Check out how I completely transformed my backyard from weeks to a lushes grass lawn. This how to grow grass #short shows the process in short form detail. #shorts #byotools
@@Yoursoul101 5-10k for what? A truckload of top soil here is like $300, you can rent a tiller and any tools you need. Your biggest expense is just time
I've gotten the same results by just dragging a spike tooth harrow around to loosen up the dirt, spreading the seed and then lightly raking it in. Then just keep it damp for about 10 to 14 days and walla.
You know some people actually like to enjoy their lawn that only takes a 1 time project rather than a constant effort to garden. Cleary you don't garden
@@ajbujorian the fact you got mad over someone liking fresh food throughout the warm months and think that a wasteful lawn is better, clearly YOU don’t garden
You’d have to dig up all those dominant grasses, I have the same issue in missouri I just let them grown whoever ever they are and then try my best to grow grass around it
@@TrippyWoodStockthat would be the opposite of a solution. Having a native grass lawn is a good thing, if you want Asian or European grasses in your lawn, move to Asia or Europe.
Alot of work i did the whole process took me and my wife 8 days straight..friday half day and 2 full days on the weekend..and during the week from 3:30pm-8pm finally seeing grass sprout after 2 weeks of watering..looks great keep it up
@@jamalhenra121693 yeah it sucks. You could have a yard full of native wildflowers but a lot of places will fine you if you don't keep your lawn well manicured.
No. I think you can just sprinkle in some fertilizer within the dirt. And if there hasn't been stuff growing there. Water the dirt for a couple days. Then rake in the seed@@marves15
that works if you have decent soil to begin with. in my HOT and DRY area just throwing seeds in will be about as successful throwing it on a concrete parking
...to bad you wasted all that work on grass that yields you nothing but more work, verses plants and vegetables that would have yielded you food and would have been so much more beneficial to you and others......
I just transformed my red-tide contributing, water hog of a Florida backyard into a food forest. We did the whole hand removal of weeds, seeding, fertilizing, etc with our lawn over the past 8 yrs. Our dogs destroyed portions of the lawn every winter when the grass went dormant. Over the last few years we've replaced 80% of our ornamental landscape with edible plants: bananas, papayas, pineapple, citrus trees, Florida cranberry, Cranberry hibiscus, blueberries, passion fruit, etc. We had a good size vegetable garden on the side of the house and eventually decided if it's not edible or beneficial it's not gonna be in our yard. We just put in another 100sf of beds with cattle panel trellis. It looks gorgeous. All the neighbors thought we were nuts, but now that it's finished with lighting and pathways they get it. It's like being in a botanical garden and the neighbors all reap the benefits with shared produce. The dogs love it. We kept a small area of grass for them to roll in and created a specific potty area for them that's much easier to maintain daily than searching the whole lawn for daily disposal. Residential grass is such a waste of water. The chemicals and fertilizer negatively impact the environment. From the mouth of Pete Kanatis pf Green Dreams, "don't be a grasshole!"
We did something similar. There's a bit of lawn left, but we found better solutions for our yard. Our supply of fresh herbs and vegetables makes us happy with our choices.
Down in Houston. People get real stuffy when I give helpful info. No common sense. A lawn is an artificial environment, kinda like an unruly child. New construction, 600k homes and after 1yr the lawn has returned to the weeds, invaders ready to re-establish and spoil the new laid lawn, usually Augustine. A heavy feeder and moisture lover. These new homeowners won't listen and have no hesitation to spray roundup, shave their lawn when it's dry and scorching hot and over mulch their tree flanks. But don't try to give them free advice, nobody listens to a woman on a bike. No people as dumb as city people.
Damn lol that's waaay tooo much work to grow grass😂. I'd simply put some Compost/fertilizer on soil, give it a good shoveling or mixing up and settling it down, putting some grass sprouts and watering it everyday.. Boom your lawn is ready within a month.
Bayonet drill instructor: "What makes my grass grow?" Trainee: "Blood and Guts Seargent!" "Blood and Guts!" This what we use to say in army basic training..
Horrible for your local ecosystem and you're fighting a battle against a plant that doesn't want to be where u probably put it. Grow natives instead, stop glorifying grass yards.
I’d love to make my yard beautiful but unfortunately in the place I rent all the neighborhood yards are infected with some vine/grass variant that kills regular grass by killing their roots and growing overtop regular grass. I’ve tried pulling them out but eventually they just regrow from both of the neighbor’s sides back into my lawn and destroys my work. I’ve decided to just let this yard be what it is and deal with it.
Oh, look at Mr. Lawn Lover, strutting around like he's the king of suburbia with his perfectly trimmed grass. Can't see the forest for the trees, can he? While he's busy playing gardener, the real beauty lies in the wild and untamed. But hey, some people just prefer their little green kingdoms over the vibrant chaos of nature. Suit yourself, Mr. Lawn Lover, while the rest of us embrace the wild side.
