How To Prepare For Fall Lawn Renovation and Overseeding
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- Fall is right around the corner and here is your complete guide to preparing for a full lawn renovation or overseeding project on cool season grass.
00:10 - Why Do A Lawn Renovation?
01:12 - Why Overseed Your Lawn?
02:27 - When Should Your Start A Full Renovation?
04:02 - Should You Water After Killing The Lawn?
04:43 - Don't Forget These Important Preparation Steps
07:31 - How About Soil Testing?
11:34 - Rundown of Full Renovation Steps
14:53 - Rundown of Overseeding Steps
18:58 - What About Leveling Your Lawn?
20:12 - Fall Fertilizer and Weed Control
21:11 - Important Last Step
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Took me a good 20 hours to make this
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Hey Ryan.......I followed your steps and Renovated my front lawn last year and it turned out AMAZING
Just wanted to say I have a killer backyard now and I've got you and these videos to thank, bud. This might sound hyperbolic, but it's nuts to me that I watched all this stuff for free, from home and then just...followed it. There's a lot of bad crap going on in the world but if I'm being a glass-half full kinda guy, I'm still in awe of what is available at my fingertips.
Thanks, Ryan!
Great job on this video Ryan. Very informative, right to the point, and covering nearly all scenarios us average homeowners would be facing.
One of your best segments. Very informative. Thanks.
Great detailed video as always. Looking forward too seeing how these helpful tips improve my yard. Thanks!
Recently sprayed the lawn with weed control for the second time (stubborn crabgrass and wild violet). Excited cause seems like perfect timing based on your video! Going to do some overseeding on what we seeded this spring. Thanks for the info!
Helps to have a guy that knows his stuff, especially since I'm also from central Iowa. Great content and very clear. Much appreciated!
Finally! Been waiting for this.
Great overview video! Purchased a Lawn Level last year, and was very happy using it this spring.
My man thank you for imparting your knowledge! This is so helpful. Thanks to you my yard already looks great. I have a few spots I have already sprayed out due to crabgrass. I am looking forward to my overseeding this late summer. Keep up your good work and again thank you!
I’m excited and anxious about my first lawn reno. Been planning everything since spring. Sprayed glyphosate 3 days ago. There’s no turning back now.
Perfect timing just had a concrete pad put in side of my house was destroyed so I think I will just reseed this thanks
havent even started watching the video but thank god this is out i need to start planning!
Getting ready for a fall overseeding in Pennsylvania using perennial ryegrass. Love this grass and by the way great video! 👍
Great video! Was planning on doing an overseed this fall so this is great. Thanks!
I'm on season 2 of my 1100ft2 lawn. Had weeds under control a little at the start.
This year, the dandelions went out of control. I have done 2 applications of tenacity this season, and weeds are down 50%.
I'm thinking some granular or maybe a 3rd dose before the frost, and maybe by year 3 all will be well.
Like you said, its a process! Great video.
Hello Ryan, and nice to meet you. I've been watching a few of your videos and I think you're doing a great job. I'm not at all educated in lawn care but I want to be, and I also don't have all the tools that you use. I live in NC (I have sandy soil) and I'm a homeowner who's inspired to have a nice-looking lawn but I really don't know how to but I do the best with what I know or think I know. I try very hard but with little to no real results. I don't know anything about what kind or type of chemicals to buy or use on my lawn, don't know what I even need to help the lawn. All I do is try different things and hope for the best.
I'm working on my backyard right now - I started a couple of months ago (again) by tilting the soil and throwing in fertilizer (10-10-10), seeding the lawn (laying pine straw on top of it) a few days later with tall sun/shade fescue grass, watering twice a day with very little rain (early morning and late evening w/temperatures in the 90's +) right now I have a small amount of grass but I should have more growth and I feel like giving up. Maybe I should purchase a step-by-step guidebook, and do some homework before trying again. I also installed an inground sprinkler system (3 zones) water supply from my well. Your videos do help me understand what steps are required to grow beautiful grass but I do not understand how to apply your lessons and techniques, to resolve my scenario. Do you have or recommend a step-by-step guide I can follow and what chemicals I would need to treat my lawn? Thank you and take care :)
Randy
Red Oak, NC
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awesome video! so helpful! loving your channel!
Great recap on everything.
Thanks Ryan...nice work on the videos! I have about a 450 sq ft to renovate this year...my first real test.
Purchased a bag of your Elite rye seed. Planning a full renovation of my front yard. Seeing how great yours looks, if mine is half as good I'll be ecstatic!
Great tutorial!
Great video, enjoy your channel and all your great advice
Perfect timing on the video! Just when I needed it 😀 New home, lots of planting. Cortez Colorado
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Good luck from Colorado Springs 👍
Good video. . . I’m ready for fall season
Hello Ryan.......good point to start something that i havent done in my lawn yet....👍👍👍👍👍👍
That was a great video Ryan!
