How to Fix an Ugly Lawn - Killing Lawn Weeds
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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This is part one of fixing an ugly lawn full of weeds. This can be done in one day, all at the same time. Doc is getting ready to fix the ugly lawn and starting the lawn care plan.
That's my lawn!! 95% weed and 5% bermuda grass!
I had a lawn once that was virtually all clover. It was beautiful to be honest. Always succulent and lush green. Great job buddy. Really enjoying your videos. So glad to see someone who isn't over dramatic and not shouting
I’m in Georgia too I am so glad you said that, that means you understand how crazy this weather can be and middle GA grass is no joke!!!
Wanted to thank you Doc for all your videos. I started last spring and turned my 100% weed back yard, into beautiful Bermuda grass.
So, does anyone else wish that Doc was their neighbor? :-)
No. I want my lawn to be the best one 😆
this is what i'm looking for for long time, fortunately i follow your renovation video in the test patch and is working very well, plant new seeds, now i'm dealing with some weeds as i'm following your bermuda guide and no pre-emerge in the first year, so let the winter take care and put the pre-emerge next year or later november, i'm in Texas so winter gets here mid December
I finally received all the products needed through Amazon, about 550.00 ish including a cheapish backpack and spreader. We have a little rain here in Oklahoma so I am waiting until I have 2 days of no rain weather. Wish me luck!
I bought my first home and its 90 percent weeds, thank you for the information
It will be nice if you do a follow up video. showing all the product that you have use.
I'm so glad that Doc is my neighbor.
This is exactly what i needed to get my yard on track! Thanks Doc!
I thoroughly enjoyed the HD graphics
Q4 product seemed to work really well on crabgrass. I’m surprised it actually killed it, since its more of a control product and not a killer. I’ve used other products that stated control, what they did was suppressed the crabgrass which work but not as good as a product that kills. MSMA 6 Plus works awesome .
I want a single grass lawn. But, my neighbor’s lawn is Zoysia and has taken over about a third of my front lawn. The Zoysia is so thick that I can barely push my self-propelled mower through it. I think that I have lost the battle for a Bermuda lawn. My backyard Bermuda is being displaced by Fescue. Defeated!
Can you look at my ugly lawn? Your a miracle worker!
Look forward to this project. I have an area on my property that I’d like to do the same thing.
Hi Doc!!! Great series on fixing an ugly lawn. So very, very informative and instructional. However, here in Southeast Texas it is more common to have San Augustine grass instead of Bermuda. My question is whether this same procedure will work on San Augustine as opposed to Bermuda? Any insight will be GREATLY appreciated.
I am a complete newbie to Lawncare. Never really cared about my lawn before and still don't. But I would like to make it look a little better for cheap and no hassle.
I have lots of weeds, dandelions, purple things, poppyseeds etc. It's a mess. Is there a one time thing I can spray on it to get rid of most of it?
I really don't want to keep buying stuff and wasting time on it. I have a really small lawn filled with critters, insects, skunks, rabbits, etc that chew it up.
My neighbors have nice lawns and don't seem to do any annual maintenance in terms of weeds. So can you treat it once and never again to get most of them out?
Hey doc. Came across your page a. year ago and it has done wonders for my yard. Looking forward to your new project. Was wondering if you could identify the weeds as you go? Some of the grassy weeds all look the same.
Great Job... quick question did you do this during the winter or summer meaning 50' to 30 degrees or higher temperatures
Almost sounds like you created a new word. “Berbeautiful”
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I’m here awaiting your arrival to treat my monster lawn too. 🤗🤗😹
Curious if you can spread pre-emergent granules FIRST, as rain is every day, then spray for existing weeds in the next day or two? Are the pre-emergent granules affected by post emergent spray herbicide?
I sure want to see the rest of this project asap
I put my late summer pre-emergent out a few weeks too late. My lawn has a buffet of weeds half of which look like from something you see in a jungle 😅
Hey Doc. Great video as always.
Can you tell me the in order steps for this one day application. Are you going to spray first, then apply the granular PE and PGFC? I would think after spraying you wouldn’t want to walk on lawn.
Thanks
Wish you had one on St. Augustine!!!
I Agree!
Can you also link for part 2 and part 3 please? Sucks having to search through a ton of videos.
Hey Doc! Love your channel! Gotta an unusual (maybe) question... How do you recommend keeping Bermuda OUT of perimeter/flower beds?