Grass is a type of plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. Their appearance as a common plant was in the mid-Cretaceous period. There are 12,000 species now.[3]A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in places such as lawns and parks. Grass is usually the color green. That is because they are wind-pollinated rather than insect-pollinated, so they do not have to attract insects. Green is the best colour for photosynthesis. Grasslands such as savannah and prairie where grasses are dominant cover 40.5% of the land area of the Earth, except Greenland and Antarctica.[4] Grasses are monocotyledon herbaceous plants. They include the "grass" of the family Poaceae, which are called grass by ordinary people. This family is also called the Gramineae, and includes some of the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae).[5] These three families are not very closely related, though all of them belong to clades in the order Poales. They are similar adaptations to a similar life-style. With about 780 genera and about 12,000 species,[3] the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family. Only the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae have more species.[6] The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Uses for graminoids include food (as grain, shoots or rhizomes), drink (beer, whisky), pasture for livestock, thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others. Many grasses are short, but some grasses can grow tall, such as bamboo. Plants from the grass family can grow in many places and make grasslands, including areas which are very arid or cold. There are several other plants that look similar to grass and are referred to as such, but are not members of the grass family. These plants include rushes, reeds, papyrus and water chestnut. Seagrass is a monocot in the order Alismatales. Grasses are an important food for many animals, such as deer, buffalo, cattle, mice, grasshoppers, caterpillars and many other grazers. Unlike other plants, grasses grow from the bottom, so when animals eat grass they usually do not destroy the part that grows.[7] This is a part of why the plants are successful. Without grass, soil may wash away into rivers (erosion).
If you buy lawn soil you dont need any kind of pre or post emergent because it already comes with it in the mix. I dont have one weed in my lawn since I used lawn soil. StayGreen brand or Scotts they both have it in the mix.
Can't wait for the day grass lawns have finally gone out of style. They're pretty and convenient but our planet is dying under our feet and literally every animal including our pets is better off with native biodiverse landscaping
Luckily, people who think having a green carpet around their house, that requires thousands of gallons of water every week, is beautiful are increasingly becoming a minority. Having a variety of native plants, in which wildlife can thrive instead of die, and doesn't require an insane amount of regular watering, is what all the cool kids are doing.
You must not be aware that in the Pacific Northwest it rains so much they have moss growing on their roofs. No one waters their grass. I live in the northeast, same thing. We never water. Maybe stop repeating nonsense that you hear when you don’t understand things.
@@frisco61 why are you so angry? Who hurt you? Also, unlike you, I don't talk about things I know nothing about. Just because something is true where you live, doesn't make it so for most people. It is a fact that Americans use about 9 billion gallons a day just to irritate their lawns, but regardless, my comment wasn't even about water. It was about us destroying our native grasslands in favor of monocultural grass lawns that don't like or want to grow here, so we dump endless amounts of water and chemicals to keep them on constant life support while destroying native habitats of other plants, insects and animals, all because we were led to believe having a flat empty green space around our house is pretty.
@@frisco61you must not be aware that the Pacific Northwest is a fraction of the whole population 😂 also as someone from the Pacific Northwest…you know rainfall hasn’t been crazy lately at least in my area. My grass is fine up until summer hits then it definitely struggles in 28-35c
@@TheOnlyKontrol That has nothing to do with the fact that people as the OP automatically see the whole US as Southern California or Arizona with no awareness that there are a lot of places in the US where “water shortages” are not a thing in fact we have too much water so we spend time diverting it away from our houses so our basements don’t flood. We never water our grass, ever. It stays green year round even under the snow. So yeah, we’re going to have a lawn. I’m tired of the constant “The sky is falling.” The water we use here affects no one, because all our excess goes right back into the water table, it flows into the rivers, etc. I think those people think that the entirety of the US sits on one giant pool of water that everyone uses up lol. Last thing, if environmentalists were serious, they’d start going after people who choose to live in places are unfit for human habitation. Like the damn desserts of Arizona and Nevada and Southern California, etc. That do not have sufficient water and instead must rely on artificial means like Lake Mead etc. it’s ridiculous.
Corporations have done such a good job at training us to throw our money away while also trashing the environment. Meadows are so much prettier and they support the food web that we humans depend on.
