My plan in renovating the test plot with 100% KBG is to do away with mechanical aeration for this area. KBG spreads and fills in very nice so I am going to attempt to maintain this patch if grass without core aeration and over seeding...
It is hard not to smile when I see how much Pete genuinely enjoys being out in the lawn on his equipment. He does this all day for his business and comes home and does it there. He seems to really have found his true calling. Few of us can say they enjoy their vocation this much!!
Don't get how this will answer my question below. I just wanted to know if you think its to late to plant tall fescue. I thought this video shows you aerating the test plot? I'm confused.
That Stinger with the overseed attachment kit is some kind of cool! Excited to see how the Blue Heat does alongside your TFFF and Midnight test plot. Thanks for all the updates Pete!
Wow Pete 800PSI crazy! You can see near your tree line just how much greener your test plot is. Amazing what a little bit of shade in a drought can do even with no irrigation! Great vid, looking forward to your results on this and you office property! Chad Upstate NY
Raining now in Southern Indiana just seeding my Lawn with Tall fescue mix,tried aeration with a pull behind using weight and the ground was so hard it didn't do much it was like concrete will try again after this rain in a few days.
Hey are you going to revisit this idea for redoing the test pot with Blue Heat and putting in a irrigation system with doing away with the ditch? I am thinking about doing away with my ditch in my front yard. And you know we love renovation projects!!!
Man it would be so nice to have yard equipment like you have it would make yard work so much better and by the way my new GCI turf grass is coming up pretty good 😀thank you Pete
Pete my Billy Goat plugger was hopping like a jack rabbit but I persisted. It pulled plugs about the same size as that Stinger and did not break the machine in the process. GCI fescue went down afterwards.
Thanks for sharing what psi and depth your getting, its helpful for sure. Ive been running 600 psi and after 2 days of solid rain some yards are still only getting 2-3 inches and you can see the dry/wet layer in the plug that shows it being more hydrophobic vs philic. Im running ryans but am kinda jelly of that hopper/seeder on that stinger thats a fantastic add on!!
Wish I had access to that beast. The Ryan push aerators you rent from Home Depot work best on mud soft soil. I pulled better cores with my manual aerator.
I have tall fescue with no irrigation (Eastern NC) and it always thins out in August every year. I end up with lots of hard, sandy dirt. Really dusty mowing! But it looks thick and full the rest of the year. Would KY Bluegrass work better? Could I cut it shorter? I have mostly sun and some shady areas. I normally cut at 3.5”.
Hey Pete, is can you take a section of TTTF and maintain it as short as possible so that before we all start converting over the KBG we can see what it takes to maintain super low TTTF?
I've been hoping for some of that Monday/Tuesday rain you were talking about (over here in Hillsborough), but I don't think we're going to get it. Started out last week telling us that we might get almost half an inch, and now it's down to pretty much zero for the next 10+ days.
Man I wanted to upgrade my classen sa30 stander this year but those stinger prices are upwards of $13k so I'll just maintain my oldie goodie for awhile longer
Really getting into your videos lately. When is it too late to aerate and overseed? Live in West Michigan. Been told I have till Oct 10th to overseed yesterday at the Seed Store.
Top of the morning just over seeded midnight KGB mix with Pete's TTTF and watering 30minutes by sprinkler in the morning along with a water hose and then doing that a second time a day if it starts getting dry. This is day two looking for great results!
Not bad for 45 day drought...so are you saying with KBG you don’t need to aerate? Our CT lawn is a bit of a mix and needs aerating and overseeding but it’s mostly TTTF.
Always appreciate you sharing these videos, one of the hardest working guys out there! Can you confirm that you aerated over the seed you’re dropping? I just dropped seed for the second time this fall since the first time failed. I aerated and over seeded the first time. The drought hit me hard. I did seed this morning patiently waiting for Mother Nature and made an above ground sprinkler set up. Can I aerate? Thanks!
