So you have a recommendation for something that is like Tenacity?? For some reason I can't have it shipped to MN. I need to get new seed in some horribly "seeded" areas of construction that our city did. They literally planted weeds.
I recently purchased 75lbs of your tall fescue. The bags don’t have a spreader setting recommendation. Can you recommend one? Scott spreader for overseed.
Just thatched/aerated and reseeded my front with your tall fescue/blue grass mix. And overseeded my back with the same mix. Fingers crossed it all comes in.
Started a complete lawn renovation today. Spent three hours scarifying 2200 sq. ft. raking and piling up the debris. Tomorrow, I'll remove it all to our compost pile. I'm also ordering 8 cubic yards of organic topsoil. That will get spread and leveled this coming week, after which I'm putting down Defiance XRE Tall Fescue. Because of our intense Summer here in North Texas (2nd hottest and driest ever recorded), I basically had no lawn and barely even any weeds. We've received less than half of our annual rainfall, so I'll be watering religiously to get this Fescue established before our first frost, which is normally in about 5 weeks. I was forced to wait until now, because this cultivar of Fescue requires a soil temperature of less than 72 degrees and we're still in the 90s, but with cooler nights (finally). If there is some way that I could share progress photos with you, I'd love to do that, just let me know how. Cheers and thanks for sharing your experience and expertise.
Great video Ryan! All the questions that I had you answered in this video. Thanks for all your hard work creating this content so we can have amazing lawns like yours. Take care Ryan!!
Thanks for the tips. I love watching your videos. I’m renovating my front yard this year with your perennial ryegrass and on day 10 now. It’s coming in well too. I’m very excited to see how it looks over the next few weeks.
Started a full lawn reno based on your older video. Doing glyphosate a while age, then seed and top dressing last weekend. Using your KB mix. I hope it will come out great.
Temps have started to cool in Eastern NE. Leveled my lawn with top soil after cutting down a silver maple & redoing a retaining wall. Laid down fresh sod but mature areas of the lawn will get the falls works this weekend. Aeration & over-seeding with Compost FTW!
I've neglected my lawn all summer. I did water often but no fertilizer and I have a ton of weeds. I'm going to hit it hard this September and hopefully have a nice looking lawn through November and a great start to Spring. As always thanks for the tips.
I just bought a lawn leveling rake, and wow, it is an amazing tool like you said. Got the lawn seeded now with rye and blue grass here in the seacoast of NH. Reel mower for next year. 😊
Over seeded with a tall fescue and I'm back to mowing after an amazing germination, super grateful for your advice. Watched my neighbors lawns burn right up as soon as it got warm right after they spent good money on lawn service, kind of a shame imo. You helped bring life back into my lawn and being out in the yard ive met a bunch of ppl who live in my community. I'm way pumped to see my lawn next spring 🤙
Loved cool season grass. Had that for 3 years. When we moved to our new house (Oct 2022) I performed a complete lawn reno and went with warm season turf, GCI Alpha Elite Bermuda. So my season is coming to an end. 😢
Did my aeration/dethatching two weeks ago between heat stretches in NE Iowa. Been watering everyday while overseeding with Ryan’s Perrenial Elite Ryegrass and Scott’s Starter Fert. The grass started to “pop” on day four and has been filling great across the board. Very happy/impressed with the seed considering the less than perfect conditions (patience got the best of me).
Can not wait to get back at it. Had a company take over my fertilizer/weed control last year. They also did aerating and seeding. Not happy at all with their results. I used to have the greenest, if not top 3 greenest yards, not anymore.... I feel like I'm starting over again, although, I'm not doing a full renovation again (did that 2 years ago). Definitely going to be dethatching, aerating and overseeding. Trying to stay on a better fertilizer program this time
Great video! Keeping it simple. I put down some seed last Monday and it’s popping today (Sunday). So I was kinda hoping to get a cut in before it popped, but oh well. Combo of overseeding and some bare spots. For anyone looking for a great patching soil mix, I do 2 bags of el-cheapo Home Depot top soil to 1 bag of “washed play sand”. One is listed by volume, one by weight, so I honestly don’t know the real ratio, but it’s probably more like 3 or 4 to 1, soil/sand. That little bit of sand makes it spread SO nicely. Great for areas you just need to add a little depth and feather out.