That looks nasty bro i hate lawns honestly they are the bane of human existence imagine taking care of something that doesn't take care of you just costs you money doesn't even make you nothing but a bill at the end of the month. If only people started to think instead of follow 😂💀
Yeah it sucks. That’s like crabgrass or somethin I think. Not really a lawn, just grassy looking weeds. Gotta pull the roots otherwise if you cut or mowed they’d just keep growing with more rain.
have fun with your non-native monoculture crop that doesn't actually provide any benefits to yourself or the ecosystem. you could *easily* replace this with native clovers and wildflowers have have something significantly more visually appealing and non detrimental to your local ecosystems
Oh ok. What have YOU done for our environment in your garden? I’m sick of these comments. Get off your high horse. I have a gorgeous 3 strain kbg lawn from a high end cultivar, beautiful grass really, just gorgeous. The entire border of my property is filled with local wildflowers and other flowers I like, not including the other several garden beds, I have enough raised beds to produce enough food for multiple families, and I have several fruit trees. I have thousands of flowers, there are bees, bumblebees, birds, and other bugs everywhere. I also do my own composting and produce several cubic yards of it on a yearly basis. How many plants did you plant this week? This year? Your life? Keep judging others though.
I'll help you 😊 Grass is a type of plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. Their appearance as a common plant was in the mid-Cretaceous period. There are 12,000 species now. [1] A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in places such as lawns and parks. Grass is usually the color green. That is because they are wind-pollinated rather than insect-pollinated, so they do not have to attract insects. Green is the best colour for photosynthesis. Grasslands such as savannah and prairie where grasses are dominant cover 40.5% of the land area of the Earth, except Greenland and Antarctica.[2] Grasses are monocotyledon herbaceous plants. They include the "grass" of the family Poaceae, which are called grass by ordinary people. This family is also called the Gramineae, and includes some of the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae).[3] These three families are not very closely related, though all of them belong to clades in the order Poales. They are similar adaptations to a similar life-style. With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species,[1] the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family, after the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae.[4] The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Uses for graminoids include food (as grain, sprouted grain, shoots or rhizomes), drink (beer, whisky), pasture for livestock, thatching thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others. Many grasses are short, but some grasses can grow tall, such as bamboo. Plants from the grass family can grow in many places and make grasslands, including areas which are very arid or cold. There are several other plants that look similar to grass and are referred to as such, but are not members of the grass family. These plants include rushes, reeds, papyrus and water chestnut. Seagrass is a monocot in the order Alismatales. Grasses are an important food for many animals, such as deer, buffalo, cattle, mice, grasshoppers, caterpillars and many other grazers. Unlike other plants, grasses grow from the bottom, so when animals eat grass they usually do not destroy the part that grows.[5] This is a part of why the plants are successful. Without grass, soil may wash away into rivers (erosion).
Looks nice, but sad. Such a space is ripe for abundance of food, flowers, herbs, medicines, and wildlife….but the bare green lawn looks like all your neighbors now 👍
How to transform a beat up old house into a beautiful new house in 2 easy steps! Step one: I tore down the old, beat up house. Step two: I paid a contractor 250 thousand dollars to build a brand new house. The results are amazing!!
I've got a lot of sad yard... Just going to buy a few ounces of wildflower seeds, sprinkle some on the soil at the beginning of winter so that they've got plenty of time to germinate, and turn those sad patches into something cool to look at, low-cost, and eco-friendly.
NOOOO! NOOOO! Not plant nasty grass, mow nasty grass, weed nasty grass! Plant NATIVE PRAIRIE PLANTS! Less water required, less money and work, more beauty and variety of LIFE.
What a waste of space, money and work! Make a flower garden for pollinators, plant native prairie grasses, EVEN JUST A VEGGIE GARDEN! Anything but turf with 3-inch roots.
I'd re did my lawn and let me tell you it's a lot of work just for 425 ft² Update: feb 16th 2023 Just to follow up my grass has stayed completly green all winter.
@@Whatsgoodeverybody I live in Seattle area the Puget Sound region so I use what's called Scotts Northwest blend and these are blue coated grass seed.. Suppose to be blended for wet weather and shade.
I’m in dry hot humid weather here in the south around Tn, Nc,Sc and Ga area. What would you recommend to use? I thought about using centipede grass seeds for the yard but I also heard of the weather gets tooooo hot it would kill the grass if I use that type of grass seeds
So much easier to do in the PNW. Try living in TX. I was born and raised in WA state but am currently in TX and growing anything here in Summer is rough. Plus I'm really not into monoculture lawns but that's just me!!
What an absolute waste. Unless you’re grazing animals on it, what purpose does a lawn serve? Somewhere to throw money and chemicals at the environment? So people can drive by and say “wow that a lawn”? 🤦♀️
Your lawn was a _"beautiful _*_sexy_*_ beast"?!?_ You sayin' you look at that lawn, and *having **_sex_** with grass blades* comes to your mind?! People are strange.
We did the same thing on our 40,000 Sq ft property. But instead of growing grass which is useless. We grew flowers and produce which serves a purpose. Grass is the mosquito of the plant world. Useless
Ive done this in my yard 3 times and got nowhere, i spent a small fortune, broke my back and watched squirrels and every bird in my state just rip everything to pieces!!!!😢
That's just too much work for me... I covered everything with cardboard then covered with leaves, let sit over winter then landscaped trees ,perennials, bulbs and flowers, then its done.
