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Around The House With Pat
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Home Improvement/ Around the House Project Videos I can be contacted at pjd99325@gmail.com
Fungus In The Project Lawn
The heat and humidity has been awful for our cool season lawns here in the Northeast. We have had 24 days of relentless heat with temperatures in the low 90's to high 90's with heat index's well over 100 degrees. This is a bad time for cool season lawns. We haven't really had any significant rainfall before and during the heat wave. Running the sprinklers every day to try and keep this cool season lawn from going dormant has caused an issue with fungus. In this video my son and I are doing a cleanup of the dead grass and affected lawn areas to try and remedy the fungus issue and bring the lawn back to somewhat of a presentable look at least until the fall cooler temperatures come which is what this grass loves.
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The Lawn One Week After Dethatching In The Middle Of A Heatwave
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This video is a look at the lawn one week after dethatching in the middle of a heatwave. My KBG lawn definitely looks much better after dethatching. Dethatching it did not hurt anything and I think it improved the lawn even though I did it during a heatwave when temperatures were well up in the high 90's with heat indexes over 100. I did it because of my concern of disease with having to water ...
Dethatching The Lawn In The Middle Of A Heatwave
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We are 8 days into a heatwave with no rain and no rain even before the heatwave hit. My lawn has thatch, and I am concerned that having the high temperatures with no rain and me watering the lawn every day to keep up the lawn in the heat I am going to have problems with disease. so, I picked one of the hottest days of this heat wave to do a dethatching. Temps were predicted to be 97 and a heat ...
Planting The Summer Flowers Out In The Garden
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Time to plant the annual flowers out in the garden. The flowers I am Planting I started from seed back in the middle of February. watch while I take you out along my garden area and show where and what I grew this year for the garden landscape. Annual flowers are a great way to add summer long color to and landscape.
Treating The Project Lawn
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In this video I head out to the project lawn to give it a little treatment. The project lawn is the lawn that I had started completely from seed on just soil. I am treating it with Grubex, Insect control and Scotts GreenMax for a feeding. Being that It is what I would consider a newly established lawn I want to keep it protected the best I can. The Grub Ex is a given around this area because La...
Prevent Grubs
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Many years ago, I lost a good part of my lawn to grubs. It was so disappointing when there had been so much work put into my lawn over the previous years to have that happen. I figured since I had never really seen grubs in my lawn it really didn't need to be treated. Well i was wrong and it was a crushing mistake. Since then, every year I put down a preventative treatment for grubs. I have not...
Maggie The Mountain Cur Is First In The Pool
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Maggie the Mountain Cur is the first in the pool this year. Maggie likes to stand on the pool step and sometimes when it is a hot day she enjoys laying in the water on the top step of the pool. She is a 2-and-a-half-year-old Mountain Cur. She is not really a swimmer from what we have seen but she enjoys the water as long as she is touching the bottom. She will go walking in the neighborhood lak...
Feed Your Lawn
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There are three easy things for a nice lawn. Mow it, Feed it and Water it. Thats it. it is that easy. I feed my lawn every three to four weeks during the season. In this video i will show you what the difference is between a lawn that is fed and a lawn that is not. I also will tell you what I use throughout the growing season and how I apply it. I don't worry about measuring the pounds of ferti...
Mushrooms In The Lawn
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OH NO! Mushrooms in the lawn. I have a lot of mushrooms popping up all over my lawn. So having a nice lawn everyone has to let me know when something just doesn't look right in my lawn. Everyone has been pointing out that there are mushrooms all over my lawn. Well that is a good thing to see actually. We have had a lot of rain over the last two weeks and there is a lot of moisture in the soil. ...
I Grow My Own Annual Flowers From Seed
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I grow my own annual flowers from seed every year. By growing my own flowers I save a lot of money and are able to plant out many more annual flowers in the garden than I could by having to buy them. If you have ever gone to the garden center to but flowers for your garden you know just how expensive it can be. Annual flowers ad a ton of color to my garden in addition to flowering perennials I ...
Replacing A Ugly Hedge
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I am finally replacing the ugly hedge in front of my house. I have been trying for years to get them to look good and I just cant make it happen. The ugly hedge are boxwoods. I do not know what type of boxwood they are but they have to go. I am replacing them with a bush called Green Spire Euonymus. They are a type of evergreen that are supposed to be just a few feet wide and can grow as high a...