Hey Pete! I hope you are having a great one today! A big question. How late can you still get your aeration and seed? Also. What would happened to the seed that doesn't germinate before the temperatures get super low. Does it dye or it will germinate in the spring. I know it sounds a stupid question but. I was just curious about that
Hey Pete I saw you on the Stoney Ridge Farm Vlog and wanted to ask you if you know anything about Saint Augustine grass and if I can fertilize it in anyway. As you well know we’ve been in a drought season and my saint Augustine grass is starting to look pretty bad. I live in Athens Georgia which when I had the yard put in they told me I was at the fathers most point of putting Saint Augustine grass in. Anyway please let me know what if anything I can do to make it grow and get reestablished.
GCI Turf Services , Pete, I realize you’re busier than a one armed paper hanger! I was just wondering if it would’ve helped. Even that dormant grass looks like it’ll come back just fine with some h2o! Have a great day!
Do you want the seed to fall into the 1 inch/ 2 inch holes? I slit seed at 1/4 inch slits. I can aerated the crap out bare ground and seed with great results. But I just DON'T understand aerated and seeding. We're is the seed to soil contact? Are you just trying to get grass to grow in the thin/ bare spots. Nobody seems to be able to explain this. I do like the rest industries 24sp aeraseeder but that produces ALOT of spiked holes a quarter inch deep Wich makes sense. Why would I want my seed falling down a 2 inch holes? Anybody
The aerator holes stay moist longer and the seed is in direct contact with the soil. The ejected cores are also soil and as they break down, the seed is in direct contact.
@@martinphilips1246 what's under the ejected cores. Grass, roots, thatch. Seed is NOT going to germinate through that. Grass seed gets planted twice it's width. 1/4 to a 1/2 inch at most. Seed in a 2 inch hole. Are you serious. How many holes per sq. Foot. Do the math not many. Would have to go over the lawn 4,5,6 times. What's between those holes, thatch layer, just like throwing seed down over the lawn without aerating.unless your talking about a super thin lawn. Seed expensive and water is expensive would not want to tell a customer to even waste there time watering a only aerated and seemed lawn. In my 20 plus years have never seen good results with aerating and seeding. Just think about, it makes no sense. Plus it's to easy and anything that easy usually ain't gonna work. Aerate once and just throw seed down. I'll stick to mowing the lawn super short, aerating, slice seeding, starter fert, water. Waters expensive! If ya gonna do something do it right. Just aerating and seeding is a joke. Better than nothing though
@@michaelperry4398 Well Michael, I must have come off as being rude. I apologize. I was trying to help but you already have the answers. You might want to add 17 years and experience in more than just residential turf. Maybe golf course and athletic fields as well. I don't know what kind of seed you're putting down. Sounds like tttf or rye seed but, maybe your fertilizing at the wrong times and building excessive thatch. On my residential lawns, I used tttf and it doesn't build a great deal of thatch. I started soil testing in 1980 but it wasn't until the mid '90s, I found a private lab that was very thourogh and they taught me a lot. That came at a time when I thought I had all the answers too. I'm sorry you've had bad experiences with aeration. You're the only person I've ever heard of that couldn't succeed without slit-seeding. Don't get me wrong, slit-seeding is great but, aeration works well as a stand alone. My lawns were healthy, thick and looked great. I still consult for some of my former customers. One of whom quit his union job and does ballfield management for his school system. He manages Bermuda, Bluegrass and Fescue fields and sometimes he asks me for advice. By the way, my aerator had 3 x 6 tine spacing and took 12 cores in a single pass and I always went in a cross hatch pattern (criss cross, diagonal, you know). I'm not saying it always put 24 holes per square foot but, I always tried to line it up perfect. One more thing Michael, I have a passion for this business and I was more than fair with my pricing. I had more repeat business than I could keep up with and most were neighbors of existing customers. If they had stander aerators before I retired, I could and would still be doing lawns. If I'd known you wanted an argument instead of help, I never would have answered you. It won't happen again. You know the saying: Fool me once...