Dude shoulda left the existing turf and just overseed and top dress with bags of Compro. Bulk inputs are low quality versus bagged products-easier to distribute too. Core aerate in the fall and overseed again. Doing it this way wastes a lot of resources and disrupts natural soil habitat. Fyi-top soil = sand and dyed wood product.
Monoculture grass lawn. How milque toast and useless. These monoculture (non native) grass lawns are thr #1 reason our militantly suburban areas are so devoid of even the smallest wildlife and our soil temperatures are soaring. But go ahead and continue contributing to the ongoing climate disaster on every level you possibly can including making the most heinously unenvironmentally friendly lawn you can.
Full tutorial HERE:
th-cam.com/video/DRz2X5HjTcA/w-d-xo.html
Cost?
Did you fix your own lawn like a big boy?
@@LostCause187why so rude ..are you jealous
What time of year was it
Cost? Again
Step 1. Have money
Thats all i could think about
Step 2; have a 20yr old back an knees
Lmao. I wish they'd address this first. That had to be like 5 or 10k usd
@@Yoursoul101 5-10k for what? A truckload of top soil here is like $300, you can rent a tiller and any tools you need. Your biggest expense is just time
@@itsNep_ The only way this would be cheaper is if you grew the grass seed yourself lol.
First I removed all weeds...
"Removed entire yard" LMAO
nice vid bro that's a cool project
He said by hand too. Like man c’mon
You take time for what you find important.
I've gotten the same results by just dragging a spike tooth harrow around to loosen up the dirt, spreading the seed and then lightly raking it in. Then just keep it damp for about 10 to 14 days and walla.
"Walla" lol
Voilà
I like walla better lol
THANK U!!!
You lost me when you brought a truck of soil:)
😂😂😂😂😂
Next video: "I transformed my unproductive, sad lawn into a beautiful food forest"
Or native wildflowers (aka "weeds")
Lol. Lawns are a waste of time and resources.
You know some people actually like to enjoy their lawn that only takes a 1 time project rather than a constant effort to garden. Cleary you don't garden
@Bujo once established, a food forest requires minimum effort to keep producing so not sure what ur saying pipsqueek
@@ajbujorian the fact you got mad over someone liking fresh food throughout the warm months and think that a wasteful lawn is better, clearly YOU don’t garden
After moving to Montana, I learned my "lawn" is basically prairie grass and will dominate over "lawn". 😊 The wildlife like it this way.
You’d have to dig up all those dominant grasses, I have the same issue in missouri I just let them grown whoever ever they are and then try my best to grow grass around it
Only an issue 6 months out of the year.
@@TrippyWoodStockthat would be the opposite of a solution. Having a native grass lawn is a good thing, if you want Asian or European grasses in your lawn, move to Asia or Europe.
@@CrowofJudgement461that’s gotta be the stupidest comment I’ve ever received. I’m gonna plant whatever grass I want. You move out of the country 😂
@TrippyWoodStock its a crow dude...
Alot of work i did the whole process took me and my wife 8 days straight..friday half day and 2 full days on the weekend..and during the week from 3:30pm-8pm finally seeing grass sprout after 2 weeks of watering..looks great keep it up
Meanwhile im here in my garden trying to get rid of grass 🙃
I looove clover
@@RingoMcBingo that's one of the plants I am working on replacing my grass with hahaha
@@Darkfyre755stop feeding the lawn and get it trampled in it'll slow down the grass the clover will take over
Ditto.
I recommend replacing with creeping thyme thats one of my plans
Ironically, I just watched a short by a guy who restores native grasslands.
Was just about to say something about this. Tbh it really is sad how we're destroying nature for boring grass
same, was going to comment abt it
I'm glad there's people who feel this way! It's a shame grass lawns are the norm..
@@jamalhenra121693 yeah it sucks. You could have a yard full of native wildflowers but a lot of places will fine you if you don't keep your lawn well manicured.
@@jamalhenra121693 what should he do instead?
I made the same transformation, but just spread seed and raked it in. Total cost $30 for seed.😊
Yeah...^^^This.
Lol, This is what im planning to do. Do u really need to buy a topsoil?
No. I think you can just sprinkle in some fertilizer within the dirt. And if there hasn't been stuff growing there. Water the dirt for a couple days. Then rake in the seed@@marves15
@@marves15depends on the health of the soil in ur garden already, most of the time it will be ok
that works if you have decent soil to begin with. in my HOT and DRY area just throwing seeds in will be about as successful throwing it on a concrete parking
...to bad you wasted all that work on grass that yields you nothing but more work, verses plants and vegetables that would have yielded you food and would have been so much more beneficial to you and others......
