What Is Top Dressing and What Should You Use??
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- So there is an almost infinite amount of content out there on top dressing a lawn. However, not a lot of it is specific to the actual suggestions for top dressing material and particle size. There is also a lot of varying information in terms of what you should top dress with. In this video, I try and summarize some of the ways in which people top dress their lawn, as well as how it can actually serve as a beneficial cultural practice for managing short cut turfgrass.
The best medium for top dressing both for leveling as well as maintenance is sand, and, more specifically, sand that contains the vast majority of its particles in the medium size. This is one of the primary downfalls of using mason sand is that it has a lot of smaller particles. While this is likely not going to cause you any severe problems, it can limit the space available in clay soils to be able to hold water, air, and nutrients.
Please let me know what questions you have in the comments below and I will continue to do my best to learn how to properly maintain sports turf and relay as much of that information as I can onto all of you. Thank you so much for watching.
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Great stuff, thank you for making these videos. I have a little more challenging situation with my lawn. I have too many bare spots, and nothing grows even with a lot of watering. The lawn maintenance told me to apply sand… is this something going to help removing bare spots?
Where roughly are you located and do you know what grass type? Bermuda and bent will spread faster with sand, but cool season it won't really.make a difference.
@@JasonSeiberlich thank you for your response. I am located in north of Atlanta, and the grass type is Bermuda.
With bermuda you have all of the options available to you. Plugging will be a great option too. Top dress lightly as often as you're able to, plug from the good areas, and fertilize the pajamas out of it. Like a pound plus of N a month type stuff until it fills in then you're good and can back way off.
Having a hard time finding sand for my golf green project here in Kentucky.
Whatever you can find that has the least fine material and relatively consistent particle size. Doesn't have to be perfect.
@@JasonSeiberlich got the right kinda sand. Sadly 6 bags wasn’t enough…. Lowes might have to make a big delivery. Again thanks for all the help
Good shit bro, iv been trying to step my lawn game up for years, I like your videos on the putting green prep
Thank you very much. Get after it.
I done the same a few weeks ago but I used a pro pluger and just brushed sand in was a lot quicker the the auger bit I used last year
Nice. Another good option.
Holy! I feel like I just got educated.... Lol. Nice!
Love to hear it.
Looks great! How often do you plan to do this process?
The holes I don't plan on ever doing again. Will just be top dressing from here on out.
Where do you get your reel mower sharpened? I just acquired an old greens mower.
Nearest golf dealer for the specific manufacturer. Struck out on courses I called and gave up. Servicing these things is big money, so just be prepared for that. Grind alone can be $200+.
@@JasonSeiberlich That's what I am finding out, it's been hard to find one in WI without driving 2+hrs.
Yea it's not ideal.
Are you doing bentgrass on the new fairway areas?
Yes. 007 and flagstick everywhere golf will be played.
@@JasonSeiberlich have you found a place where you can buy less than like 25 lbs of seed?
United Seeds.
What should I use for a root zone?
Your existing yard. I didn't do anything to change root zone at all and works just fine. If you desperately want to spend the time and money, then an 80/20 sand and soil/peat mix up to 18 inches deep. Would highly recommend not doing that, though as it's entirely unnecessary.
Your information doesn't adhere to USGA root mix specs. Peat is an important component to the mix. You're drill way to deep for top dressing. Your practice is why your green has a weak seed germination and spotty results.
Good thing this isn't root zone. This is top dressing. In the video is literally the spec sheet for USGA top dressing sand. And, in hindsight, I wish I drilled down closer to 12-18 inches.
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Hi, I have been watching your videos and see that this is not easy. I have adquired a Toro true greens mower. I recently selected an area in my yard for my putting green. I cut it down low, but of course it's still thick and not the right grass so it is far from where I want to be. I am assuming from your videos that at this point I need to get the sand going. I did buy a little aerator that can do a couple plugs at a time. It will be a long process. Should I just do the sand first or should I be aerating also? I have ordered some creeping bent grass, but it has not arrived and not sure when it will. Am I wasting my time working with this grass now? or will I be able to overseed later? To use the bent grass, should I be taking the grass I have now to the dirt level and prepare to start over? I am very much a novice and am looking for some direction on what I should I do first to get started.
Love to hear that you're just starting to get stuff and do things. Don't let the paralysis of every task you could do bog you down. Just pick a height on the toro. Maybe 3/8" or so and start mowing there and see what happens. Start top dressing with sand to get the surface as smooth as possible. If and when you decide to go with bent from seed, then yes I would say at that time mow down to dirt and seed. Don't get in too much of a hurry. Take little bites. See what you learn, what works, what doesn't, and just slowly improve over time.
@@JasonSeiberlich s.o practice on what I got until I'm ready for the big leagues :D I will eventually add a sand trap
Yea honestly the best advice I ca give people is to just do stuff and experiment and see what works and what doesn't in your particular situation. Just about everything you could mess up is fixable.
@@JasonSeiberlich I am working on finding the right sand in my area. Definitely not as easy as I thought. Would you recommend using play sand? I can get masonry sand, but I think you mentioned not the best choice.
I personally would do masonry over play.