Laura you need to seed in two directions starter fertilizer and after 6 inches of growth spray with 2-4-D to kill the weeds please watch out for your well water if it is near the lawn area
I am not a farmer, but your channel caught my attention a few months ago. I watch every video now. I am a United States historian and professional genealogist. I am a retired youth counselor. I just wanted to say how much fun I am having watching your videos. You two are very informative. You are also a cute couple. :)
Hi guys it's great watching you work your farm 🚜 . Especially the cute black cat 🐈⬛️ I just laid my best-mate brownless a very black cat to rest after 13yrs . 😢 miss him . Keep it coming thanks for shearing your day
Most husbands and wives say goodbye to each other in the morning then head off to work for the day, but Grant and Laura you have such a wonderful relationship I like the way Grant allows you to struggle with the motor across the fields, me I wouldn't do that I would take the heavy load and leave Laura with the tools etc. However Laura you don't allow your gender to get in the way and its equal share of the loads and jobs. I cannot get enough of you two on the farm doing your country an important service making a living while feeding the nation and from what we see of you both you are enjoying every minute of it. love you both keep it coming guys.
Farmers can do anything with nothing but bare hands and minimal supplies. My paw paw farmed, raised cattle horses chickens everything to be self sufficient. He used bailing wire to fix or temp fix everything from plows to windmills to bridles and bed frames. Amazing the ingenuity farmers have.
Laura, you and Grant complement each other so well. It’s a pleasure seeing how you two work together (and individually) in a very challenging lifestyle. Those pivots really keep you busy!
Check the grass seed bag to see what percentage of seed is weed seed. If the percentage is high you may want to switch to one with less weeds. When you seed a blend of grasses, certain types of grass will only grow in cool weather. That's why landscapers overseed in spring and fall. With patience it should look nice by October.
So for GREAT GRASS attention is the key. if you seed and let it dry out you fail, to many weeds you fail, not enough starter fertilizer you fail, to much water you fail. So for me in the state of Washington we use a mix of fescue and rye grass. I would check with your local horticulturalist what is the best mix for you in Nebraska or ask at the local golf course what they use for their fairway/rough mix. I always use trip 16 as my starter and I spray 2/4/d as my broad leaf killer apply with a boom sprayer and tank on the back of your quad. You could aerate your young lawn and over seed so the seed has a place to fall and thus won't dry out as easily. For water set a flat bottomed container with straight sides out and you want 1/2 to 3/4 an inch twice a day or more if your climate requires it. Try to stay off the grass until it is 4 inches tall for a first mowing. Young grass is fragile and breaks off easily. A small walk behind mower is best for the first cutting, your big ride on zero turn will crush and rip out the new grass when you turn. Pick up your first cuttings after it is established do as you please. If you always want green lush grass water and timely fertilizer is key but that can be expensive. A beautiful lawn is like snow just another way to spell WORK. not hat you don't already have enough of that. Best of luck and if you have any questions just ask.
If your lawn grass just doesn't get you where you want, have a hydro-seeder redo your lawn with the seed mix you desire. Their system provides the seed cover, seed germination, seed starter fertilizer, rain detergent etc. To give you a speedy successful lawn. 😀
16:29 I didn't realize they move that quickly, but it makes sense for the distance it has to cover. They seem pretty stationary as you blast by them on the highway at 60 MPH.
Hello, for both of you, dear husband and wife, I was very pleased to see your farming videos, your tractor machinery and your hard work. I am also a farmer by profession. Cattle, sheep, dairy cattle, fresh vegetables, fresh fruits and live fish farm is my job. I wish you more and more life❤🎉❤
The seed you put on your yard is from Mt View Seed Company in Pratum, Oregon. It was tagged by some garden center in Texas but it is Oregon grass seed. They'd be happy to give you advice on your yard.
(The grass seed varieties you planted start better when planted in the Fall or Spring.) Some will grow but Seed the lawn again in September with just a drop spreader. In the early spring, crabgrass preventer followed by post-emergent weed killer in June to kill any weeds left. Next fall you will have your golf course.
My philosophy, coming from the transportation construction world, is to paint the ground with seed. We also use a small amount of oats or rye to get some root structure right away as well as some shading to help keep the weeds down until the real grass seed can germinate and start to cover the dirt. As the oats mature you can mow them off before they set seed. Also try using some mulch like oat straw or a light e-mat to hold the moisture in the soil better. When we built our house I put e-mat around the perimeter of the house and that is where our lawn came in the best.