What a waste could of had a banging garden
How to grow grass poorly should be the title of the video
Great job, you were fortunate to have a level lawn. Having slopes can add add few problems to putting in a lawn.
I just transformed my red-tide contributing, water hog of a Florida backyard into a food forest. We did the whole hand removal of weeds, seeding, fertilizing, etc with our lawn over the past 8 yrs. Our dogs destroyed portions of the lawn every winter when the grass went dormant. Over the last few years we've replaced 80% of our ornamental landscape with edible plants: bananas, papayas, pineapple, citrus trees, Florida cranberry, Cranberry hibiscus, blueberries, passion fruit, etc. We had a good size vegetable garden on the side of the house and eventually decided if it's not edible or beneficial it's not gonna be in our yard. We just put in another 100sf of beds with cattle panel trellis. It looks gorgeous. All the neighbors thought we were nuts, but now that it's finished with lighting and pathways they get it. It's like being in a botanical garden and the neighbors all reap the benefits with shared produce. The dogs love it. We kept a small area of grass for them to roll in and created a specific potty area for them that's much easier to maintain daily than searching the whole lawn for daily disposal.
Residential grass is such a waste of water. The chemicals and fertilizer negatively impact the environment.
From the mouth of Pete Kanatis pf Green Dreams, "don't be a grasshole!"
Wooww well done, man. I hope I get the chance to do things like that someday.
@@waltino81 I care
We did something similar. There's a bit of lawn left, but we found better solutions for our yard. Our supply of fresh herbs and vegetables makes us happy with our choices.
Wish you had documented your journey. I would watch that channel in a heartbeat!
Down in Houston. People get real stuffy when I give helpful info. No common sense. A lawn is an artificial environment, kinda like an unruly child. New construction, 600k homes and after 1yr the lawn has returned to the weeds, invaders ready to re-establish and spoil the new laid lawn, usually Augustine. A heavy feeder and moisture lover. These new homeowners won't listen and have no hesitation to spray roundup, shave their lawn when it's dry and scorching hot and over mulch their tree flanks. But don't try to give them free advice, nobody listens to a woman on a bike. No people as dumb as city people.
Damn lol that's waaay tooo much work to grow grass😂.
I'd simply put some Compost/fertilizer on soil, give it a good shoveling or mixing up and settling it down, putting some grass sprouts and watering it everyday..
Boom your lawn is ready within a month.
I know what makes the grass grow.
Blood, blood, blood.
Bayonet drill instructor:
"What makes my grass grow?"
Trainee:
"Blood and Guts Seargent!"
"Blood and Guts!"
This what we use to say in army basic training..
Hooah!!
That extra iron is sure to give grass a nice dark green color.
Could have just used clover and had it looking nicer for much less effort.
lawns no good. put in flowers or food
Or just allow native plants to take the space back over.
@@MrMonoposon yes!!
No
I bet people who say this shit live in apartments with no garden.
Maybe HE DOESN’T WANT TO. Lawn Nazi.
I went to Sneed's Feed and Seed (Formerly Chuck's) and they hooked me up with everything I needed to re grow my lawn!
Horrible for your local ecosystem and you're fighting a battle against a plant that doesn't want to be where u probably put it. Grow natives instead, stop glorifying grass yards.
I agree
This is an insane amount of work and expense just to have some grass, P.S. The weeds will come back.
Why would they come back, he ripped the roots
I actually watched a video of a dude growing a lawn. I must be high. Yep, I'm high alright.
Fucking same 😂😂
Me roo😂
Looks awful
I’d love to make my yard beautiful but unfortunately in the place I rent all the neighborhood yards are infected with some vine/grass variant that kills regular grass by killing their roots and growing overtop regular grass. I’ve tried pulling them out but eventually they just regrow from both of the neighbor’s sides back into my lawn and destroys my work. I’ve decided to just let this yard be what it is and deal with it.
Done all this isn't a easy task to complete is a lot heavy labor involved look nice btw 👍👍👍
I feel you on that soil.. I had to fill 750 25gallon fabric pots with only a wheel barrel. Shit was rough
Veggiez, or 'veggiez'?
How much did you spend on this project ?
Oh, look at Mr. Lawn Lover, strutting around like he's the king of suburbia with his perfectly trimmed grass. Can't see the forest for the trees, can he? While he's busy playing gardener, the real beauty lies in the wild and untamed. But hey, some people just prefer their little green kingdoms over the vibrant chaos of nature. Suit yourself, Mr. Lawn Lover, while the rest of us embrace the wild side.
What's really bothering you? 😂
All that and you’re not even growing food 🤦♂️
...mmm you should have ran the rototiller on the old soil first before adding in the new soil !
I would just have some sod on this yard instant lawn less hassle.