Pete...would you recommend wearing a dust mask when doing blowing as shown @3:33? Seems like the dust cloud is fine enough that inhaling it would be bad for you.
Been waiting on rain to aerate and over seed. Calling for rain here in Va this week, you think it's to late to over seed? I don't have a irrigation system and about 1/2 acre so hard to water with hose. What you thank?
You can. I rented one just like this unit (minus the seed box) this morning and did my yard. I’m outside of Charlotte not far from Pete. I couldn’t;t go over 500 psi or the unit would bog down. Pulled out two to three inch plugs. Rented at a local True Value hardware.
You can do it on hard ground. But it'll tear up the equipment. Local rental yard had a new ryan stand on and a landscape company rented it for two month. Returned it and basically all components associated with the tines, down pressure etc. Were destroyed. Thousands of dollars worth of repairs. But... in a dry fall what are you going to do? Work can't all get done in a single week. It takes all fall. So gotta do it. Just factor repair costs in price.
WORMS NATURALLY AIRATE the lawn. I'm on my second year which is my first year of strictly using Milorganite and the worms we have oh my! It was as if I made a specific area for worms. Reason I know about all the worms is we had a MASSIVE rainstorm and I was concerned about a large area of the lawn that was all dirt the yard was fine and when I shined my bright LED flashlight on the yard it looked like it was moving we have MILLIONS upon millions of worms. Nature's airator
Your ground is rock hard you need to bring in different types of worms they will chew threw the ground making it fertile and loamy airation is awesome but worms are the true guts of the earth
Why the bitter sweat moment? Why won’t you be able to aerate and overseed again?
My plan in renovating the test plot with 100% KBG is to do away with mechanical aeration for this area. KBG spreads and fills in very nice so I am going to attempt to maintain this patch if grass without core aeration and over seeding...
changing out TTTF for Blue Heat KBG
It is hard not to smile when I see how much Pete genuinely enjoys being out in the lawn on his equipment. He does this all day for his business and comes home and does it there. He seems to really have found his true calling. Few of us can say they enjoy their vocation this much!!
Don't get how this will answer my question below. I just wanted to know if you think its to late to plant tall fescue. I thought this video shows you aerating the test plot? I'm confused.
@@mth2068 not too late I'm in rva just plugged my yard over weekend
Nothing beats a Sunday morning video from Pete!
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Looks like my yard every summer
Fall it greens back up and looks great 👌
That Stinger with the overseed attachment kit is some kind of cool! Excited to see how the Blue Heat does alongside your TFFF and Midnight test plot. Thanks for all the updates Pete!
Wow Pete 800PSI crazy! You can see near your tree line just how much greener your test plot is. Amazing what a little bit of shade in a drought can do even with no irrigation! Great vid, looking forward to your results on this and you office property! Chad Upstate NY
Cant wait to tell all my buddies so they can hound me about watching lawn care.. Love the content great videos.
Raining now in Southern Indiana just seeding my Lawn with Tall fescue mix,tried aeration with a pull behind using weight and the ground was so hard it didn't do much it was like concrete will try again after this rain in a few days.
Hey are you going to revisit this idea for redoing the test pot with Blue Heat and putting in a irrigation system with doing away with the ditch? I am thinking about doing away with my ditch in my front yard. And you know we love renovation projects!!!
Thank you for the great video! I can't wait to find out how the seeder works. I'm hoping it drops it behind the tines so some seed goes in the holes.
Do I areate, lime before I seed or after? We have moss in our grass
Love your videos brother. You are definitely the hardest working man in NC.
God bless you brother.
Looked like a job for the Ventrac and aerovater/seeder; but it is always good to have a new "toy".
we have had over 4" in the past two weeks here in Lubbock, Texas. My yards were over a foot tall in some places today
Great info Pete, now to get our Sunday worship right!
