Fall and Winter Lawns - Adding Carbon to Lawn Soils
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Doc talks about adding carbon to soils in the fall and winter.
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in the late fall and winter we can start improving our lawn soils. The first step is a good quality soil test. next we can add carbon via HUMICHAR and make adjustments to our lawn soil PH. The best time to adjust the lawn PH is in the winter months. Adding carbon to the lawn all winter will get the soil ready for the spring and allow us to use less fertilizer.
I am using pgf complete and just started superjuice 2 weeks ago. The difference is a healthy green lawn Love it - thanks Doc!
What how often are you applying each please
@@Hondasonatta My lawn in Texas is a beautiful dark green, and it keeps getting thicker. I put down Humichar once per month (4+ lbs per 1,000 sq. ft.). I put down a light coat of PGF Complete once per month, as long as the temperature will be 80+ for the next 2 weeks (3.6 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft.). I use the Super Juice as needed when I feel like the lawn isn't as dark green as it should be, which isn't too often.
Hi Doc,
Put my HumiChar down last week for the first time. I’m driving my husband crazy because I’m ordering all of these products for the lawn and watching your UA-cam channel. Working great on cool season grass!
But he is impressed with how the lawn now looks now after two applications of pgf complete. He’s all in now!
Thanks!
Glad you got him trained finally
I live on the coast and also have to deal with the challenges of sandy soil so can’t wait to see your future updates. Keep up the great work! I’m going to go put some more Humichar down now.
I found your UA-cam Channel in late May 2020 as I sat on my front porch having my morning coffee, and wondering why my yard look so bad. So I called my lawn care company and fired them. I then ordered a McLane 25” mower, super juice, Humichar, and PGF Complete. I have been putting Humichar down ever two weeks, PGF Complete every month, and super juice every month. The transformation was almost instantaneous. I have the shortest and greenest grass in the neighborhood. Then the cooler temperature hit northwest Georgia and my grass started turning yellow. The I received my shipment of PGF Balance, put Humichar, and PGF Balance down just before we had a rain storm Monday night and Tuesday, my yard is back to being as green as it was in July. I am a hard person to impress, but these products are amazing!!! I am so glade I found your UA-cam Channel.
Sorry you have to live amongst mortals still.... you are a lawn God.
Hi Doc. I put down my first bag of Biochar on my new lawn the end of August. The sod was put down at the end of March. I have been using PFG Complete with Humid acid all summer. Lawn looks great and I have received many compliments. I will be taking a soil test soon. Our soil is not the best in the area and I plan on continually to treat with BioChar. Hopefully over the seasons, the soil will improve.
Yep I have now realised I could wing it without a soil test. But, so much of my seed come up thick and green. And then other spots are patchy in other areas.
Some areas in my backyard are really dark soil and some is dried up clay soil.
I Gotta stop and do a soil test, and rent a aerator. Time for me to find some of this humichar too. And do it right.
Thx Doc! Always helpful.
DOC, FOLLOWING YOUR ADVICE REFERENCE HUMICHAR, MY COOL SEASON GRASS HAS NEVER LOOKED BETTER, INCLUDING TWO SOIL TESTS !
Looking forward to see your new project.
👍 I like that surgery analogy 👍
You've convinced me to do a soil test. Doing this stuff during the winter makes a lot of sense. I'm guessing it will take a good amount of rain to work the lime or sulfur into the soil.
Zoysia in the front keen to see 👍👍
Thanks, Doc! Great video as always!! I've been following your videos and tips, and my yard has already progressed a ton! Next year will be the year it all comes together!!
But, I have a question about sending the soil test; what type of container do you put the soil in? I've seen plastic bags or containers, etc.
Looking to do this this weekend ahead!
Hi Doc love your videos. Do you recommend using Humichar on New York Long Island lawn?
Congratulations on the new home DOC!!!
Please do a centipede grass for the backyard!!! That's all I have for my front and back here in North Carolina, and I want to follow you and what you do to maintain a healthy centipede yard! Looking forward to more content! Keep it up!
great stuff Doc!
I have a question that I hope someone can answer. What is the difference between humichar and humic DG? Are they the same or does humic DG just have more humic acid. It's difficult to find what the difference is. Currently I'm using the humic DG. What additional benefits does humichar provide? As a reference I'm in PA and using this on tall fescue along with pgf complete. A lot of this lawn care stuff gets very confusing for first timers like myself. Thanks in advance.
Doc have you watched the documentary on Netflix called kiss the ground talks bout soil carbon and microbes.all those things your teach us in your videos think you would enjoy it..thanks doc for what you do
How about Trinity Zoysia at the beach house? What are your thoughts about this newer dwarf grass?
Doc absolutely love your channel and the info that you provide for us. But I have a dumb question, I have heard you mention Humichar and Biochar, and I am confused as to if they are different products, Or are they one in the same? Thank you in advance !!!!!!!
Off topic question, but I have a bad mole problem and can't seem to get rid of them. I don't have any grubs in my yard, and recently did an army worm treatment. Any suggestions Doc?
Hey Doc. What about St Augustine grass for the beach lawn?
Hey Doc, what's the difference bw the Clemson and UGA soil analysis?
Bunker to the left of the putting green would be good👍
How do I prevent these dang wild onion weeds! Put my pre-emergent down but already starting to get these dang things!
The Barricade/prodiamine is working for me in Texas. I put it down at the heavy rate (7.2 lbs per 1,000 sq. ft.). I split it up into two treatments and I put them down with a few weeks of time in between. I missed a couple spots at the edge of my lawn, but I just pull the weed and sprinkle some more prodiamine on top of the spot by hand. Good luck
I have the same problem. I put a heavy coat of pre-emergent 8 weeks back and they are still popping up everywhere. Maybe the liquid pre-emergent is the key?
