time.

@ericstinnett9182 Год назад

Great video, I have a question Did you have to set it at a certain level on the power rate to get the best results? Thanks

@09ironman1 2 года назад

Good video thanks

@Dstromb232 2 года назад

Nice video! How often does the train go pass your house?

@nedg3740 2 года назад

Maybe next year you can start adding some rough and undulations to the green.

@joshuafreeman9807 Год назад

Why do we need to power rake our lawns? Also, do you have a video on how u started the putting green? I am in the process of burning my weeded yard to dirt and need to know how to reseed

@rattieaustin 2 месяца назад

You should compost all that thatch with leaves and next spring put it on your lawn, veggies, or ornamentals. Compost, it’s your material keep it.

@aquienpuedainteresar4188 2 года назад

Man! that worked perfectly. I feel sorry now that I didn't pick up one for next to nothing a few years back. Great job. Sorry I sped the video, got to mow and spread some fert before going to work. Hope it still counts.

@333cparker Год назад

Where did you get the edging you use by the garden and mulch area ?

@sinfulbeliever7083 Год назад

Yardwork is so much work. I wanna live in my old apartment again.

@sbond1963 Год назад

You mentioned the tow behind the dethatcher. That’s what I’m using on my 15,000 square-foot lawn. Well, its not so good. The tines or whatever you call them get dragged through the grass. They don’t spin through it so it’s the equivalent of a comb-over not very effective and tends to damage the grass. That’s why I’m here watching you compare the sunjoe to other things it’s worth walking 15,000 to get good results.

@brucebonkowski9568 2 года назад

Hey Jim get a lawn sweeper or parker power sweeper gas powered it clean and grooms the grass

@sharpie132 2 года назад

What type of grass is that?? looks real nice.

@brodygoalie 2 года назад

So what is the exact sequence to leave a lawn plus overseed and fertilize after dethatching? Is this correct? 1- top soil sand mix? Or miracle gro potting mix moisture control? 2- seed 3- starter fertilizer 4- peat moss Did I miss anything? Please advise. Thanks

@simonbarabe1220 Год назад

I'd love to get an answer to your question as well lol, video is great but I've probably missed the part about the sequence

@TheStophe2000 Год назад

Nice to see the frontrunner coming through. I battle my Utah yard constantly as well.

@FD-dh2fu 16 дней назад

Nice job. That looks like a spiker spreader. I find it a bit difficult to push when fully loaded vs my Scott’s easy rotary spreader. Do you have any issues with it? Also the normally open operation vs normally closed is a bit confusing:-(.

@tycox8704 2 года назад

What percentage of living grass did the machine remove with the dead debris? I was going to rent a power rake but its hammer tines looked too aggressive. I had no actual thatch (netted surface roots)-just desiccated grass blades on dormant grass. Instead, I dethatched 20K sqft of turf manually!

@diverdave4056 2 года назад

buy a SUN JOE ! It rakes the grass really well to remove the dead grass and other crap ! its one SWEET machine .. I've used the rental ones $$$ and the tear out loads of living grass

@mitchellbroderick5097 Год назад

Gday, Im new here. But i would like to make one suggestion if i may. The back lawn garden you have got its a little bit overgrown. Are you going to fix that?

@TheFirstRealChewy 2 года назад

I have way too much thatch for a sweeper. I filled 30 large garbage bags of thatch last year, and when I looked back at the lawn I wondered if I even did anything.

@blackriflex39 2 года назад

would detaching work on natural/wild grass or does it only work for the manicured lawn? i live off in the country and would love to thicken up the native grass . my plan was to detach and scarify and let the native grass grow to seed and reseed itself .... would this work to speed that process up

@jjdurrantfarm72 6 месяцев назад

That looked like a Utah FrontRunner what part of the Wasatch Front are you in

@hbgriss Год назад

Awesome. I did 30 bags with my dt augustine yard a good while back. Crazy.

@BrianPhillipsRC 2 года назад

Okay, awesome video, but how the heck did you bury your trampoline?!?!? That's sweet!

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

Thank you. Here’s how the trampoline went in: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tYQ8yIa7ACM.html

@TopTierLawnCareServices 2 года назад

I really want to overseed my front lawn now but I have to wait until after October 15 when my irrigation is installed, I'm certainty ok with the compromise of seeding a little later than I want to have an irrigation system though

@quickplaya 2 года назад

If you don't live in the southern USA. October 15 will be too late. It will be too cold for cool season grass. You are going to have to wait till next year.