Already finished an overseed in my front and am doing the nitrogen blitz in the rest of the front. My backyard, the sophomore season of a reno, I topdressed last Saturday with sand and started the blitz as well.
Just did my fall height of cut reset to keep my lawn shorter for fall and over winter and put my fertilizer and pre emergent out. Trying my best the past few years to keep poa in check with fall pre. Then overseeded the past two early springs like just as the grass is barley waking up
Good tips Ryan! I'm starting on my backyard regimen this weekend. Grass has gotten a little out of control length wise, but none the less, looks healthy. Plan on putting down some fertilizer and some over seed + dirt in the coming weeks. Still waiting for the weather to cool down a bit more.
North Alabama checking in....we will hit the high 50's for lows next week with highs in the low 80's. I timed it just right. The Tttf/KBG blend germinated in about 8 days Best grass seed I've ever used.
Getting Some of your Elite Perennial Rye down here this weekend in central Iowa. Gonna water it in to make sure. Im abandoning the weeds for the fall and will make sure and keep them at bay next spring when the turf develops alittle better.
I'm in the DFW area. 4th hottest and 3rd driest Summer on record. We'll set two more records today and tomorrow. I'm doing a full lawn reno as soon as our soil temp reaches 72 degrees. I had planned on starting September 15th, but that clearly isn't going to happen. Probably 1st or 2nd week of October. Doing the whole nine yards. Removal of old "turf" (nothing more than dead weeds at this point, no grass). Scalp > scarify > dethatch > remove all debris > aerate > top dress with 2-4 inches of sandy loam topsoil > Level > seed > roll/press > roll a thin layer of peat > fertilize > water 3 times/day and pray that the work pays off. Did a soil test and determined proper fert needs. Really hoping that I'll have a nice lawn come Spring. Cultivar: Defiance XRE Tall Fescue I know, we're hotter than balls in the Summer, but I had a fescue lawn here about 20 years ago and it did fantastic, but failed due to neglect. Swinging for the fence on this one.
Got my rye trained nice and short. Been spoon feeding through summer. Now it’s time to kick it up a notch and leave my neighbors in the dust 😎 also need to do a light top dressing and overseed.. then it’s game over!
Got to over seed. WIll rake out some dead stuff mow it low. overseed with some starter fert. Hope to be done by sat. Next week looks cooler and some rain. Finally !!!
I have a project lawn we did a full renovation on. I used your fescue blend seed. For my lawn just doing the classic dethatch n aerate with a nitrogen blitz plan. I'm doing bi-weekly AMS and 2 apps of granular.
I planted my KBG here in MN at the exact same time you planted yours, not on purpose, just a happy accident. Anyway, my grass doesn't look nearly as filled out as yours does. I've been considering putting down another round of seed because I have some really bad bare spots. We had a LOT of heat this late summer/early fall and I just don't think they could germinate. Hopefully this will help going into winter so I can have a good healthy KBG lawn come Spring '24.
Normal fall routine here in PA. Dethatch, aerate, overseed, and then fertilize to hopefully get me through the winter. Always excited for this time, the heat just needs to chill out..
Hey ryan! I am a new home owner who has watched almost all of your videos and i do remember your video about the climate chart but being in georgia, i was wondering what advice you could provide. My lawn is hurting from the record heats and any tips would be amazing! I enjoy your contect and always look forward to the next!
I ordered RTF and was planning a scalp, scarify, and overseed but had to wait out this heatwave here in Connecticut. Temps just started to drop today, so I'll get out there Monday and get at it. Thanks for the work you do! One question, is leaf compost good for a top dressing?
My lawn broke my heart this year with the seed stalls. I ended up with patches of brown stalks all over my green lawn, so when it got dry again I let it go dormant. I'd rather have a brown lawn than a brown and green lawn. I also don't have to waste my time or water. I want to do some seeding and fertilizing now that it's cooler. It's still dry though and uo until a few days ago it was hot!
