I hope he can enjoy his fame before the Non Hodgkins Lymphoma shows up from dousing Mother Earth with chemicals and fertilizers and killing the protectors and pollinators of the environment. Only a matter of time. Who wants a sterile boring lawn anyway? Plant a pollinator garden with no chemicals whatsoever. Help save the environment! SUSTAINABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your Lawn Ginja will end up with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma as many do who who use fertilizers and pesticides. Pollinators are responsible for flowers nuts berries melons beer coffee and so much more. Without them none of those things would be possible. Mostly there are intricate inter-dependences in nature - over 450 varieties of insects live off milkweed, including Monarchs but Monarchs are threatened because of pesticide runoff. Bees are dying off too. Stop using pesticides. NOW. Plan a pollinator lawn over the winter and watch beautiful birds and butterflies come to your yard for sustenance and nourishment and survival itself. The world is on fire from human abuse and it begins with you. Save the pollinators. They create beauty on earth. A pollinator garden full of flowers is trouble free and you can be sung to by the birds and the bees who come. Eat organic too, becuase do you really want the same chemicals in your bloodstream that are killing off the pollinators who are responsible for most of the delightful beauty on earth? Read up on a pollinator garden. Its soooo much more beautuiful and interesting then a sterile lawn soaked in poison.
Hi, so w etc?hat was your next step after the lawn was all brown and dead. Did you need to remove all of the old dead grass, or did you just top it with soil then fert & seed
Couldn't stand mixture of grass and weeds in my lawn so I killed it off my mowing short, detaching several times and stopped watering. My lawn was very bumpy, like off roading with my mower lol. I now have a hard dirt backyard. Should I use a roto tiller to break it up or just try to level with fresh dirt/soil?
me personally i do. few things. we are very low in nitrogen in my area. I'd rather do a heavy dose few weeks before than a light dose at the moment. secondly it takes a month or more for most phosphorus to be plant available from the time you put it down. so ideally you want phos down much sooner. hope that helps clarify.
I used meso when I seeded and now I have grass and weeds growing its been about a month and a half since I planted when can I used weed killer again without hurting my grass and what would you recommend? Thanks brother I appreciate you and cant wait for the next video
I’m excited for this series. I’ve been contemplating nuking my lawn and starting over. Mine was hydroseeded when we moved in, no doubt it was a “cost effective”’seed used, builder grade
Contemplating doing the same damn thing. The toolshed that lived in my house before laid Bermuda sod, which is fine because I love my Bermuda. Problem is, somehow I got a bunch of fescue patches and the lawn was not leveled worth a shit. Ready to nuke this mother, adjust a few sprinkler locations, and reseed. .
I did this to my front lawn. I had some landscapers fescue 'mix' and hated it.. so I smoked it and bought myself some zoysia and now I have a zoysia front lawn -- and love it.
Hey Ginja, My lawn is mixed with different grass type. I want to do a full reno but I just don't have enough time and manpower to do that all by myself. Would it still work if I sculpt my lawn really low, topdress, and seed 100% KBG, without smoking grass with Glyphosate? 🥴
I want to do something similar to what you intend to do. I do have a lot of weeds different grasses though so would have to use a garden strimmer, sweep it then kill all that weed with weed control fabric or newspaper/cardboard topped with mulch compost. I only discovered about this last method through UA-cam
I recently got a new garden, new turf and decking in my back garden. Not even 2 weeks has past since they finished and in 2 areas grass is coming through the decking. We paid £3500 for 2 days work. He was supposed to put something under all the decking to stop the grass from growing. Any advice to kill the grass without removing the decking panels ?
Hey Ginja, I'm planning to do a kill-off to change my current blend of KBG, Fescue, and Rye to something premium quality, like a TTT Fescue or the Barenburgh Rye. Question: My current lawn has a big time thatch problem. In most places, I cannot see or feel soil and it's spongy. I'm having a hard time understanding how I'll get sufficient seed to soil contact by scalping and power raking and then killing it off. Do I need to somehow remove the sod? Will aerating do the trick? Or my scarifier? I'm always hesitant to aerate because of bringing weed seeds to the surface.
I've had decent luck using the scarifier in these instances where you have more actuall thatch then debris. it takes me going over the lawn half dozen times or more to remove a sufficient amount. i completely agree with you removing it is a must and you must have seed to soil contact.
Question on your flowzone nozzle. Is that the 1.0 gpm head that you had made up custom or were you using the adjustable cone nozzle that comes with the sprayer?
Hey, I live just a couple towns over I am in a rental that the front yard is terrible. The back yard is even worse. I want to work on the front first. Between the weeds and the bumpy lawn I think starting over is best. But should we start now. (Oct in Utah for anyone reading this later) or should we wait till spring. The weeds in the front are the typical weeds and mellow. The back had 3 foot tall pig weeds everywhere
fall is always best to start but in utah its really late summer. octobers can be doable but very tricky due to the decline in weather. spring is doable but also tough. I would start here in 2 weeks by putting the first roundup treatment and tenacity. then week after just roundup. the week after that tenacity and seed.
How do you fix that melt out? I think I have cheap sod new construction house, no clue what type of sod was put down) that is super prone to disease. I treat for it but it seems like the lawn always has a fungus or disease. I’m thinking I smoke it and start over, but if I can fix it I’d rather try that first.
I ordered Tenacity to put down a few hours after the lawn was seeded. But I received Torocity. I've looked online and I see different things written about the effectiveness of Torocity. What are your thoughts? Is Torocity just as effective as Tenacity?
Never tried it. I've used a few generics and I'm sure there's some slight differences but I didn't notice an overwhelming amount of difference in efficacy
about to go for round 2 of my kill. About 15% of the grass didn’t want to die!!! My question is should I scalp it now ( I skipped that step round1)then spray?
