Landscaping: Sprinklers, Soil, Plants and Mulch Ep.128
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Thank you, be safe, and be grateful.
I never thought when I first started watching this series that two years later I'd still be be just as excited for the next video to come out. Very good job by the way.
You planted rose of love in my heart seeing such nice beautiful project from start to almost end, not only the green grass in this master piece of art
I agree.
Such a nice house
Hi there. I know that your super busy, but I just want to tell you how grateful I am to you and your videos. Because of them I am doing things in the construction world that I never in a million years would have tried if it hadn't been from watching you and your family. We have even started keeping bees, built a forge and leaned how to frame and finish concrete. Tomorrow I will be lifting a huge patio overhang and will be using your method for using timber jacks, so as to replace the concrete and pillars. Someday, when my ship comes in, I will try and thank you proper, but for now, my family and I are eternally grateful. If ever in Wyoming, dinner is on me. OX
the contrast between concretes with the landscaping are quite lovely. job well done
Get free grass clip from the neighborhood or dropped services. Cover your seed with the grass clipping to ensure grass stay down and also fertilize. The success rates should be 90 % without die back with mulch
Still waiting on Scott's autobiography! Thank you for all you do.
Keep up the good work 💯
love this video series!!
Thanks for sharing!
I'm starting to fear the end of this series. It has become such a staple to my weekend routine. What will follow...another spec house build?
Having more pipes or chases under a sidewalk, driveway, or wall than you think you will need will cost more but you will be really really grateful in the future if the need arises to run wiring or plumbing under a sidewalk, driveway, or wall. Matter of fact, all wiring and plumbing you install as part of the build should be run through pipes of chases so if ever need to replace what you already have run it will be far far easier to do not having to pull it through packed dirt.
What a beautiful home you crafted for someone!! 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
As always, you have great video's, my wife and I both enjoy watching the progression of this spec house and the great work done by you and all the contractors that participated in building such a beautiful home.
Wow. I've been on a job doing this EXACT thing the past few days. Never done it before, however it's a nice skill to learn and get to understand. Awesome that you made a video for it!
Thanks so much, and by the way, you're a legend
Its always a good day when there is a new Essential Craftsman on
Thanks Scott & Nate 👍
I gotta ask. Why would you plant that maple right next to the driveway where it's gonna leave junk on the cars and the roots are gonna lift the concrete?
Because they are pretty (especially in the fall), they provide (relatively) fast shade, and because there is something about needing a new tree when you have little kids. You are right, @Mike Znel, trees have costs associated with them. My maples have dropped big limbs on my neighbor’s shed, costing repairs. My maples put out enough fall leaves to make you want to scream. But it’s the seeds - the whirlybirds- that will make you consider paying the multiple thousands to have them removed. Those seeds get into everything, sprout new trees where you cannot have them, they stick around for months, and choke your gutter screens. But then your neighbors tell you how jealous they are of your shade or how pretty the fall color is, and you go right back to being thankful to your Creator the previous owner planted them. It’s a crapshoot, taking good with bad. I wholeheartedly understand your concern, brother, and it is a valid question.
Yeah, the part I didn't get is that just when the tree starts looking mature it's going to be wide enough to start being an issue as well. If that makes it to 30 years it's going to be impinging on the sidewalk or driveway. I live in an older neighborhood in my city and the original developer planted a ton of trees in between the sidewalk and road in the 70s and all the sidewalks are heaved pretty badly now. In some places the trees have started growing over the top of the sidewalk they've gotten so wide.
@@huskergator9479 not to mention it's surrounded by concrete, so probably not a good idea for the kids to climb on it. If they fall on grass it's not as big a deal, but I knew a girl who broke both her arms when she fell onto the sidewalk
Because poor planning or not caring about more than 5 years into the future seems the only answer here.
Thanks for all the civil replies. I'm not trying to be nasty with my question about the placement of the tree, it was a serious question. Maybe they over looked the negatives of having a tree like that where it is? Or they figure it looks good now but won't be their problem in 20 years? As a tradesmen, I see the issues trees cause when so close to buildings, driveways, sidewalks and utilities quite often. It seems as it would be so wasteful and cause avoidable issues to plant it and then have to remove 20 or so years later when it starts to became an issue or even at that, 5-10 years. Just doesn't make sense to me with all the forethought in other areas of the build.