I just bought the lawn leveler. Thanks for the sale price. Can’t wait to start putting it to work.
I appreciate the support!
Great video Ryan
How did you know I needed to see this. Thanks bro!
Thanks again brother
Great info!
Thanks for the help and awesome content Ryann...really appreciate it and please keep the videos coming...any other tips or thoughts are greatly appreciated
Late spring this year we had a sewer line break in our backyard. Got a good patch of dirt that is now weeds. Waiting for then Temps to drop here in Iowa!
Great video
Killer video. Look forward to following you in the future
great video
I will be doing some over seeding. Probably go all fescue. I have an area really thin out after so much of it just laid down. I always have issues on this side. Its a small strip south side. Watering did not seem to help. Did all other fert and insect control. Right now all this dry and hot hot days its mostly going to sleep. I have to either hand water or sprinklers. This race never ends !!
So cool Ryan. This morning I tried to daisy chain 2 rotary pulse sprinklers and found my water pressure won’t support this. Two gear driven sprinkler heads do work however so going to give that a go. Got a tuna can measuring the output. Cheers!
First Aussie 😁. Ryan, an encyclopaedia of lawncare knowledge dealt out today mate. 🤠
Great tips Ryan. I swear one day I will actually do a full reno🤣
Has to be one of your best videos yet. Nicely timed so people can actually prepare in time. Too bad seed seems scarce this year. I wanted some bluegrass midnight to overseed my 1 year old lawn but they've been out of stock
I've got plenty of blue but not specific cultivars. I'm really happy with the stuff we carry that is in my test plot
Thanks!
Thanks for the support!
This is fantastic. Perfect timing for my backyard reno that I've been wanting to do. This quick rundown was perfect. Thank you Ryan!
I sprayed Roundup over two weeks ago, scalped it down and started topdressing some spots. This week I will finish leveling and then fallowing. Dropping SS1100 KBG blend (ordered it back in the spring). I will be reel mowing the backyard and I’m super excited.
I also did a test post of the seed and 10 days in, it is 1/4”.
Awesome
Im going to renovate mines. I killed the grass and weeds by mistakes so my lawn this summer was horrible. I decided to renovate maybe in Feb 2023....
I have GCI cool blue tttf in my backyard and it has really struggled this summer. If I have to water it regularly then I my has well match it with my Kentucky bluegrass front yard.
Hey Ryan..I am thankful for the longer description of lawn care that you provide. I’m a beginner working on my lawn in central Texas along with the high heat this summer working with the tall fescue under the tree. Thinking about applying more overseas to the whole lawn what do suggest?
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Great video! I’m looking forward to getting to work to make my lawn look great this fall! That lawn leveling tool would be a great help, if you’re thinking about doing a giveaway, choose me! Lol
Propicanozole after overseeing helps speed up germination as well as limit fungal problems from multiple waterings per day.
LETS GOOOOO!!
2:29 'Start renovation about 6-8 weeks before frost date.' Not only that, but also when shade hits your lawn cause of less daylight. By october my lawn is full in shade and it gets pretty wet, frost usually starts somewhere november/december. I have to start renovation in august to have the renovation succeed. In spring renovation starts later, usually in april in stead of march.
You might consider pre-germinating your seed to help get it established quicker.
Great video, Ryan!
I have always been a lawn guy and one of my neighbors even calls me “The Sod Father”
We recently purchased 20 acres of farmland in NW Indiana that we will be building a new home on. I realize I won’t be able to keep up my current level of lawn but still want it to be as nice as possible. My specific question is about a seed type called Black Beauty Tall Fescue. My research is showing a dark green color with a very deep root structure so it is quite drought resistant. Your opinion would be appreciated! Thanks and keep up the good work!
Hey there Ryan, perfect timing on the video as I just received my new bag of seed. I see that Paul & the gang are really making fast progress on the house/shop! I'm really looking forward to my build with them! I was seriously thinking about ordering a California Trimmer (reel mower), since I can get it on sale, any thoughts? Take care and don't work too hard!
Ryan, can you create a video going more in depth to how you’ve successfully grown grass in your campsite area? My parents have a lower yard that is very similar to that area, surrounded my trees and not much sunlight. Over the years moss has taken over and killed off the grass. What are your suggestions on overcoming this and maintaining a healthy lawn in an environment such as that so that we can avoid moss taking over again? My dad had an accident last year and hasn’t been able to do much so I’m trying to help do this for him so that he doesn’t have to worry about it.
The time is now!