Sprouting Canna Bulbs
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How I sprout Canna Bulbs for the garden. By pre sprouting the Canna Bulbs I know I will have an actual plant from a bulb before planting them out in the garden. Some bulbs may not sprout after over wintering so this ensures I have an actual plant when it comes time for planting out in the garden. It also gives the bulb a head start in early spring.
Working On The Project Lawn
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Another look at the newly fall seeded lawn in spring and how it is coming along. Some leveling work was needed in the garden area along the house because of some water drainage issues. We also extended that garden area out another 15 inches in width. We also added a garden area in front of the patio. To do this work we brought in 2 yards of dirt from a garden center on my truck.
Moving Sprinkler Heads
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In this video I am Moving two sprinkler heads to extend a garden area. This is at my project lawn where I seeded a brand new lawn. Before seeding the new lawn I installed a sprinkler system. We decided to extend the garden area in front of the house out another 15 inches so it required me to move the sprinkler heads so they would not be in the garden but would be in the lawn area.
Spring Lawn Tune Up
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In this video a give a look at my lawn in the third week of April. I take you around and show what it looks like early in the season. I show you that I have an outbreak of poa. I seeded the lawn in the fall and I am thinking i may have gotten the poa from the seed I used. I have never had all this poa in my lawn. It is frustrating for me to have so much of it. Having Kentucky Bluegrass there re...
Spring Look Of The Fall Seeded New Lawn
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Spring Look Of The Fall Seeded New Lawn
Easy Lawncare Tips For A Beautiful Lawn
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Easy Lawncare Tips For A Beautiful Lawn
Growing Flowers From Seed Part 8 Transplanting To Individual Cells And Moving To Outdoor Greenhouse
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Growing Flowers From Seed Part 8 Transplanting To Individual Cells And Moving To Outdoor Greenhouse
Growing Flowers From Seed For The Garden Part 7 Starting Canna And Dahlia Plus Seedling Update
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Growing Flowers From Seed For The Garden Part 7 Starting Canna And Dahlia Plus Seedling Update
Growing Flowers From Seed Part 6 Seedling Update and Starting Dahlia Indoors for Propagation
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Growing Flowers From Seed Part 6 Seedling Update and Starting Dahlia Indoors for Propagation
It definitely will mow out and you'll have no weeds.
@@sherrigerhardt1348 yes it does It takes a little while but it does go away. Thanks for watching!
Thanks sounds good😊
How much did you pay for renting it
@@112Leondeoro at the time I think it was around 60 dollars for a half day rental. It’s been a couple of years so probably more now
It appears to me that you are installing the tines differently from how they are set before you removed them. So I am confused by your video which way to install the new tines. Also I have been using a drill press to push the pins out which prevents all the hammering and bloodied fingers.
That’s great just tell it, like it is 👍🏻
You're the best! So damn useful! Thank you for uploading!
Sometimes you just got to sit back and let people fail a couple times with there lawn until they ask for help.
@@johnnelwhite what?
Dominating the entire state my dude🫡
@@ijazmohammed588 😂 Thank you for the compliment!
Talk about putting your neighbors to shame! 😍👌💪🏻
@@jerryclleung 😂 Not my intention to do that but it does look that way. 😂 Thank You for your comment and for watching!
@@aroundthehousewithpat31 😉 but if I was your neighbor, I’d be inspired to have a lawn like yours…
Spot on about KBG in the heat. My Bluebank out front is doing greeat and will show signs it needs water almost daily. I water almost every day myself. Your yard is beautiful and great to see you back.
@@SuperTA329 Thank You! The heat has been brutal on the KBG
New subscriber. Great video. What an absolutely beautiful yard. I'll follow your advice if I can get my yard looking as good as yours.
@@mlj6419 Thanks for subscribing! Mow It, Feed It and Water It. It’s that simple.
Outstanding!
@@McMuffinat0r Thank You!
AWESOME LAWN Pat, Hard work pays off for sure. Ill be on my way to sweat town soon here in Va , Common Bermuda Invaders are all in my Southern Belle TTTF/ Bluegrass🤕!!! This dry spell we have has not been easy, have a great day.
@@robturner7853 Thank You! This heat and dry spell we are having here is making it challenging for my KBG.