How did this end up turning out?
Rained on Northwest Alabama yesterday. Forecast to do it again today.
Double aerate and slit seed best way to go , If thatch over 3/4” Thatch first 👍💪
Man it would be so nice to have yard equipment like you have it would make yard work so much better and by the way my new GCI turf grass is coming up pretty good 😀thank you Pete
Pete my Billy Goat plugger was hopping like a jack rabbit but I persisted. It pulled plugs about the same size as that Stinger and did not break the machine in the process. GCI fescue went down afterwards.
Where is the GIE taking place? Pete you need to try to bring them to NC!
Chad Fleming thank you!
Thanks for sharing what psi and depth your getting, its helpful for sure. Ive been running 600 psi and after 2 days of solid rain some yards are still only getting 2-3 inches and you can see the dry/wet layer in the plug that shows it being more hydrophobic vs philic. Im running ryans but am kinda jelly of that hopper/seeder on that stinger thats a fantastic add on!!
Is it okay to aerate a dormant lawn? Just wondering, thanks!
bro..the yard i am plugging in this video is as dormant as it gets....LOL
Wish I had access to that beast. The Ryan push aerators you rent from Home Depot work best on mud soft soil. I pulled better cores with my manual aerator.
What's the name of that core aerator with hooper machine?
I have tall fescue with no irrigation (Eastern NC) and it always thins out in August every year. I end up with lots of hard, sandy dirt. Really dusty mowing! But it looks thick and full the rest of the year. Would KY Bluegrass work better? Could I cut it shorter? I have mostly sun and some shady areas. I normally cut at 3.5”.
Some of my new grass that germinated got some disease in it from watering some much and a couple hot days.
Hey Pete, is can you take a section of TTTF and maintain it as short as possible so that before we all start converting over the KBG we can see what it takes to maintain super low TTTF?
much respect. update on playlists GOD bless
Pete has all the equipment.
I've been hoping for some of that Monday/Tuesday rain you were talking about (over here in Hillsborough), but I don't think we're going to get it. Started out last week telling us that we might get almost half an inch, and now it's down to pretty much zero for the next 10+ days.
Came to say the same. Rain chances shrinking by the day. Drought isn't over yet.
Man I wanted to upgrade my classen sa30 stander this year but those stinger prices are upwards of $13k so I'll just maintain my oldie goodie for awhile longer
Really getting into your videos lately. When is it too late to aerate and overseed? Live in West Michigan. Been told I have till Oct 10th to overseed yesterday at the Seed Store.
Libby J it’s all temperature driven. Not by a certain date.
I love your channel, and your Faith
Top of the morning just over seeded midnight KGB mix with Pete's TTTF and watering 30minutes by sprinkler in the morning along with a water hose and then doing that a second time a day if it starts getting dry. This is day two looking for great results!
Not bad for 45 day drought...so are you saying with KBG you don’t need to aerate? Our CT lawn is a bit of a mix and needs aerating and overseeding but it’s mostly TTTF.
Hey Pete what do you think about Jonathan Green Black Beauty Ultra grass seed ??? Or anyone out there
5"+ of rain over the past 6 days in Wisconsin...
Craig Piotrowski Show off
Always appreciate you sharing these videos, one of the hardest working guys out there!
Can you confirm that you aerated over the seed you’re dropping?
I just dropped seed for the second time this fall since the first time failed. I aerated and over seeded the first time. The drought hit me hard.
I did seed this morning patiently waiting for Mother Nature and made an above ground sprinkler set up. Can I aerate?
Thanks!
Hey Pete! I hope you are having a great one today!
A big question. How late can you still get your aeration and seed?