My rule of thumb for the past couple years has worked well, I do my aerate and over-seed the first week of September. I do fescue in the back yard and PRG in the front. It’s been 4 years now and it’s starting to look pretty uniform but I see patches of junk I’m tempted to kill off 100% and overseed with PRG. But over the years I’ve been seeing reasons why I think my overall soil health isn’t as good as it should be. Seems to be sand heavy loam. Wondering how I can fix my soil. My grass goes dormant really fast in a couple spots.
Great video. Any tips on how to control earthworm mounds during a reno?
Love the video. Nice job. One critique, and I see this on all the grass tuner channels, just rent a sod cutter. Takes a couple hours, gets it down to dirt, take and remove material, and you’re done. If starting in the morning, you can remove the old yard, and seed the new yard in one day. Shit you can level the thing to if you’re feeling froggy lol.
Plenty of weed seeds in that soil too that I would prefer to do this method
True. Just spray those two weeks down the line. Your method works. Also, it’s the correct way to do it that way. Takes forever though lol.
Thanks for all you do, Ryan! I attempted a late spring renovation with your 80/20 BG/PRG and I've been fighting crab grass all summer (had a very old zoysia lawn). I'm in SW Indiana. I've given it multiple applications of Drive XLR8 with MSO (thank God for the Sprayers Plus backpack sprayer), but it just keeps spreading. We had some freak heavy rains followed by a couple heat waves, so only about half of the lawn has stayed. I'm having an irrigation system installed (probably in November) but they'll have to install a second meter (likely in October), so I'd like to restart the renovation again in the fall, but don't want to have to kill everything off again if half made it through the summer. Any suggestions on targeting crab grass prior to another renovation without having to kill it all off with Glysophate? Thanks again!
Awesome presentation and thanks.
I had put new sod in April which has kind of settled but the grass is not healthy. The soil is clayey so not sure how the sod will pick up and establish roots.
Should I overseed with fertilizer then put topsoil ?
Have you tried out the groomer cartridge for the Swardman yet. Wonder if that would be a good step for opening up the canopy for applications.
Hey Ryan, Thanks for this video. Its been pretty helpful. I wanted to buy one of the ebooks and noticed that you have the one for care and one for overseeding and renovation. The Ultimate Guide to Cool Season Lawns, does it include information about overseeding or would need to buy both? I'm in Maryland and really looking into the overseeding this season with all your recommendation. Thanks again
Excellent video Ryan, what's the background song?
Upping the odds for giveaways
Hi Ryan, I'm looking to do more of an over seeding approach on my lawn rather than a full renovation this September. I'm curious what your thoughts are on if aerating of the existing lawn is a good idea in prepping for seeding (maybe after dethatching?) or if it would be best to just wait and aerate in the spring?
I'm noticing you kept your hair long this season. I told you when you had the mullet comp with Connor that it looked good longer!🤪 Love your videos. A long time subscriber. Learned a lot from you.
It's way too hot but I'll suffer through
Great video I have been waiting for this. I'm looking to doing a full renovation on front lawn. (It's has bare spots very uneven and thin grass) I was looking at a local landscaping places near by for soil to use to level ground. What do you think about using topdressing mix (50%fine sand 50% of top soil)? in stead of black soil. Thanks again for the great videos keep it up
I'd go all soil
You truly have the most detailed and informative lawn care tips on YT. Thank you for sharing! Just recently killed off the entire backyard, prepping for a full reno in early fall. Question: I'm in northern NJ and was wondering if I can start seeding in mid to late August. I'm sure adequate watering during this time would be crucial but is it a good idea? You mentioned to watch out for frost dates so I want to have some time to fill in spots i missed during seeding so they have time to mature before the frost hits. This will be my first attempt at seeding, let alone a full lawn reno! Wish me luck! 😅
I’m in Missouri and I’m doing mine last weekend I’m August so I would assume you’d be good
You should be fine. Just watching your watering in hot weather so you don't overdo it and pay attention if you see fungus starting
Im in central Jersey and did a full lawn reno last year on labor day weekend. Mid August is fine if you want to get a head start especially if youre going the KBG route. But make sure you water!!
@@tite732 Great, thanks for the tip.
Ryan, my 1.5 acre lawn is full of weeds and lawn debris/thatch. I want to overseed this fall. When should I apply tenacity and when should I use my electric dethatcher? Which should I do first? When do I apply your lawn seed? I live in Ohio.
Great video Ryan. We are getting a new paver patio and walkway coming from the driveway to our screened in porch. The contractors say there is going to be lawn damage. There is a roughly 3,000 square foot area behind d where the paver patio is going with a variety of different grasses. I would love to make it actually tall fescue back yard. Should I kill all the existing grass back there or just spot kill the areas with the grass types I want to get rid of. Or is there a better way to do it? Thanks. I am in Northeast PA.
