Prepare Cool Season Grass For Summer Lawn Care

hey there's Pete with GCI Turf hope you're having a great day today and Springtime we're right in the thick of things uh in my opinion the grass is supposed to look its absolute best in the springtime things are going to be glowing like a new Penny things are vibrant aggressive colors right just everything about the turf if you've been diligent in doing all the things throughout the course of the year that you should be doing your yard should pretty much be on fire right now if my own yard is absolutely glowing like a new penny I'm absolutely loving what I'm seeing now I don't have the time to take an overlay some b-roll and show you some cool clips of different things happening in the yard while I'm sitting there talking I just ain't got that time right now so I apologize you have to look at my ugly mug now the month of May is going to be uh extreme for me it's going to be super busy I got the the big mower review coming up and I need your input on something what do you want to name this you know I want to take the series as a whole and name it something I was thinking something like the Great American stand-on mower Showdown the Great American stand-on Showdown something along those lines you kind of know what I'm I'm asking for so comment below let me know what you think we should call it and just so you're aware it's about 10 or 11 different major brands of lawnmowers Wright Spartan uh John Deere um grasshopper Toro is a whole list of them they're all going to be right here in this yard and I'm going to kind of do a point system review on each single one of them individually they'll all get their individual video and all that's going to happen in May so now you see what I'm gonna be so diagonal busy but I want to name the series something so now that you know what the series is about you can help me out with the name hence the reason for this video I'm trying to get it filmed early because the month of May there will be no grass stuff and fertilization and Disease Control and all that kind of thing none of that's going to be happening okay because this series is going to take up so much of my time I'm not going to have time to do any of the other type videos so that's what this video is going to do is kind of go over uh you know what what I would do in my yard going into the summer to to ensure me of being successful cool as I get through the summer cool season Turf right here this is a Fescue Bluegrass Rye mix it's predominantly Fescue probably around 80 percent Fescue back there in the very back that's 100 Kentucky Bluegrass got Tif tough Bermuda at the shop and I'm gonna actually take the camera with me tomorrow and film a video for Bermuda going into the summer as well so in my opinion uh number one first most important thing is mowing height okay with Turtle Fescue if you mow it taller it tends to help shade out the ground so any moisture that's in the ground is going to you know stay there for a longer period of time obviously that way of thinking can go for any Turf type if you want to cut it taller that actually helps conserve water in my opinion because the thicker and denser the turf or the canopy of the turf is the less quicker things dry out under the turf now I'm going to be talking about a lot of different products in this video I'm going to link every single one of them up in the description below they'll be there if you want to check them out now talking about water most cool season grasses are going to require about an inch per week you know I don't really hold that to be 100 totally completely true because my wa my yard has went two and three weeks without water any water and it maintain a perfectly healthy good color and continue you to grow so I think that's more of kind of like a you know if you can get that done get it done kind of a maintenance type thing that goes along with cool season grasses but that doesn't necessarily mean in reality that you have to put down an inch per week and I know that's probably confusing to some people because a lot of you probably you know measure out that water and and put down an actual inch per week but I'm just saying it's all weather dictated okay if if we go through a cooler stretch during May and we got some good rain at the beginning of the year and the ground absorbs that water and holds onto that water because it's not so hot then you may not need a complete inch per week okay if you don't have an irrigation system and you're looking for a really good sprinkler I'm a dealer for big sprinkler now and those are absolutely phenomenal fertilizer if you're a granular guy the protein 12024 is typically what I go down with uh early summer I usually run four pounds per thousand so that's going to equate to around a half pound of nitrogen per thousand but you'll get a full pound of potassium obviously the potassium is more needed in my opinion going into summer than the nitrogen but nitrogen is the big boy okay it's it's the star of the shows I don't want to starve my turf going into the roughest most difficult time of the year for cool season grass that's why I give it a little food going into the summer matter of fact I feed my turf pretty much all summer now cut back on the rates and stuff and do more spoon feeding applications which is lesser amounts of fertilizer but more frequently during the the summer and if you're into spoon feeding you really want to give it lighter doses of food throughout the entire summer into 505 is ready to GCI 505 I absolutely love that product the juicy actor calcium 101 is ready when you combine those two together and use those as a spoon feeding product or go down with one good heavy rate of the calcium going into summer either way is fine I'm going to tell you what it'll absolutely make that grass shine but that one going into the summer it I'm going to put the hammer down on it because uh you know that