Your lawn is INSANE!
Great video. Very educational.
That was on e high tech graphic! My mind was blown!
Same process for St. Augustine? In Dallas. Sounds like weather in GA about the same as here
Hello there DOC!! I am so excited to see a change in my lawn after going through all of the steps you have set up for me. I just finished buying all products from Amazon, but could not purchase the Q4 weed killer. Apparently , the Q4 is not able to be delivered to my address in Northeast Florida ( Yulee to be exact ). do you know why? Are the chemicals illegal to use in this area? I'd like to start treatments very soon, so was wondering if you could recommend another weed killer comparable to the Q4? Thank you in advance and I'll be sure to keep you updated on the progress of my lawn. ( I'll be taking video/pictures throughout the whole process). Can't Wait!!!
Just started watching your videos. I'm in Houston TX. My backyard is Bermuda & the weeds are coming in. BUT.... I've been putting only organic products on my lawn because I have lots of butterflies, birds, hummingbirds, etc and don't want to harm anything beneficial. I haven't looked at any of your other videos yet, so was wondering if you help people who have organic lawns? PS: this video is super helpful because my front lawn is not organic!! I know, I know, doesnt make sense, does it!!
EXCELLENT channel. Thank you so much.
How much can I build up the low spots in my lawn at a time? I am scalping this week before heavy rains hit. Want to level a bit next time we have a few clear days
So I have 90% weeds and want fescue like my neighbors. What time of the year would I do this in northern South Carolina for fescue? Still early fall?
I had trees removed in my backyard snd Kentucky bluegrass thrown down just over a year ago. The entire area is nothing but weeds. I don’t even think there’s actually grass. I’m still picking out rocks and the now dead left over roots. Help.
Thanks Doc, this series is exactly what I needed.....
With it being nearly 90 degrees, are you not worried about volatilization and killing small trees, shrubs, etc with the amount of 2-4 D in that product
Looking forward to the application video! My Bermuda need's help.👍
Everything thing is for Bermuda grass, will this work for centipede grass?
0:37 That’s an incredible yard. If I didn’t know any better I’d have said it was fake!
I just bought a house with a neglected yard is it a problem to continue mowing shortly before I spray? Or should I spray first before I give it a mow? I’m in an area where not mowing for a bit isn’t a problem other than being unsightly. Thanks!
I wish I lived next door to you Doc. I am going to hit the Pre E a little harder this fall so maybe I won't be having to fight all the POA ANNUA next spring
My front yard is Bermuda and my backyard is Zoysia. The Bermuda sod has been down for 25 years and the Zoysia sod for two years. Can your process be applied to Zoysia? All of a sudden I've had significant weeds in the Bermuda. Not sure why but I'm going to apply your process.
I have a super terrible lawn. I bought this property two years ago the house was built in 1918 it was used as a rental property for the last five years before I bought it full of weeds stickers crabgrass many different kinds of grass and on top of that I have a silver maple and a mulberry tree they’re both ugly and send up shoots and the roots from the silver maple are sticking up everywhere and it’s August help
Do u need to do a soil test? Or this treatment is assuming they have good soil
Always helps at ANYTIME... but not doing one
@@HowTowithDoc What if your yard is 100% weeds ? Just bought 3 months ago first house living on budget .... should I seed after or before feed if I follow plan?
I live in TX and have a yard that I am trying to get under control. Would you recommend doing the kill, prevent, feed now and then also putting out a pre emergent closer towards October?
This is exactly what my lawn looks like!!!
My grass looks exactly like this! Thank you for the help. I’m in Arizona. Late July temps are a high of 110-115 but next 5 days are low 80s and high is about 102. Should I treat early in the morning or is it overall too hot to be successful and should I wait till Spring?
Our Bermuda grass goes dormant around Nov and people usually overseed for winter lawn in Oct.
I have come to a cross road Doc!
If I don't get some type of water sprinkler set up. My Bermuda is guna struggle with me hand watering it.
I’m totally confused. I live in South Alabama, Foley to be exact. You just described my lawn of weeds. I have the kill product in my basket, but not sure which pre-emergent or fertilizer to use? I have no idea what grass was here but know for sure it’s not Bermuda. I’m an active senior and one day seems like a winner to me. Help.
Love your videos Doc! What's the difference between Q4 Plus Turf Herbicide and what i've heard/seen you recommend in some other videos ( 2,4-D Amine)? I live in a similar climate as you and wondering if I could use Amine to do the same thing.