Living in the Phoenix area where it's been 120 the last couple oi days it was so nice to see and hear your rain. Glad that you received water from the sky.. Thanks for the videos
Grant and Laura: With all the carrying you have to do, I'd get a couple of old backpacks, strip off the outer covering and make a frame. Then you could strap the motor unit to the frame and carry it out to the pivot. Use a second backpack, leave the canvas outer covering on, and use it to carry the tools. You could carry more with a lot less effort as well as add extra bolts and nuts to the backpack so if you drop something you can just dig into the backpack and get a replacement. You could also add bolt removal tools to the backpack so if you get corroded bolts you just pull out the tools to fix the problem. If you can't get a backpack to size, get some canvas, go to a harness maker and have them make the compartment to the size you want. Walking through the fields after a rain means you'll be soaked but it's clean water so you only have to be uncomfortable while you dry off. As for the lawn, maybe bringing in sod pieces will help. Hope everything continues to go well.
leaping pedestals work well to ensure cats get the food, like tables. You simply put something stable the cat can walk up and jump from about 30 inches from a platform about 4 feet up they can land on. Then all you have to worry about is squirrels. So putting the food on top of an empty barrel and leaning a board up against a pair of nails in a joist a couple feet away will work fine. Skunks have a hell of a time with classic patio tables (hole in the center type) too.
Love those old trucks have the same truck in a 4 door model bought it 5 years ago it pulls my landscape trailer every day. Mine has over 25000 miles and runs great
For the pivots apparently all need to move at the proper speed based on the circular arc they are traveling as closer to pivot center is slower speed. Makes the most sense to have different gears at tire/wheel drive boxes than different speed motors. Fun watching you fix stuff and do it entertainingly.
Fescue and blue grass are cool season grasses. They're not going to germinate and grow in the heat of summer. You should have spent the summer spraying for weeds and waited until September to seed the lawn.
Hate to be the one to point this out but Laura, you forgot to slide the knuckle covers back over the joint when you were finished 🤷♂🤷♂ Love watching you guys. Originally it was for the farming content but I have to admit, watching you two work as a couple/team is pretty heart-warming. It's nice watching a team in action :)
Was it starter fertilizer with mesotrione in it? That’s what I use on new seed lawns, it works really good and is a good pre emergent. After a few weeks you can use that again or at least hit the grass with another shot of starter fertilizer. Also don’t just water once a day, when you have grass seed like that you should be watering 2-3 times a day depending on how sunny and hot it is. You DO NOT want it to dry out because the seeds once they get wet and start to germinate if they dry out they are done for.
A good teaching on farming,once again!! Thanks for sharing your soggy day...n.. keep Pepper happy..she looks like a good opponent in training for fights with the skunks!! 👍🦊🧙♂️🐺🤙
My goodness. What a job. What a piece of equipment. At least this one didn’t take you all day like the one your worked on last year. But at least last year, you were getting a nice tan. Oh, BTW, that was a long walk with that heavy motor. I don’t think I could have done that. Good job guys.
I wish we were getting rain here. My sweet corn I planted is so dry and my watermelons I watered the corn two days ago till water was standing you would not know it now.
Laura, when a owned a Farm in New Hampshire (A Grass Farm, 4 acres of lawn to cut!) I would put Scott's Turf Builder plus 2 on it in the Fall and the grass would come up beautifully in the Spring and very few weeds! Hope this helps!
One of the best things you can do for grass is mow it often to the recommended height. That will thicken the grass and kill weeds. Do it often and keep the blades sharp! 👍♥️🦅❤️✝️🇺🇸
your lawn looks like a whole lot of purslane, the roundish succulent plant. wich is edible, and healthy. Try picking some and putting it on salad. Good stuff.
I've only just found your YT and love it!!!! Thank you so much for sharing:} I used to farm 100 years ago and have run pivots in Texas, Nebraska and Saudi:} My tractors and combines did not have any of the electronics so I would be fascinated if you have a video or could make one explaining how each of those Ipads work and what they show you while you work. Maybe you've already done one?????? Thank you again:}:} Maybe an educational series of videos showing how the tractor works, all the controls and electronics/Ipads, , how the gps works, cultivation techniques. etc etc. I would love to learn about any of the new/current aspects of farming. I love everything you've put out so far.
A few things in regards to your lawn 1) Bluegrass and Fescue are slow to germinate and establish when compared to Rye. Fescue is the hardiest and most drought tolerant of the three main cool season varities, so you chose well, just give the grass time. 2) Be careful putting down fertilizer, and weed control during the heat of the summer, especially on a newly seeded lawn. The grass is under a lot of stress from the heat and it doesn't take much to burn out young grass 3) Same thing with crabgrass control, even though fescue and bluegrass are targeted by the crabgrass control, the newly seeded grass may be stunted. 3) Try to put down two applications of fertilizer in the fall once things cool down. One in mid mid-September another in mid- October. Try to find a fertilzer with slow release nitrogen and some phosphorous to help root development. 4) Try to put down liquid post-emergent weed control in mid-October. You will get better control than the granular products. I would add a surfactant to help the chemical stick to the waxy weeds 5) Next spring repeat what you did this fall. Fertilizing in late April and mid-May and applying post emergent weed control in early May. I would also add an application of pre-emergent crab grass control in early May. 6) Keep top 2" of soil moist, but not soaked. Even as things cool down this fall, keep watering until grass goes dormant in late October. Good luck and thank you for the great content.