that protein is going to feed it for a good long length of time super slow release very very very little chance of burning your Turf and man you're talking about color you get a crazy good color out of it dark green and that's why I like it disease fungus as the daytime temperatures start going up that means your nighttime temperatures are going to start going up and when you start getting I think you say around 60 or 65 degrees at night you know kind of steady like that then you're going to want to start paying attention to disease in the yard great leaf spot I'm gonna run the clearies on that and then a brown patch the way I control it is with a combination of proper connazole and oxystrobin anytime I run a fungicide I always run a natural edgement with it that's just I've been doing it for several several years now and we've had nothing but but success with it and yes preventative fungicide applications in my opinion are superior here to Curative the difference in the two is I know I got a cool season grass I know I live in a hot humid climate that's going to get thunderstorms in the afternoon and that moisture sitting on the turf coupled with the humidity is going to bring own disease I've been watching that happen for almost 20 years okay I know for a fact it's going to happen or the potential is there for it to happen so I prevent that and what I mean by that is I get my fungicide applications down a little bit before the actual time fungicide might show up which is around my area is typically around mid-may so I'll start around the first week of May maybe push it to the second week of May and start doing those applications I usually do forward during the course of the summer that's mid-may mid-june mid-july and mid-august typically that does pretty good for me bugs and who don't like bugs you know bugs can get in your grass and and wreak havoc especially in the fall time of grubs grub worms and then army worms can be very devastating I like to use a celeben I typically go down with it about this time of the year matter of fact I still have to get my application down I'm going to get that done this week I assure you because remember what maybe four years ago three or four years ago this side over here got just hammered with army worms and I do not want to go through that again so I think that's about it uh surely if I miss something I'm sure people will comment below and let me know but that's basically the gist of how I do my yard here for both the Bluegrass and the Fescue I am going to change up my own personal program going into the summer just a little bit and what that means is I'm gonna feed it a little more aggressively simply because of that mowing video review series I got coming up my game plan is to actually cut the grass every third day so I'm going to need it to be growing very aggressively okay you know it tends to slow down a little bit growing in the summer but I'm going to trick it and make it grow a little bit faster so that I can get those videos filmed every third day during the month of May if by chance all of this is super confusing and you have no idea what I'm talking about but you want a yard that looks like this or something pretty close to it follow my lawn care guide I've got lawn care guide that covers the Fescue Bluegrass Rye your cool season Turf grasses and I've got another one that's for specific to Bermuda grass I'll link those up in the description below you can check them out if you want to so I think that's it I really can't think of nothing else to be honest with you I'm gonna tell you what man well I know one thing I've got the one two those two spots of trivialis back here that I nuked and I got one up there in the front I've got this little circle of grass over here it's kind of on the side of the house that nobody really sees I'm gonna sod cut out a few patches out of that and fix them out here just for the the video review going for that I'd just leave them and see that this fog so I know something that might bother y'all but that really don't bother me but for the video review I want my yard absolutely pristine because I'm representing all of these different companies and I just want to be diligent in in being respectful and honoring these companies because they've been good to me by sending me a mower to review of course I'm giving the mowers back I'm not keeping them okay I've read a lot of comments there oh he's getting free mowers I'm not getting anything for free I'm sending them back when I get done I don't want the mower it's part of prepping for this uh video review series I am going to fix those spots right there with some sod at where the yard's looking its best so you don't forget help me out in the comments below what are we going to name this series and I'll go through them and look at them and and we'll figure out what what's going to be the best name for that and then I'm going to have a pre-series video as soon as I have all the mowers in hand I think I've got seven of them at the shop now so I'm still waiting on about four maybe five more or something like that and then once I have all the mowers uh I'm gonna line them up at the shop probably out front in the Bermuda and then we'll uh kind of go over what we're going to call the series or the video the video series and and what we're going to name it then the actual opening video is going to be right here in the yard all those mowers are going to be out here in my yard I cannot wait that is I mean it's a dang dream come true to be able to do something like that so I'm pumped I can see them out here already all those different color mowers sitting out here it's just going to be absolutely phenomenal I cannot wait so as always I appreciate you taking time a day to watch I'll check you later

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Length: 13min 11sec (791 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 29 2023