Can Gypsum Really Help My Lawn?
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- If you have been around lawn care for long enough, you have most likely heard people talk about using gypsum on their lawns to loosen their hard clay soil. In this video, I go over (in a high level, unscientific way to avoid confusion - because I am no scientist) what gypsum is and what the intended uses and benefits are for your lawn.
A quick web search will show you that the use of gypsum in soil is widely debated on whether it is beneficial or not, so I am going to discuss my personal experience with gypsum in my lawn and let you decide how to proceed.
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0:00 - Introduction
1:27 - What is Gypsum?
2:19 - What Does Gypsum Do For Lawns?
3:07 - What Gypsum DOES NOT Do
4:15 - My Personal Experience With Gypsum on My Lawn
5:40 - Why I Use It and How Much I Use On My Lawn
9:11 - Wrap Up
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Great information Justin!
Thanks Jack! I appreciate you watching
Great, non-biased video. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Jack! I appreciate your support 🙏
Very interesting, great video. I may need to try this in the spring.
It has seemed to help loosen my soil the last several years, for the price I think it's worth the shot!
Great information, I was actually thinking about doing this to my lawn this season. Now I am going to give it a shot. Thanks 👍
You might as well if you can get it for a low price like I did - hopefully helps a bit with your soil compaction. Thanks for watching as usual Richard!
Great information Justin, I think I need to look into getting some of this and putting it down on my lawn - I suffer from heavy clay soil too that gets really hard in areas. Thanks for posting the helpful content as always
Absolutely. I appreciate you watching and commenting as always!
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Thanks for watching and always supporting!
Thank you dear for good information 👍
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching!
Good info!
Thanks Dan, appreciate it!
I also use gypsum on my personal lawn and I think it does make a difference. Great info here 👍
I have used it several years now and it does seem to help ease compaction of heavy clay soils. I can't put 100% certainty that it was the sole reason why my clay softened, but I definitely think it has helped. Thanks for watching!
Very interesting, I may need to try this on my clay soil
I have seen improvement in my soil. Can I attribute it to the gypsum? Not sure, but I can say it's pretty cheap and it seems to be helping so I continue to use it. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the great information on gypsum Justin, I've been thinking about this on my clay lawn and after this Michigan winter I now have a really bumpy lawn and think gypsum would help over time and don't want to roll it which i would think would make things worst, si gypsum it is! Free shirt
I have been using it for several years now in the spring and it seems to be helping loosen things up. This clay use to be hard as a rock, now it's workable and the grass is rooting much better. Thanks for watching and good luck this season!
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Thanks!
Great information Justin. Reminds me that I need to put my Anderson’s gypsum down.
Thanks PJ!
Its good to hear you could stick your probe in deeper😮 I hope it works for me!
I hope so too! I'm looking forward to how it looks the next time I do a soil test. Worth a shot for such a low price imo
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Would love to get a follow up video - I have an issue here in Tennessee where we have a lot of clay and slate and I have many areas in my lawn and garden where water will just not penetrate.
This is more of a long term fix, I don't think you will see fast results from gypsum alone. For a faster result, I would try some liquid aeration type products like thatchbuster from Turf Titan or air 8 from NEXT. I have had great results with both of these on hard areas of thr lawn. Thanks for watching!
Great video! Wonder if that would work on my red clay? This stuff is hard as cement. Enjoyed all the information. 👍
Thanks Sunny! I am hopeful based on the soil test result and appearance of my clay soil this spring (compared to prior years) that this is starting to help a bit, so hitting it harder this year makes me have a good feeling about possible progress. If you can find it super cheap like I did, I don't think it would hurt to give it a try on your clay!
Great video. I just bought my first bag of pelletized gypsum. It says to only put down 5 pounds per thousand square feet??? Does that sound way to low? Your video and everything I’m reading says to put down like 10 times that much.
Yes, the rates tend to be higher as noted on the bag. I always tend to go lighter with it than the bag states, just because I don't feel that my lawn needs that much since I have been working the soil over the years and improving it. That said, I would follow the bag guidelines of the product that you have to ensure you are applying it at the recommend rate (or lower if you wish) just in case it is slightly different that what I applied. I appreciate you watching, good luck!
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so using sheetrock gypsum in the dirt it doesn't break up clay to a softer were grass of plants can get there nutrients better through the soil to penatrate roots structures?
I don't understand your comment? Can you please elaborate?
gypsum is supposed to break up clay soil for grassroots to flourish deeper and easier for the grass roots to absorb nutrients easier .demulching is key for grass seeds i found put by trial and error earlier this year because I was being cheap about getting by till then which made me do the work racking anyway late week to dethatch or dead grass clippings away so seeds could touch the dirt itself
Iike putting mulch 4 inches or more on top of any plant or grass its eventually going to kill off them if you can catch it in time before yellowing not getting sunlight
The goal of the gypsum is to soften up the clay soil. You are correct, the less compacted the soil is, the better penetration the nutrients/water which will benefit your lawn. This is only part of the equation as dethatching is also key because if you have a significant layer of thatch, fertilizer and water (and even the gypsum) would have a very hard time getting to the soil where it needs to be. Thanks for watching!
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I have since upgraded my mic setup to improve audio. I appreciate you watching!
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