You should have boosted the local wilderness instead...
Too much work for a Single MOM!! 😂😂
The birds were very nice to your grass seed.
He put hay on top of seeds so the birds didn't see them 😂
The video should be named, "How to spend thousands of dollars and many hours to transform your yard from dirt to grass"
I'm getting rid of my grass and adding wildflowers and clovers
Less monoculture, more native plants
All that energy for something you can’t eat
Grass is a type of plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. Their appearance as a common plant was in the mid-Cretaceous period. There are 12,000 species now.[3]A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in places such as lawns and parks. Grass is usually the color green. That is because they are wind-pollinated rather than insect-pollinated, so they do not have to attract insects. Green is the best colour for photosynthesis.
Grasslands such as savannah and prairie where grasses are dominant cover 40.5% of the land area of the Earth, except Greenland and Antarctica.[4]
Grasses are monocotyledon herbaceous plants. They include the "grass" of the family Poaceae, which are called grass by ordinary people. This family is also called the Gramineae, and includes some of the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae).[5] These three families are not very closely related, though all of them belong to clades in the order Poales. They are similar adaptations to a similar life-style.
With about 780 genera and about 12,000 species,[3] the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family. Only the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae have more species.[6]
The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Uses for graminoids include food (as grain, shoots or rhizomes), drink (beer, whisky), pasture for livestock, thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others.
Many grasses are short, but some grasses can grow tall, such as bamboo. Plants from the grass family can grow in many places and make grasslands, including areas which are very arid or cold. There are several other plants that look similar to grass and are referred to as such, but are not members of the grass family. These plants include rushes, reeds, papyrus and water chestnut. Seagrass is a monocot in the order Alismatales.
Grasses are an important food for many animals, such as deer, buffalo, cattle, mice, grasshoppers, caterpillars and many other grazers. Unlike other plants, grasses grow from the bottom, so when animals eat grass they usually do not destroy the part that grows.[7] This is a part of why the plants are successful. Without grass, soil may wash away into rivers (erosion).
That was painful overkill.
Then the next year, Pre and Post emergents. Or all of the weeds will be back.
If you buy lawn soil you dont need any kind of pre or post emergent because it already comes with it in the mix. I dont have one weed in my lawn since I used lawn soil. StayGreen brand or Scotts they both have it in the mix.
Can't wait for the day grass lawns have finally gone out of style. They're pretty and convenient but our planet is dying under our feet and literally every animal including our pets is better off with native biodiverse landscaping
Well, not the type of grass I was expecting...
Luckily, people who think having a green carpet around their house, that requires thousands of gallons of water every week, is beautiful are increasingly becoming a minority. Having a variety of native plants, in which wildlife can thrive instead of die, and doesn't require an insane amount of regular watering, is what all the cool kids are doing.
You must not be aware that in the Pacific Northwest it rains so much they have moss growing on their roofs. No one waters their grass. I live in the northeast, same thing. We never water.
Maybe stop repeating nonsense that you hear when you don’t understand things.
@@frisco61 why are you so angry? Who hurt you?
Also, unlike you, I don't talk about things I know nothing about. Just because something is true where you live, doesn't make it so for most people. It is a fact that Americans use about 9 billion gallons a day just to irritate their lawns, but regardless, my comment wasn't even about water. It was about us destroying our native grasslands in favor of monocultural grass lawns that don't like or want to grow here, so we dump endless amounts of water and chemicals to keep them on constant life support while destroying native habitats of other plants, insects and animals, all because we were led to believe having a flat empty green space around our house is pretty.
@@frisco61you must not be aware that the Pacific Northwest is a fraction of the whole population 😂 also as someone from the Pacific Northwest…you know rainfall hasn’t been crazy lately at least in my area. My grass is fine up until summer hits then it definitely struggles in 28-35c
@@TheOnlyKontrol That has nothing to do with the fact that people as the OP automatically see the whole US as Southern California or Arizona with no awareness that there are a lot of places in the US where “water shortages” are not a thing in fact we have too much water so we spend time diverting it away from our houses so our basements don’t flood. We never water our grass, ever. It stays green year round even under the snow. So yeah, we’re going to have a lawn.
I’m tired of the constant “The sky is falling.” The water we use here affects no one, because all our excess goes right back into the water table, it flows into the rivers, etc. I think those people think that the entirety of the US sits on one giant pool of water that everyone uses up lol.
Last thing, if environmentalists were serious, they’d start going after people who choose to live in places are unfit for human habitation. Like the damn desserts of Arizona and Nevada and Southern California, etc. That do not have sufficient water and instead must rely on artificial means like Lake Mead etc. it’s ridiculous.
This had to be expensive, and no way its worth it.
You should roll after you put the seed down
sad to see another ecosystem become a lame lawn devoid of life
Corporations have done such a good job at training us to throw our money away while also trashing the environment. Meadows are so much prettier and they support the food web that we humans depend on.