Laura and Grant, how cool is that. That Milwaukee socket set is the one I sent Grant last year for his birthday. Note the spare chrome 10mm socket!!!!!!!!!!!! So fun to see you using it.
Skunks can be a pain in the butt! They'll get into everything and kill chickens too. I live in PA. Amishland, middle of PA. But, there's lots of places for them to live. They have to be in old woodchuck hole. Or, under one of the buildings on your property.
I don't know if I would have picked fescue for that lawn. I doesn't seem to do real well in direct sunlight and takes a lot of water. It also tends to grow in clumps rather than spreading out to form a lawn. Since you've got irrigation you might think about just getting bermuda sod. If you give it reasonable water it can take all the heat you can give it and it spreads better than fescue. Just my opinion. To be fair I live a lot further south than you do. I do enjoy these videos about day to day maintenance on the farm so keep up the good work!
In the Plains states, a lot of people plant a mix of fescue and Bermuda grass. The fescue does better in cooler weather, the Bermuda better in hot weather. Fescue can tolerate cold temperatures better, so it will get green earlier in the spring and stay green later into the fall, but it will tend to go dormant in really hot weather. Bermuda grass does not like cold temperatures, but will stay green in very hot temperatures in the summer when the fescue is partly dormant.
Watching both of you is I am sure a inspiration for many. Totally admire what you both do everyday. If I did life over again I would be doing farming however all that cool equipment you have was probably not available back in the day. Do not know anything about corn till now a bit but I do know about grass and lawns. Just take care of the weeds for now. You should try planting it in fall or spring. Never summer its to hot. Seeing the seed by the tree is the evidence. Much respect tho :)
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable. Thanks for showing us the repairs on the pivot. Interesting. Can understand that water and electricity are a bad mix. Those electric motors are heavy. They have hot sun on them also. Not to bad to change out. Pretty straight forward repair except for the wiring. These irrigation systems get a lot of wear and tear that is for sure. Really important to you and your crops in the Nebraska land. Your yard looks not so good now but give it time and it will improve greatly. Just takes time. Be careful around those skunks. They are not nice animals. Hopefully they will leave your car alone. About it for now. Thanks for everything Laura and Grant. The Iowa Farm Boy. Steve.
I’m from the Bronx NY. Love your channel! Reminds me of my old family farm in Jamaica! Of course not as big as yours but my great grand parents used to work that farm hard. They had animals and grew crops for the family and to sell in town. Always know some of us city folk appreciate what you guys do for the country! God Bless!
Love it when my two favorite farmers are in my morning. I'm so used to seeing Laura's pretty face matched up with her voice that I love to hear, I have to admit I was surprised to see Grant's young happy face instead haha. Pepper seems to be fitting right in on the farm and sure enjoys all the attention. We had a problem also with a young skunk a couple weeks ago who goit into the chicken yard and was stealing their food. One of the dogs got sprayed while we were showing it the door. Thanks for taking me along on todays adventure replacing the pivot motor. Laura, you mentioned the new busings were better and lasted longer. If it were automotve or tractor applications it would be because they were polyurethane. I recall reading that polyurethane can have problems associated with water where it can cause them to bubble. I'm wondering with the water involved with the pivot application, what is the material used for those bushings? Have a great weekend you two! Larry Central Valley, Ca.
Skunks are black with white on top, Pepper is black with white underneath. Maybe the skunks think Pepper is just a strange-looking sibling so they figure they can help themselves to the cat food.
Laura, I'm a tractor trailer driver for a local company and I've followed weather since I was a kid. Different weather fronts and Lows and High pressures which either brings rain or high heat. My suggestion is just follow the weather and not on news media.
Plant fescue and fertilize in the fall. Early spring fertilize with pre emergent control. Repeat in 6 weeks. Post emergent with broadleaf weed control in late spring. Water 1” per week, long cycles if run off is not a problem to water deeply.
Laura and Grant, another pivot adventure. Those beetles are a pest, if they don't strip the leave completely the crop shouldn't be effected. Do I remember a plane spraying your or dad's crops to kill the beetles last year? Love to you both from Mike. ❤
I don't have a lawn anymore, but I used to use Weed-B-Gone mixed with a surfactant, and just walk the lawn and spray the individual weeds. I always found that the weed and feed types of granular fertilizers were better to help control the weeds after you got rid of the majority of them via spraying them individually. The other option, but it's a lot more expensive, is to use goat's blood. I had a neighbor that had it done, and his lawn had zero weeds. They mix it with something else, but I forget what it is. Probably the most effective, but the most expensive method.
Looks like you have a bunch of purslane where you want grass to grow. It's a common succulent and makes a decent addition to salads and is well known as a poverty food.