Hello Ty for content, im new to laen care just bought my home one yar ago its half weeds half grass cool season here, want to overseed to get the patchy look gone KBG 😊 does aeration have to be done its kinda compact in high traffic areas. Or can I just seed with topsoil? Ty in advance just trying to see the easiest way to just get more consistency in my lawn.
Phenomenally timed! I have a whole lot of construction in my backyard finishing up soon and I'll be laying down 4500 sq ft worth of lawn! Trying to figure out the earliest date I can do it without totally screwing myself over with heat. Any suggestions?
September when the temperature breaks down into the 70's during the day and 50's at night
Great video Ryan. I live in Minnesota and will overseed this fall. Would you recommend KBG/Rye mix or KBG/Fescue mix? Thanks!
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A couple questions ..
How long do you keep your dogs off the lawn after applying Tenacity? Does morning dew or rain a couple days require pets to stay off lawn until the grass is dry?
Do you recommend treating with a post emergent before overseed, or wait till spring and use a pre emergent with no overseed to handle weeds? My lawn seems to have been taken over by soft crabgrass.
Thank You Ryan great video. I have a guy that aerates my yard and I have a few low spots I'm planning on over seeding with a fertilizer in the fall. The problem is I don't know when the aerating will be done he does numerous homes in our edition. I'm trying to get a time frame so I can put this all together. Is it to early to level and when is a good time of the year to over seed and fertilizer Cool season living in Nebraska
You'd probably need to get seed going around Labor day
Wow, this video wants me to do a complete lawn renovation, which, after the last time, I said I would never do it again, so I have been over-seeding. Unfortunately over-seeding results are less than desirable because the existing lawn has so many undesirable grasses, especially bentgrasss. My last renovation about 25 years ago. was so labor-intensive it turned me off to ever wanting to do that again...so I just lived with the lawn the way it was. My previous renovation involved using a sod-cutter to remove the previous lawn, hauling the sod away, bringing in topsoil, leveling, seeding...etc. All of which I did myself. The method that you show seems so easy (comparatively) that I might just do it. I only question if a lawn rake will cut the sod enough to give the seed the airy soil that it needs?
I’d use something mechanical. A dethatcher for light stuff, or a power rake set low for tough stuff.
Patiently waiting for Fall to dive in... I need to start the leveling process as my mower jumps around on me quite a bit now. Am I wrong to do things in the following order ~late August/early Sept (cool season Kentucky blue here in Western NY). Going to mow low (2"), dethatch (have a sunjoe 15''), core aerate, level, fertilize, and then overseed. Too much for the yard to handle? 6,000 sq feet so planning on grabbing 8-10 yards of topsoil to start and see where that takes me but I know leveling just right will take a few seasons.
Great vid! I have a situation where I’d like to overseed, but have a lot of weeds. Do I get rid of weeds now, in the fall, and plant grass in spring, or do both now?
Thx😣
Hi Ryan (or anyone else), I followed you in the last 2 years or so and this autumn I plan to have a overseeding in my lawn, problem is that I live in EU (Romania to be more precise) so if you have any suggestion of where I can get seeds, fertilizers and any other products for the lawn it would help e a lot.
Thank you!
I’m new to the lawn care recently bought jog house. What do you do for your dogs when you treat the grass?
What if I hate my soil because it’s mostly clay? Should I still do the same process but bring in topsoil or compost in a solid layer, level, seed, and peat to cover seed?
Hi, I've been following you on youtube for a while and I really appreciate the stuff you give in your videos. In fact, I would like to know if the products you use can be delivered to Canada? If it is possible, I would like to have the procedure. Many thanks in advance and keep up the good work.
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Good video, a lot of useful information. I've heard I can use Tenacity up to when I seed, can I add Speed Zone with the Tenacity at seeding time? Thank you
No that would not be able to be used at time of seeding
Have you ever used an overseeder instead of a broadcast spreader? Do you prefer the spreader more?
Hey Ryan love your videos help me improve immensely my lawn. I live in Canada and was wondering if you had a Canadian distributor that i could use to import your product. Thanks
We don't have any availability to do that at this point. Sorry
hi do you have any videos on bermuda grass?
Can you just use a slit seeder and place the new seed through the existing (non sprayed) grass? Any pros or cons to that method?
any tips on bird deterrents when overseeding?
Hey Ryan what was the starter fertilizer you put on your spreader? Im thinking of doing that instead of tenacity spray
Hi. I have some crab grass on my lawn. Would i be able to use Tenacity to kill the crab grass, and then manual aerate + overseed/fertilize myself?
There are some heavy green patches of grass (looks very health) and then brown spots.
Hi Ryan, can you aerate then slice seed an existing lawn?
Hey Ryan, can you seed right into the existing grass that was killed off, or does all the dead grass need to be removed?
From all the comments, you should probably discuss the difference between sead heads, quack grass and crabgrass since they all look the same to the untrained eye