Still present. Personally think it has more to do with the soil deficiencies of iron and potassium than the grass itself. The weird shape that looked like a racetrack is gone 😄 so that’s a plus. That was a grass issue as I figured it was
Dude.... I melted out ALL YEAR last year, and with all the rain we have had here in KC, I just can't get it to stop this year. :( I literally do EVERYTHING correctly.... Any suggestions?! Should I mow it shorter? (Tall fescue/bluegrass mix
mowing shorter may make it worse. get that watering dialed in. preventive fungicides like heritage work really well. may need to bump up your potassium as well
We have had rain every day for the past 13 days. It's off an on, and the sun comes out for juuuuust enough time to sprout mushrooms and fungus all over the neighborhood... We all have great lawns around here.... But the fungus issues is like a cancer spreading EVERYWHERE :( I have heritage applied :)
hi i was wondering the tenacity that you use is banned in california i was wondering if this product the same as what you are using Syngenta 46256 Tenacity 8oz Herbicide, Clear
Ginja, I'm in Northern Colorado and my front yard is about 50% alive from fungus or grubs or snow mold or something... is it too late to start this process? I have Kentucky Blue Grass too. When did you start? Do I have enough growing season left? And when would I see a nice lawn again? I am trying to decide if I should nurse what I have or start over.
A great video. I did our small back lawn in early June, I then scarified it once the grass was brown and over seeded it with fine fescue and highland bent. It is starting to come through now, will be doing the big garden in August. I’ve watched a good few of your videos and they are great. Hello from Lancashire, England 👍🏼
After killing the grass what do you do with the all the dead material? Does it have to be removed before seeding ? I imagine a Bermuda yard would be a pain to remove that material just with the nature of it
I'm interested in doing this to my front lawn. Would you recommend I do it in the fall. I have cool season grass and would like to change from perennial rye to Kentucky blue grass.
fall time is definitely best for KBG. be very picky on your kbg variety. tons of cheap seed out there that low health, poor color but germinates lightning fast.
My parents live in rural North Central Illinois which is somewhat similar to rural Indiana. If you have high water bill rates like my parents had the last few years you don't want a thirsty grass like bluegrass. If you have clean well water without a lot of sediment I favor the Bluegrass cuz it's so dense and if you can get the color right. Where I reside now I lost the vote to habe "Midnight" Kentucky Bluegrass seated from scratch which is very fungus resistant and wiped out last Summer's lawn with a summer patch fungus. Because time was of the essence cuz she was sick dirt some crap Fescue was installed by way of sod which probably won't last another four years like the other soddings she's put on the lawn in the past. Or you could plant Meadow Fescue and have animals cut your grass. It has a high palatability rating and it doesn't look too bad if you don't want to care what the grass looks like it certainly looks better than Tall Fescue. Or go with Creeping Bent if you want to practice your putting game.
What day of the year did you begin killing and what day were you able to plant your seed? It's been a crazy Spring weather in Utah cycling between hot and cold. My seeding this Spring has had mixed results. Hope you had great success!
I planted 6 days ago. Started this process about a month ago. Should have started two months ago but as you said the weather has been nuts this season. Late summer is always the best choice
@@pestandlawnginja do you think you have enough time before the July heat for the grass to take? I have a few dead spots I'm thinking of trying to seed but have been afraid I'm too late. Up in Murray.
@Evelyn Taylor you're right about the weird cycle in Utah this year. Parts of my lawn are still coming out of dormancy. Usually it's green as can be by the end of April.
@@pestandlawnginja I agree my fall seeding was so much easier than this spring. I got fooled by the warm start and planted April 1st. Hand watered for nearly a month. Much of the seed didn't germinate. What did is still mainly stunted at a half inch or so and thin possibly due to overwatering. Luckily, the biggest most important area did well. Any advice on how to get these other thin wisps of grass to take off? And since they won't on their own be able to fill in the lawn, what advice do you have to stimulate the surrounding grass to fill in faster? Extra fert, humic/kelp and mowing or is there nothing really that can be done to accelerate lateral growth? I'm tempted to follow some UA-camrs advice and pound it monthly with .75 lbs of nitrogen but I believe you'd advise against doing that.
@@Indylimburg Me and my neighbors feel your pain. I had such hopes of getting my lawn right before the crushing heat. Fear that window of grass nirvana will never appear this Spring before the sun starts frying my lawn.
I was going to waste my lawn this year. When is best time to start over? Obviously being June too late to start in early spring. I am confused as to why you put in fertilizer before then throwing down the eraser kill it all stuff.
late summer is best to start this process. as for the fertilizer our ground temps here were cold and the grass wasn't growing enough to take it all in properly.
What type of grass are you going to reseed with? I’m doing an renovation this fall here in Pa and I’m on the fence with what I’m going to plant. Good luck and great videos.
Alright so Im a straight up noob to this. Im currently trying to plan my spring backyard plan. My backyard is nothing but dirt and weeds. I get how to aerate, fertilize, and seed. My question to you is whats the best pet friendly products to use. I noticed your doggo in the video! Haha
I had nothing but crab grass, weeds, and other random unwanted grasses. My lot is too big to SOD die to cost and going to do hydroseed. Yard was just graded but thinking about applying lawn and weed killer then get my soil up to par with the grass I plan on having hydroseeded. Any recommendations on what I can do to help my grass grow and avoid weeds. I understand it's natural especially with seed to expect some weeds but I want to limit to most I can
If I live in Arizona where we are already into 100 degree days, and have bluegrass in my front (unaware of the specific bluegrass) and perennial rye in my backyard, what time of year would your recommend something like this? My backyard is all kinds of weeds, unhealthy lawn, and I feel the need to start fresh.
