Best Yard in Town! Spring Lawn Care | Dethatching, Aeration, Overseeding, Fertilizing

hey welcome back everybody to an exciting spring themed episode of Jason explains things today I and not you you just wanted to hang out and give me a cute points cute dude today I'm gonna show you what I do every spring to have a nice green yard it still gets green but it's gonna be more green than it is now let's let's get started okay so around mid-april when your grass has been growing now for a couple weeks and you've mowed several times it is time to do what we're gonna be doing today which is we're gonna detach then we're gonna aerate and then we're going to over seed and fertilize so let's let's take a look at the tools we're gonna use so first off you're gonna need a lawn mower and string trimmer to mow your yard just as you normally would you're gonna need some average hand tools like a rake a shovel metal rake wheelbarrow and what what is that that might cop in a video in the future we'll just have to wait and see and then also today we're gonna be using this Mantis Honda powered tiller cultivator with optional dethatcher and aerator accessories all right everybody step number one in this process SMO your yard I hope I don't need to tell you how to do that cuz I mean that'd be as ridiculous as not knowing how to rake leaves [Music] okay everybody so we're about to detach but we got ammo first so when you when you're about to detach what you're gonna want to do is set your lawnmower to a couple couple notches lower than you average you would average average we do for mowing [Music] all right so dethatching what is fashion why do you need to detach it so thatch my friends is a layer of dead grass inside your grass and this is it right here all this yellow stuff is thatch there's a good Pat Patrick right here this stuff it chokes your healthy grass and makes it not grow as thick so you can totally detach your yard with just a rake all you have to do is just rake the yard like this you can kind of see dead grasses starting to come up you just kind of work it so there you go you can detach your yard with a rake and that is exactly what I did last year and it took me about eight hours through my yard so I'm not going to do that this year let's do something else alright let's take a closer look at this thing it's pretty cool so you can rent Dee Thatcher's but I went ahead and bought one of these little guys because it was fairly cheap and pretty cool so this is a Honda four-stroke little engine on this mantis cultivator and this is the power rake essentially what this is is a bunch of little teeth and they will spin and rake your yard [Applause] [Music] I am impressed of that little machine that thing is amazing [Music] [Music] all right before we move on I just wanted to quickly show you guys the results here so as you can see very little brown grass and just see dirt under there which is going to be fantastic for when it's time to oversee this [Music] [Applause] [Music] this reminds me of a movie are we being too literal no we're following orders we were told to call the desert so we're calling it found anything yet nothing yet sir what about you guys we ain't found [ __ ] [Music] all right well we have aerated and we have mowed again so that all of the dead stuff is all picked up so the next step my friends is to take a broadcast spreader like this one or our bigger one if your fancier like that and some seeds you can over seed your yard usually on your bag of seed you're going to find these little settings recommended settings for your broadcast spreader little tip for you if you have a broadcast spreader with an edge guard let's go ahead and do that first so I'm gonna set mine like that and I'm gonna walk along the edge and then fill in the center do this [Music] alright everybody we have two more steps left and the next one is the most physically demanding so dirt by the dump truck load is a lot more fun than dirt by the back you take your soil and you nicely just shake it over the yard and then you take a rake like so and just rake it into the grass [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] spots like like this you don't want to [Music] lay the grass grow just get in your hands dead spot will fill in grass I'll be pretty okay alright last step for our beautifully green yard is to fertilize or feed the three way compost stuff that we spread is also fertilizer so this is like icing on the cake but we've actually already fertilized quite a bit here alright so it says on the back here oh here we go Scott's broadcast spreader set to three and a half it's really important not so much for the seed but with the with this stuff to not lay too much down because that will instead of feed your yard it will burn it to death [Music] let's wrap this up [Music] all right final thoughts Dora this stuff is poisonous for animals so don't let your pets run around on it until after either its rained a little a little bit or you've watered it and let it sit overnight you are supposed to water after doing this but it is supposed to dump rain for the next two days or three days so nature's taking care of that for me so thanks for watching everybody catch you next time you [Music]

Channel: Jason Explains Things

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Rating: 4.8210087 out of 5

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Length: 11min 38sec (698 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 26 2018