Have you two ever had a bug race? First thing you gotta do is draw a big Circle- 5,'6',~7' across (Big as you want *this is going to be the finish line). Then somewhere in the middle you draw a little Circle about 6" inches across (inside of this Circle is the starting area). Now all contenders what wants to race, they go out and find their beetle (No grasshoppers). When everyone is ready with a bug, then you put all of the bugs in the little 6"Circle. Now everybody gets outside of the big Circle, and THE RACE IS ON! There are some tactics. Bugs naturally want to Runaway from you. Get on away from the direction where your bug is heading [toward the finish line] and cheer him on from the direction that any of your opponent's bugs are headed for. Stay out of the big Circle- no blocking. No sand throwing neither. Blowing at an opponents' bug is acceptable. Stomping, Noise Making, All ACCEPTABLE... but NO SAND ! :P Any who fly out DISQUALIFIED!
Laura, you need to apply Tenacity herbicide (mesotrione) to kill the weeds in your lawn if the new grass is coming in still. If the new grass is already established then you should use PBI-Gordon Q4 Plus post emergent.
There is a solution to waiting for grass seed to create your lawn and fight through the weeds. It's called: laying sod. It may cost a little more up front, but the growers have already done the hardest work for you.
Provided the wires are easy or the same both ends to get at you can change two wires over either end to alter the Phase you can also buy Phase rotation testers
Never plant grass in the summer when weeds are prominent. Wait until very early fall and keep well watered. The grass should be well established before the first frost.
I've seeded a new yard and it takes some fairly intensive work for a few weeks to get it going. Your problem is you are planting a large area without any irrigation or straw cover to retain moisture. Spring and fall when temps are cool and dew is heavy really help establish a lawn. Had all of your grass sprouted and grown, it would have soon died from the hot sun and no or little rain. You actually have to keep the seed damp to sprout, then cool weather and light rain or sprinklers for the plant to grow and harden up. For your yard... about a dozen sprinklers ought to do it. Maybe 40 or 50 straw bales. If you use hay, the seeds within will sprout and will eventually die off with mowing.
That "round leaf" stuff in your lawn looks like purslane. It's an edible weed and I know I've seen it served in the salad bar in the Chicago Board of Trade cafeteria. I wouldn't eat it if you've sprayed it, but it's got kind of a tangy/salty taste.
Hope Pepper does well. Sorry about Scotty, still a good chance he'll return. I've had them disappear for six months at a time. Disappear in April . Come home with the cold winds of oct. I follow your channel on my phone. That's all I have but on the small screen there doesn't seem to be much cover or places to go.
Grant, I'm with you on the truck matter. Hard to stick with one for more than just a few years. Laura, seems like sod will be your only option to get the golf course lawn you are hoping for without waiting too long for it.
Love to see this young couple working so hard following their dream.
Laura you need to seed in two directions starter fertilizer and after 6 inches of growth spray with 2-4-D to kill the weeds please watch out for your well water if it is near the lawn area
Regarding the grass...we have great success laying grass seed in late fall before snowfall.
I am not a farmer, but your channel caught my attention a few months ago. I watch every video now. I am a United States historian and professional genealogist. I am a retired youth counselor. I just wanted to say how much fun I am having watching your videos. You two are very informative. You are also a cute couple. :)
Hi guys it's great watching you work your farm 🚜 . Especially the cute black cat 🐈⬛️ I just laid my best-mate brownless a very black cat to rest after 13yrs . 😢 miss him . Keep it coming thanks for shearing your day
That's a long life for a cat on a farm. May he be at peace now.
Most husbands and wives say goodbye to each other in the morning then head off to work for the day, but Grant and Laura you have such a wonderful relationship I like the way Grant allows you to struggle with the motor across the fields, me I wouldn't do that I would take the heavy load and leave Laura with the tools etc. However Laura you don't allow your gender to get in the way and its equal share of the loads and jobs. I cannot get enough of you two on the farm doing your country an important service making a living while feeding the nation and from what we see of you both you are enjoying every minute of it. love you both keep it coming guys.
Farmers can do anything with nothing but bare hands and minimal supplies. My paw paw farmed, raised cattle horses chickens everything to be self sufficient. He used bailing wire to fix or temp fix everything from plows to windmills to bridles and bed frames. Amazing the ingenuity farmers have.
Lovely to see some North Wales summer weather in Nebraska.
Laura, you and Grant complement each other so well. It’s a pleasure seeing how you two work together (and individually) in a very challenging lifestyle. Those pivots really keep you busy!
Check the grass seed bag to see what percentage of seed is weed seed. If the percentage is high you may want to switch to one with less weeds. When you seed a blend of grasses, certain types of grass will only grow in cool weather. That's why landscapers overseed in spring and fall. With patience it should look nice by October.