Ran into another lawn issue in my overseeing! I know your not supposed to do it it in spring but it’s been coming in well just recently noticed I think I’m overwatering? Slightly yellow on some of the blades so I’m gonna dial it back and give it a few more days to grow in before I go for the first mow!
@@pestandlawnginja yup! Also wanted to say your advice in a video a while back of treat your lawn in sections has been a great help, have noticed some areas need less some need more very great tip
Great video as always......question.....speaking of melting out, is an 0-0-60 fert good for preventing it? Can it harm or burn the lawn? At what rate would you put it it down? Thanks in advance.....:)
that would be straight potassium. be sure you get a soil test and understand if your lawn is deficient before using said product. then follow the guidelines of the soil test. i recommend mysoil
How quickly do you plan on getting a relatively thick lawn back? I have 3k square feet of dug up dirt right now and debating sod vs reseeding. But it’s almost June and I have little kids so thinking sod
Can you reapply a pre-emergent to the top soil to ensure there’s no junk rhizomes in it that might pop up later? I had this issue with topsoil I put down last year that had a lot of junk sprout out of it.
@Pest and Lawn Ginja so when seeding/over seeding a cool season turf, you use Tenacity to control weeds while your seeds germinate. Is there something similar to Tenacity that can be applied when seeding/over seeding warm season turf (Bermuda)?
Wish I had the money and time to smoke my 7600 sq feet. Neighbors poa has spread into my back lawn, drives me crazy. Cold season grass here. Any suggestions besides a new back yard? Lol
Ginja, I just bought one of these Flow Zone backpack sprayers and I'm super excited to start using it. I've already done one round of weed and grass killer on the law about a week ago, but definitely need another round and using the Flow Zone will make my life a lot easier. Only thing that makes me nervous is I've seen people say putting the Eraser into your good backpack sprayer isn't a good idea and you should have a separate sprayer just for this chemical. Reason seems to be that it's hard to ensure all of the chemical is out of the sprayer when you go to use another chemical like a fertilizer. How are you ensuring that all of the Eraser is out of the sprayer so that this doesn't happen?
I really want to start over with a section of lawn but hesitant to use glyphosate. I might try it carefully and just remove as much as possible after its dead, followed by lots of water and some topsoil.
its got a lot of publicity behind it. assuming you use the right personal protective equipment my opinion is its no worse than any other herbicide on the market.
Do you ever deal with Cheat Grass? It's all over Idaho and the wind can blow it in. I've been pulling it out of the my lawn, but I would love to spray something that will kill it.
I am just about to do this as well. However I was going to re sod after. I have 3 types of grass growing. The Johnson grass is taking over and I want to kill it all off. I am using kills all. Then after it’s all dead I was going to rent a skid steer and rip it all out. Then top soil and re-sod.
I am located in SLC, and I can’t find where you sourced your seed from. I am planning this project for this fall, and want to do it right! Any other suggestions? Heck, I’d even be willing to have you come and record a video or two if you think it would be worth it!
@@pestandlawnginja I also laugh at the $2 billion settlement on glyphosate as of two days ago: Plaintiffs Object to Roundup Settlement Federal Court Considers Preliminary Approval of Roundup Cancer Settlement "Bayer AG's attempts to move a Roundup settlement across the finish line in a federal court met with resistance this week as attorneys representing cancer victims objected to the proposed $2 billion glyphosate settlement on a number of fronts. At the beginning of February, Bayer announced it had reached a $2 billion settlement resolving outstanding legal issues related to the herbicides glyphosate and dicamba. During a hearing before the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California on Wednesday, attorneys for several plaintiffs involved in the class action suit objected to details of the plan and called for the court to reject it. The court is considering a preliminary approval of the settlement. One provision would allow Bayer to continue to sell Roundup. The settlement also would require healthy people who have already been exposed to Roundup to relinquish their right to sue if they are later diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Attorneys for the plaintiff also objected to a provision that would limit legal options for people exposed to glyphosate who later become sick. During a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria expressed concern about limiting future Roundup claims. "The concept that you're covered if you're exposed prior to a certain day and not covered if you're exposed after a certain day, usually that's used if a company has decided to take a product off the market or slap a warning label on it," he said.
With our short window of time you are probably going to want to start killing it in late summer. I plan to do the same and leveling. North of Seattle here.
Would you recommend using a tiller or dethatcher after killing an existing lawn? My plan is to kill the lawn, either dethatch/till the yard, and add/level with soil. I've never used a tiller, so I'm not sure which would be best/easier to get the dead grass up.
if I were to do this how long does kids and pets need to be off the dead grass? I plan on doing this to my back yard after watching because I know I won't be happy with the old grass mixed in my new stuff I have on order
@@pestandlawnginja I'm confused by response a bit glad i had one are you saying you attempted to keep kids and dogs off the area you killed with eraser? or do you already have it growing back in and they were trampling in your new seeded yard I just need to know how long to keep pets and kids off the glyphosate I rewatched video and I do believe you said 72 hours for active ingredient in eraser
@@pestandlawnginja I already have tenacity and waiting for my sunjoe to arrive on July 13th and going to kill lawn and use scarifier to till up whole back and bring in new soil level and tenacity and seed soon as my ground Temps hit 65degrees and then put a layer of peatmoss over to help protect it I'm new to yard game just bought house last summer and need to fix it right way lol
Hello Ginja, I live in Portland Oregon area, I would like to do a lawn renovation like this now in my front yard. Do you have any advice or recommendations? My soil test is looking good, needs some micro nutrients and nitrogen...
So close to 100k subs. Get this ginja to 100k everyone. He deserves it!