@@aroundthehousewithpat31 I agree I have mine green again, ive only watered 4 times this season, with lil to no natural rain "Jesus Juice" lol as you know. However thurs, fri & sat those liars @ the weather channel are calling for alot of rain!!🤣💦
show offf..😂😂😂 looks amazing
I've been thinking about doing my fescue but I just don't want to cut it that low.
Awesome lawn, beautiful property and sweet pool Pat! You said you water everyday during the drought, can you do a video about that and share your experience with frequent watering? Everyone says deep and infrequent but I’m not buying that lol
@@PrincessCutLawnCare Hi George! Thank You for the compliment! I have been watering every day because of the lack of rain and also because of the extreme temperatures over the last few weeks. My lawn is 100% KBG. the root system with KBG is shallow. KBG is also very thatchy. When the temperatures are extreme deep and infrequent just doesn’t work. Watering is definitely a controversial subject with lawns. If I water deep and infrequent when temps are pushing 100 degrees like it has for the last few weeks I have many areas that start showing that it needs water. The grass gets this gray look to it when it needs water. Kind of like being a tell tale sign that it’s about to go dormant. The problem then becomes looking out for disease. Just a little thatch in the lawn will promote disease when watering every day. It’s a very fine line trying to keep KBG a nice green lush color during the extreme heat of the summer. If I start to see any disease I back off water for a day or two on the area showing a little disease and it recovers pretty quickly. I’ll think about how I could put it in a video and do one. I’m sure I’ll get killed with a lot of comments on how I’m doing it wrong. 😂 But really you have to learn what works and what doesn’t for your own situation. For me watering everyday in the heat works.
If I don't water everyday in this heat my cool season grass will die. It's already struggling as it is. Infrequent watering will destroy the lawn during these temps. Infrequent watering does work for me in the early spring.
@@380stroker deep and infrequent doesn’t work for me either with my KBG. I’m watering everyday in this heat too.
Come deathatch my lawn. Please.
What fertilizer do you use ?
@@stacenrob1977 I use Scotts Greenmax all season long after my spring application of Scotts With crab grass preventer.
@@aroundthehousewithpat31 thanks for responding, I’m in Ocean City Md
You have perennial ryegrass mixed in or if it is a full bluegrass lawn it maybe seed stalks and not thatch. Which would still be good for a light thatch or a vertucut😊
@@JB-jl1cp it’s all Kentucky Bluegrass. I have never seeded with perennial ryegrass. KBG is a thatchy grass type and has a shallow root system. Those two issues alone make it a difficult grass to care for in extreme hot temps. So far I have been able to keep it looking nice. I deal with that problem every summer except this year the extreme heat and lack of rain came early this year. I normally dethatch in early spring and late summer. I was surprised at how much thatch I removed. It was a lot. I’m glad I did it. The lawn looks good. I’ll have a follow up video coming this weekend on how the lawn is looking a week after doing that dethatching. Thanks for your comment!
Where are you located and what type of grass?
@@troutman1951 I’m in Philadelphia and it’s Kentucky Bluegrass
Funny, I was just thinking of dethaching some areas of my lawn. Good timing. I do have an irrigation system and it's going to be over 100 for the next few days. I also have dogs and in order not to get dead spots from dog piss is always saturate the piss area with water and you won't have a problem. You will be essentially diluting the nitrogen in their urine.
The heat has been extreme. My lawn is KBG. I definitely over water but I have found that over the years of maintaining it I am better off to over water. I do get some disease from doing that but it really isn’t anything that the lawn doesn’t recover from. If it wasn’t for the extreme temperatures I probably wouldn’t have bothered to dethatch it. I usually only do that in early spring and early fall. Trying to keep a KBG lawn green in high temperatures is frustrating. I chase the dog urine with the hose as well but I’m not the only person letting her out in the yard. It repairs itself with time and if I get too many I’ll dig some grass up from an area that’s not as noticeable and patch the dog spots.
You got to ring your neighbors door and confiscate his white New Balance shoes.