Good video. I live in a transition zone farther north. With hotter summers I've thought about going to Bermuda or Zoysia, they seems to do well here now in small test patches, but neighbors on both sides have fescue/bluegrass lawns and any spreader type varieties will probably be considered "invasive". Have you had to deal with anything like that without the neighbors wanting to run you out? Lol. I dont know that a driveway will prevent spreading either.
I live in California, and my front yard is horrible. I want a beautiful yard. But I know the yard is full of weeds, and dandelions the surface dirt is hard even when it's wet. It looks hard. My question is this what can I do to get my yard to what I know it can be? I've paid gardeners and they've charged me to spray the yard with weed killer, but even with them I have the same issues. So now both my husband and have chosen to do it ourselves. Don't I need to till the yard at some time to breakup the hard packed dirt?
Thanks Doc, My yard has been an awful site this year, for the first time???
Thank you so much. Very helpful
My grass is basically dead and I have weeds. I pulled quite a bit last year and will need to pull up the rest soon. I'm in California. For my lawn to look nice and healthy, I just need to kill the weeds, put down preemergent, and soil?
It’s annoying that the Q4 plus turf herbicide, can’t be shipping to NY, unless you’re licensed
Sip your beer EVERY time he says ACKshully .. ACKshully sip it and you'll NEVER ACKshully finish the video ACKSHULLY
Shots
Love your videos! I am wondering if this will work for my backyard as I live in southern coastal NC and my builder put Bermuda grass seed in backyard but it really is nothing but weeds and maybe 10% actual Bermuda?
I'm wanting to overseed a 3 blend fine fescue lawn (flagstaff, az). what would be the best timing to apply your pre emergent treatment and be able to allow the new fescue seeds to germinate. Do you have a way to communicate on your website? Email?
Who should I buy my grass seed from? I live in NY. Should I get a Kentucky blue grass and fine fescue mix? My front lawn is full sun part of my back yard is shade. I hate buying grass seed that has weed seed in it, soooo annoying!
I just found out what carpet grass looks like and my neighbor has it creeping over to my house!
Thank you so much for your help.
Look so what should i do first toy lawn that’s screaming with weeds what bag should i put
whoaa doc! haven't seen you in a while. got the Rona beard going, nice!
If you want an ugly lawn to fix and want to expand your fanbase in Texas... I'll donate my yard to your videos.
Doc - Can't get the sprayers from Ama zon or the PGF complete to try this on my lawn. I am in Georgia and I feel like I am running out of time to perform this fix. Any other hose end sprayers you recommend?
Our front yard is usually dirt but we had an excessive amount of rain this last week in West Texas. How can I kill everything at once. I cut it all and it's all growing back
Oooh i wish you live beside me and help treating my 1000sqft 😁😁 Doc I want to do every single thing in this series the only thing that i want is to grow fescue in my back yard..this 1000sqft have a lot of shed and the sun is not enough for the Bermuda to come out..full of weeds but the Bermuda will not come out as supposed to be like your lawns that you are treating..please is there an advise or if you can make same videos on how to seed and grow fescues instead of bermuda..i live north of Atlanta..please i really need help as my back yard is awful..thanks a lot and your channel is 👍
hello doc, what if my lawn is pretty much dead. im going to kill it completely. should i then put pre emergent and reseed/lawn starter and water? thank you, im also here in north texas! thanks
I hate bermuda grass. If you want any flowers, garden beds or trees, bermuda will strangle them and you spend most of your summer fighting the toughest bermuda vines just to have something besides only grass. It also doesn't green up until the middle of May in zone 6. My question is, how in the world does one get rid of bermuda grass?
The only concern I have at the moment is if the lawn chemicals are safe for the trees in our yard and I also have a cat who roams outside/inside. We need our yard done somehow. It is has gone weed crazy.
My late husband always cut the grass as close as he could. We had fairly nice Bermuda grass to start with, but now it is probably 95% crabgrass. I have considered rocking it in, but I don't think I can afford it. 😦
great video !!
Can I do this same treatment with fescue?
Of course I’m subbing.