A beautiful picture of rural America - great scenery
So for GREAT GRASS attention is the key. if you seed and let it dry out you fail, to many weeds you fail, not enough starter fertilizer you fail, to much water you fail. So for me in the state of Washington we use a mix of fescue and rye grass. I would check with your local horticulturalist what is the best mix for you in Nebraska or ask at the local golf course what they use for their fairway/rough mix. I always use trip 16 as my starter and I spray 2/4/d as my broad leaf killer apply with a boom sprayer and tank on the back of your quad. You could aerate your young lawn and over seed so the seed has a place to fall and thus won't dry out as easily. For water set a flat bottomed container with straight sides out and you want 1/2 to 3/4 an inch twice a day or more if your climate requires it. Try to stay off the grass until it is 4 inches tall for a first mowing. Young grass is fragile and breaks off easily. A small walk behind mower is best for the first cutting, your big ride on zero turn will crush and rip out the new grass when you turn. Pick up your first cuttings after it is established do as you please. If you always want green lush grass water and timely fertilizer is key but that can be expensive. A beautiful lawn is like snow just another way to spell WORK. not hat you don't already have enough of that. Best of luck and if you have any questions just ask.
I've watched enough farm videos to no that you folks and all farmers are the true jack of all trades. Thank you so much....
If your lawn grass just doesn't get you where you want, have a hydro-seeder redo your lawn with the seed mix you desire. Their system provides the seed cover, seed germination, seed starter fertilizer, rain detergent etc. To give you a speedy successful lawn. 😀
It's amazing how clean you bean field is - we always fought milk weeds and volunteer corn
16:29 I didn't realize they move that quickly, but it makes sense for the distance it has to cover. They seem pretty stationary as you blast by them on the highway at 60 MPH.
Kentucky Blue Grass...seed it thick and water it daily until it pops through. 😊
We use Cobalt Advanced for beetles in North Alabama.
I'm sitting here watching you enjoying rain while outside here it is pouring down. June was hot and dry. July is wet and cool.
Hello, for both of you, dear husband and wife, I was very pleased to see your farming videos, your tractor machinery and your hard work. I am also a farmer by profession. Cattle, sheep, dairy cattle, fresh vegetables, fresh fruits and live fish farm is my job. I wish you more and more life❤🎉❤
The seed you put on your yard is from Mt View Seed Company in Pratum, Oregon. It was tagged by some garden center in Texas but it is Oregon grass seed. They'd be happy to give you advice on your yard.
Farmers are the most well rounded most multi-disciplined people on earth - very few know or appreciate what it takes to be a farmer
(The grass seed varieties you planted start better when planted in the Fall or Spring.) Some will grow but Seed the lawn again in September with just a drop spreader. In the early spring, crabgrass preventer followed by post-emergent weed killer in June to kill any weeds left. Next fall you will have your golf course.
My philosophy, coming from the transportation construction world, is to paint the ground with seed. We also use a small amount of oats or rye to get some root structure right away as well as some shading to help keep the weeds down until the real grass seed can germinate and start to cover the dirt. As the oats mature you can mow them off before they set seed. Also try using some mulch like oat straw or a light e-mat to hold the moisture in the soil better. When we built our house I put e-mat around the perimeter of the house and that is where our lawn came in the best.
Congratulations from a Brazilian farmer !
Living in the Phoenix area where it's been 120 the last couple oi days it was so nice to see and hear your rain. Glad that you received water from the sky.. Thanks for the videos
"Agricultural mechanic" might be a better term than "farmer." You guys always find a way to fix. Continued success!!
Grant and Laura:
With all the carrying you have to do, I'd get a couple of old backpacks, strip off the outer covering and make a frame. Then you could strap the motor unit to the frame and carry it out to the pivot. Use a second backpack, leave the canvas outer covering on, and use it to carry the tools. You could carry more with a lot less effort as well as add extra bolts and nuts to the backpack so if you drop something you can just dig into the backpack and get a replacement. You could also add bolt removal tools to the backpack so if you get corroded bolts you just pull out the tools to fix the problem.
If you can't get a backpack to size, get some canvas, go to a harness maker and have them make the compartment to the size you want.
Walking through the fields after a rain means you'll be soaked but it's clean water so you only have to be uncomfortable while you dry off.
As for the lawn, maybe bringing in sod pieces will help. Hope everything continues to go well.
The old Green Army pack with frame you can get at an Army Surpluss store would work perfect for what you are suggestion.
Love following Laura and Grant on TH-cam, keep smiling and having fun farming in NEBRASKA!!
What I have learned from you LAURA is FARMERS are literally JACKS of all TRADES!!!!!!
RESPECT!!!!!!!!!! AND GRANT!!!!!!!!
Farmers are the jack-of-all-trades and masters of them all ! Grandpa used to say we live by the seat of our pants out here in Farm land USA 🇺🇸
leaping pedestals work well to ensure cats get the food, like tables. You simply put something stable the cat can walk up and jump from about 30 inches from a platform about 4 feet up they can land on. Then all you have to worry about is squirrels. So putting the food on top of an empty barrel and leaning a board up against a pair of nails in a joist a couple feet away will work fine. Skunks have a hell of a time with classic patio tables (hole in the center type) too.