Nice lawn. As soon as I seen you load that Scott’s spreader in your truck, I knew that I was about to see those infamous “Scott’s Stripes”. I gave up on mine after a year and just got the handheld Wizz spreader. I only have about 4k sqft so it’s not that bad. Great video
Thank You! Those stripes are frustrating. With my lawn they usually go away after putting down the second round of fertilizer in the spring plus I spoon feed and fertilize every two weeks so I think that helps. Also it’s an established lawn . With my son’s lawn they seem to be not going away and I have been spoon feeding jut like I do with my lawn. I think it’s because it’s a new lawn that I havnt been able to get them to go away. Thanks for your comment.
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I get Sam Elliot vibes from this gentleman, and that is pretty damn cool. Solid video, thank you.
😂 I have heard that from others. 😂 Thank You for your nice comment.
Looks awesome. I have tons of work to do to my lawn.
ThankYou!
Now with the hot weather here in the pacific northwest I'm going to mow my grass at 4 inches. A few days ago i dropped my spreader with fertilizer inside on accident and the pile burned a small area on the lawn. LoL. Oh well I'll reseed. Anyway, you are straight to the point. No BS. Love it. Keep it comin.
It’s about to get real hot here. We are going into a heat wave next week with temps in the mid 90’s to 100 and it supposed to be very dry. It’s about to get ugly for lawncare here. Lol. I once accidentally dropped a pile of fertilizer on the lawn. I was out there with a shop vac cleaning it up to avoid a dead spot. I’m sure a looked ridiculous doing it but it worked. Thanks for your comment!
The bugs will lay their eggs in mulched areas and containers that have soil in them. So be sure to apply in those places too, since they could contain grubs.
Yes they do. That’s where I normally find them when I’m digging in the garden during summer. My cue that they are around. Thanks for the comment.
Just put this down
I have to put some down on my project lawn still. I’m probably going to get that done this weekend. Thanks for watching and commenting!
If Scott's Grub Ex was available in Canada I would use it, I just use Sevin on my own property, it's cheaper than a nematode application. Sevin is a commercial grade herbicide that kills over 50 insects.
Damn that pool is clear for being just uncovered. Salt pool?
It was clear. A little algae in spots but I could see all the way to the bottom. It’s actually the first year it has looked that good. It is usually black when I first pull the cover off and takes a week to clear up. I had it cleaned in a day this year. I had a brand new cover put on it before I closed it and I think that was why it was so clear. The sun wasn’t able to penetrate the cover and get to the water. I was happy.
@@aroundthehousewithpat31 Awesome stuff. My motor went on my pump and it took about a week to clear up this year.
@@WooderBoyProductions that stinks. Had to replace my motor two years ago. It’s a chlorine pool. I had to restock all my chemical supplies this year. Walked out of the pool store 500.00 lighter in my pocket. It’s crazy how much they have gone up it price over the past few years. That and 4 grand for the new safety cover in October the thing is killing me. And it hardly gets used now since my kids are grown and out on their own. Pools aren’t cheap.
how did you divide the line between both lawns
Great question. The spreader I use is a Scott’s rotary Edge Gaurd spreader. So there is a little Gaurd door on the side of the spreader that blocks the fertilizer from being thrown on the one side. I just walk the spreader down the property line with the Gaurd engaged and the fertilizer does not go on my neighbors grass
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Strong domination line. That lawn is looking great, sir.
Thank You! It is! But I’m not even trying to do that. Thanks for watching!
I use Green Max only all year long. I'm in Canada, so we have snow. If the ground isn't frozen, I will fertilize anyway. I run a three week schedule. I fetilize with the rain cycle if I can. I don't weigh it because once you see how much you need, the quatity would be the same. I use a hand spreader set on whatever number it takes to run out as I walk the lawn. I have a huge "domination line" between me and the neighbours. What is great about Green Max is that you can determine the uptake by the lawn greening up. I water every other day in the heat. I don't use a sprinkler because the areas by the hot driveway and hot curb (where people walk on ) need more water. Mow with a sharp blade because it does make a difference when you shred the lawn instead of slice. The shreds dry out and turn brown on the peaks of the blades. Bag the grass clippings so they don't fall between the blades of grass and choke the grass out. Remove debris ASAP so it doesn't choke the grass out. I run KB, Fescue, Perennial Rye mix. when it gets hot, the KB will go a little dormant, but I'm mowing taller then, so you don't see it. One final thing you do need is soil amendment. In an area with less than ideal soil, the uptake from the grass isn't as high. I used powdered Humic/Fulvic acid with powdered seaweed extract. The lawn will then uptake the fertilizer even easier and be more drought resistant. All you need is a Scotts hose end sprayer. Add powder to water, stir, pour in sprayer and apply to lawn. I did this last night just before it rained so I didn't have to water it in.
