Last attempt to save this crappy lawn!! // early autumn front lawn mini renovation
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Giving the front lawn an early touch up in early Autumn to see if it can be turned around before the cold weather comes!!
Links to all products I use on my lawn- / 17850683664019609 Lawn programs- lawnsingoodnic...
Soil looks extremely dense, firm, and lifeless..needs a super deep, large tine core aerate and filled with quality soil/compost mix with maybe 10-20% course sand mixed in
Yeah keen to see how it responds and keep making plans going forward
Today is 20 March 2024 which is the Autumn equinox in Australia. From tomorrow onwards the nights become longer than the days, which means less and less sunlight hours for your lawn to recover. If you can get it fully healed before winter it will be impressive! Good luck 🥳👍
Thanks mate!!
Keen to see updates on this after a month!
Cheers mate me too! haha
Hey mate I'm pretty sure pre-emergent slows recovery time and ability to spread to bare spots.
With existing rhizomes in Kik I don't necesarily think that's true because Spartan essentially prevents new roots from shooting down
Look forward to the updates! Great vid
Cheers!
Do you have a grooming attachemnt on the mow master? i wonder if consistent like monthly grooming might help the front lawn especially in the summer times. ive heard its good to groom kik to keep it healthy and keep the thatch and runners down.
Nah I'm super keen to get a verti one day though!
Just use granular sulphur to lower the ph, not the sulphate of ammonia then you don't have to worry about burn and crazy N
Do you mean use liquid?
Kill it off and plant tall fescue? No one in aus does tall fescue
Enjoyed the vid anyway mate!
Gee that would be tough to keep alive haha
Hey being a farmer in nz when i look at you soil it looks dry, lifeless and low in carbon. Adding sand for your top dress is counterproductive as it holds no water or nutrients. Id advise making up a mix of peat moss and humate (not humic acid on its own, humate is 30% carbon so basically super compressed compost) this will hold a significant amounts of water and nutrients and will increase you soils (or dirt in you case) CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity) google this) sand has its place for leveling soil but this mix will feed you soil give the microbes a place to start. Doing this for the next 5 years will give you an easier/lower input soil that yields the results you are after. Altering you soil health is not an overnight process but in time will completely change what you are working with. You will see results after the first topdress and a core aerate.
Thank god someone said the obvious.
Appreciate you sharing your knowledge mate! My soil test came back showing that organic matter was in a healthy range so I was encouraged by that. Unfortunately had to use up some remaining sand this past week on the front lawn haha but we'll see how it tracks along and I'll look into straight humate. Cheers!
Just had to add your friendly little 2 cents Shane? haha
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Yeah mate I'm sorry it was only two cents 😂
From my background of traveling between Oz and Taiwan in two completely different industry's and my own prototype garden I was really happy to say what I did. The OG comment was on point.
When I'm in Taiwan on a strawberry farm it's all about soil biology to nth degree. When I'm in my own veggie garden here in Melbourne where you are from (blame google for hurling me your way) I do the same.
I have my own problems with kikyu on my nature strip. I have trees tapped into the soil.
Anyway Nick,
All the best
Looks like the neighbours across the road need to invest in a whipper snipper
I've thought about offering haha