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I hope he can enjoy his fame before the Non Hodgkins Lymphoma shows up from dousing Mother Earth with chemicals and fertilizers and killing the protectors and pollinators of the environment. Only a matter of time. Who wants a sterile boring lawn anyway? Plant a pollinator garden with no chemicals whatsoever. Help save the environment! SUSTAINABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3 years later, he now have 215k
Congrats on almost 100k subs. You deserve far far more as well. Learned so much in the last few years thanks to you
Thank you so much! Super kind
The more I watch the "Ginja" the more I'm gravitating to concreting my yard! So much work he's put into that front yard! Wow.
bahahahaha
Your Lawn Ginja will end up with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma as many do who who use fertilizers and pesticides. Pollinators are responsible for flowers nuts berries melons beer coffee and so much more. Without them none of those things would be possible. Mostly there are intricate inter-dependences in nature - over 450 varieties of insects live off milkweed, including Monarchs but Monarchs are threatened because of pesticide runoff. Bees are dying off too. Stop using pesticides. NOW. Plan a pollinator lawn over the winter and watch beautiful birds and butterflies come to your yard for sustenance and nourishment and survival itself. The world is on fire from human abuse and it begins with you. Save the pollinators. They create beauty on earth. A pollinator garden full of flowers is trouble free and you can be sung to by the birds and the bees who come. Eat organic too, becuase do you really want the same chemicals in your bloodstream that are killing off the pollinators who are responsible for most of the delightful beauty on earth? Read up on a pollinator garden. Its soooo much more beautuiful and interesting then a sterile lawn soaked in poison.
Hi, so w etc?hat was your next step after the lawn was all brown and dead. Did you need to remove all of the old dead grass, or did you just top it with soil then fert & seed
i didn't remove the dead. I used a scarifier to dig slits through the dead grass. i have a playlist on this reno that shows the entire process.
Is the Barenbrug grass seed mixed with the peat moss when planting? Is it necessary to put down new topsoil before putting down the peat moss?
Not necessary. I commonly do it for leveling purposes
@@pestandlawnginja Thank you!
Hi jinja which of the propeat you recommend to improve soul
I launched a video on the perfect fertilizer. comes down to what's in your soil and that would require a soil test.
I’m currently following your steps! Excited for the Reno
Rad! Slay that lawn
Couldn't stand mixture of grass and weeds in my lawn so I killed it off my mowing short, detaching several times and stopped watering. My lawn was very bumpy, like off roading with my mower lol. I now have a hard dirt backyard. Should I use a roto tiller to break it up or just try to level with fresh dirt/soil?
I would just reintroduce the water. tilling can be nice if you're planning on leveling but too much work for me.
@@pestandlawnginja do I have to wait until after summer to throw down seed? I'm in the central valley, CA.
Hello! I may have missed it, but how did you remove the grass after it was killed? Or do you just leave it there?
Do you always do your started fertilizer weeks before the actual seeding?
me personally i do. few things. we are very low in nitrogen in my area. I'd rather do a heavy dose few weeks before than a light dose at the moment. secondly it takes a month or more for most phosphorus to be plant available from the time you put it down. so ideally you want phos down much sooner. hope that helps clarify.
@Pest and Lawn Ginja I've been very confused on the timing of fertilizer before seeding, so thank you that's very helpful!
@@callanfuqua2731 happy to help
I used meso when I seeded and now I have grass and weeds growing its been about a month and a half since I planted when can I used weed killer again without hurting my grass and what would you recommend? Thanks brother I appreciate you and cant wait for the next video
You can use tenacity three weeks post termination. All other herbicide I wait 3 months or more
Thats what i was thinking ok thank you very much man great video I'm doing the same to my back yard just did the front
@@vinnypinatelli221 absolutely! Go slay that lawn!
I’m excited for this series. I’ve been contemplating nuking my lawn and starting over. Mine was hydroseeded when we moved in, no doubt it was a “cost effective”’seed used, builder grade
Rad!!! It’ll be fun
Contemplating doing the same damn thing. The toolshed that lived in my house before laid Bermuda sod, which is fine because I love my Bermuda. Problem is, somehow I got a bunch of fescue patches and the lawn was not leveled worth a shit. Ready to nuke this mother, adjust a few sprinkler locations, and reseed. .
All I'm thinking is: wish my lawn looked that good (before he started).
hahaha, well.... me to right now hahaha.
@@pestandlawnginja I was literally just watching your video from last year leveling your lawn. Now this? Neighbors must think you’re nuts lol
@@juantaste8603 They always do hahaha
Lol exactly. Mine has dog shit and weeds...but it shows nice patterns with my mower 😂
😂😂😂 Same!
Is it bad that I'm super excited for this project. I have been watching you for about 2 seasons now and man this is exciting.
You and me both! Somebodies gotta slay that lawn! Am I right!?
Can you spray tenacity on the seed after the seed has been put down? Please help I forgot to put tenacity down before I seeded.
you can if its been less than 2 days after you laid the seed.
@@pestandlawnginja yes I ended up doing it the same day after the seed was down and it worked
Is there irrigation lines right under where the grass was greenest??
oddly enough the main lines are not ran that direction. found that out during another project
Very informative. Thank you. I do have a question - Why do we need to mow the grass before using herbicide? We can cut the grass later after its dead.
You can but you’d need to wait a week for to the weed killer to do its job
As always awesome video Ginja can’t wait to see the next one.
Thanks Scott!!!
i am curious if you are going to till, lower and flatten & compact before re-seed?
Followup video on just that!
So you can just soil and seed right ontop of the thatch and old lawn?
100%!!!!
I did this to my front lawn. I had some landscapers fescue 'mix' and hated it.. so I smoked it and bought myself some zoysia and now I have a zoysia front lawn -- and love it.
That’s awesome!
Too funny. I have zoysia and am thinking of smoking it for fescue!