@TopTierLawnCareServices 2 года назад

@@quickplaya I live in growing zone 7 which is within the transition zone., I have never had any freezing temps until November in my area, even my warm season zoysia stays green into November and the fescue stays lush green until it gets really cold in January. (I have zoysia and fescue in my lawn )My grass doesn't even start to slow growth until mid-November. Given that I can seed with great results up to the beginning of November. I usually start seeing sprouts the 5th day after seeding bare ground and 3 days for an overseed.(100% TTTF) I still prefer late September because it gives more time for establishment but in mid- October here I still get day time temps in the mid to upper 70s and nights in the 40s which is excellent conditions for seed germination.

@MyJohnnyp Год назад

Hey Man, Nice work and good information! I have an off subject question. I hope you don't mind? I noticed in your video you have flush mounted your trampoline! How did you support the walls and what did you do for drainage? Thanks in advance!

@JimmyLewisMows Год назад

Hey! Hopefully this will answer all your questions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tYQ8yIa7ACM.html

@rogerchandler9737 2 года назад

Very nice vid.........the train stole the show though:)

@adamburdette23 2 года назад

The yellow stuff is just dead grass it is not thatch, thatch is the top layer of soil that was dead grass that has fully decomposed and become brown soil. The scarifier digs into the thatch layer of the soil, power rake the one with the tines is just for raking dead yellow grass up it will not dethatch, the scarifier will dethtch the yard. The dead grass will turn into thatch eventually. a lot of people use all of the terms interchangeably

@rmb5858 2 года назад

You even dethatch perfectly too

@EastCoastWingNuts 2 года назад

Jim , what type of grass is your yard ? thanks for the vids

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

This is a bluegrass/rye mix

@hightde13 2 года назад

I've never seen that sweepy thing. Will that work on leaves? My mom is always working so hard getting rid of leaves from on top of loose gravel. She won't suck them up because she says they pick up too much gravel with them when she does that.

@mynamesnotimportant6941 2 года назад

I think it's made for leaves. Then again, I've never used one. Could prolly give it a try though

@bigbruce70 Год назад

What type of seeds are you using

@neilhutchison5691 2 года назад

Crazy the bent is germinating so quick! Typically bentgrass can take close to a month to germinate, so you must’ve done something right!

@RioTheHitman 2 года назад

What type of grass is that?

@FallRiverHomesScott Год назад

Having lived close to there and being a pretty good geointelligence analyst, it only took a minute for me to see that it looks just as good on Google maps as on your video…next time I’m out visiting the in-laws across the interstate, I’ll have to see if it looks as good in person. I’m sure it does! 😆 PS: I’m NOT a creeper! 😆

@JimmyLewisMows Год назад

Call ahead before your visit 😂

@FallRiverHomesScott Год назад

@@JimmyLewisMows 😆 Will let you know! But seriously, love the videos. This was third I’d watched. One made me wonder if it was Utah. Then the front runner in this one was a dead giveaway. A good friend of mine lived right across the street from it up by TG Point. We just moved to Maryland, and have a pretty huge lawn that hasn’t ever really had much attention; they basically just get let grow out here…no sprinklers…but that doesn’t mean they look great. We have a long way to go before ours looks as good as we want, and I was just searching RU-vid and watching a bunch of videos. Very much loved to learn about the Dethatching/power raking/scarifying. I need to do that here and at my Mom’s place in Colorado REALLY bad. Just bought a yard vacuum tonight. Mostly for leaves, but it may help with the grass from a dethatch. Again 👍👍 on the videos and yard!

@damo06ab 2 года назад

My corded cheap dethatcher has a build in collector.

@MrPinguinitofeliz 2 года назад

This dude the reason we in a drought 😂

@YardGuy 2 года назад

I will wait to visit till I can putt putt.

@geneolvera9452 2 месяца назад

Hello Jimmy, I'm new to Lawn Care. How do you know that grub damage to the corner of your lawn?

@JimmyLewisMows 2 месяца назад

Best way to know is to dig around and see if you find any grub worms.

@mariannerayo8608 Год назад

Beautiful lawn. Can you rent the sweeper thing, too? What kind of grass seed did you put down?

@JimmyLewisMows Год назад

Thank you. You might be able to rent the sweeper, or borrow from a friend/neighbor. Not entirely sure on that, though. This is the grass seed I used for my lawn: amzn.to/32MEkOb

@terrywatts1060 2 года назад

Fascinating

@mattv1415 2 года назад

So the Tenacity you sprayed at the time of the bent grass seeding did nothing?