If I water 2s a day I'd A... get a letter warning me that it's no aloud..and B have a water bill of 1000000$$ 😂😂❤
You need to move out of the desert then 😊
And this is why he doesn’t need a gym membership !!
That looks nasty bro i hate lawns honestly they are the bane of human existence imagine taking care of something that doesn't take care of you just costs you money doesn't even make you nothing but a bill at the end of the month.
If only people started to think instead of follow 😂💀
I've never seen someone so offended by grass
Lol. I'm not sure which is worse, concrete or grass lawns.
It's true. Keeping up with the Jones is Archaic.
@@packletackle9047 😂😂
@@christopherscott8853 you know concrete has a purpose, right?
Guys this dude just removed his existing lawn BY EFFING HAND
Yeah it sucks. That’s like crabgrass or somethin I think. Not really a lawn, just grassy looking weeds. Gotta pull the roots otherwise if you cut or mowed they’d just keep growing with more rain.
You turned it into a natural garden with native plants into a small monoculture grass garden that's probably non native. Terrible job.
How to grow grass: Don't
It happens naturally one way or another, might as well make it look nice.
have fun with your non-native monoculture crop that doesn't actually provide any benefits to yourself or the ecosystem. you could *easily* replace this with native clovers and wildflowers have have something significantly more visually appealing and non detrimental to your local ecosystems
Lots of wokeness in your comment. I am fairly confident the ecosystem will survive one mans backyard.
Oh ok. What have YOU done for our environment in your garden? I’m sick of these comments. Get off your high horse. I have a gorgeous 3 strain kbg lawn from a high end cultivar, beautiful grass really, just gorgeous. The entire border of my property is filled with local wildflowers and other flowers I like, not including the other several garden beds, I have enough raised beds to produce enough food for multiple families, and I have several fruit trees. I have thousands of flowers, there are bees, bumblebees, birds, and other bugs everywhere. I also do my own composting and produce several cubic yards of it on a yearly basis. How many plants did you plant this week? This year? Your life? Keep judging others though.
So in food shortage..you can graze all that grass? Yummy
💯🤣
You have food shortage?
Wow that is a lot of work! My back hurt just watching this but it look amazing 😮
25000 later green grass lol
Lots of work just for grass😂
Take that native plant and animals!
I'll help you 😊
Grass is a type of plant with narrow leaves growing from the base. Their appearance as a common plant was in the mid-Cretaceous period. There are 12,000 species now. [1]
A common kind of grass is used to cover the ground in places such as lawns and parks. Grass is usually the color green. That is because they are wind-pollinated rather than insect-pollinated, so they do not have to attract insects. Green is the best colour for photosynthesis.
Grasslands such as savannah and prairie where grasses are dominant cover 40.5% of the land area of the Earth, except Greenland and Antarctica.[2]
Grasses are monocotyledon herbaceous plants. They include the "grass" of the family Poaceae, which are called grass by ordinary people. This family is also called the Gramineae, and includes some of the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae).[3] These three families are not very closely related, though all of them belong to clades in the order Poales. They are similar adaptations to a similar life-style.
With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species,[1] the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family, after the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae.[4]
The true grasses include cereals, bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Uses for graminoids include food (as grain, sprouted grain, shoots or rhizomes), drink (beer, whisky), pasture for livestock, thatching thatch, paper, fuel, clothing, insulation, construction, sports turf, basket weaving and many others.
Many grasses are short, but some grasses can grow tall, such as bamboo. Plants from the grass family can grow in many places and make grasslands, including areas which are very arid or cold. There are several other plants that look similar to grass and are referred to as such, but are not members of the grass family. These plants include rushes, reeds, papyrus and water chestnut. Seagrass is a monocot in the order Alismatales.
Grasses are an important food for many animals, such as deer, buffalo, cattle, mice, grasshoppers, caterpillars and many other grazers. Unlike other plants, grasses grow from the bottom, so when animals eat grass they usually do not destroy the part that grows.[5] This is a part of why the plants are successful. Without grass, soil may wash away into rivers (erosion).
Damn i wish i had that space, definitely wouldn’t make it a lawn
Urban desert vibes 🛣
This man has too much time and energy.
Looks nice, but sad. Such a space is ripe for abundance of food, flowers, herbs, medicines, and wildlife….but the bare green lawn looks like all your neighbors now 👍
How to transform a beat up old house into a beautiful new house in 2 easy steps! Step one: I tore down the old, beat up house. Step two: I paid a contractor 250 thousand dollars to build a brand new house. The results are amazing!!
Tilling is a great way to drum up those weeds you thought you pulled out. Also top soil isn’t for enriching it’s for grading.