I got a lot of clumping fescue in my yard, if i spray some weed and grass killer how long do I have to wait to reseed?
depends on the active ingredient. one to two weeks is standard product depending
Hey Ginja,
My lawn is mixed with different grass type. I want to do a full reno but I just don't have enough time and manpower to do that all by myself.
Would it still work if I sculpt my lawn really low, topdress, and seed 100% KBG, without smoking grass with Glyphosate? 🥴
I want to do something similar to what you intend to do. I do have a lot of weeds different grasses though so would have to use a garden strimmer, sweep it then kill all that weed with weed control fabric or newspaper/cardboard topped with mulch compost. I only discovered about this last method through UA-cam
Not if you want one species of grass. You may chase some of the finer blade grass out but nothing the bunching tall fescue unfortunately
The Best! Can't wait for this series!
Awesome!!!
Hi my friend I like your videos would you please help me with this question? I live in New Jersey best time to do grub control on lawns? Thank you
When the ground temps his 55
I recently got a new garden, new turf and decking in my back garden. Not even 2 weeks has past since they finished and in 2 areas grass is coming through the decking. We paid £3500 for 2 days work. He was supposed to put something under all the decking to stop the grass from growing. Any advice to kill the grass without removing the decking panels ?
You could mix vinegar and table salt and spray it down there
@@pestandlawnginja thanks , is that the house hold white vinegar and salt or the proper garden vinegar?
@@deadwellbetterer4916 1L white vinegar; 3/4 cup salt; 3 tablespoons of dishwashing liquid; Jug to combine ingredients;
Hey Ginja, I'm planning to do a kill-off to change my current blend of KBG, Fescue, and Rye to something premium quality, like a TTT Fescue or the Barenburgh Rye. Question: My current lawn has a big time thatch problem. In most places, I cannot see or feel soil and it's spongy. I'm having a hard time understanding how I'll get sufficient seed to soil contact by scalping and power raking and then killing it off. Do I need to somehow remove the sod? Will aerating do the trick? Or my scarifier? I'm always hesitant to aerate because of bringing weed seeds to the surface.
I've had decent luck using the scarifier in these instances where you have more actuall thatch then debris. it takes me going over the lawn half dozen times or more to remove a sufficient amount. i completely agree with you removing it is a must and you must have seed to soil contact.
Question on your flowzone nozzle. Is that the 1.0 gpm head that you had made up custom or were you using the adjustable cone nozzle that comes with the sprayer?
I used the cone sprayer that came with the unit on this round.
Hey, I live just a couple towns over I am in a rental that the front yard is terrible. The back yard is even worse. I want to work on the front first. Between the weeds and the bumpy lawn I think starting over is best. But should we start now. (Oct in Utah for anyone reading this later) or should we wait till spring.
The weeds in the front are the typical weeds and mellow.
The back had 3 foot tall pig weeds everywhere
fall is always best to start but in utah its really late summer. octobers can be doable but very tricky due to the decline in weather. spring is doable but also tough. I would start here in 2 weeks by putting the first roundup treatment and tenacity. then week after just roundup. the week after that tenacity and seed.
How do you fix that melt out? I think I have cheap sod new construction house, no clue what type of sod was put down) that is super prone to disease. I treat for it but it seems like the lawn always has a fungus or disease. I’m thinking I smoke it and start over, but if I can fix it I’d rather try that first.
I have a few videos on that. The solution is typed out in the video description!
I ordered Tenacity to put down a few hours after the lawn was seeded. But I received Torocity. I've looked online and I see different things written about the effectiveness of Torocity. What are your thoughts? Is Torocity just as effective as Tenacity?
Never tried it. I've used a few generics and I'm sure there's some slight differences but I didn't notice an overwhelming amount of difference in efficacy
Thank you
about to go for round 2 of my kill. About 15% of the grass didn’t want to die!!! My question is should I scalp it now ( I skipped that step round1)then spray?
totally up to you on when to scalp. it takes the sprays a few weeks to be at their peak performance.
Did this fix the fungus problem? Or do you still deal with fungus issues here?
Still present. Personally think it has more to do with the soil deficiencies of iron and potassium than the grass itself.
The weird shape that looked like a racetrack is gone 😄 so that’s a plus. That was a grass issue as I figured it was
What are those dark brown lines at the end? And are those tire tracks?
I recently released a video. the marks were from a trencher. I put in a splashpad in my lawn
Those darker green strips happened to me when I installed irrigation. Have you dug or trenched the ground within the last year or two?
You are spot on. I put in a splash pad for my kids. Has slightly different soil throughout those areas
Dude.... I melted out ALL YEAR last year, and with all the rain we have had here in KC, I just can't get it to stop this year. :(
I literally do EVERYTHING correctly.... Any suggestions?! Should I mow it shorter? (Tall fescue/bluegrass mix
mowing shorter may make it worse. get that watering dialed in. preventive fungicides like heritage work really well. may need to bump up your potassium as well
We have had rain every day for the past 13 days. It's off an on, and the sun comes out for juuuuust enough time to sprout mushrooms and fungus all over the neighborhood... We all have great lawns around here.... But the fungus issues is like a cancer spreading EVERYWHERE :(
I have heritage applied :)
Ginja helped me out with an annoying fungus issue that was melting out earlier this month. Surely buy slowly my lawn is coming back 🙏🏻👍🏻
hi i was wondering the tenacity that you use is banned in california i was wondering if this product the same as what you are using Syngenta 46256 Tenacity 8oz Herbicide, Clear
The laws in California are always changing. Mesotrione is the active ingredient
Ginja, I'm in Northern Colorado and my front yard is about 50% alive from fungus or grubs or snow mold or something... is it too late to start this process? I have Kentucky Blue Grass too. When did you start? Do I have enough growing season left? And when would I see a nice lawn again? I am trying to decide if I should nurse what I have or start over.
tough call really. as long as you have a few weeks before the temps exceep 85 degrees daily you'll be fine.
