Talking Winterizer Fertilizers and Mixing Brown Liquids

hey what's up y'all thanks for coming back for another week today I'm going to be mixing up some brown liquids and spraying and praying and talking about winterizers now don't forget Lawn Care boot camp training is still on sale and then I know some of you got a little preview of a pack that we released last week a double dog pack that's sold out in like two hours now if you happen to miss out I'm sorry about that but we got another opportunity for you we have winterizer packs limited to the first 500 customers I did a really fun pitch video over on the yard Mastery YouTube channel if you want to check that out I'll give you a link in the description below and they do come with the really cool stickers little empties do some cocktails and those magnets everybody loves all right so what I have here in my fall biostimulants I have aerate liquid aeration we got humic fulvic in here dives into the soil creates space and then we're going to chase that down with 12 humic acid here which is a chelator which is going to help release nutrients from the soil and add carbon so people ask can I mix those together and the answer is absolutely yes so first thing you got to do as you all know is measure your lawn knowing how big your lawn is is really the key to doing any anything even buying a lawn mower this area here is 2 000 square feet and I'm using this because it's going to make things super simple for us so remember we're doing a 2 000 square foot area and this method I'm going to show you here I recommend that you use it for areas about 2 000 square feet no bigger now this is another reason why we have this nurse tank this nurse tank is going to give us time each one of these at six ounces per 1000 square feet which is they can both be sprayed at that we'll cover five thousand square feet well if you were to take and just put that in there direct like that number one that's not mixing them together but then which which I know you guys want to do but number two is you wouldn't have enough time you'd have to be running pretty fast to get five thousand square feet done with that hose and sprayer so so what we're going to be doing here is giving ourselves the ability to mix but also giving ourselves more time so air eight my rate is six ounces per thousand I have two thousand square feet behind me so I need 12 ounces of that and then humic 12 same thing 12 ounces of that and you can see I'm mixing these both together here rate can be mixed with most things actually it's great for cleaning out lines and everything else just as it dives into the soil it'll pull crap out of lines right now what we're going to do is fill the rest with water so we essentially have so we have 24 ounces of product in here but this is a 32 ounce tank so we're going to top the rest off with water and what this is doing is this is giving us that extra time that we need all right now for you folks in Florida we are definitely too early for winterizers okay if you want to know how you do things in Florida I'll give you a link to a Florida e-book below because we're just so different than everywhere else it'll help open your eyes to a lot of things but if you're like in Georgia Alabama across that way over into Texas and north then you're definitely in that zone for a winterizer and it's going to be a little bit different depending on your grass type I guess we should Define winterizer here right so the technical meme definition of winterizer is this your last application of the year that's the official definition of a winterizer and when I say last application of the year that's last fertilizer application of the year and so from our warm season friends as long as you're mowing about once every 10 days or so then you can put down your last application which I recommend should be something with higher potassium potassium is going to help the lawn through stress and obviously going dormant and going to win into the winter is a stressful time now the other thing though is in the South or in areas where we're going to have warm season Turf the soil doesn't typically freeze at all or it doesn't freeze for a long time so after that application you can still continue to apply biostimulants all the way through until the ground freezes way into the fall in fact I recommend you do that because as long as the ground is not frozen the soil is not asleep and there's still activity going on there even though the lawn itself may be dormant so it's like a general rule of thumb just if you have warm season Turf if you're not still mowing then you should go ahead and skip the fertilizer and just stick with the biostimulants however if you are still mowing about once every 10 days right now then go ahead and apply that high potassium fertilizer and then just water it in with your biostimulants and again keep those bio stimulants going all the way through until the ground freezes pretty simple all right now before we move on to cool season winterizers did you see how I mentioned the ground freezing check this out the winds will be light out of the West now tonight we are cold in the 30s pretty much everywhere the exception places like Aurora could dip a little over a week ago over by the suburbs of Chicago over by Crown Point Indiana over by there they got down to 32 degrees overnight and some of my friends were thinking that the lawn season was over so if your soil freezes you can kind of picture it right there's nothing moving remember when Han Solo got frozen it didn't move for a long time and so it's the same in the soil but what happens is you will get these early reports of a freeze or a frost that's coming through you put your jacket on it feels like winter is here but really that early Frost freeze you want to see what it actually did to your soil check out the data and here is some data from the National Weather Service showing recent Frost depth measurements in terms of inches below the soil you can see that hard freeze actually didn't penetrate at all so just like when you were in college even though you think it went deep it really didn't penetrate at all you've got plenty of season left to make a real difference in your lawn so with cool season Lawns the strategy is exactly the opposite you're going to actually put your fertilizer down last and your biostimulants down now when we do that fertilizer we want something that's high in nitrogen and I want you to keep in mind that that nitrogen is not for the lawn to use now it's for the lawn to use next year in the spring so you can be the earliest one out the gates the earliest one getting started and the earliest one dominating Green in your neighborhood so you can leave these granules sitting in the bag inside your garage all winter or you can spread them out on the lawn so they're sitting out there ready to go in the spring what's the difference huh so for you guys with cool season Lawns you actually have a lot more time right now to kind of plan things out what you basically want to do is you want to wait until the very last mow of the season now you'll know when this is you you'll be out you'll have cleaned up all your leaves there'll be a few left maybe a little bit of cleanup sticks to pull out of the yard and you'll look and you'll notice hey it's kind of grown a little bit not much but I'm going to give it one last mode to kind of clean things up when you do that mode and you know which one it is right after that's when you throw down your winterizer and the reason you do that is again we don't want this for this year we want this to sit in the lawn get covered by snow and then next spring snow melts washes it right in shoots the lawn right out the gates now if the perfect world exists you'll throw this down get snow the next day and not see the lawn again until March or April however these are living things we're at the mercy of Nature and all of that so it's probably not going to happen that way and that's where hoping for the best comes in control your controllables look at the data understand what your weather patterns are holding when historically you get snow that type of stuff use your intuition from living in the area that you've lived in for a long time and make your best guess at when that latest point to get this down is and from there hope for the best I'm Alan Hayne the lawn care nut thanks so much for watching lots of resources down in the description below and I'll see you in the lawn

Channel: The Lawn Care Nut

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Length: 7min 33sec (453 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 13 2022