May Is Always BRUTAL In NC!! 

Thankfully after this video was made, we have received 1.7" or so of rain!!!! Praise God!

In SE Pennsylvania, grass is starting to burn along concrete and asphalt. There is supposed to be some rain in the forecast, but the weatherman is 0 for 2 this week.

Chicago area Northwest Suburbs - 50s early morning, 60s-70s,daytime and about 60s at night. Not Humid. Beautiful days. Sometimes rain. About 2x/week.

I live in Terrell Texas zone 8b close to Dallas and this is our rainy season we have had 9"1/2 of ran in 2 1/2 weeks. All good things come to an end sometime in June it stops raining and doesn't start raining again till September for the last two years . I've gone 3 1/2 months without rain . Hopefully things will be different this year.🤞

Fortunately we've gotten over 1 inch of rain this weekend. My stress spots aren't as stressed so hopefully yours have made a complete recovery.

Love the video! Learning so much and being that you are very close to my (I’m in Scotland county) I can learn from your tips as I rehab my lawn!

I'm in Tampa, FL with St Aug. We have not got any rain since Mid April and parts of my yard are really struggling. I was not sure if it was fungus or root rot. After watching your lawn I feel better. Your lawn was looking very good till recently. I would assume my yard is struggling with stress. May is our driest month and the heat is rising, our summer rains start around last week May or June 1st.

Yikes! In Virginia Beach late August is when mine struggles but it's more from disease pressure due to crazy high humidity.

I'm a landscape contractor in Central California and just happened to see your video. I understand SC and CA will be completely different climates/grass types/best methods of what you are trying to achieve here, so take my comments as subjective not law. First - the root zone for lawns are typically 4 - 6 inches. The lack of water (browning areas especially on higher elevations) is the cause. I understand you are trying to conserve water either for cost or environmental reasons but do consider an underground drip system that can supplement water to those troubled areas at least. Irrigating at the root zone will be more efficient than overhead watering. Look up Netafim tubing or Hunter HDL tubing (or Hunter ECO-MAT if you can swing the cost of the best product possible). Ideally (for my area) an irrigation system (either sub-surface or overhead sprays/rotors) is necessary for lawns to survive here. We won't install sod/seed without irrigation - period. OH, the Fusilade II product you used (last year?) to kill the Bermuda grass is a selective herbicide that targets monocot plants - Kentucky Bluegrass included but does no harm to dicot - woody/branched plants (for an extremely poor definition lol). We use Fusilade to eradicate Bermuda grass that grows in groundcover for example. The chemical will only affect the monocot grass, not the dicot groundcover even when it has been sprayed. Best of luck!

I just did a nice coxtail with my second pre emergent app, air8,rgs,sea k, gci 8% cal and my frist fungicide app. Im in Newport News with a diy irrigation set up 2 years ago.

Coastal NC here with st Aug. no rain and have to water. This is the only irrigation kicks up for the year. Can’t let it die/ get heat stressed before rain season begins. Irrigate!!!

I'm in Nashville. We have had some high 80s almost 90s here in April/May be then we had a late frost in April and now lots of rain storms coming through this week. We needed the rain. My grass also was feeling some early heat stress. Earlier than usual for sure. Glad we got lots of rain this week but praying no crazy storms too. We have tornado weather in the Spring. Yuck! Glad you also finally got some rain. My grass looks the best it has ever looked this year so I am hoping to keep it up.

I had a 4x4 area that always struggled til i pushed a steel rod in the ground. Kept hitting something, ended up pulling out a giant chunk of concrete that sat about 18 inches below the soil. Now the grass is thriving!

Thank you for your channel and I enjoy your videos. Here comes a truth that you probably know ....... For a near bulletproof beautiful lawn, you need irrigation ... period. You spare no expense on product yet leave off the most important part. If price is an issue, install in stages with the well first to get off city water then come with the sprinkler system later. You will never manage heat without it. Your lawn is telling you this right now. There is probably an aquifer under your house right now and you don't know it. Just saying out loud what you already know and look forward to more videos when you can make it rain when you need it. ........ ;-)

SoCal / Marathon “dwarf fescue” here. Lawn is doing great!I am definitely dominating the neighborhood. One of the neighbors has the exact same grass type, but you can tell mine is doing better thanks to you / Yard Mastery. I’m going to bust out the rain gauges today, so I can dial in the sprinkler system. I intend to have green grass year round this year and moving forward.

Luckily I pulled out my springers last Monday. I seen we wasn’t going to get rain at all. We definitely needed this rain!

I probably don't live too far from you. How is the lawn doing after that insane amount of rain this weekend? My GCI spreader elite fescue is looking like a green shag carpet right now. It was showing signs of heat stress last week. For your berm in the backyard, I would probably spread a nice layer of engineered topsoil (clay, sand, compost mix) on that entire berm in the fall and reseed. Some humichar would probably be beneficial there as well. You could put that out now to give it more time to work into the soil.

I'm in the North GA area and getting rain at least once a week so far in the past month. Heat has been slowly going up and I'm starting to notice some dry spots but yard is still hanging on (non-irrigated). Most of mine are due to compaction but I have 10 yards of soil to spread and level out some low areas. I got a big strip along the road that struggles every summer like yours so I plan on doing a mini reno along that strip with a good layer of top soil. I remember seeing an old video of you addressing some leveling issues... how did you go about that?