Ginja, would this method also work on bermuda grass? I have been told you cannot kill bermuda. I need to do this to my lawn
Takes a few applications, but it can be done.
Checkout The Aussie Lawn channel. He did it a little while ago.
Just like jonathan said it takes multiple apps and sometimes more than multiple. If you mix it with tenacity it will stress it better
Once it's all dead whats next step, do you have to till it all up,how do clear way for new grass
Nope. Same as in the video
@@pestandlawnginja i mean i see in video grass is all dead, but how do you clear it for new grass
A great video. I did our small back lawn in early June, I then scarified it once the grass was brown and over seeded it with fine fescue and highland bent. It is starting to come through now, will be doing the big garden in August. I’ve watched a good few of your videos and they are great. Hello from Lancashire, England 👍🏼
Right on!!!! I'm dying to get to the other side of the pond and play in your soil. Sooner than later I hope.
Why would you plant Bentgrass in a residential lawn?
Are you going to stick with barenbrug?
most likely!
This will work with tall fiscue?
100% . great way of doing it.
After killing the grass what do you do with the all the dead material? Does it have to be removed before seeding ? I imagine a Bermuda yard would be a pain to remove that material just with the nature of it
I did nothing. bermuda is a pain. once its dead its dead. eventually it will de compose.
@@pestandlawnginja cool! Thanks for responding 👌
I'm interested in doing this to my front lawn. Would you recommend I do it in the fall. I have cool season grass and would like to change from perennial rye to Kentucky blue grass.
fall time is definitely best for KBG. be very picky on your kbg variety. tons of cheap seed out there that low health, poor color but germinates lightning fast.
Did you throw the seed directly into the dead grass?
yes!
I can't believe your going to rework that lawn again. Can't wait to see the final results.
Hahaha right!?
Could you do this in sections to kill off just the bad parts of a fellows yard?
You can for sure
can i kill my lawn off in the fall and re seed it in the spring or is that to late ?
you can. if youre doing a cool season grass I would still dose the tenacity in the spring time
Ginja, this is super interesting! Can't wait to see the results! What seed are you using?
I'll be doing followup vids and revealing that later!
I'm in the process of doing the same but can't make up my mind on what grass to put down in rural Indiana.
I feel that. Hard decision
My parents live in rural North Central Illinois which is somewhat similar to rural Indiana. If you have high water bill rates like my parents had the last few years you don't want a thirsty grass like bluegrass. If you have clean well water without a lot of sediment I favor the Bluegrass cuz it's so dense and if you can get the color right.
Where I reside now I lost the vote to habe "Midnight" Kentucky Bluegrass seated from scratch which is very fungus resistant and wiped out last Summer's lawn with a summer patch fungus. Because time was of the essence cuz she was sick dirt some crap Fescue was installed by way of sod which probably won't last another four years like the other soddings she's put on the lawn in the past.
Or you could plant Meadow Fescue and have animals cut your grass. It has a high palatability rating and it doesn't look too bad if you don't want to care what the grass looks like it certainly looks better than Tall Fescue.
Or go with Creeping Bent if you want to practice your putting game.
What day of the year did you begin killing and what day were you able to plant your seed? It's been a crazy Spring weather in Utah cycling between hot and cold. My seeding this Spring has had mixed results. Hope you had great success!
I planted 6 days ago. Started this process about a month ago. Should have started two months ago but as you said the weather has been nuts this season. Late summer is always the best choice
@@pestandlawnginja do you think you have enough time before the July heat for the grass to take? I have a few dead spots I'm thinking of trying to seed but have been afraid I'm too late. Up in Murray.
@Evelyn Taylor you're right about the weird cycle in Utah this year. Parts of my lawn are still coming out of dormancy. Usually it's green as can be by the end of April.
@@pestandlawnginja I agree my fall seeding was so much easier than this spring. I got fooled by the warm start and planted April 1st. Hand watered for nearly a month. Much of the seed didn't germinate. What did is still mainly stunted at a half inch or so and thin possibly due to overwatering. Luckily, the biggest most important area did well.
Any advice on how to get these other thin wisps of grass to take off? And since they won't on their own be able to fill in the lawn, what advice do you have to stimulate the surrounding grass to fill in faster? Extra fert, humic/kelp and mowing or is there nothing really that can be done to accelerate lateral growth? I'm tempted to follow some UA-camrs advice and pound it monthly with .75 lbs of nitrogen but I believe you'd advise against doing that.
@@Indylimburg Me and my neighbors feel your pain. I had such hopes of getting my lawn right before the crushing heat. Fear that window of grass nirvana will never appear this Spring before the sun starts frying my lawn.
Once you put in a non selective herbicide in your sprayer then you won’t be able use it again for anything else. Is that correct?
No. It’s a rumor. I triple rinse my sprayer and or use a tank cleaner chemical
I was going to waste my lawn this year. When is best time to start over? Obviously being June too late to start in early spring. I am confused as to why you put in fertilizer before then throwing down the eraser kill it all stuff.
late summer is best to start this process. as for the fertilizer our ground temps here were cold and the grass wasn't growing enough to take it all in properly.
What is that heinous weed you're holding at 9:14? I get a few of those in the spring during green-up.
Johnsongrass!
@@pestandlawnginja Thank you!!
Hi what’s the name of that sprayer??
FlowZone typhoon
Very nice I did the same thing in 2018 and couldn't be happier.
Rad! You’re lawn always looks great
What type of grass are you going to reseed with? I’m doing an renovation this fall here in Pa and I’m on the fence with what I’m going to plant. Good luck and great videos.
