@@Thelawncarenut I know... I just thought it funny that you were promoting the boots, and blurred your feet out. (Trying not to get you in trouble with the safety police.)
I use mosquito dunks. They work really well unless you get a lot of high winds bringing in new bugs. They work because the dunk is a dry bacteria that, when wet, feed on mosquito larvae. So, since mosquitoes don't usually travel very far (I think I read 100 meters on average) you kill the next generation and that really reduces the nuisance. Better to use a black or red bucket, they like dark colors. I use black. Fill em 1/3 full and toss in a dunk. Then set the bucket in a shady area where mosquitoes hang out in the daytime. I usually toss a few handfuls of dry grass clippings in there, something about that helps attract them. They like to lay their eggs in the stagnant water, so I use this all summer and just try to keep the water at a relatively stable level. As far as I can tell, when they work best, they stink from the stagnant water. I have about 1000sq feet of back yard and I have 3 buckets placed around in shady corners. They say to replace the dunks every 60 days or so, but I go by when I stop seeing the dunk floating on top, and that can be as fast at 3 weeks in the heat. Love the channel!
I love Empire Zoysia too. As I am at the same latitude as Indianapolis, I mainly have an undefined bluegrass mixed with Barenbrug RPR, but in an isolated area I put down a few plugs of some awful zoysia whose canopy seems to mainly grow laterally and crosshatched and very little UP. I plan to kill that off and replace with Empire zoysia. We had that in my childhood yard and love the feel of it on my bare feet right after a mow.
Hey Hane, Pete from GCI Turf has addressed the excess hose issue on his Spray Buddy. If your yard size does not require the amount of hose it comes with then cut off some of the excess. It was perfectly rolled on when assembled and most people don't get it rolled back up as perfect. Cut some off. 👍
That poor zoysia has been through the ringer this year. Then rewatching you take the St Aug is like watching Bizzaro Al! 😂 what alternate world is that patch of grass in?! 😂😂
He said robot motor and zoysia, I knew Exactly what was going on. Zoysia grows SO thick and SO dense that even powered mowers can struggle with it when the blades are not sharp.
Allyn, I'm glad to see I"m not the only one that loses it when working in the lawn. I"m going to check out those boots because I want something that I can wear when I'm spraying the lawn. I bought some rubber boots that slip over your shoes, but they aren't the most convenient to work with. I usually wear a pair of 5.11 boots but don't want to get them stained from the sprays.
Just FWIW: I have a Mammotion Luba 2 3000H cutting my St Augustine at 4" in the Daytona Beach area, and it has no problem; never stuck. The Luba 2 is 4WD.
Yeah, ego lawn equipment has been great for me. And Ryobi for my edger needs. Never looked back to gas. Please look into Oasa robot mower when you have a chance. It’s a reel, self sharpening, and up to 4”. So it should work on our St Augustine Grass!! Would love your support on it and see if we can get our hands on it testing it out.
6:13 I scalped mines LCN too. CB STA 1.5inches. Too dressed. Three down de thatch and fertilizing the cb with flash ship. Will grow it back to get it to two inches.
Man, I mowed a clients yard today. She has Palisade Zoysia and it was a pain in the ass to mow. I feel for your disgruntled emotions and choice of language, I was the same.
I was on vacation and my empire zoysia got so thick. I will do another cut and keep it at 3inches. That is funny about your robot because I told my friend I would hire an AI landscaper because I’ve been having trouble finding a good one to help me cut and manage weeds in my backyard.
My dad had Zoyzia in Ky that he put out in plugs. That stuff grew thick and he didn't water or fertilizer. I know. I was mowing it. I had a hard time pushing a mower through it, so I am not surprised your robot is having trouble getthing through it.
yeah it's really cool that zoysia can grow so far north too. I used to see zoysia lawns in the Chicago area too. People bought plugs mail order from the back of the Parade Magazine.
yes! There are a bunch on the southside in Dolton for some reason. They used to sell plugs of super grass in the back of the Parade magazine. Mail order. That's what those lawns are from and many of them - the zoysia has spread and taken over the neighbors too.
Could really use your advice. I had a beautiful Kentucky blue front lawn here in Eastern WA. Thinking I was adding value, I used Prodiamine in early spring with a backpack sprayer following exact directions. Well, over time, large areas of my lawn turned brown and died. Dead Dead died. I plan on getting new topsoil and redoing all the areas and seeding. Do I have to worry about the prodiamine still in the ground ? it will be a full 5 months later or do I have to somehow neutralize ? Thank you in advance...I am besides myself
Been following you for a long time LCN. Can't tell if you're just getting curmudgeonly in your "old age" :D or if you got something going on personally. I definitely notice a trend of bad moods/days in your videos that I didn't before. Hope you're doing well, my friend.
I live in SRQ and cannot find anyone who sharpens Reel Mower blades. Would you happen to know a guy? As always, I enjoy watching your videos and I continue to learn a lot.
