Love this video. I have said before I live in the Columbia basin in WA and I know you know that’s a prime example of a microclimate in the PNW. I gave into the Bermuda last year and yea my season is a bit shorter than people in the south, but I still had full green up by end of March to first couple weeks of April. I don’t mind the “off season” and because I catered to the Bermuda, and keep it tight I have virtually no weeds and I don’t have to re seed and when it’s June July August and we are having those high 90s to 100+ days and the neighborhood is dumping water on their lawns I’m over here watering once a week and have the greenest lushest lawn on the block. When it’s nice and the days are longer and you want to be outside. I love my Bermuda. I just wish it would grow a bit better in my backyard where some shade hits the edges.
wow, that's awesome you are able to maintain bermuda that for north and still see green up before April. I know the area fairly well so I know the temps can get up there and the winters aren't crazy cold but it's still fringe territory. Very cool. I gotta agree though, being able to push through the summer with lower water needs would be great. 100 degree rye or KBG is hard on the sprinklers no matter how well it's maintained. Have you ever overseeded annual rye over winter for 12 month color? I bet you could run AR on the dormant bermuda from October through March and hardly irrigate at all. I know you don't mind the off season but, you know, it's something a lot of people at least think about at least.
@@TurfMechanic I had zero knowledge of Bermuda lawn care until this last season so I was still treating my lawn as if it were a cool season lawn and just thought my lawn was extra dense and weed infested. So I threw down a lot of seed in spring but almost none of it took ….or so I thought! In my backyard where the shade is a bit better I couldn’t believe it but months later (yeah months) I finally noticed some of the PRG popping through. So I have some to deal with in the backyard, but I’m like 99% sure i want to do a fall overseed with my new knowledge and intention and see how it goes. I’m concerned about doing it to the front yard since I feel like the Bermuda just is so good up front I’m not experienced enough yet to feel confident making sure it goes away in time for the Bermuda to come up strong. I think backyard fall overseed 2024 and if it goes well to bring Bermuda back in spring 2025, I’ll do a whole fall overseed in 2025.
mate you’re videos knowledge and experience and experiments are terrific people like yourself are generally underrated you my friend you are very clever keep up the great work enjoy your up coming spring 🤙
I have zoysia in North Jersey bordering NY state. Currently under snow and it’s probably been here for decades. You would be surprised how many zoysia lawns there are here and even as north as CT. I was going to kill it off once I realized what it was, but I fell in love with how thick and low maintenance it is. My backyard is cool season because of shade. Zoysia wont creep back there at all.
yeah, the Zoysia lawns up in NJ (probably one of the more common Northern States to see Zoysia) will probably come out of dormancy the latest of them all in the Spring. It will also be one of the few lawns that sends out stolons over the sidewalks and need to be edged way more often than the other cool season lawns.
Pretty interesting seeing how each grass type does. I live pretty close to you in West Hills and have St Aug in the front, tttf in the back, and buffalo in the parkway strip. Looking forward to seeing how your potted buffalo trimming experiment goes.
oh yeah, west hills is close, 30 min or so. Your place sounds a lot like mine too, different zones with different grasses. I'm most excited to see my buffalo parkway strip come in. Here's my question for you, do you know your buffalo variety? And what height do you maintain yours through the season? I've got Prestige in my pot and Texoka along the sidewalk but I haven't yet decided exactly how to maintain the strip. I'm really not sure if I want to maintain it short mid or super tall.
The variety I got was UC Verde. The strip is the one zone I don't spend much time on so I just let it grow super tall. Right now it's looking sad in dormancy. Do you think it would look weird to overseed with perennial rye in the fall to have some color during the winter?
no problem, tests like this help me learn a lot. As for your question, I made my own fancy potting soil with extremely high-quality ingredients for the pot of St Aug and the Buffalo. The pot of Bermuda is mostly bagged topsoil with some amendments in it while the pot of Centipede and Kikuyu is sterilized native soil from my lawn amended with some bio stimulants. The parkway strip is of course native soil amended with biostimulants but probably not as much as the pot.
Wow I love your lawn pots, I've done those before. (experimented with Bermuda seed when I was as young as 10) Heard nothing but terrible things about Centipede by way of The Grass Factor podcasts. I have a section of Marathon II a gardener gave me, as he was going to throw it out. It's really nice so far. Dark green, the blade thickness almost resembles KBG, not a typical course tall fescue. You should do a video maybe on your vlogs why or what got you into your passion for lawns? I fell in love when I went to baseball games as a kid. From Oakland and SF to Anaheim San Diego stadiums, been to just about all of them in CA.