Also. What would happened to the seed that doesn't germinate before the temperatures get super low. Does it dye or it will germinate in the spring. I know it sounds a stupid question but. I was just curious about that
Hey Pete I saw you on the Stoney Ridge Farm Vlog and wanted to ask you if you know anything about Saint Augustine grass and if I can fertilize it in anyway. As you well know we’ve been in a drought season and my saint Augustine grass is starting to look pretty bad. I live in Athens Georgia which when I had the yard put in they told me I was at the fathers most point of putting Saint Augustine grass in. Anyway please let me know what if anything I can do to make it grow and get reestablished.
What an awesome piece of equipment
Would spraying Air8 on the ground a week or two before core aeration help?
Cool machine!
Barry Cavanaugh probably so. If I had time to water it in 😎
GCI Turf Services , Pete, I realize you’re busier than a one armed paper hanger! I was just wondering if it would’ve helped. Even that dormant grass looks like it’ll come back just fine with some h2o!
Have a great day!
Barry Cavanaugh a one armed paper hanger...LOL
Pete, any idea when the t-shirts will be available?
Dan Blubaugh probably around Christmas time
Blue Heat KBG in the transition zone . This will be very interesting.
Can't wait!
When you aerate that much does it help with the thatch build up?
i think so...
We even have chances for more this evening and tomorrow
Hey Pete, what about your buddy sprayer system you mentioned before.
Wood Turner7 waiting on my attorney to get the papers back from the US patent office
GCI Turf Services you go Pete. Congrats if you do.
Nice video man! Can’t wait!
Nice job Pete!
Always great videos Pete. Very informative. Love that Stinger. How big a yard to justify a riding aerator interms of sq feet?
I think it’s more about how many yards you aerate and seed in one fall should determine the equipment you buy.
Will Stinger make this seeder for the 36 inch aerator?
I will answer all those questions in the next video
That is AWESOME! How many sq ft is that area?
Rob Wright bout 8K
Do you want the seed to fall into the 1 inch/ 2 inch holes? I slit seed at 1/4 inch slits. I can aerated the crap out bare ground and seed with great results. But I just DON'T understand aerated and seeding. We're is the seed to soil contact? Are you just trying to get grass to grow in the thin/ bare spots. Nobody seems to be able to explain this. I do like the rest industries 24sp aeraseeder but that produces ALOT of spiked holes a quarter inch deep Wich makes sense. Why would I want my seed falling down a 2 inch holes? Anybody
The aerator holes stay moist longer and the seed is in direct contact with the soil. The ejected cores are also soil and as they break down, the seed is in direct contact.
@@martinphilips1246 what's under the ejected cores. Grass, roots, thatch. Seed is NOT going to germinate through that. Grass seed gets planted twice it's width. 1/4 to a 1/2 inch at most. Seed in a 2 inch hole. Are you serious. How many holes per sq. Foot. Do the math not many. Would have to go over the lawn 4,5,6 times. What's between those holes, thatch layer, just like throwing seed down over the lawn without aerating.unless your talking about a super thin lawn. Seed expensive and water is expensive would not want to tell a customer to even waste there time watering a only aerated and seemed lawn. In my 20 plus years have never seen good results with aerating and seeding. Just think about, it makes no sense. Plus it's to easy and anything that easy usually ain't gonna work. Aerate once and just throw seed down. I'll stick to mowing the lawn super short, aerating, slice seeding, starter fert, water. Waters expensive! If ya gonna do something do it right. Just aerating and seeding is a joke. Better than nothing though
@@michaelperry4398 Well Michael, I must have come off as being rude. I apologize. I was trying to help but you already have the answers. You might want to add 17 years and experience in more than just residential turf. Maybe golf course and athletic fields as well. I don't know what kind of seed you're putting down. Sounds like tttf or rye seed but, maybe your fertilizing at the wrong times and building excessive thatch. On my residential lawns, I used tttf and it doesn't build a great deal of thatch. I started soil testing in 1980 but it wasn't until the mid '90s, I found a private lab that was very thourogh and they taught me a lot. That came at a time when I thought I had all the answers too. I'm sorry you've had bad experiences with aeration. You're the only person I've ever heard of that couldn't succeed without slit-seeding. Don't get me wrong, slit-seeding is great but, aeration works well as a stand alone. My lawns were healthy, thick and looked great. I still consult for some of my former customers. One of whom quit his union job and does ballfield management for his school system. He manages Bermuda, Bluegrass and Fescue fields and sometimes he asks me for advice. By the way, my aerator had 3 x 6 tine spacing and took 12 cores in a single pass and I always went in a cross hatch pattern (criss cross, diagonal, you know). I'm not saying it always put 24 holes per square foot but, I always tried to line it up perfect. One more thing Michael, I have a passion for this business and I was more than fair with my pricing. I had more repeat business than I could keep up with and most were neighbors of existing customers. If they had stander aerators before I retired, I could and would still be doing lawns.