You’ll see!!!! More coming soon
@@pestandlawnginja Ryegrass? Is it not more heat resistant than KBG?
Alright so Im a straight up noob to this. Im currently trying to plan my spring backyard plan. My backyard is nothing but dirt and weeds. I get how to aerate, fertilize, and seed. My question to you is whats the best pet friendly products to use. I noticed your doggo in the video! Haha
as long as they're not eatting these chemicals they should be fine. I've a history of using these products and using them around animals.
@@pestandlawnginja how many have you killed so far? Jk Thanks for the info and appreciate your videos
@@Brosas93 LOL thankfully zero after averaging 1500 services per month over the last 13 plus years
I had nothing but crab grass, weeds, and other random unwanted grasses. My lot is too big to SOD die to cost and going to do hydroseed. Yard was just graded but thinking about applying lawn and weed killer then get my soil up to par with the grass I plan on having hydroseeded. Any recommendations on what I can do to help my grass grow and avoid weeds. I understand it's natural especially with seed to expect some weeds but I want to limit to most I can
You're really slaying the lawn now 😂 I killed mine off about 5 weeks ago now, going with a full reno of Bewitched, Mazama, and Midnight.
sound delicious!! Dark AF
If I live in Arizona where we are already into 100 degree days, and have bluegrass in my front (unaware of the specific bluegrass) and perennial rye in my backyard, what time of year would your recommend something like this? My backyard is all kinds of weeds, unhealthy lawn, and I feel the need to start fresh.
I would probably wait until october
my back yard needs this... been watching for a week now learning lots thank you for this.
Awesome! Go slay that lawn
Ran into another lawn issue in my overseeing! I know your not supposed to do it it in spring but it’s been coming in well just recently noticed I think I’m overwatering? Slightly yellow on some of the blades so I’m gonna dial it back and give it a few more days to grow in before I go for the first mow!
1:28 looks exactly like exactly what’s happening to me
great job catching that!!! proper watering will make or break your success!
@@pestandlawnginja yup! Also wanted to say your advice in a video a while back of treat your lawn in sections has been a great help, have noticed some areas need less some need more very great tip
My lawn is is like a sponge with moss, weeds and bald areas. Should I dethatch it, aerate or kill and start over? Help pls😫.
totally up to you and how fast you want to see results. starting over sometimes is the right answer
Great video as always......question.....speaking of melting out, is an 0-0-60 fert good for preventing it? Can it harm or burn the lawn? At what rate would you put it it down? Thanks in advance.....:)
that would be straight potassium. be sure you get a soil test and understand if your lawn is deficient before using said product. then follow the guidelines of the soil test. i recommend mysoil
Hell yes!!! Loving this series
Thanks for watching Gary!
@@pestandlawnginja huge fan! Love your videos
What month should I start to kill the grass for the renovation? May? June?
I would start as soon as the daytime temps get below 85 degrees permanently for the season
How quickly do you plan on getting a relatively thick lawn back? I have 3k square feet of dug up dirt right now and debating sod vs reseeding. But it’s almost June and I have little kids so thinking sod
I’m hoping within 45 days
What box store grass killer would you suggest? I can’t buy that weed killer in Washington State.
The product I used was 41% glyphosate. You can use any product as directed with glyphosate as the active ingredient
9:15 What type of grass is that?
how long till pets can go back in the yard after spraying this?
the labels usually say. as a general rule of thumb its as it dries. if your animal is a cow, meaning it crazes i would keep them off until you mow.
@@pestandlawnginja Would be Dogs. Planning to do my backyard like this first.
@@DropthaBomb1 what i meant to say is if your dog grazes like a cow and eats the grass non stop.
Can you reapply a pre-emergent to the top soil to ensure there’s no junk rhizomes in it that might pop up later? I had this issue with topsoil I put down last year that had a lot of junk sprout out of it.
yes! we will get into that in my other video!
Great Job! Thanks for your hard work.
You’re welcome Bruce!
Where do you get your Pro Peat from?
locally? great basin turf. links to home depot in the description of the video.
Hi Ginja, great video again.
Just a quick question to ask you if we need to rake out the dead grass before top dressing and overseeding.
Thanks
NO!!! As long as you get a good dethatch and scarify it you will expose the dirt. the only thing you need is seed to soil contact
@@pestandlawnginja thanks Bro.
Stay safe 🙏
After killing the old grass and weeds with a herbicide, what tool or machine do I use to remove the dead grass and dead weeds from the soil?
I just gott ask ginga, where are you located/state?
Utah!
Cool, same here, just trying to understand this whole grass seeding process and it helps to know I follow somebody in the same state
@Pest and Lawn Ginja so when seeding/over seeding a cool season turf, you use Tenacity to control weeds while your seeds germinate. Is there something similar to Tenacity that can be applied when seeding/over seeding warm season turf (Bermuda)?
not that i'm aware of. check the label, tenacity does do ok with a few select warm season grass types.
What's up Ginga, what is the ruts at the end? irrigation install?? Do you ever wish you didn't sell your reel to Jimmy lewis?
The ruts are a secret hahaha video to come!!! That reel mower was awesome but too big for my small front lawn. Glad it’s in good hands
Wish I had the money and time to smoke my 7600 sq feet. Neighbors poa has spread into my back lawn, drives me crazy. Cold season grass here. Any suggestions besides a new back yard? Lol
Nuke your neighbors yard with a super soaker from behind the bushes at night. Hate neighbors that dump crap in my yard!
@@FXMAN66 🤣🔥
Focus on spring and late summer pre emergent apps
Yay a ginja video!!
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What have you done Ginja!! My lawn looks much worse but I don't have the guts (nor patience) to do a complete do over.