Love this video. I have said before I live in the Columbia basin in WA and I know you know that’s a prime example of a microclimate in the PNW. I gave into the Bermuda last year and yea my season is a bit shorter than people in the south, but I still had full green up by end of March to first couple weeks of April. I don’t mind the “off season” and because I catered to the Bermuda, and keep it tight I have virtually no weeds and I don’t have to re seed and when it’s June July August and we are having those high 90s to 100+ days and the neighborhood is dumping water on their lawns I’m over here watering once a week and have the greenest lushest lawn on the block. When it’s nice and the days are longer and you want to be outside. I love my Bermuda. I just wish it would grow a bit better in my backyard where some shade hits the edges.
wow, that's awesome you are able to maintain bermuda that for north and still see green up before April. I know the area fairly well so I know the temps can get up there and the winters aren't crazy cold but it's still fringe territory. Very cool. I gotta agree though, being able to push through the summer with lower water needs would be great. 100 degree rye or KBG is hard on the sprinklers no matter how well it's maintained. Have you ever overseeded annual rye over winter for 12 month color? I bet you could run AR on the dormant bermuda from October through March and hardly irrigate at all. I know you don't mind the off season but, you know, it's something a lot of people at least think about at least.
@@TurfMechanic I had zero knowledge of Bermuda lawn care until this last season so I was still treating my lawn as if it were a cool season lawn and just thought my lawn was extra dense and weed infested. So I threw down a lot of seed in spring but almost none of it took ….or so I thought! In my backyard where the shade is a bit better I couldn’t believe it but months later (yeah months) I finally noticed some of the PRG popping through. So I have some to deal with in the backyard, but I’m like 99% sure i want to do a fall overseed with my new knowledge and intention and see how it goes. I’m concerned about doing it to the front yard since I feel like the Bermuda just is so good up front I’m not experienced enough yet to feel confident making sure it goes away in time for the Bermuda to come up strong.
I think backyard fall overseed 2024 and if it goes well to bring Bermuda back in spring 2025, I’ll do a whole fall overseed in 2025.
mate you’re videos knowledge and experience and experiments are terrific people like yourself are generally underrated you my friend you are very clever keep up the great work enjoy your up coming spring 🤙
I have zoysia in North Jersey bordering NY state. Currently under snow and it’s probably been here for decades. You would be surprised how many zoysia lawns there are here and even as north as CT. I was going to kill it off once I realized what it was, but I fell in love with how thick and low maintenance it is. My backyard is cool season because of shade. Zoysia wont creep back there at all.
i think my wife's friend has a zoysia lawn. we in northern NJ.
I put perennial rye in the front, and turf type tall fescue in the back.
yeah, the Zoysia lawns up in NJ (probably one of the more common Northern States to see Zoysia) will probably come out of dormancy the latest of them all in the Spring. It will also be one of the few lawns that sends out stolons over the sidewalks and need to be edged way more often than the other cool season lawns.
Pretty interesting seeing how each grass type does. I live pretty close to you in West Hills and have St Aug in the front, tttf in the back, and buffalo in the parkway strip. Looking forward to seeing how your potted buffalo trimming experiment goes.
oh yeah, west hills is close, 30 min or so. Your place sounds a lot like mine too, different zones with different grasses. I'm most excited to see my buffalo parkway strip come in. Here's my question for you, do you know your buffalo variety? And what height do you maintain yours through the season? I've got Prestige in my pot and Texoka along the sidewalk but I haven't yet decided exactly how to maintain the strip. I'm really not sure if I want to maintain it short mid or super tall.
The variety I got was UC Verde. The strip is the one zone I don't spend much time on so I just let it grow super tall. Right now it's looking sad in dormancy. Do you think it would look weird to overseed with perennial rye in the fall to have some color during the winter?
thank you for this video. Is that potting soil u used?
no problem, tests like this help me learn a lot. As for your question, I made my own fancy potting soil with extremely high-quality ingredients for the pot of St Aug and the Buffalo. The pot of Bermuda is mostly bagged topsoil with some amendments in it while the pot of Centipede and Kikuyu is sterilized native soil from my lawn amended with some bio stimulants. The parkway strip is of course native soil amended with biostimulants but probably not as much as the pot.
Wow I love your lawn pots, I've done those before. (experimented with Bermuda seed when I was as young as 10) Heard nothing but terrible things about Centipede by way of The Grass Factor podcasts. I have a section of Marathon II a gardener gave me, as he was going to throw it out. It's really nice so far. Dark green, the blade thickness almost resembles KBG, not a typical course tall fescue. You should do a video maybe on your vlogs why or what got you into your passion for lawns? I fell in love when I went to baseball games as a kid. From Oakland and SF to Anaheim San Diego stadiums, been to just about all of them in CA.
no zoysia variety?