So God made a Farmer. My son Donald and I like your videos. I've told him that this is where our food comes from. Thanks for being a farmer.
Love those old trucks have the same truck in a 4 door model bought it 5 years ago it pulls my landscape trailer every day. Mine has over 25000 miles and runs great
For the pivots apparently all need to move at the proper speed based on the circular arc they are traveling as closer to pivot center is slower speed. Makes the most sense to have different gears at tire/wheel drive boxes than different speed motors. Fun watching you fix stuff and do it entertainingly.
Bonjour Laura et Grant super video de la reparation du pivo bon week le soja a bien poussait il est beau
Learn something new each time you are on!😊
Fescue and blue grass are cool season grasses. They're not going to germinate and grow in the heat of summer. You should have spent the summer spraying for weeds and waited until September to seed the lawn.
Agreed, kind of like when you sow winter wheat.
Hate to be the one to point this out but Laura, you forgot to slide the knuckle covers back over the joint when you were finished 🤷♂🤷♂
Love watching you guys. Originally it was for the farming content but I have to admit, watching you two work as a couple/team is pretty heart-warming. It's nice watching a team in action :)
Was it starter fertilizer with mesotrione in it? That’s what I use on new seed lawns, it works really good and is a good pre emergent. After a few weeks you can use that again or at least hit the grass with another shot of starter fertilizer. Also don’t just water once a day, when you have grass seed like that you should be watering 2-3 times a day depending on how sunny and hot it is. You DO NOT want it to dry out because the seeds once they get wet and start to germinate if they dry out they are done for.
A good teaching on farming,once again!!
Thanks for sharing your soggy day...n.. keep Pepper happy..she looks like a good opponent in training for fights with the skunks!!
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My goodness. What a job. What a piece of equipment. At least this one didn’t take you all day like the one your worked on last year. But at least last year, you were getting a nice tan. Oh, BTW, that was a long walk with that heavy motor. I don’t think I could have done that. Good job guys.
And you guys need some hip waders for those rainy kinda days in the field!
Another successful repair of a pivot. Great job guys.
I wish we were getting rain here. My sweet corn I planted is so dry and my watermelons I watered the corn two days ago till water was standing you would not know it now.
Teams work well!! (Again!)😊
Laura, when a owned a Farm in New Hampshire (A Grass Farm, 4 acres of lawn to cut!) I would put Scott's Turf Builder plus 2 on it in the Fall and the grass would come up beautifully in the Spring and very few weeds! Hope this helps!
One of the best things you can do for grass is mow it often to the recommended height. That will thicken the grass and kill weeds. Do it often and keep the blades sharp! 👍♥️🦅❤️✝️🇺🇸
your lawn looks like a whole lot of purslane, the roundish succulent plant. wich is edible, and healthy. Try picking some and putting it on salad. Good stuff.
I've only just found your YT and love it!!!! Thank you so much for sharing:} I used to farm 100 years ago and have run pivots in Texas, Nebraska and Saudi:} My tractors and combines did not have any of the electronics so I would be fascinated if you have a video or could make one explaining how each of those Ipads work and what they show you while you work. Maybe you've already done one?????? Thank you again:}:}
Maybe an educational series of videos showing how the tractor works, all the controls and electronics/Ipads, , how the gps works, cultivation techniques. etc etc. I would love to learn about any of the new/current aspects of farming. I love everything you've put out so far.
so nice to see you guys working together in the field
A few things in regards to your lawn 1) Bluegrass and Fescue are slow to germinate and establish when compared to Rye. Fescue is the hardiest and most drought tolerant of the three main cool season varities, so you chose well, just give the grass time. 2) Be careful putting down fertilizer, and weed control during the heat of the summer, especially on a newly seeded lawn. The grass is under a lot of stress from the heat and it doesn't take much to burn out young grass 3) Same thing with crabgrass control, even though fescue and bluegrass are targeted by the crabgrass control, the newly seeded grass may be stunted. 3) Try to put down two applications of fertilizer in the fall once things cool down. One in mid mid-September another in mid- October. Try to find a fertilzer with slow release nitrogen and some phosphorous to help root development. 4) Try to put down liquid post-emergent weed control in mid-October. You will get better control than the granular products. I would add a surfactant to help the chemical stick to the waxy weeds 5) Next spring repeat what you did this fall. Fertilizing in late April and mid-May and applying post emergent weed control in early May. I would also add an application of pre-emergent crab grass control in early May. 6) Keep top 2" of soil moist, but not soaked. Even as things cool down this fall, keep watering until grass goes dormant in late October. Good luck and thank you for the great content.
Laura and Grant, how cool is that. That Milwaukee socket set is the one I sent Grant last year for his birthday. Note the spare chrome 10mm socket!!!!!!!!!!!! So fun to see you using it.