Glad you got the soil from a co-op. They were probably happy to have your business
Thanks Nate & Scotty. Can't win em all.
Enjoy Elohim !
Wow beautiful job
Well done
Nice work!
Love your work, God bless :)
such a nice job including the utility pedestals in the landscape
Sounds about right for KBG. Takes a couple years to look good.
I’ve been a landscaper for 19 years and the fact that you guys slightly buried the 1/2” poly drip tubing made me very proud of you guys…there’s nothing uglier than when people lay it in the surface and try to hide it with bark only to have it poking through a week later. It’s the little things.
Sugar maple? Make sure to dig in a root limiter or whatever it's called in English so the roots go down deep enough first before spreading out. They don't become huge but big enough that their root system will start pushing the concrete away in a few years.
I was going to mention that tree was the wrong tree for that area. It'll probably be more like 5 to 10 years, but absolutely it will push up that concrete.
It looks more like a silver maple, but at any rate that is the wrong tree for that spot. Should have planted something smaller or with a taproot versus spreading root morphology. Or just put the maple in the middle of the lawn where it belongs.
Yeah I didn't see any suitable places for trees on this site. Maybe they will explain..
A redbud would be nice for that spot, not a maple.
This is the exact same type of project I am doing for my mother. after installing Stone raised bed gardens with concrete footing attached to the house. Your videos have helped me tremendously to have the skills to do this. THANK YOU SIR.
Looks like the little lad is about ready for his first actual bike.
Yea, he looks like he has really good balance! And he seems to like speed, so he’s got that going for him!
Hard to diagnose the lawn not knowing the climate in your area, but the fungus idea seems accurate. Fresh seed needs 3-5 light waterings everyday until it germinates (which, btw, I think your seed was perennial ryegrass. Blue grass takes a couple weeks just to germinate, a month or better to get some height. Perennial rye comes in within a week or even a few days. Fescues shorty after that if seeded at the same time.) if it was 78 degrees or more and the watering was still heavy and/or often, it’ll get fungus pretty quickly.
Yes, there had to be some other grass in the mix as Kentucky Bluegrass will take 2 to 5 weeks to even germinate and then it will still grow very slowly. If he had inch tall grass in 2 weeks that wasn't the Bluegrass.
Exactly. I'm just a homeowner but I've planted lots of different types of grasses, and no way would bluegrass be coming up like that in a week. I'm surprised he didn't talk about the label on the grass seed that shows the % of different types of seed, how much weed seed, how much dead material/seed, etc either.
Grass likes neutral soil, unlike almost everything else in a landscape that needs acidity to access iron. Lime is cheap (except when supply-chain happens) and sits harmlessly in lawn soil like sand until acidity occurs, then it breaks down neutralizing the acid. It might not be the only problem, but 4 bags of lime on a lawn like that would eliminate the concern for $20 in normal times.
great job
but may I say...you have captivated me through out the build process of your home and found it just so informative! Very nice work by a truly gifted professional...I will be looking forward to all the same quality and thoughtful content you can provide in the future!
This is why we use sod and dwarf fescue. Bluegrass is fussy!
Also, T-posts for tree stakes, come on man ;)
Terrible weather here in Ireland 🇮🇪 this afternoon....... looking forward to seeing some landscaping in better conditions........ 👍
53 degrees, @ 5:48 am, reaching 73 this afternoon in beautiful Southern California,
@@eduardodedios8213 ha ha...... not jealous at all....... enjoy - sounds gorgeous
Love the house. Thanks for sharing.
Wow! Looks nice. I have an addiction to barkmulch. Wish I'd never bought my first load.
Not too long into this project it ceased to be a spec house. My guess is a dozen episodes in you could have auctioned it off for twice the current retail value. Your willingnes to document your passion for craftsmanship & attention to detail make us all proud of your accomplishments. Keep up the good work!👍🖖
It’s looking really, really smart. Well done guys!👍🏻👍🏻😀
Unfortunately you should break up and rototill the original clay-shale into the top soil, otherwise you just have an unstable layer of loose top soil on top of an impenetrable layer of hard ground. And the grass roots will not be able to take a firm hold, and the heavy rain can ruin the grade.
Beauty! I always love getting to this stage of the job! Cups of tea and biscuits all around!
This whole project came out to be absolutely beautiful! What a privilge for the people who will live there and call it their home! Great job.