Imagine having temperatures in the 80s on October? It couldn’t be me! Waving from MA 👋
Help Dic- I live in Fresno CA, and my lawn is terrible- I’ve tried to remove all the goat heads but now there is bur stickers:( I paid my lawn keeper $550. To kill the weeds and plant new seed but it still terrible and I’m not throwing away more money and I’m thinking that I need to just blade the whole thing and bring in new healthy soil??? Am I overreacting? Probably but I’m desperate to have a decent lawn for my grandkids. I want them to be able to run and play without getting stickers in their feet! What should I do with this? Can I rent some kind of machine with a mini blade in it so I can remove the top few inches of crap and haul it off and bring in healthy top soil and then level and seed? Please HELP😬
Love the videos, they're always very informative. I have to say though, when ever you're doing your little descriptive chat at the beginning my eyes always get drawn to that umbrella in the top right. I can't imagine why ;^))
Can I use this method and these products on Zoysia? My lawn is 3 acres of Zoysia and 80% weeds like your neighbor. I'm in South Carolina. I do have sprinkler system, but also getting large bare spots. Thanks for your help. Love your video
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Same question as b4 will this work on St Augastine and in Florida ??
My front lawn is mostly common bermuda but it has some patches of Tiff bermuda.....it does not look even, looks bad, specially when cut short...what should I do?
Can you do something similar with a fescue yard? I live in NC. Also, is this safe for pets?
So do you own the property or since they bought it does it belong to them? I am in a similar situation next door for about 5’x300’
Hi Doc great video. I’m in the Midwest do I use the same products for my lawn which I assume is bluegrass?
I have a horrible lawn, but I also have a huge tree that has surface roots . I don’t want to cut the tree down. So how do I put grass to cover the roots. My yard looks worse than your yard
Doc - I’m new to your channel. What height should we be cutting our Bermuda lawn? We’re relatively new to Bermuda grass having lived in a home with a zoysia lawn.
Man Doc I have pretty dam ugly lawn for you to help me with!!!
Question:
We bought this house last year and for the life of me, cant get the grass to look good.
I want to try Ur method. My question is, I am in the Florida Panhandle. They consider us "the ice box" of Florida because it does get cold here and has started to at night, some. Is it to late to go ahead and do this? Or should I try to tackle this in the Spring?
2nd question, I am sure this house had sod at some point but the house is now 20 yrs old and I'm pretty sure the grass is just a mutt mix of types of grass. We have some long grass that has weird tendrils but deep down, I think there is some pretty Bermuda left (in small random patches). Will this method remove everything else besides the Bermuda? Or should I go back and watch the vids on the test patch and do that on my yard? Thanks for answering my questions. Sorry for the long post.
Doc, question for you. I live in central Texas where we are in a drought. We’ve had 1 system come through where we got about 1” of rain but besides that we’ve had NO rain in probably 2 months. 100 degrees every day and no rain. How tall would you keep Bermuda in this? I don’t have to mow often, but when I do it’s at 3”. It looks great considering we are on water restriction as well.
Sprinkler system fam I’ live in Dallas and I’m in the same boat.
3 Inch Minimum ... I am texas too ... I used to mow 2 inch ... it paves way for weeds for texas weather .... 3 is min ....
Well... 2.5 to 3" is about the max for Bermuda really. Just keep returning the clippings and water when you can. Hopefully you'll get some.
I moved to a house with about 175ksq ft.of Bermuda it was not well cared for. I want to start a routine to get this yard in shape. With this size I'm not sure where to even start. My previous yard took 30 min push mowing, so this one is overwhelming as in what to do. Any ideas?
Hey Doc, new to your channel. If you have Bermuda until it goes dormant, what seed if any would one put for the winter? Or just deal with dormant Bermuda? Thanks!
Thanks
Doc, your opinion on tenacity weed killer? I live in New Jersey and my yard would take top prize for ugly. I have so many different types of grass/weeds I’m thinking a good fire would help.
Hey Doc! Just subscribed about a month ago. I removed my old lawn, tilled and dragged. I had put down weed killer in january and insecticide in mid feb. I seeded on 5/1. I also put down 10-10-10 . Lots of water and lots of sunshine and the grass is growing great, but now I've got plenty of weeds as well: ( When would it be safe to put herbicide down? I really don't want to kill off the new grass. And what type of treatment would you recommend? Location: SE GA
Hi, is this pet friendly?? We put down sod about 4 months ago and it was beautiful.. now crab grass and many other weeds have taken over it’s sad 😩
Can you tell an effective way to remove all the butter cups in my yard. Please don't tell to pull them out one by one because it's more than what I can. So can you suggest the best weed killer that is less harmful to humans.........
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