It's my birthday next month! 😊
Skunks can be a pain in the butt! They'll get into everything and kill chickens too. I live in PA. Amishland, middle of PA. But, there's lots of places for them to live. They have to be in old woodchuck hole. Or, under one of the buildings on your property.
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Awesome video Laura Farms.
you can order those battery terminals by the box full and have some around all the time
Rain pants sometimes would be a great investment Laura . We used to where rain coats and pants when priming tobacco. Smiles 😃 from 🇨🇦
Beast Mode Carrying that motor for that distance...
Gotta love new impact sockets eh grant
I don't know if I would have picked fescue for that lawn. I doesn't seem to do real well in direct sunlight and takes a lot of water. It also tends to grow in clumps rather than spreading out to form a lawn. Since you've got irrigation you might think about just getting bermuda sod. If you give it reasonable water it can take all the heat you can give it and it spreads better than fescue. Just my opinion. To be fair I live a lot further south than you do. I do enjoy these videos about day to day maintenance on the farm so keep up the good work!
In the Plains states, a lot of people plant a mix of fescue and Bermuda grass. The fescue does better in cooler weather, the Bermuda better in hot weather. Fescue can tolerate cold temperatures better, so it will get green earlier in the spring and stay green later into the fall, but it will tend to go dormant in really hot weather. Bermuda grass does not like cold temperatures, but will stay green in very hot temperatures in the summer when the fescue is partly dormant.
Bermuda is a warm season lawn. I think they would be better with a Kentucky Bluegrass and Perennial Ryegrass mix (or all one or the other)
Thank GOD. HE brings the rain. Congratulations!!!!!😊
Laura farms, are really good at what you do and because of your system's always improving, showcasing just how good you are,thank you.
Saw the article 10/11 did about two this week. Great stuff and fun to watch how you have built your channel while keeping the farm up.
Watching both of you is I am sure a inspiration for many. Totally admire what you both do everyday. If I did life over again I would be doing farming however all that cool equipment you have was probably not available back in the day. Do not know anything about corn till now a bit but I do know about grass and lawns. Just take care of the weeds for now. You should try planting it in fall or spring. Never summer its to hot. Seeing the seed by the tree is the evidence. Much respect tho :)
Thanks for another great video. It was interesting and enjoyable.
Thanks for showing us the repairs on the pivot. Interesting. Can understand that water and electricity are a bad mix. Those electric motors are heavy. They have hot sun on them also.
Not to bad to change out. Pretty straight forward repair except for the wiring. These irrigation systems get a lot of wear and tear that is for sure.
Really important to you and your crops in the Nebraska land.
Your yard looks not so good now but give it time and it will improve greatly. Just takes time.
Be careful around those skunks. They are not nice animals. Hopefully they will leave your car alone.
About it for now. Thanks for everything Laura and Grant.
The Iowa Farm Boy. Steve.
I’m from the Bronx NY. Love your channel! Reminds me of my old family farm in Jamaica! Of course not as big as yours but my great grand parents used to work that farm hard. They had animals and grew crops for the family and to sell in town. Always know some of us city folk appreciate what you guys do for the country! God Bless!
2-4-D broadleaf killer with crabgrass control for the lawn and more nitrogen fertilizer. Reseed the bare areas 👍👍
I really appreciate your teamwork.
For your lawn, get some. "Stella Maris", it helps get the bio in the soil going, will work wonders.
Love it when my two favorite farmers are in my morning. I'm so used to seeing Laura's pretty face matched up with her voice that I love to hear, I have to admit I was surprised to see Grant's young happy face instead haha. Pepper seems to be fitting right in on the farm and sure enjoys all the attention. We had a problem also with a young skunk a couple weeks ago who goit into the chicken yard and was stealing their food. One of the dogs got sprayed while we were showing it the door. Thanks for taking me along on todays adventure replacing the pivot motor. Laura, you mentioned the new busings were better and lasted longer. If it were automotve or tractor applications it would be because they were polyurethane. I recall reading that polyurethane can have problems associated with water where it can cause them to bubble. I'm wondering with the water involved with the pivot application, what is the material used for those bushings? Have a great weekend you two! Larry Central Valley, Ca.
I need that socket set😮
Skunks are black with white on top, Pepper is black with white underneath.
Maybe the skunks think Pepper is just a strange-looking sibling so they figure they can help themselves to the cat food.
Laura, I'm a tractor trailer driver for a local company and I've followed weather since I was a kid. Different weather fronts and Lows and High pressures which either brings rain or high heat. My suggestion is just follow the weather and not on news media.
*You have a lot of wild purslane growing. Which purslane is an edible wild plant. Could harvest some of that purslane to use on a salad.*
Plant fescue and fertilize in the fall. Early spring fertilize with pre emergent control. Repeat in 6 weeks. Post emergent with broadleaf weed control in late spring. Water 1” per week, long cycles if run off is not a problem to water deeply.
On the pivot drive shafts, I see there are boots to go over the flex couplings. Use them to protect the rubber spider from the sun.