Thanks For Your Comment! You are pretty much doing exactly what I do. I’m not even trying to dominate the neighbors. I could cut what I do in half and still have a greener lawn. His lawn is nice it just lacks food. If he would feed it just a few times it would look green. I have put humic acid down in the past but it’s been about 2 seasons since doing that. Like you I used the powdered form and used an ortho hose end sprayer. I do have some but just haven’t thrown it down. Your comment will have me doing so now since you mentioned it. I really didn’t see a difference in my lawn when I was using it but you are right that it helps the lawn with nutrient uptake. I DO NOT DO SOIL TESTING. 😂 I don’t think as a homeowner you need to. I Mow I Feed and I Water. that is it. It has worked for me for almost 40 years and I am staying with what works not to mention it’s easy. ThankYou for watching!
@@aroundthehousewithpat31 I was late with the Humic/Seaweed this year. Usually I get a green up from GreenMax within 3 days of putting it down. This didn’t happen this year. I put the Humic/seaweed down a week later and got a green up in two days.
@@Todd.T oh wow. Maybe I’ll spray some humic acid since I have it. It can’t hurt it. It’s a good day here for me. Finally getting some rain here today after going a week without any. I did a round of green max a few days ago expecting rain but it never rained as was predicted.
Iron.
I have put iron down from time to time but I found that using the green max I really don’t need to and the green max does contain some iron. Thanks For Watching!
Man I wish I stay next to you. You would think your grass is lime green.
Oh gosh. Skunks are the worst. Poor Maggie!
They are! And the very next night Maggie was sitting on the front porch with me and about a half hour before the sun went down a skunk waddled right across the front lawn in front of us. I had to grab her by her collar so fast. She has such a high prey drive. I’ll have to do a video of her when I take her to the park she runs in. She is fun to watch even if she doesn’t catch anything. Thanks for watching!
Just proves you have healthy soil! Most fungi can be beneficial in helping laws grow thick and lush. Check out a book called Teaming With Fungi
You get it. 🙌🏽 Great video! Loved watching.
Yes! I’m always happy to see mushrooms. They were gone as quickly as they appeared after the sunshine returned but they are definitely a good sign for sure. I will check out that book. Thanks for the information and thanks for watching
Beautiful home! Just seeded my backyard here in Vegas and have seen great growth despite the hot temperatures but I’ve had to water it more. Used Smart Seed
Thank You! Good luck with your new lawn. Water is definitely your friend when it comes to new seed.
No issues applying every month in July and August?
I do not. I have a sprinkler system so the lawn is well hydrated.
Would you if you didn't?
@@followrobthomas Oh Wow. Your putting me on the spot here. 😂 I would still fertilize but I would dial back the setting on my spreader to maybe 3 and I would only fertilize when there is rain in the forecast and I would only do one application each month. Having irrigation I fertilize on a rolling 3 week timing. If I felt I wasn’t getting enough water I would be out there moving a hose end sprinkler around. I have never had my lawn go dormant in the summer having a cool season lawn. I always did what I had to do with watering to prevent it from going dormant. It definitely is challenging in July and August with no irrigation system and a cool season lawn.
I just mow when needed, it rains too much. Must be a hobby
Project Pat
Project Pat with that 3-6 clowning on some young bucks.
I heard if you eat them you shit out money.
Magic mushrooms cool
I get no water out of my anti-siphon... No leak. Nothing I'm wondering what i can do.
Not even a drop? Is there a shut off valve on the supply line.
@@aroundthehousewithpat31 that's what I was thinking, but nothing has been turned off, and it was working last fall without issue.
@@scottttym I guess you will have to remove the valve stem. Seems something is blocking the water flow.
Its all that super juice that you have been using that are not making them grow.
lol i have 3 of those same boxwoods, they are UGLY, thanks for showing some other options!
Hey George! Yes. I should have given up on those boxwoods 10 years ago.
Thanks
Thank you so much I was able to fix my faucets.
That’s Great! Thanks for watching!
I think I found your channel! Buzz
You Found Me. Thank You!