When I was stationed in Virginia , I added lime to get rid on onions.
I’m in lower Michigan. Are there any products you recommend for us? Thanks!
Hey Doc I have a question can you pressure wash away fresh stain and or paint from a fence
What's the recommended lbs per thousand sqft should you put to maximize GA clay soil with humichar? I'm on the fence right now on buying this product.. but how many bags should I get per 1000 sqft?
Low rate is 1 lbs. / 1,000 sq. ft. Medium rate is 2 lbs. / 1,000 sq. ft. High rate is 4 lbs. / 1,000 sq. ft. I do the high rate once per month, you really can't overdo it with Humichar. It's a long term investment that will help reduce the need for fertilizer and irrigation.
Great video, can I plant Bermuda seeds at any time?
www.bermudalawnguide.com/ late spring
Doc, can you do a video with step by step on how to get a soil test done?
Thanks Doc
Did you do a test plot . To show what Humichar does to the grass vs. no Humichar.
Would you expect your soil test results to change much Oct vs May? Assuming you apply nothing in winter but preemergent.
Why not seashore paspalum?
Dose the Andersons HumiChar Organic Soil Builder with Humic Acid and Biochar, come in a smaller bag 25ibs??? 40 lbs.
Doc, what would you advise for a bermuda lawn in north texas that is overtaken by king ranch bluestem? I hate these weeds, nothing but roundup seems to kill them. my soil is heavily clay based.
So, I have a decent layer of too soil. But it gets sandy real quick (Long Island). When I do my soil test, should I concentrate on the first couple inches of depth? Or should I see what’s up with the sandy part too?
Can you show us how to do a soil sample? I’ve never done that before and I don’t know where to send it. I’m in Michigan and I have clay with KBG, Ryegrass and fescue
Click the link to Clemson University soil test or search it. Cost me $15. They send you what you need and instructions. Very simple.
Since you are in Georgia why use Clemson instead of UGA?
Same questions Go bulldogs
He likes how they give the results
I got a soil test done through UGA and the analysis did not include testing for as many types of nutrients as the Clemson one does. This might be why he recommends Clemson over UGA.
1) only ONE simple page to fill out vs lots of paperwork with UGA.. 2) They test for CEC levels and UGA does not.
If it breaks down like you show in the water bottle, what prevents it from being leached through the root zone?
Hi Doc, I live in southern Ontario Canada. I bought Scott's fertilizer for fall. When I opened the bag it's no longer granular but flecks they just run out of the spreader. I don't know what to do. My lawn this year has so much crab grass, creeping charlie weeds, and other stuff. and clover too. I spray or get on my hand and knees to put. My neighbours have given up doing anything with their lawn but I refuse. 3 days after putting the fertilizer down on my lawn we got a rain storm I figured it would go in the grass...it flowed out with the water. Nothing went in the grass and in some areas it never desolved. It's cramp. I want a green lawn, thick, no weeds or crab grass. Can you please help me. Before my grass looks like everyones on the street.
when you do the lime and carbon in fall or winter, how will you water your lawn? because it may has been blown out at that time.
Doc, how do I get rid of Buffalo Grass that is mixed in with the Bermuda? Is it too late in the season to do anything about it?
We do a lot of hydro seeding would you recommend humichar with this application?
Ok so does this mean the company level lawns that leveled out my lawn early this summer was a bad idea? being that they use 100% sand and not a 50/50 to level out my turf? Will this make my existing soil worse to hold in nutrients from turning it from clay base to a sandy soil? 6:42
Only after the miscommunication I was told they only use sand not a 50/50 of organic matter and sand to level. work was already half way done by the time I woke up 6am in the morning.
Leveling with plain sand is fine.
@@HowTowithDoc cool beans Thank you for the information. perfect
How often do you put the humichar down please?
Come to Texas... welcome to Limestone and rocky clay soil.
Can you apply iron to bermuda lawn in october? Located in south carolina
Link that hat!!! I want one!
I buy one of your off complete can I put it down in the fall to winter if yes how often can I put it down
I was just going to say...Zeon Zoysia for your Beach House!
Doc, I live Pa. and am wondering what the difference is between Humichar and Milorganite and is there a benefit to using both but at different times of the year. Thanks.
Milo is a fertilizer made from sewage waste. Humichar is biochar. No nutrients.
When I take my soil samples should I add some of the sprigs of grass so that they will know what type of grass that I have?
You should be going deeper than that for your sample.
Also, the soil test results are just about the chemical makeup of the soil. What type of grass you have doesn’t matter.
I know the beach house you bought, we vacation once a year in the same area. Looking forward to seeing what you do to the yard.
Thanks doc 🤘any juice for first comment?
How do I get my hands on HUMICHAR in Australia?!?!?!
Jase Simounds Here in Tassie, the closest thing we have is Hal’s Biochar. It comes in 10 litre bags and I use it with Seamungus -which is a soil conditioner fertiliser that has seaweed, fish, humid acid, and manure; it’s pelletised. Just Google’em to get a good understanding.
How often and how many lbs/1000 sq Ft each time should HumiChar be applied?
I'm putting down one 40 lb bag each time I treat. about 17,000 square feet. There really is "limit" since it contains no nutrients.
Speaking of emails doc. I did not get an email for this video
Why don’t you put down gravel and not worry about grass and paying someone to cut your grass at your beach house?
Doc loves working outside on turf grasses. It's a labor of love for him, and for me. It's also a great opportunity to create more content and to help folks that don't have bermudagrass.
centipede sucks, seashore paspalum or St. Aug.
Centipede looks good if the owner knows what they are doing. I feel that it's the most challenging though, no doubt. Your other recommendations are still good though.
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