I've got a lot of sad yard... Just going to buy a few ounces of wildflower seeds, sprinkle some on the soil at the beginning of winter so that they've got plenty of time to germinate, and turn those sad patches into something cool to look at, low-cost, and eco-friendly.
NOOOO! NOOOO! Not plant nasty grass, mow nasty grass, weed nasty grass! Plant NATIVE PRAIRIE PLANTS! Less water required, less money and work, more beauty and variety of LIFE.
What a waste of space, money and work! Make a flower garden for pollinators, plant native prairie grasses, EVEN JUST A VEGGIE GARDEN! Anything but turf with 3-inch roots.
All this money and effort for something you can’t even eat😅😂😅😂 what a waste. Grow a garden bro.
I would just overseed it in early fall , spread peat moss over the new seeds and water twice a day.
❌ WRONG!!! Don’t plant grass! Screw monoculture! Grow a wildflower garden, vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, drought tolerant plants. Literally anything BUT GRASS 🤦🏼♂️
HAHAHA. Dude, I literally just dig it up and transplant...this is INSANE. What a waste of time and your back I'm sorry to say.
Can U come to my place and do the same thing...but I live in Australia...
Free accommodation...at My place...
What a waste... Just water and seed would've done the same thing....
as soon as the truck whent it reverse it blew away my budget
I'd re did my lawn and let me tell you it's a lot of work just for 425 ft²
Update: feb 16th 2023
Just to follow up my grass has stayed completly green all winter.
*2023
@@Tazzyone. I've corrected the year thank you..
What grass seeds you used?
@@Whatsgoodeverybody I live in Seattle area the Puget Sound region so I use what's called Scotts Northwest blend and these are blue coated grass seed.. Suppose to be blended for wet weather and shade.
I’m in dry hot humid weather here in the south around Tn, Nc,Sc and Ga area. What would you recommend to use? I thought about using centipede grass seeds for the yard but I also heard of the weather gets tooooo hot it would kill the grass if I use that type of grass seeds
So much easier to do in the PNW. Try living in TX. I was born and raised in WA state but am currently in TX and growing anything here in Summer is rough. Plus I'm really not into monoculture lawns but that's just me!!
What an absolute waste. Unless you’re grazing animals on it, what purpose does a lawn serve? Somewhere to throw money and chemicals at the environment? So people can drive by and say “wow that a lawn”? 🤦♀️
Sad waste of land and money .50 bareroot fruit trees wouldve been cheaper and guess what ya get from them?But, yeah...grass.....
Your lawn was a _"beautiful _*_sexy_*_ beast"?!?_ You sayin' you look at that lawn, and *having **_sex_** with grass blades* comes to your mind?! People are strange.
wow grass, how unique, very impressive, only every single house in the US has grass
We did the same thing on our 40,000 Sq ft property. But instead of growing grass which is useless. We grew flowers and produce which serves a purpose. Grass is the mosquito of the plant world. Useless
I did the same thing except I didn’t put anything over the seed. Big problem, my backyard was coved in birds, they ate all my seed. Funny now.
Ive done this in my yard 3 times and got nowhere, i spent a small fortune, broke my back and watched squirrels and every bird in my state just rip everything to pieces!!!!😢
That's just too much work for me... I covered everything with cardboard then covered with leaves, let sit over winter then landscaped trees ,perennials, bulbs and flowers, then its done.
beautiful! better than the plastic grass I've seen in shorts.
guessing the customer paid for that one ......LOL yeah your going to need idk 10 yards to level this ........ XD
When watering 2x's a week...for how long do you water it? 15 minutes? Half hour? More?
Dude shoulda left the existing turf and just overseed and top dress with bags of Compro. Bulk inputs are low quality versus bagged products-easier to distribute too. Core aerate in the fall and overseed again. Doing it this way wastes a lot of resources and disrupts natural soil habitat. Fyi-top soil = sand and dyed wood product.
Monoculture grass lawn. How milque toast and useless. These monoculture (non native) grass lawns are thr #1 reason our militantly suburban areas are so devoid of even the smallest wildlife and our soil temperatures are soaring. But go ahead and continue contributing to the ongoing climate disaster on every level you possibly can including making the most heinously unenvironmentally friendly lawn you can.
You should have done clovers last longer needs less water and the coverage is amazing
How much lime and fertilizer did you use for your property? Also, how big is your property? Thanks
All that wasted space. Nothing living there but a monoculture of grass. Grasshole.
It looks easy, but obviously, it isn't an easy task to complete, and a bunch of hard labor and money investment in a job like this
Nice job 👍👍👍👍
I'm here because my Husky destroyed my backyard. She is obsessed with digging and tearing up old grass roots. 🙃
Excuse me sir
“Yes?”
How did you grow grass?!
“Dirt grass seed water and sunshine”
No f way gtfoh that’s insane dawg