Check out how I completely transformed my backyard from weeks to a lushes grass lawn. This how to grow grass #short shows the process in short form detail. #shorts #byotools
@@Yoursoul101 5-10k for what? A truckload of top soil here is like $300, you can rent a tiller and any tools you need. Your biggest expense is just time
I've gotten the same results by just dragging a spike tooth harrow around to loosen up the dirt, spreading the seed and then lightly raking it in. Then just keep it damp for about 10 to 14 days and walla.
You’d have to dig up all those dominant grasses, I have the same issue in missouri I just let them grown whoever ever they are and then try my best to grow grass around it
@@TrippyWoodStockthat would be the opposite of a solution. Having a native grass lawn is a good thing, if you want Asian or European grasses in your lawn, move to Asia or Europe.
You know some people actually like to enjoy their lawn that only takes a 1 time project rather than a constant effort to garden. Cleary you don't garden
@@ajbujorian the fact you got mad over someone liking fresh food throughout the warm months and think that a wasteful lawn is better, clearly YOU don’t garden
Alot of work i did the whole process took me and my wife 8 days straight..friday half day and 2 full days on the weekend..and during the week from 3:30pm-8pm finally seeing grass sprout after 2 weeks of watering..looks great keep it up
No. I think you can just sprinkle in some fertilizer within the dirt. And if there hasn't been stuff growing there. Water the dirt for a couple days. Then rake in the seed@@marves15
that works if you have decent soil to begin with. in my HOT and DRY area just throwing seeds in will be about as successful throwing it on a concrete parking
Horrible for your local ecosystem and you're fighting a battle against a plant that doesn't want to be where u probably put it. Grow natives instead, stop glorifying grass yards.
I just transformed my red-tide contributing, water hog of a Florida backyard into a food forest. We did the whole hand removal of weeds, seeding, fertilizing, etc with our lawn over the past 8 yrs. Our dogs destroyed portions of the lawn every winter when the grass went dormant. Over the last few years we've replaced 80% of our ornamental landscape with edible plants: bananas, papayas, pineapple, citrus trees, Florida cranberry, Cranberry hibiscus, blueberries, passion fruit, etc. We had a good size vegetable garden on the side of the house and eventually decided if it's not edible or beneficial it's not gonna be in our yard. We just put in another 100sf of beds with cattle panel trellis. It looks gorgeous. All the neighbors thought we were nuts, but now that it's finished with lighting and pathways they get it. It's like being in a botanical garden and the neighbors all reap the benefits with shared produce. The dogs love it. We kept a small area of grass for them to roll in and created a specific potty area for them that's much easier to maintain daily than searching the whole lawn for daily disposal. Residential grass is such a waste of water. The chemicals and fertilizer negatively impact the environment. From the mouth of Pete Kanatis pf Green Dreams, "don't be a grasshole!"
We did something similar. There's a bit of lawn left, but we found better solutions for our yard. Our supply of fresh herbs and vegetables makes us happy with our choices.
Down in Houston. People get real stuffy when I give helpful info. No common sense. A lawn is an artificial environment, kinda like an unruly child. New construction, 600k homes and after 1yr the lawn has returned to the weeds, invaders ready to re-establish and spoil the new laid lawn, usually Augustine. A heavy feeder and moisture lover. These new homeowners won't listen and have no hesitation to spray roundup, shave their lawn when it's dry and scorching hot and over mulch their tree flanks. But don't try to give them free advice, nobody listens to a woman on a bike. No people as dumb as city people.
...to bad you wasted all that work on grass that yields you nothing but more work, verses plants and vegetables that would have yielded you food and would have been so much more beneficial to you and others......
Damn lol that's waaay tooo much work to grow grass😂. I'd simply put some Compost/fertilizer on soil, give it a good shoveling or mixing up and settling it down, putting some grass sprouts and watering it everyday.. Boom your lawn is ready within a month.
@@jamalhenra121693 yeah it sucks. You could have a yard full of native wildflowers but a lot of places will fine you if you don't keep your lawn well manicured.
