FIX BAD A BAD LAWN. STEP ONE. Kill Existing LAWN

in search of a perfect lawn maybe not so perfect i have sprayed this sucker i know it sounds crazy but i don't care i'm doing this for me i have poetry everywhere poe trivialis okay it's a annual bluegrass i guess or an annual grass that just is taking over and it's everywhere i've showed it several times but it's this lighter this spotty stuff that you kind of see everywhere pretty visibly like right there and there and there see where it's kind of lime green so i've got poe annua and poe trivialis it's been nine days since i sprayed it i'm gonna spray it again right now so i'm gonna spike this with uh some ammonium sulfate to try to get some of the if there's anything that is alive in there i want to try to get it to grow so i've got hot water ammonium sulfate i'm gonna pour a little bit of this in here um not a lot a couple pounds maybe so just a little bit not a lot i'm gonna use the hot water with this paint mixer mix this up and dissolve it got my ammonium sulfate mixture um this like i said it's not a lot i'm just gonna put it in my tank and i see just a little bit of undissolved material in the bottom uh which is fine and then a bunch of dirt in there i don't know if that's iron or what but that's weird now that i've got that in the tank i can switch this to cold i don't want cold i don't want hot the next thing you do is this is 41 glyphosate or glyphosate the instructions say to put do 2.3 ounces per gallon but that's the only to cover 300 feet so to do a thousand feet you need like eight point three or eight and a half ounces per gallon so at eight thousand feet i need about 65 70 ounces of this stuff for 8 000 feet you got to get yourself one of these from amazon or your local ag store or whatever these are awesome so you can measure out your stuff and i need about 70 ounces hopefully this is enough if it's not i have another bottle so that's 64 right there so that's about 72 ounces or so that goes in the tank i like to rinse out my container like this and get all the chemical in there and the last thing you got to have is the non-ionic surfactant the fertilizer is totally optional but you got to have this surfactant this uh breaks the surface tension of the water so it doesn't beat up so you can even a more even spread and i think this is about three ounces per um [Music] per gallon i'm just going to put a couple of that much in there and this stuff doesn't really matter this is just basically like dawn dish soap this stuff's awesome you gotta have this stuff get my battery in here right here hook up my battery hook up my boom which is right here turn this on so i can tank mix like that so that should be recirculating which it is shooting for one gallon per 1000 feet and i know that this sprayer puts out about a gallon per thousand because i've done this several times with the sprayer and it's awesome i love the sprayer if you haven't seen my video on how i made it i've got videos on how i did that a lot of people ask me oh how'd you make that i got a parts list which is really old but everybody always asks for that and this sprayer is truly amazing i love it so with the surfactant um it bubbles up when you spray it so sometimes it's easier to put it in like this so it doesn't bubble as much you're not putting air in there because the spray nozzle just throws air in there so that's about 11 gallons or so i'm going to try to spread this evenly throughout my 8 000 square feet when you're spraying you just want to make sure you're not touching anything look at these dahlias here okay so these are dahlias that we planted and then there's a loud truck over there but uh these froze on june 12th so they're looking really sick and it's too bad most people are getting blooms right now and mine are like a month and a half behind because the frost got them so don't spray anything you don't want to kill so uh use a piece of cardboard or something to block it as you can see right here i'm not killing this section because it's going to be too hard to get to grow and so i'm just kind of killing from here to there so i'm kind of steering clear of my beds and i don't want to kill the edge of the lawn as well like i said you just want to be really careful that you're not going around your you're not killing what you don't want to kill so i'm kind of steering clear of this bed i'm doing this perimeter pass first just around these flowers so i don't lose anything in my beds there and then i'll come and do the field so this will be the third application i put down the first application i only did two ounces per thousand which isn't enough so then the second application i did the full rate of eight and this will be the third application the second full application as you can see this is still green right there it definitely is working but i just want to make sure i kill all of the po annua and poe trivialis so it is empty and i covered it really one it's crazy i tell you this stuff's crazy so now you just want to rinse and triple rinse sprayer set up with water get all of that chemical out of there you're gonna need to do several applications i plan to do about five applications say oh that's too much oh that's too much yeah probably but guess what i want it all dead so i'm gonna do five applications last thing i'm gonna do is spread some of this ammonium sulfate i want about a half a pound of nitrogen per thousand so it's about about a half bag maybe 8 or 10 pounds or something like that the reason i'm putting nitrogen down i want anything that's possibly alive to start growing because i want to kill it any weed seeds or anything that's germinated i want it i want it to die so this is like july 2nd i think july 2nd so this is pretty crazy but my climate so short my growing season's so short that i got to start early so as i'm going i'm just kind of spreading it into the bed [Music] i want my diet to have some fertilizer i'm just kind of giving all the plants for free fertilizer i've also been watering this quite a bit so i can get anything to grow baskets and flowers are on point this year telling you annuals are the best if you want color get your butt down to home depot and buy some annuals so this is july 1st so in most places it's too hot to be putting down fertilizer unless you're like a morganite i'm gonna put down fertilizer over all the lawn maybe not right now but we've got work to do today today's saturday gee we're doing fireworks tonight so look at this section over here it's awesome looks great could use some fertilizer for sure kind of looks like it's checking out a little bit because of the heat so this section over here i can clearly tell where the everest is it's it starts right here where about that fence ends it goes there this is mainly all everest this is my favorite section so you can kind of see the line from right here over and then right here this is my original lawn that i grew in 2014 and i had that one as well but look at the look at the difference here so green and then across the way brown sucks i hate to do it but when you're uh when you're on the quest for for a batter lawn or a perfect lawn or whatever i'm shooting for the ultimate here folks most people would come by and be like oh yeah it was fine i didn't even notice all that and they said i don't even see all the trip but i see it and that's what matters to me and i don't want it there so the last thing i'm going to do is just turn the sprinklers on to water in that fertilizer and to kind of let that gly settle a little bit but i want to wait for the the leaf tissue to dry so that material can get absorbed into the plant and i don't know it's hard for me to see what's green and what's not green but i don't know that's why blanket spray that's gonna do it for this video i i thank you guys for watching as usual uh subscribe to my channel and share the videos or whatever and i will see you guys in the next video [Music] so [Music] you

Channel: Connor Ward

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Length: 11min 22sec (682 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 02 2022