I hate the word "privilege"
Buckin Billy Ray sent me!
Major props for using seed, was expecting the easy way out
Nothing wrong with sod as long as there is top soil first. They ended up with a battle to get the grass to grow.
Don't forget the massive amount concrete surrounding the grass and how much acidity leaches into the dirt from new concrete. It can be a monster to new lawns. Otherwise it looks great.
Hey Scott, can you talk about flashing details you used on this build, like siding to concrete? Or door/window pans?
Was that Nate digging the trench in the beginning?? Way to earn your keep. I didn’t think you had it in you.
Can't wait to see the floors go in! That looks intense but the little sneak peak you showed.
This is been an amazing series watching this house come together from an empty lot to this is beautiful. You have done an amazing job with this home.
That is a lot of fine lightweight mulch, will the wind blow it away? Would Pine bark nuggets be a better choice?
Your site looks pretty exposed to winds being so high up.
Good morning EC from Jamaica 🇯🇲. Wow awesome, watching from ground breaking and now the final product. A job well done 👍💪💪🙏👍😍😍. Wish I was in your country, would have put in my bid 😂😂
Hi neighbor
Maybe it’s just that county but, it seems quite unusual that literally all the utilities are based right in the front yard!
Here back Southeast, everything is situated at one of the property lot corners. This, by the way, includes all the major utilities and cable junction boxes as well as phone lines and fire hydrants.
I agree. Maybe at least on the opposite side of the driveway instead of the path to the front door if it has to be at the street.
House looks great.
I've used my smart home devices to protect plants I was establishing in my yard. My smart home system allows me to set if/then triggers. I set a motion sensing security camera pointed to the landscaped area. When the camera detected motion, the system triggered that specific zone of my irrigation to run for 20 seconds. That scared away all the pests very effectively.
Is this something you made yourself with an Arduino or a product you just bought and installed / set up?
@@Dingle.Donger I set it up using off-the-shelf products. A Rachio Smart Sprinkler Controller controls the zones. I used a wireless Arlo security camera for the motion detection. I set up the trigger using Samsung SmartThings. Samsung SmartThings allows you to integrate smart devices from many different manufacturers.
Kentucky Bluegrass is great for lawns it's just not as tough/disease resistant as others. Just keep up with it and you'll have a great looking lawn.
That's true where I live but I love Kentucky Bluegrass but havent seen it since dwarf tall fescue took over the market which happened because bluegrass gets "rust" so easily and spreads underground into flower beds whereas fescue spreads by seed so it's easier to control. Where I live it will be taken over by bermuda or Kikuyugrass. Kikuyu took over when gardeners quit using front throw lawnmowers and spread it from lawn to lawn via their lawn mowers. Never saw the stuff until about 30 years ago and now it's everywhere except MY lawn . . .
Great job. Wondering where you got that special tree that never grows and won't ever crack your concrete?
I'd say decent soil just takes some time. Soil isn't just about water and nutrients. The microorganism will form over time. They are one reason it's usually not a good idea to get your soil all upside down by digging. At my place everything was filled up with sand to get enough height above a small river. That was 90 years ago and it took decades to get half decent top soil.
They sort circuit this process here, by scraping a small amount of established top soil from a mature area, and spreading it thinly above the disturbed soil. The micro-organisms in that transplanted soil may be out of balance for the new site, but they are there to begin the cycles they are needed for.
Makes sense, it's similar when setting up a new aquarium, need to wait for for a few weeks for the water to establish and balance good bacteria levels before placing fish in the tank.
Without testing it’s all a guess now they are going to add more to it your comment is spot on it’s takes yrs and most end up doing more harm then good when adding fertilizers. They spent the money on the soil brought in would of been better off seeding right over it,
The best part of the home is building it. ---next!
The first video in the entire series where I am the professional critiquing the work (landscape designer). Watching how the tree got loaded made me physically clench. Knock on wood for the rest...
Looking great 👍🏽
Superb photography and video editing!!!
Planted a maple in that little area between the drive and the sidewalk. Eeek, that may bust up the concrete in a few years.
If you have a moderate area to cover when it freezes, those handheld fertilizer spreaders can be used with de-icers for an even application.
I'd be hard pressed to put a deicer on that fabulous concrete.
We just did a new sprinkling system and Dog Tough grass plugs at our house. No landscaping job is without a few speed bumps from mother nature!