Bayonet drill instructor: "What makes my grass grow?" Trainee: "Blood and Guts Seargent!" "Blood and Guts!" This what we use to say in army basic training..
Luckily, people who think having a green carpet around their house, that requires thousands of gallons of water every week, is beautiful are increasingly becoming a minority. Having a variety of native plants, in which wildlife can thrive instead of die, and doesn't require an insane amount of regular watering, is what all the cool kids are doing.
You must not be aware that in the Pacific Northwest it rains so much they have moss growing on their roofs. No one waters their grass. I live in the northeast, same thing. We never water. Maybe stop repeating nonsense that you hear when you don’t understand things.
@@frisco61 why are you so angry? Who hurt you? Also, unlike you, I don't talk about things I know nothing about. Just because something is true where you live, doesn't make it so for most people. It is a fact that Americans use about 9 billion gallons a day just to irritate their lawns, but regardless, my comment wasn't even about water. It was about us destroying our native grasslands in favor of monocultural grass lawns that don't like or want to grow here, so we dump endless amounts of water and chemicals to keep them on constant life support while destroying native habitats of other plants, insects and animals, all because we were led to believe having a flat empty green space around our house is pretty.
@@frisco61you must not be aware that the Pacific Northwest is a fraction of the whole population 😂 also as someone from the Pacific Northwest…you know rainfall hasn’t been crazy lately at least in my area. My grass is fine up until summer hits then it definitely struggles in 28-35c
@@TheOnlyKontrol That has nothing to do with the fact that people as the OP automatically see the whole US as Southern California or Arizona with no awareness that there are a lot of places in the US where “water shortages” are not a thing in fact we have too much water so we spend time diverting it away from our houses so our basements don’t flood. We never water our grass, ever. It stays green year round even under the snow. So yeah, we’re going to have a lawn. I’m tired of the constant “The sky is falling.” The water we use here affects no one, because all our excess goes right back into the water table, it flows into the rivers, etc. I think those people think that the entirety of the US sits on one giant pool of water that everyone uses up lol. Last thing, if environmentalists were serious, they’d start going after people who choose to live in places are unfit for human habitation. Like the damn desserts of Arizona and Nevada and Southern California, etc. That do not have sufficient water and instead must rely on artificial means like Lake Mead etc. it’s ridiculous.
That looks nasty bro i hate lawns honestly they are the bane of human existence imagine taking care of something that doesn't take care of you just costs you money doesn't even make you nothing but a bill at the end of the month. If only people started to think instead of follow 😂💀
I’d love to make my yard beautiful but unfortunately in the place I rent all the neighborhood yards are infected with some vine/grass variant that kills regular grass by killing their roots and growing overtop regular grass. I’ve tried pulling them out but eventually they just regrow from both of the neighbor’s sides back into my lawn and destroys my work. I’ve decided to just let this yard be what it is and deal with it.
have fun with your non-native monoculture crop that doesn't actually provide any benefits to yourself or the ecosystem. you could *easily* replace this with native clovers and wildflowers have have something significantly more visually appealing and non detrimental to your local ecosystems
Oh ok. What have YOU done for our environment in your garden? I’m sick of these comments. Get off your high horse. I have a gorgeous 3 strain kbg lawn from a high end cultivar, beautiful grass really, just gorgeous. The entire border of my property is filled with local wildflowers and other flowers I like, not including the other several garden beds, I have enough raised beds to produce enough food for multiple families, and I have several fruit trees. I have thousands of flowers, there are bees, bumblebees, birds, and other bugs everywhere. I also do my own composting and produce several cubic yards of it on a yearly basis. How many plants did you plant this week? This year? Your life? Keep judging others though.
If you buy lawn soil you dont need any kind of pre or post emergent because it already comes with it in the mix. I dont have one weed in my lawn since I used lawn soil. StayGreen brand or Scotts they both have it in the mix.