Is there a chemical that will kill poison ivy and not harm hedges-bushes? There’s some customers I have that I have tried to pull them out but it’s so think I can’t get it all and it comes back afew a couple months and pops out the top
I have a related question about your use of quinclorac to push back the St. Augustine from Zoysia. As a new DYI hobbyist, I have a Zeon Zoysia lawn that is being invaded by both St. Augustine and wild bermuda. In my scenario (where I'm trying to eliminate both St. Augustine and bermuda) - I recently (2 days ago) an application of Fusilade II with Triclopyr as the zoysia "safener" - would you suggest a separate application of quinclorac in this case? I know from your prior videos, you did them as separate processes (quinclorac for St. Augustine, and Fusilade + recognition for bermuda - but since I'm trying to get rid of both, I was hoping that a single go with Fusilade + Triclopyr would work for me).
since the Recognition is so new, I don't know how many combination products have been tested with it. Just to be safe, I'd do it as a separate application a few days or a week later.
Hey you can have the Zoysia grass creeping on my property from neighbors yard. I hate Zoysia. I’m in east coast don’t like yellow grass in the fall/winter
Returned my YM backpack sprayer after 2nd use. It didn’t survive an application of Green Punch + air8 unfortunately. YM was cool about it thankfully and fully refunded my purchase. Still a fan of their products, just not that sprayer.
Definitely not how mosquito dunks work. They are meant to be dropped into standing water where larvae are swimming around (future mosquitos), not for you to create the standing water and attract them to your yard. I buy the dunk flakes and sprinkle them into my underground downspouts where the water does not get completely drained out. They say you can use them in birdbaths, etc.
I didnt know the mosquitos could tell the difference in water I just set out in buckets vs water that is naturally standing. I also don't think the dunks do any type of "attracting" necessarily - the water is what attracts and yes, the mosquitos in my yard, I want them attracted to the bucket traps (with dunks in them) so they can breed there and die rather than somewhere else. As far as the flakes, those are an excellent idea too and I did not know they came in that format. I'll give that a try for areas where I do have natural standing water.
Battery powered lawn tools. 😂 My neighbors have some. I watch them struggle. I’ll stick with my noisy gasoline equipment. And yeah, your blades need sharpening asap.
I have a gas zero turn and ryobi 18v string trimmer/edger/pole saw/brush cutter it’s brushless, and a 18v leaf blower as well. I’ll never go back to gas for these. No messing with gas or mixing oil, when I want it to work I press the button. No bogging down because it needs a carb adjustment. I also have a 40 volt self propelled ryobi lawn mower for the hill that is too steep for the zero turn. If I had a flat yard I would have already bought a robot lawn mower.
@@Pje3ski I have a neighbor about a block away who has one of the earlier versions of robot mower (had to bury a wire around the perimeter). I have zero interest in owning one, but I still stop in the middle of the street and watch it every time I see that little robot out doing its thing. 😂
Hope you’re doing well bro and that everything is going ok behind closed doors. Seems like you’ve lost a bit of your mojo within the last 12 months or so. Still great content nonetheless but something just seems off in your videos and you’re not quite as energetic and enthusiastic as you were within the last year or two. Blessings and look forward to more content
Seems like over the last 2 years or so this channel as well as a few others have gone from DIY to basically everything I own is commercial grade and commercial price. Lots of equipment that most average joes do not own. What happened to that? Everyone seemed to get sponsors and then forget about all the normal ppl who actually watched this content for how it actually related to us. I miss those days
The Cart Buddy is produced in the USA by a fellow RU-vidr, Pete from GCI Turf. I'm proud to support him. Other than that, I have a walk mower and some battery string trimmers, pretty standard. I'm not sure what you've been watching but it isn't my channel lol
There's also been an increase in DIY'ers who go "if I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it well and right and want something like my dad and grand dad used to own and last longer than just 4 years....." to do that - you have to sometimes go commercial grade or prosumer grade, And then theres "if I can save time by spraying liquid like the chem-lawn guys do.... and this is fun for me, I'll buy a home owner grade pump/hose system!" They'll do that too to have the satisfaction of DIY with the convenience, ease, enjoyment of something more like the pros...
@@Thelawncarenut I still love the channel and watch every video. I guess what I meant to say was just with all of the content on sponsored items, all the original stuff you used to do is missed. I missed the cool season stuff and the project lawns that had awesome results. I miss when milorganite was cheap. Just miss the good ol days back when you started your channel. I’m happy for you and all the success you have had. It is the American Dream
i wish I could get Quinclorac up here in Ontario Canada, I'm having crab grass issues now FFS !!! Nothing here I can spray/drop that works at all. I found an old 15 year old jug of Bayer Advanced Weed Control that had Dicamba/24-D/Quinclorac in it, maybe 100mL left in it and used it on a part of my back lawn incase it killed everything or did nothing, well it worked like a charm and killed everything in that section except the grass of course which was totally weed/clover/crabgrass infested somehow. I should have used it on the front lawn areas where the crabgrass is lol damn it !!! They banned that stuff years ago unfortunately.
I really enjoy all of your content there is a robotic mower that I believe the Ginja reviewed that has tank tracks looks to be a pretty solid unit also for the equipment that you get sent try and keep cleaner l would love to have the cart buddy but life has it's priorities looking forward to your next video best of luck with everything and thank you for all you do
so you are changing your whole zoysia lawn height to make a robot mower deliver some results. I think that is what I saw. So uhh, the robot is training.?. The robot is training you. AI is powerful folks.
I bought battery milwaukee edger and Wacker. Not really impressed. Battery is just enough to do the yard. I know later as the battery wears I will need a second battery. The power is just not the same as a cheap echo trimmer. The electric chainsaw pole is OK.