Moving dirt doesnt look back breaking when its sped up.
Is there a way to speed it up when i have to do it?
Hahaha!
I was thinking that too. That poor guy pushing that tiller back and forth. Jeez, what a job.
Call 20 friends. Buy beer.
One of the best things one can do is have a soil samples tested without them it’s only a guess to what fertilizer is added now guessing on adding something else to the soil? Without actually knowing what’s missing pyHope it all works out. Sod is the way to go spend the money and have it done looking
I realize that there is a little way left to go on the build but I will say I will be sad for you to be done with the project but really look forward to what is next. Maybe a series on work smarter not harder. Keep up the good work sirs.
I would move that tree because as it grows the roots are going to spread out and grow under the concrete eventually causing cracks and deformations in the concrete
If that's a silver maple it will destroy the driveway, carriage walk and utility bases in short order. I would relocate to lower section of yard.
I think people online overreact about this stuff. I have bamboo growing right next to my foundation and it has been 20+ years with no problems. Bamboo is probably one of the most hardcore, most damaging plants there is. That tiny tree isnt going to hurt anything.
Not if they PROPERLY installed a good root barrier before they poured the concrete.
@@natesteiner5460 Any maple tree for that matter is going to ruin the concrete on either side of it. Probably the future homeowners will have that problem to deal with. For now, it is the contractor's job to make everything look pretty.
@@hikerJohn All it takes is time. That tree will lift and eventually crack the concrete on both sides. It might take 20 or 30 years or more, but it's an eventuality.
Awesome !!!!
I’m from northeast Ohio, not sure if climate is similar to Oregon. I work for Richard Anthony Inc. and our affiliated company Absolute Grass. There’s a soil pathogen called pythium. This year it was probably the worst in history. The temperature and humidity was so high that it thrives and a lot of new lawns came in sparse or died. We always hydroseed our new lawns filled with bio stimulants and fertilizer but the pythium was brutal. It’s hard to get rid of and trying to get rid of it with the high temps could hurt the lawn even more. I’m guessing that’s what happened with your new lawn.
Hey guys. Seems like a very low asking price. No I don't know that local market very well, but I've been a contractor for many years. Hope you do well on it. Watching from Montana
Having done quite a bit of landscaping I don't prefer the use of bark. It looks great at first but in the long run it washes or blows away. I do absolutely love the house and all the work you and your crew have done, beautiful work!
Landscaping for 50 years and never had that problem. But maybe you live in a wind tunnel? Nature prefers mulch or else a cover of plants. No mulch means spraying weeds or constant cultivation to disturb weeds from growing.
@@hikerJohn I've had some bare soil along my yard fence for a year, and the weeds have been horrendous. The funny thing is, the dymondia I planted as ground cover didn't spread at all, but the weeds grew like, well, weeds.
@@hikerJohn Rock and a good weed block...you live in a vacuum?
@Dave Shively . . . WTF . . . I've never had a client that wanted rock for GC except in Colorado. I landscape custom homes in Bel Air and Malibu and restaurants all over the USA. No I DON'T live in a vacuum.
@@hikerJohn calm down...so you just waste their money on bark...
Down here in So Cal, we just lay down astroturf 😄
What kind of tree is that planted in between two concrete slabs? Looks like one that's going to have some interesting roots.
Silver maple. Yup, those roots will cause some damage in the future.
Great work as always!
I am a landscaper turned builder. I have loved this series. Unfortunately time and time again I see so much thought go into the build and none into the landscaping that is fundamental to the overall facade. I felt like this has happened here and it's a little sad.
Who cares about landscaping. It’s the homeowners job to do. Only reason he did it is for curb appeal. All he needed is a clean look.
Respect!!!
Hope your landscaper install better grade pipe then what was installed in my landscaping in Georgia
Planting’s easy, if it lives it was the right choice !
Darwin loves that
Actually, no planting necessary
Your maple tree is pretty close to the driveway and sidewalk.