Oh, look at Mr. Lawn Lover, strutting around like he's the king of suburbia with his perfectly trimmed grass. Can't see the forest for the trees, can he? While he's busy playing gardener, the real beauty lies in the wild and untamed. But hey, some people just prefer their little green kingdoms over the vibrant chaos of nature. Suit yourself, Mr. Lawn Lover, while the rest of us embrace the wild side.
Corporations have done such a good job at training us to throw our money away while also trashing the environment. Meadows are so much prettier and they support the food web that we humans depend on.
Grass is a type of plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. Their appearance as a common plant was in the mid-Cretaceous period. There are 12,000 species now.[3]A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in places such as lawns and parks. Grass is usually the color green. That is because they are wind-pollinated rather than insect-pollinated, so they do not have to attract insects. Green is the best colour for photosynthesis. Grasslands such as savannah and prairie where grasses are dominant cover 40.5% of the land area of the Earth, except Greenland and Antarctica.[4] Grasses are monocotyledon herbaceous plants. They include the "grass" of the family Poaceae, which are called grass by ordinary people. This family is also called the Gramineae, and includes some of the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae).[5] These three families are not very closely related, though all of them belong to clades in the order Poales. They are similar adaptations to a similar life-style. With about 780 genera and about 12,000 species,[3] the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family. Only the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae have more species.[6] The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Uses for graminoids include food (as grain, shoots or rhizomes), drink (beer, whisky), pasture for livestock, thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others. Many grasses are short, but some grasses can grow tall, such as bamboo. Plants from the grass family can grow in many places and make grasslands, including areas which are very arid or cold. There are several other plants that look similar to grass and are referred to as such, but are not members of the grass family. These plants include rushes, reeds, papyrus and water chestnut. Seagrass is a monocot in the order Alismatales. Grasses are an important food for many animals, such as deer, buffalo, cattle, mice, grasshoppers, caterpillars and many other grazers. Unlike other plants, grasses grow from the bottom, so when animals eat grass they usually do not destroy the part that grows.[7] This is a part of why the plants are successful. Without grass, soil may wash away into rivers (erosion).
Yeah it sucks. That’s like crabgrass or somethin I think. Not really a lawn, just grassy looking weeds. Gotta pull the roots otherwise if you cut or mowed they’d just keep growing with more rain.
Looks nice, but sad. Such a space is ripe for abundance of food, flowers, herbs, medicines, and wildlife….but the bare green lawn looks like all your neighbors now 👍
I'd re did my lawn and let me tell you it's a lot of work just for 425 ft² Update: feb 16th 2023 Just to follow up my grass has stayed completly green all winter.
@@Whatsgoodeverybody I live in Seattle area the Puget Sound region so I use what's called Scotts Northwest blend and these are blue coated grass seed.. Suppose to be blended for wet weather and shade.
I’m in dry hot humid weather here in the south around Tn, Nc,Sc and Ga area. What would you recommend to use? I thought about using centipede grass seeds for the yard but I also heard of the weather gets tooooo hot it would kill the grass if I use that type of grass seeds
Can't wait for the day grass lawns have finally gone out of style. They're pretty and convenient but our planet is dying under our feet and literally every animal including our pets is better off with native biodiverse landscaping
I'll help you 😊 Grass is a type of plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. Their appearance as a common plant was in the mid-Cretaceous period. There are 12,000 species now. [1] A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in places such as lawns and parks. Grass is usually the color green. That is because they are wind-pollinated rather than insect-pollinated, so they do not have to attract insects. Green is the best colour for photosynthesis. Grasslands such as savannah and prairie where grasses are dominant cover 40.5% of the land area of the Earth, except Greenland and Antarctica.[2] Grasses are monocotyledon herbaceous plants. They include the "grass" of the family Poaceae, which are called grass by ordinary people. This family is also called the Gramineae, and includes some of the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae).[3] These three families are not very closely related, though all of them belong to clades in the order Poales. They are similar adaptations to a similar life-style. With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species,[1] the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family, after the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae.[4] The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Uses for graminoids include food (as grain, sprouted grain, shoots or rhizomes), drink (beer, whisky), pasture for livestock, thatching thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others. Many grasses are short, but some grasses can grow tall, such as bamboo. Plants from the grass family can grow in many places and make grasslands, including areas which are very arid or cold. There are several other plants that look similar to grass and are referred to as such, but are not members of the grass family. These plants include rushes, reeds, papyrus and water chestnut. Seagrass is a monocot in the order Alismatales. Grasses are an important food for many animals, such as deer, buffalo, cattle, mice, grasshoppers, caterpillars and many other grazers. Unlike other plants, grasses grow from the bottom, so when animals eat grass they usually do not destroy the part that grows.[5] This is a part of why the plants are successful. Without grass, soil may wash away into rivers (erosion).