Hey Ryan I've been seeing a lot of videos online about Pre Germinating grass seed, especially for Kentucky Blue Grass. It's supposedly going to cut the germination time by have and some people have been getting Blue grass sprouting at about 1 week. Have you ever looked into this at all? Have you ever tried it? I look forward to hearing your response and possibly a new video on it. Thanks!
I wanted to get better quality grass in my tall fescue lawn without doing a full renovation so I killed the worst problem areas. During the hottest part of the summer I then scalped and aggressively dethatched and cut the watering way down to cause extreme stress and thin it out. Just a few days ago I aerated the hell out of it and then went down with a mix of premium Kentucky bluegrass and turf-type tall fescue. My hope is for the new seed to come up and take over before the old mutt varieties of fescue have a chance to recover. I'm hopeful since I could clearly spot the areas of my premium grass since it die off when I induced stress. Most of the stuff I hoping to choke out just kind of died off.
I went heavy on fertilizer last fall and it was looking great, but I went light in spring (thinking I beefed it up plenty last fall) and then the weather was super weird, so it's struggled the entire summer
I have aerated, dethatched, overseeded, and plan to use a Scotts Starter fertilizer. I would like to apply weed control with the starter fertilizer the same time but worried about the new seed. Suggestions helpful.
Hi Ryan. I love watch and learn more about my yard. I planted my Kentucky bluegrass at the beginning of August. Everything has come up and it looks good. I have several weeds in the area. I would like to try and do something right and take care of some. I do have some tenacity that I use during the seed stage. What would you recommend. Go Vikings
Amazing job Ryan!! I’m starting my Fall program tomorrow. Question, can we spray a weed killer in a small area after applying the fertilize? Thank you.
Just purchased your Fescue seed for fall overseeding. Had germination in 4 days. Wow good stuff! My question is when should I mow and fertilize my new grass? Thanks
Voles wrecked my plans for my yard this fall. Instead of doing a nice thorough dethatch like I had planned, I'll probably only end up doing an aeration and overseed of the dead areas.
Overseeded with GCI Cool Blue Labor Day weekend and have germination in 3 days. Temperature are in the 90’s until end of this weekend when they drop back to 70’s so I’ve been watering 5 times a day for 15 minutes a pop. Worried I went a little heavy with the peat moss in some spots though. We’ll see I guess. I applied Scott’s starter fert, low rate of propaconazole 14.3, Humic12, Air8, Sea-K, hydretain and tenacity same day as seeding. It’s been 6 days and turf is ridiculously long already. I cut it down to 2.5” day of seeding and it’s probably around 4.5” if not higher already
I’m in So. Calif. and just , today, Sept. 7th,seeded about. 300sq.ft. Area of bare dirt with GCI Cool Blue. I have some seed showing through my top cover, do you think I’ll be ok? Watering 3 times a day.
@@troutman1951 yeah as long as your keeping the seed wet you should be good everyone’s soil is different some people only need to water 3 times for 5 minutes bc they’re soil holds water well I have sandy soil and full sun and have to run my sprinklers 5 times. And seeding is the only time I’ll water later in the evening. My last sprinkler session is around 7 P.M. that way it stays wet all night. The fescue in the Cool Blue is going to germinate much faster than the KBG so keep watering even after you start seeing germination bc the KBG can take anywhere from 7-21 days but the more you keep it wet the faster it will germinate.
@@troutman1951 I will cut back on my watering a lot after this weekend once temperature drop down to 70’s as well. A little seed exposure won’t hurt. Idk if you work in the morning but I saturate the bare areas around 5:30 AM before work that way I know it won’t dry out during the hot noon hours while I’m at work. Just do your best to keep it wet.
Ryan do you have a video for a new yard with sod and the fall program you would recommend? Just laid new sod one week ago irrigation running twice a day
Just moved into a rental home in May of this year in North Carolina. Yard is chock full of crabgrass due to lack of maintenance. Fall is looking like heavy weed control and dethatch.