Yes mine started doing the same in a few spots came home from work and seen dark spots in the lawn. Got up next morning and watered good now that we have got the rain over the weekend it’s back to normal! Put out some stress blend for first time before the rain see how it does! Hope you getting the rain also!!

Mine is july august in oklahoma gets 100⁰ plus but then come septwmber through july im the greenest yard in the neighborhood. GcI TTTF

You got this Mr Ferguson... We had over a inch of rain this weekend. And looks like more this week. Press on sir 👍💯

Mr. Ferguson have you looked into the water timers by orbit? It has saved my lawn from the Texas heat. Set it and forget it

Here in CNY my lawn looks beautiful. It always looks beautiful in spring. Plenty of rain here. I've mowed 4 times already.

I've always had a 20'x20' square in my yard that would turn completely brown every summer. I rented a track hoe and found a 10" thick square slab of concrete underneath. Found out my yard used to be pasture for cattle. I guess it was for a feeder. You never know what's under the dirt.

Only two patches in my yard that looks that way in the peak of summer. Top of septic and edge of stone driveway. Water away, up north we just had a nice week of none but rained yesterday.

Same here in Chesapeake Va , I have a few "hot spots" We had some rain last nite !! at last !! A lil more on/off today. Im going to throw down a lil starter fert for the potassium...80,s and 90,s for this week so we will see if we get these T storms that are forecasted..GL Brother

Rain, rain and more rain in MN over past 10 days. Just started our yard season.

West Michigan here .... Temps in the 70's and rain once or twice a week. No complaints yet, but we also have well water which will come in handy June, July and August. You almost needed to do a trigger warning for those brown spots in your yard on the video. lol

Thanks for the vid. Thought I was fighting lawn disease last year. Now I think it might have just been lawn stress.

Did my 2nd application of prodiamine on Friday before all the rain hit here in MD. I had some stress spots on my mature fescue but not as bad as yours. It's all bounced back except the spots by the sidewalk where the neighbor walks her dog and in pees REPEATEDLY multiple times in the same spot day-in and day-out 😠

Wished I had city water I would gladly pay for water on my lawn spend bunches on everything else for lawn . We have been lucky in Maiden NC few showers along watered 1 week but no stress yet but you are right May is tuff . We stay a couple degrees cooler than your area .

I definitely needed rain in Concord, NC, but it wasn’t forecast to come until overnight Friday and it came before I could get off work, mowed, and apply products I needed watered in. Now I have grass that is way too tall in some areas and likely can’t mow until at least late Wednesday if the rain does end today (Monday). Also have areas cot fungus (rust) I need to treat. Hope your lawn has recovered with the rain Mr. Ferguson. I broke down and watered the front yard Friday morning because of lawn stress and high temps with rain not forecast until overnight. Then it started raining hard in the afternoon and rained until late Sunday morning for the most part.

South Central Virginia right on the NC border. It's been extremely dry so I have been watering for about 3-4 weeks now, as soon as I noticed the beginnings of heat stress. There are areas in our lawn that border the street and they are usually the first to suffer from the heat. In addition to a regular watering cycle (and you are right when you point out how expensive this can become) I supplement those areas with extra water left over in buckets from things like car washes and also water those areas more frequently. I am fortunate enough to have a sprinkler system which at least reduces the labor required to water 12,000 square feet. But it's an annual battle with cool season grasses. We just received about an inch and a half of rain over the last few days and that should help. But I need to go ahead and get the fungicide down very soon. By the way, it looks like Velocity PM is working for me. It's always something. Keep at it. Geesus.

I’m just West of you in Winston Salem. I started watering last week too

Good day. Have you considered applying Hydretain ? I'm going to apply on my lawn for the first time.

Just curious. Redoing backyard. I'm here in cool season Denver,CO. What grass seed mix with a super deep KBG, would you recommend? Almost full day sun besides the new tiny trees that block a leaf of sun. Hahaha. And I am about a once a week mower, unless necessary to mow more.

North Dakota 4" of rain the past week here

Mr Ferguson I can understand your frustration after all the hard work you put into your lawn. I had mentioned a month or so in the comments that I thought you were pushing your lawn too early with fertilizer. I know you disagreed with me then and probably still do lolo. I know the heat and lack of rain has been bad down south ( I live in NJ) and I have no documentation that my theory is correct but I still feel pushing a lawn too early before it's ready MAY contribute to your issue. Also I noticed your lawn that's the worst is by the shrubs with a slight hill. I found that on my lawn that has a slight incline is the first to show stress because the water runs off and doesn't soak in as well as the flat areas. Love your channel and enjoy watching for your tips. All the best! Anthony

Iam in NC, I struggle with fungus and heat stress this time of the year like clockwork

Despite the wars, bombings of other countries, people dying of hunger in this world; I am glad God has the time to design grass that works in mysterious ways like himself. Amen

Is irrigation in the future for you ?

Good morning. Have you used hydrate this year? I was wondering if it is worth getting some to spray on my lawn here in Mt. Airy. We are seeing the same heat wave you are seeing.

I literally havent even fertilized yet like you said lol (I am a little late). Crazy how quick that happened. I just ordered some propeat 13-5-8 greens grade. Do you think 1 pound of nitrogen is good for the first app in spring?

Still getting plenty of rain in middle Tennessee 🙏🏼 I’m seeing some black/gray slime mold in my tttf. Should I be worried?

53 degrees and rain in WI😁

Water it more frequently

Bro, why do you support the synagogue of Satan? “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” Revelation 2:9

The comeback is gonna be incredible Any rain in the forecast?