I'm a hydroseed contractor in Michigan...my thoughts are that the seed should've had a 3 way blend of not only Kentucky Blue but a nice turf type Perennial rye and a 20% Fescue... many strains of Blue grass can become over run with Mildew if over watered...rule of thumb for seeding, never put your seedlings to bed wet...very lite watering during the day then stop all watering well before sundown...a fungus that will cause "seedling dampening off" will kill large patches of constantly wet young turf...look for a kinda foamy/web looking substance at the edges of the dying seed bed in the brown to green boarders for confirmation of diseased turf. Finally, most Blue grass types take upto 28 days to germinate while the Fescues and Perennial ryes come up in about 7 to 14 days...the "in between period" 14 to 21 days is the critical point of the "grow in" especially in warm humid conditions. I would back off to lite "hand watering" with a gentle shower of water in your case as this is a fairly small lawn and very sloped, so you need to prevent wash outs!
I was always taught to water new grass and/or seeds twice a day for a month. Breakfast (but not before the sun is up) and lunch. Maybe around 3pm if mid summer.
All the planning for future in this project yet you put a an automatic concrete jack aka tree in tight quarters to the driveway and sidewalk, will look nice for a while but will eventually ruin those surfaces, even if it's not an aggressive root most folks let them go too long.
Need to account for snow in the landscaping if the house is in snow country.
It appears that your house was built in a little or no snow part of the country since the sidewalks are right next to the street. In snow country, there is a strip of lawn between the street and the sidewalk for the snowplows to put the snow off of the street.
The landscaping needs to take in account where the homeowner is going to put the snow to keep the driveway clear. Plants don’t do well under a snow bank.
As always - thanks for the videos.
Y’all saw the way my mans slid that corner!? Wow!
I would probably forgo grass if that is all that is going to be planted. Maybe a lawn service would take care of it at an appropriate price. Otherwise I wouldn't be interested in having a mower and string trimmer for that patch.
I wouldve like some more detail. How many zones is that system? Why are there so many valves?(my system is larger but appears to have less?) Is it just sprinkler heads or is there drip irrigation for the shrubs? How do you actually set up and size these things? Why poison(safe around kids? Probably not?) Instead of weed barrier? That said, cool to see the house come together.
Casaron……. .? In the Netherlands we don’t use that anymore for the last 15 years. And please put more plants in the ground per m2.
I don’t remember but I hope you put good stainless mesh behind those screen blocks you’re using for vents !
Oh, Scott. Wish you'd hired a landscape designer (me). :(
There is more attention spent on this spec house than some of the expensive bespoke builds in my neck of the woods, I hope you sell/sold it for a reasonable price.
Of course it will sold for very good price, just how many people watched all the videos.
@ I believe I have not missed an episode rather than the attitude how about a link?
B-e-a-utiful
Good to see you put down lots of Termite Food to Finnish off the Landscaping.
Got to get this guy a new age pvc cutter. Time to retire that hacksaw. Not only time consuming but doesn’t give a square cut and leaves burrs behind
Always check with your local waste treatment plant. Composted biosolids are agreat way to amend soils. They often give the stuff away for free (with free delivery of over 10 yards by me).
It's not sanitary to utilize human waste like that, especially if you have kids or pets. Animal waste is more nutritious and safer
@@dickbutt7854 It is not straight human fecal matter. It is comercially processed with wood chips and other organic matter. The material is broken down and composted . The temperatures reached is hot enough to kill off disease causing microbes. Lab work is done to verify the safety and content. The stuff I can get from the Chicago treatment plants is even safe to use as a growing medium in vegetable gardens.
@@michaelkline9647 still goes against everything I've been told
This house is so well built and beautiful I always wonder if it will get the price it should in that neighborhood. I don't know about the neighborhood, and maybe all the other houses are of equivalent build. But if not, I hope you get your price. ~~~~~ Again, the other houses in the area may be just as well-built. So, I'm not casting aspersions on other homes.
Happy to live in Ukraine where you can stick a piece of plywood into the soil and it will bloom next year.
What kind of wood, willow? Btw, greetings from Lithuania. :)
But the year after that, Putin annexes your plywood tree 😥
lol
@ Baltic Birch!
Loved watching this house go from the planning to almost complete.Are you going to do another house when this one is done.
Man your grandson has gotten so big
I build houses just to get a clean slate so I can design the landscape lol!! Like I feel that’s the part of my bid that gets me the job. To implement landscaping in the render is too important to sub out.
I don’t plant but I pick out the trees and dig the holes.
I'm very big on lawns having biodiversity in them with plaintains, dandelions, clover, and other things people like to call weeds really help fortify the lawn against a variety of conditions rather than one big patch of monoculture
You should reel mow your grass!