Moved in last Nov, and the yard was a mess. Ignored until about May due to several house issues. Regular mowing alone helped a bunch. I did do a little weed/feed late spring which also helped, however I didn't really catch anything in time for pre-emergent and so, fought weeds. Better now. I'm buying dethatcher, the lawn visibly needs that. I will have to only occasionally time any seeding with rain, because I still have not fixed the front spigot and overall ... don't like the "idea" of watering a lawn from tap water. Trying to keep it simple; the lawn is 84 years old, needs to be leveled, and moles expunged, and dug for gutter drainage. So I don't need it to be "great."
Question about overseeding. I am currently in the process of fighting a Bermuda infestation with Pylex. I followed the directions and did 2 sprays 3 weeks apart mixed with Triclopyr and CCO.The directions say not to mow within 2 days prior to spraying, so I mowed low today, going to dethatch tomorrow and spray my third and final spray of Pylex and CCO only on Sunday then lay seed. In this particular situation would you recommend dropping starter fertilizer with the seed?
I did a complete renovation last fall. The sod seems to have thinned out and even died in some spots. I’m in a transition zone (Washington DC). I has tall fescue sod placed. Do you recommend overseeing now or wait to see if some parts bounce back? Maybe just fertilizer?
Ryan,…I’m in the northeast with a KBG lawn. Had a snow mold problem last spring. Is there a height that you would recommend over-wintering the grass at to avoid/mitigate snow mold.
Been planning a full renovation on an area in the front with your elite TTF and mix in microclover. Hoping you'll post a video of how that test plot fared in the heat. I'm assuming glyphosate is a no no under the canopy of trees so I'll need to dig it out. Time to break out the good old pick axe!
If you can keep it off of exposed roots, Glyphosate is fine under trees. Just don’t do anything silly like overly high rate, heavy rain within a few hours of application, spray drift landing on tree leaves, or spraying bare ground areas and you will be fine.
It may be time for you but here in Maryland not quite there. Still in the upper 90s. Can’t even trust the weather man to make plans for fall maintenance
Hi Ryan I live in Michigan. So is this how it goes dethatchin, aerating and over seed? Should I dethatch every year? After I over seed do I need to apply fertilizer for fall?
Thanks! Before I get to my question, for background... in fall of last year I started following your cold season lawn plan (using simple lawn solutions and the other products that recommends) and followed that plan all of this calendar year. Now, this fall, I did a fairly intense top dress/leveling effort using soil+compost, and already have some growth. In the end I will have a quite well established lawn that I've built up using a "PA state mix" which is essentially a mix of rye, fescues, and KBG. My question - for ongoing dormant and fall overseeding, would it be beneficial to use a more "one type of grass" seed (I'd likely pick your bluegrass/ryegrass mix as I tend to like those more than fescue), or stick with the same "blend" I've been using for 2-3 seasons now? I'm too far along to do a full renno and rebuild all new, but considering continuing/trending towards the grass I'd likely pick if I did pick one seed? Thanks for all of your content man! So glad I found this channel... my yard this year looks better than ever by FAR!
With your lawn already being multiple types it would be hard to get it to dominate with one. Bluegrass would be one I wouldn't choose for overseeding because it's so slow to mature that the existing lawn just takes over before the new stuff can get going.
Hey there! Great content! I'm worried about doing a weed control because I just overseeded. I don't want to destroy any new growth. Can I just do some weed control in the spring? Denver area... generally we have our last snow in April. Thanks!
I have a large lawn with no irrigation. Any problems with applying fertilizer and then letting it sit there until the rains water it in? I realize it will just sit there until it rains, but I can apply fertilizer at my convenience and wouldn't have to time it to the forecast. Thanks!
Really enjoying the videos Ryan! What dethatching machine are you using at 4:15 in this video? Looks like an unpowered push type dethatcher? If so, that seems right up my alley. Thanks!
Ryan- made a lawn leveling drag like Connor ward. I was thinking of aerating after mowed Down super short. Should I leave those cores on or take them off? Thanks for all your info as always. #iowaisGodscountry
St Augustine in Cypress , Texas. Brown patches, a few barren patches. some weeds popping up in places. Still getting up to 95…would you put sand or top soil before fertilizing? Waiting for it to cool down…
