Pulling Out My Lawn | Project New Lawn
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- Опубліковано 16 лис 2024
- In todays video I show you what steps I took to start pulling out my Lawn.
This Is the first video in my "Project New Lawn" Series.
First we pulled out Nathan's lawn and did some site preparation so the yard was ready for the Turf to be laid.
Then we cut the turf out from my house and Laid it at Nathan's.
I then spent the rest of the week prepping my site with the rotary hoe and then making my yard level.
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So crazy to go back and see where you Lawn has been not all that long ago.
Slightly different, but when moved house's, and left my first lawn, I swear I almost cried... 😢 I feel your pain brother.
Yeah it was hard, but glad that I did I now!!
Can't wait to see the end result, thanks for all your tips.
- - I can’t wait as well! No worries mate, thanks for watching
🎶When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high...🎶 You know the rest. Keep walking, brother, & thanks for letting us walk with you. YNWA
Game day!!!
So keen mate.
Thanks for following along on the journey my friend.
YNWA
Great to see this stuff in action...once you get to first cut that new rye grass with the cylinder mower.....the fescue will be a distant memory.... satisfaction loading!!! Wish we had 40mm of rain on the way
Haha I’m sure it will be!
Hoping we get the 40mm. We need it!
I removed the lawn from the back yard - 25 cubic m of grass sod and clay cap removed (over $1k to have that removed via skip bins). I did it old school - with a spade. I did the work sections at a time to avoid murdering my back and the yard has been transformed into a garden proper. The lawn had been damaged over a period of a few years - cut too low during summer, under irrigated, and my daughter had dug holes all over the lawn surface looking for worms to feed birds. Result - a weed infested, uneven lawn that was hideous to look at and a hazard to mow. Oh, & there was an old trampoline that had fused with the lawn & had become a wasps' nest. Never delegate lawn care to adolescents (my lawn tip for today). The front lawn was in better shape so I renovated it & it's looking even better. Still a patch that is stubbornly difficult to repair - I suspect the tall conifer tree had roots growing under that area, but that's been dealt with - Conifer Chainsaw Massacre; and there had been surface compaction which I've been treating by pricking out, coring & top dressing. The nature strip is a constant worry. It was looking reasonable until council workers sprayed a drain pit on the boundary & herbicide drift killed half the grass. I tried to restore it but I suspect that there is residual herbicide in the soil & the reseeding attempt has not yielded great results. I'm considering digging up the whole strip, but if I do that'll be a task for early spring. Many lawns in the suburban neighbourhood are looking pretty ratty - patchy, compacted, weed infested and under-irrigated etc. Dandelions are beginning to flower in neighbouring lawns and soon there'll be wind born weed seeds drifting all across SE Melbourne.
I've been hanging out for this project to get started 🖒
I’m so keen mate. Hopefully I’ll get the seed down by next weekend
that Kennards turf cutters had the heaviest thing in the world 🤣
I read that top dressing clay soil with sand is a bad idea, and can lead to a cement-like bond which doesn't lead to better drainage.
Where did you hear that? I have read a few articles for and against using sand. I’ve had no issues from my own experience anyway.
Have a squiz at this article if you get time. You have to go about top dressing with sand the right way otherwise what you said can happen.
www.golfcourseindustry.com/article/topdressing-techniques--turfgrass-management-/
Lawn Tips that was interesting. I love the idea of stressing the turf to build resistance.
I don't remember exactly where I read about not adding sand to clay, but found this article: www.patwelsh.com/soils/never-add-clay-to-sand-or-sand-to-clay/
GWHAWK87 yeah as I said so many for and against!
I won’t be going straight sand like on a golf green anyway. Will lean more towards a sandy loam like what I used in my latest video.
If you do ever topdress with sand, always best to do it when you aerate so it doesn’t sit on top.
Anyway thanks for your opinion mate! I appreciate people having their input. As I always say I don’t know everything!
Good on you.. working on Salulays!
I've never heard of someone using a water roller over top of the sod after laying it.
How do folks tamp sod where you are?
Didi the fescue grow back anywhere?
Great video mate! Really enjoy your content!
Thanks mate!! Appreciate the kind words!
Hey mate! When you say your soil was hard, do you mean that it was compacted heavy clay?
Hi Ben, i'am thinking of ripping my old lawn and laying nullarbor couch.
So if i completely kill my lawn with round up ,then use a rotary hoe to mix in the old turf would that work?
Cheers
Rob nil my advice would be to take off the dead grass, or at least cut off as much as you can because it rots and the soil becomes uneven. It’s also more difficult dig it in.
Roundup!!!
What’s your thought on round up as far as it causes cancer
Why do this? Grass looked good before
I agree, it did look good.
It’s gone to a good home though! The new family loves the lawn
😁👍👍
Moist
Couldn’t stop looking at that zit !
Hahaha, should have edited it out 😂
Lawn Tips sorry mate ! Love the channel keep it up . Itching to get out and work on the lawn but we have had none stop rain for weeks here
haha all good I don't mind. Thanks though! appreciate you watching. Bummer, bit of a pain when you can't get out there! Wish we had some rain here. So dry
Lawn Tips UK 🇬🇧 has plenty !!!
Haha of course! I’m keen on visiting the UK in the future. Love to go to a few football pitches. Especially Anfield 😉
Why a video, when ya don't show us anything, you just yak on, may as well be radio..