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

Appears that way. Got lucky.

@pintos322 Год назад

Sunjoe would have done it for ya. Lucky ya on flat land. Love sunjoe hate the rentals. I’m in mountains and it never works as well as sunjoe 👍🤙 think lie of land is the diff but whatevs

@ColeSpolaric 2 года назад

I find that the hardest thing using the time master to pick up the debris is that it gets stuck in the bag. I have to pull it out by hand.

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

Totally

@kclyman 2 года назад

Jimmy, Have you ever tried/rented a lawn vacuum to pick up the grass after using your Sun Joe Scarifier? Maybe you can compare that to a lawn sweeper. The Scarifier are great, picking up all the grass is the worse. Any ideas besides mowing or raking?

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

Hey Kent, I have found that using the mower to vacuum isn’t all that bad, personally. Especially after using this sweeper. Another idea is to use a good leaf blower and blow everything into a pile before picking up.

@WooderBoyProductions 2 года назад

The chicken shit looks great!

@Sig_P229 2 года назад

I have heard good and bad about those sweepers depending on what you are picking up. Not sure how I feel about them.

@quickplaya 2 года назад

I have heard good and bad about you. Not sure how I feel about you. Teehee. In all seriousness they pick up heavier finer material like thatch or pine cones stuff like that but Maple leaves they tend to just spit them everywhere. The trick is to run a light sprinkler on Maple leaves so they are damp and then pick them up otherwise they'll just fly everywhere.

@Joshua-ri8cu 2 года назад

Will this pick up the cores from aerating ?

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

It might get some of them. Never tried though.

@Egalitarian-bt7kz 2 месяца назад

So, after dethatching, you just reseed directly on top of your grass without using top soil or adding peat moss? I need to reseed my lawn and doing it your way seems so much easier. Great video with lots of info, thank you…

@JimmyLewisMows 2 месяца назад

You can reseed if you want, but bluegrass will naturally repair itself. Do you know what grass type you’re working with?

@Egalitarian-bt7kz 2 месяца назад

@@JimmyLewisMows Tall Fescue

@JimmyLewisMows 2 месяца назад

Yeah you’ll probably want to consider seeding

@tylertyler1 2 года назад

When did you do this? This week? I'm also in Utah and wondering if I'm too late in the season to overseed?

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

This was filmed 2 weeks ago now. I would say it's too risky at this point to overseed. Temps are dropping pretty quick now unfortunately.

@tylertyler1 2 года назад

@@JimmyLewisMows I bought my seed, should I just hold onto it until the spring? The seed doesn't go bad?

@JimmyLewisMows 2 года назад

Yup. Just keep it in a dry environment.

@seanrice7511 2 года назад

Dormant seeding might be an option late fall /early winter, something to at least research

@benblazek3305 2 года назад

Ideally your lawn should be cut to about half the length it is for over seeding to be most effective

@MJorgy5 2 года назад

The Honda engine on these Home Depot flail rakes hate hills. They run pretty well, otherwise.

@rjb6833 2 года назад

How will you prevent the bentgrass from spreading to the lawn ?

@LemonySnicket-EUC Год назад

Daily

@richardmurphy8350 2 года назад

Americans have such big gardens (yards). Makes me jealous.

@devin7224 Год назад

just watched a video about the timemaster.... seems like a lot of maintenance

@archael18 Год назад

Ouch, I lived beside a train track for a year and I can honestly say there's no amount of discount on a home that would make me buy close to a train track anymore.

@hahaha9076 2 года назад

What grass species is that? Why do you dethatch it?

@matthewbeores4259 Год назад

Does this work for aeration plugs

@JimmyLewisMows Год назад

In grass at least 2" tall, I would be willing to try it!

@jayrose9463 2 года назад

Is Brian lawn care mx your brother?

@troppsi 2 года назад

Why do you use so much peat moss?

@lisamartinez6899 2 года назад

Ok I’m ignorant of what the first machine was and why you use it ? A thatcher?

@glorialoflin5521 Год назад

Where can I order one (detacher like that need in next hour please please please

@JimmyLewisMows Год назад

That dethatching machine was a rental from Home Depot.

@williamdolyniuk7804 2 года назад

I am connected to privately owned golf course farm valued at 2 million so so greens mowers u can ahh rake that postage stamp. ... save on gym membership . L.o.l.