Time can be a tough issue to make
Ginja, I just bought one of these Flow Zone backpack sprayers and I'm super excited to start using it. I've already done one round of weed and grass killer on the law about a week ago, but definitely need another round and using the Flow Zone will make my life a lot easier. Only thing that makes me nervous is I've seen people say putting the Eraser into your good backpack sprayer isn't a good idea and you should have a separate sprayer just for this chemical. Reason seems to be that it's hard to ensure all of the chemical is out of the sprayer when you go to use another chemical like a fertilizer. How are you ensuring that all of the Eraser is out of the sprayer so that this doesn't happen?
I use a tank cleaner and triple rinse it. So far I’ve had zero issues switching products but there’s always a risk
This is exactly what I should do! I'll be watching out for the next video Ginja! TFS
You’re so welcome!
I really want to start over with a section of lawn but hesitant to use glyphosate. I might try it carefully and just remove as much as possible after its dead, followed by lots of water and some topsoil.
its got a lot of publicity behind it. assuming you use the right personal protective equipment my opinion is its no worse than any other herbicide on the market.
How’s that curbing holding up?
Incredibly well. 1 crack on 1 or 2 pieces is all
@@pestandlawnginja good to hear!!
Do you ever deal with Cheat Grass? It's all over Idaho and the wind can blow it in. I've been pulling it out of the my lawn, but I would love to spray something that will kill it.
Dies off mid spring. Focus on pre emergent applications
I am just about to do this as well. However I was going to re sod after. I have 3 types of grass growing. The Johnson grass is taking over and I want to kill it all off. I am using kills all. Then after it’s all dead I was going to rent a skid steer and rip it all out. Then top soil and re-sod.
sounds like an awesome plan!!!
I am located in SLC, and I can’t find where you sourced your seed from. I am planning this project for this fall, and want to do it right! Any other suggestions?
Heck, I’d even be willing to have you come and record a video or two if you think it would be worth it!
great basin and j&J nursery carry it
I enjoyed the video. Very informative.
Thank you!!!
@@pestandlawnginja I live in America Fork. It's great to have a local creating great UA-cam content. Way to go!
slayin lawns yes literally slaying lawns
about time right!?
"glyphosate! Aaaaahhh". I spit my drink out lmfao!
LOL
@@pestandlawnginja I also laugh at the $2 billion settlement on glyphosate as of two days ago: Plaintiffs Object to Roundup Settlement
Federal Court Considers Preliminary Approval of Roundup Cancer Settlement "Bayer AG's attempts to move a Roundup settlement across the finish line in a federal court met with resistance this week as attorneys representing cancer victims objected to the proposed $2 billion glyphosate settlement on a number of fronts. At the beginning of February, Bayer announced it had reached a $2 billion settlement resolving outstanding legal issues related to the herbicides glyphosate and dicamba. During a hearing before the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California on Wednesday, attorneys for several plaintiffs involved in the class action suit objected to details of the plan and called for the court to reject it.
The court is considering a preliminary approval of the settlement. One provision would allow Bayer to continue to sell Roundup. The settlement also would require healthy people who have already been exposed to Roundup to relinquish their right to sue if they are later diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Attorneys for the plaintiff also objected to a provision that would limit legal options for people exposed to glyphosate who later become sick. During a hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria expressed concern about limiting future Roundup claims.
"The concept that you're covered if you're exposed prior to a certain day and not covered if you're exposed after a certain day, usually that's used if a company has decided to take a product off the market or slap a warning label on it," he said.
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 I wanna party with you, my dude.
I'm wanting to do this this Fall in the P.N.W. South of Seattle.
With our short window of time you are probably going to want to start killing it in late summer. I plan to do the same and leveling. North of Seattle here.
Rad! Great time to do it
@@joe_ferreira Thats was my thought. "Thanks"
Will the Eraser kill bushes?
It can when directly sprayed
@PestandLawnGinja So I can spray this around the bushes and kill the grass around it but not the bush?
@@jonboatnationandstuff3301 I believe the recommendation is 3ft out considering some of the roots maybe close to the surface
@@jonboatnationandstuff3301 assuming you don’t hit the roots of the bush
@PestandLawnGinja thanks for taking the time out on giving me the information.
Would you recommend using a tiller or dethatcher after killing an existing lawn? My plan is to kill the lawn, either dethatch/till the yard, and add/level with soil. I've never used a tiller, so I'm not sure which would be best/easier to get the dead grass up.
Scarifier would be best
Why Tenacity after glyphosate instead of at seed down?
I'll be doing a few apps of tenacity
if I were to do this how long does kids and pets need to be off the dead grass? I plan on doing this to my back yard after watching because I know I won't be happy with the old grass mixed in my new stuff I have on order
I kept mine off for a month, so i thought hahaha. my kids kept trampling it the entire time and i have spots that didn't grow in because of that.
@@pestandlawnginja I'm confused by response a bit glad i had one are you saying you attempted to keep kids and dogs off the area you killed with eraser? or do you already have it growing back in and they were trampling in your new seeded yard I just need to know how long to keep pets and kids off the glyphosate I rewatched video and I do believe you said 72 hours for active ingredient in eraser
@@pestandlawnginja I already have tenacity and waiting for my sunjoe to arrive on July 13th and going to kill lawn and use scarifier to till up whole back and bring in new soil level and tenacity and seed soon as my ground Temps hit 65degrees and then put a layer of peatmoss over to help protect it I'm new to yard game just bought house last summer and need to fix it right way lol
How do you prevent other kind of grass from growing?
Tough tough situation. Using pre emergents is Best. But it won’t be 💯
Hello Ginja,
I live in Portland Oregon area, I would like to do a lawn renovation like this now in my front yard. Do you have any advice or recommendations? My soil test is looking good, needs some micro nutrients and nitrogen...
Following these steps will work great in your area