Laura and Grant, another pivot adventure. Those beetles are a pest, if they don't strip the leave completely the crop shouldn't be effected. Do I remember a plane spraying your or dad's crops to kill the beetles last year?
Love to you both from Mike. ❤
I don't have a lawn anymore, but I used to use Weed-B-Gone mixed with a surfactant, and just walk the lawn and spray the individual weeds. I always found that the weed and feed types of granular fertilizers were better to help control the weeds after you got rid of the majority of them via spraying them individually. The other option, but it's a lot more expensive, is to use goat's blood. I had a neighbor that had it done, and his lawn had zero weeds. They mix it with something else, but I forget what it is. Probably the most effective, but the most expensive method.
Hey Laura, I remember Nebraska mud. Suggest you try wearing jungle boots, they're self draining. Made for muddy wet places. Take care of your feet!
Looks like you have a bunch of purslane where you want grass to grow. It's a common succulent and makes a decent addition to salads and is well known as a poverty food.
Spray your lawn with 2-4D once it matures more maybe next spring green up also frost seed the bare spots in the spring
NYC guy here ...love your channel and learning about all you do on a daily basis
That was great Laura and Grant thank you great explanations can't wait for next video.
I thought each wheel had its own motor. But this makes much more sense; one motor - less expense.
Plant your grass in early September for best results! Works every time!
As a cat lover, it is obvious that it is very content and satisfied, well done, human cat slave.
Have you two ever had a bug race? First thing you gotta do is draw a big Circle- 5,'6',~7' across (Big as you want *this is going to be the finish line). Then somewhere in the middle you draw a little Circle about 6" inches across (inside of this Circle is the starting area). Now all contenders what wants to race, they go out and find their beetle (No grasshoppers). When everyone is ready with a bug, then you put all of the bugs in the little 6"Circle. Now everybody gets outside of the big Circle, and THE RACE IS ON! There are some tactics. Bugs naturally want to Runaway from you. Get on away from the direction where your bug is heading [toward the finish line] and cheer him on from the direction that any of your opponent's bugs are headed for. Stay out of the big Circle- no blocking. No sand throwing neither. Blowing at an opponents' bug is acceptable. Stomping, Noise Making, All ACCEPTABLE... but NO SAND ! :P Any who fly out DISQUALIFIED!
Laura, you need to apply Tenacity herbicide (mesotrione) to kill the weeds in your lawn if the new grass is coming in still. If the new grass is already established then you should use PBI-Gordon Q4 Plus post emergent.
There is a solution to waiting for grass seed to create your lawn and fight through the weeds. It's called: laying sod. It may cost a little more up front, but the growers have already done the hardest work for you.
Provided the wires are easy or the same both ends to get at you can change two wires over either end to alter the Phase you can also buy Phase rotation testers
About now would be a good time to devise a way to strap the old pivot motors to the A-Frame for a ride out of the field. 😎
Well done,cracking teamwork!
Love Watching You Two Have Fun While You Work!😂 Helps The Day Be More Enjoyable!!
Keep Smiling On!!😄👍👊❤️
Never plant grass in the summer when weeds are prominent. Wait until very early fall and keep well watered. The grass should be well established before the first frost.
I've seeded a new yard and it takes some fairly intensive work for a few weeks to get it going. Your problem is you are planting a large area without any irrigation or straw cover to retain moisture. Spring and fall when temps are cool and dew is heavy really help establish a lawn. Had all of your grass sprouted and grown, it would have soon died from the hot sun and no or little rain. You actually have to keep the seed damp to sprout, then cool weather and light rain or sprinklers for the plant to grow and harden up. For your yard... about a dozen sprinklers ought to do it. Maybe 40 or 50 straw bales. If you use hay, the seeds within will sprout and will eventually die off with mowing.
'thank you' he says (staying in part). :)
nice designs
That "round leaf" stuff in your lawn looks like purslane. It's an edible weed and I know I've seen it served in the salad bar in the Chicago Board of Trade cafeteria. I wouldn't eat it if you've sprayed it, but it's got kind of a tangy/salty taste.
I'm wondering if you could build a shield to cover the motor and connection points to protect from the uv rays and water?
Hey Laura keep up the good job enjoy all uh videos very interesting🇹🇹😊
Trick to getting rusted bolts out would be a sharp chisel and a little PB Blaster, problem solved, on the nut side
Hope Pepper does well. Sorry about Scotty, still a good chance he'll return. I've had them disappear for six months at a time. Disappear in April . Come home with the cold winds of oct.
I follow your channel on my phone. That's all I have but on the small screen there doesn't seem to be much cover or places to go.
JUNK ! I love it when Grant uses a Dougoizm”When you know you know”
Grant, I'm with you on the truck matter. Hard to stick with one for more than just a few years. Laura, seems like sod will be your only option to get the golf course lawn you are hoping for without waiting too long for it.