I've got a lot of sad yard... Just going to buy a few ounces of wildflower seeds, sprinkle some on the soil at the beginning of winter so that they've got plenty of time to germinate, and turn those sad patches into something cool to look at, low-cost, and eco-friendly.
I want to do this, but one question? Is there a reason to hand pull weeds instead of tilling and raking clean then topsoil? Would that help kill left behind weed seeds?
How to transform a beat up old house into a beautiful new house in 2 easy steps! Step one: I tore down the old, beat up house. Step two: I paid a contractor 250 thousand dollars to build a brand new house. The results are amazing!!
Round-Up, 7 Days Later Re-Seed! No need for soils if you have existing soil. . . There’s nutrients you can add to your lawn over time that work the same. I have organic products I use that turn hard red clay into soft loamy / humus / silt type black soil.
no, glyphosate (roundup), water, water water, for a week or two, glyphosate again, water, water, water, for a week or two, glyphosate again, wait another 1-2 weeks, then seed. This is the best method to create a clean slate for seeding a new lawn.
NOOOO! NOOOO! Not plant nasty grass, mow nasty grass, weed nasty grass! Plant NATIVE PRAIRIE PLANTS! Less water required, less money and work, more beauty and variety of LIFE.
What a waste of space, money and work! Make a flower garden for pollinators, plant native prairie grasses, EVEN JUST A VEGGIE GARDEN! Anything but turf with 3-inch roots.
So much easier to do in the PNW. Try living in TX. I was born and raised in WA state but am currently in TX and growing anything here in Summer is rough. Plus I'm really not into monoculture lawns but that's just me!!
What an absolute waste. Unless you’re grazing animals on it, what purpose does a lawn serve? Somewhere to throw money and chemicals at the environment? So people can drive by and say “wow that a lawn”? 🤦♀️
We did the same thing on our 40,000 Sq ft property. But instead of growing grass which is useless. We grew flowers and produce which serves a purpose. Grass is the mosquito of the plant world. Useless
That's just too much work for me... I covered everything with cardboard then covered with leaves, let sit over winter then landscaped trees ,perennials, bulbs and flowers, then its done.
Dude shoulda left the existing turf and just overseed and top dress with bags of Compro. Bulk inputs are low quality versus bagged products-easier to distribute too. Core aerate in the fall and overseed again. Doing it this way wastes a lot of resources and disrupts natural soil habitat. Fyi-top soil = sand and dyed wood product.
Your lawn was a _"beautiful _*_sexy_*_ beast"?!?_ You sayin' you look at that lawn, and *having **_sex_** with grass blades* comes to your mind?! People are strange.
Monoculture grass lawn. How milque toast and useless. These monoculture (non native) grass lawns are thr #1 reason our militantly suburban areas are so devoid of even the smallest wildlife and our soil temperatures are soaring. But go ahead and continue contributing to the ongoing climate disaster on every level you possibly can including making the most heinously unenvironmentally friendly lawn you can.
Ive done this in my yard 3 times and got nowhere, i spent a small fortune, broke my back and watched squirrels and every bird in my state just rip everything to pieces!!!!😢