If I'd known you wanted an argument instead of help, I never would have answered you. It won't happen again. You know the saying: Fool me once...
@@martinphilips1246 1/2 inch or less of thatch is a good thing. Protects the crown and cushions the lawn.
Pete...would you recommend wearing a dust mask when doing blowing as shown @3:33? Seems like the dust cloud is fine enough that inhaling it would be bad for you.
Been waiting on rain to aerate and over seed. Calling for rain here in Va this week, you think it's to late to over seed? I don't have a irrigation system and about 1/2 acre so hard to water with hose. What you thank?
mth2068 I think you need to watch the video this week. I’m filming it today
I’ll keep an eye out for it, hope it’s soon
Great video I like your video and can’t wait for the gie maybe to meet you
Are you grasses good for western ny
Mike Haddad Lawn Addictions yep
Can you risk damaging the existing root system by going over it that many times?
Glenn B probably so if the ground is dry. Ground was moist here and the results were fantastic
Nice work brother
Can you rent these things, I have tried the push type and they are worthless
You can. I rented one just like this unit (minus the seed box) this morning and did my yard. I’m outside of Charlotte not far from Pete. I couldn’t;t go over 500 psi or the unit would bog down. Pulled out two to three inch plugs. Rented at a local True Value hardware.
Blue heat! Can't wait Pete
Hello, i am new to your channel. What can you tell me about the stinger aerators. Pros and cons? Any help is appreciated, considering buying one. Thx
Musi Mowing & More Inc filming that video today after church
Anne you should invest in sprinklers ......penny wise
Look at all them plugs GOOD DADDY MORNING LOL
Nice video!
You can do it on hard ground. But it'll tear up the equipment.
Local rental yard had a new ryan stand on and a landscape company rented it for two month. Returned it and basically all components associated with the tines, down pressure etc. Were destroyed. Thousands of dollars worth of repairs.
But... in a dry fall what are you going to do? Work can't all get done in a single week. It takes all fall. So gotta do it. Just factor repair costs in price.
Pete's got that HULK-A-MANIA mustache going on!
Heh heh... Pete got him a ridin' blower.
Rain chances backing way off now
Won't it be nice afterwards to take a breather and just water and wait...
Grass-Patch it will be very nice friend
WORMS NATURALLY AIRATE the lawn. I'm on my second year which is my first year of strictly using Milorganite and the worms we have oh my! It was as if I made a specific area for worms. Reason I know about all the worms is we had a MASSIVE rainstorm and I was concerned about a large area of the lawn that was all dirt the yard was fine and when I shined my bright LED flashlight on the yard it looked like it was moving we have MILLIONS upon millions of worms. Nature's airator
Yes! Reel mow it all lol
TH-cam unsubscribed me....I clicked again....of course.
Wayne Essar why would they do that to you? LOL
@@GCITurf It happened on a number of channels and all in the last few days.
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Do you even sleep? 😂😂😂
Mark Caldwell🤣🤣 Im always on the go sir.
Your ground is rock hard you need to bring in different types of worms they will chew threw the ground making it fertile and loamy airation is awesome but worms are the true guts of the earth
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