I had a customer who every so often would clean out their pond and spread the pond muck on their lawn, I thought they were busy but Christ did that grass grow fast after. Great job and thanks for the video.
This has to be the #1 lawn improvement before/after video I have seen on TH-cam. Awesome job man! I had my yard composted today (San Antonio, TX). I'm hoping for the same results. Simular story, clay soil, compacted, contractor tore the soil up building the homes in this area 15 years ago and the ground is still struggling. However, I enjoy a challenge. 😉
Your ground is struggling likely because the builder took the valuable top soil and sold it off leaving you with garbage. Happens a lot here where I live.
Heather Sowell - Hi Heather. The service I used did a good job, but I may do it myself next time. It will be cheaper and great exercise. The service I used: Eco Lawn San Antonio (Brad Walser is the owner - great guy btw). Call him @ (210) 316-9444. The bottom line is I wanted to stimulate my soil with micro organisms and he delivered. He used a compost that's high in "nutrients" (manure based.. lol) and my grass responded VERY well. I have a variety of grasses; Bermuda and St Augustine. The Burmuda was the greenest I have ever seen it... the St Augustine... not so much. I expect that the extra Phosphorus has a better impact on the Bermuda. I could go on-and-on because it is my pet project. If you have any additional questions let me know and good luck! 😃
Looks awesome. If you want it to be even greener add a little iron. It'll make it a darker green and sort of acts like a sunscreen in stressed times. Try it you'll like it.
I had to laugh when you mentioned not telling your wife about spreading manure on your lawn. My Dad was to buy steer manure to fertilize the lawn but instead bought and spread chicken manure. Oooops!! Neighbours 10 zip codes away could smell it. It took a long time for him to live that down...this happened decades ago and still makes me chuckle. I own a horse and know the benefits of livestock manure. Black gold!!
Thank you for the great tip! Put some manure over some dead areas in my lawn and man what a difference. Cheaper yet most effective way to bring back the life of Bermuda. Manure, Scotts and Milorganite!
Nice to see a lawn tutorial from a California resident. I just fertilized and seeded my lawn with steer manure three days ago as it's cooling down here in So Cal. Not sure how often to water, but I knew I had to keep it moist initially so I may have broken the law, as I've watered for three days. I'll give it a break for the next couple days.
Wow! The results of a beautiful lawn w/ no detaching, no aerating nor reseeding!...it almost hard to believe! Well... One thing we do have in Puerto Rico, is MANURE. I'm on it KG, Thanks!
None of those things are necessary for a nice lawn (well, except for seeding if you have bare spots). This worked because manure is simply nitrogen. All he did was fertilize his lawn.
Good work and good job on a time-lapse my dad's lawn when I lived in Bakersfield to do exactly the same thing responded really well to manure but don't be afraid to Super over fertilize it because you can't kill that stuff and then it will have lots of fertilizer so I sometimes double or even triple the normal fertilizer. This is the proper way to dominate your Neighbors lawn especially artificial turf!
We did this to a country home with horse manure from the neighboring horse barn onto plain dirt with grass seed. Can I tell you... It stunk heavy for about a week, but a month went by and it was the freshest greenest grass I've seen for a while...
Holy amazing results! Assuming Bakersfield is still as hot and dry as it was when we left in the 90's, I feel hopeful this would work in Texas too. Thanks!
I just moved into a house and gave this a test run on a small patch of my backyard. It worked really well! The yard was badly neglected so there are patches that need to be re-seeded, but the composted manure is a winner.
Organic cow manure is a great supply of nitrogen. I've been using it on my lawn and the results are very good: a darker green lawn, healthier grass plants and good growth - requiring more frequent mowing. That's how I like it. The manure smell isn't noticeable after a couple of days.
Looks great, I will try this in the U.K. synthetic grass has its uses but does nothing for the native birds and wildlife. My wife just watches me work too, whilst giving me “helpful “ advice. Thanks for the video
excellent job...did the same to a section of 1000 sq ft of my 5000 sq ft lawn to see what happens.(cow manure and compost).spread milorganite over the top(about 15 lbs of it) and raked it in with a garden rake. i should have taken pictures of before and after..this was st augustine floratam in south florida,..the difference in color was amazing..took about 3 weeks to show up but once it started it did not stop...did the rest of it..happy wife happy life.
I have been considering doing this to amend my soil. Areas are dry and dusty, lacking organic material. I have been considering manure hoping it might open up the soil a bit. Our climate in West Texas is nearly identical to Bakersfield. We get a bit more rain, but you guys can water more often. Because of the similarities, your video has been super helpful and it has convinced me to go ahead. Unfortunately I happened to mention it to my wife already...
Which spreader is that? Can it spread compost like Leafgro? I just replanted my lawn (till in some compost to about 4-6"). That spreader is something I needed years ago. It would've save me tons of time spreading compost. I knew there had to be an easy way - haha! Great job. Thanks
So you top dressed your lawn. Very nice. I've got to top dress my lawn. It's all clay. I can aerate until the cows come home and it won't do much for it. I don't fertilize with chemicals or spray for weeds. I love the distribution wheel. I'll have to look around for that one. Never saw one around here in Pa. Thanks for not using chemicals. They're killing my honeybees and other beneficial insects.
since you have clay soil look for the Next products from lawn care nut. They have a product called air 8 which will soften your clay. Not sure I spelled air 8 right but you will know it when you see the products. It will help.
Lawn looks real good. Nice job. I did notice that in the final picture there seems to be a little manure on the areas where it was dry to begin with. Might want to cheap your sprinkler head for clogged or calcium build up might not be getting enough water in that particular area. That is what happened to me. Great video. From Bakersfield, CA.
Perfect, i just did this to my lawn. I mixed it with top soil. I have my fongers cross. I wish I had that mesh tool instead of using the back of the rake.
Kelsey great job! I now want to fix my lawn. It looks like yours prior to adding the manure. How often should this be done to the lawn, monthly, quarterly, yearly? Can a Mesh drum roller be rented to spread the manure? Thank you for your help. Hope you see my comment.
I apply it once a year. Too much manure can burn the lawn. You might be able to rent a roller at a garden center, but if you can’t find one you can always spread it with a rake and shovel. Best of luck!
My buddy swore by it. Used the same process as you did. He would move his lawn at the lowest setting bagging to pick up weeds or die off and then would lay manure. Neighbors complaining about the files but heck after a few weeks he had the best lawn.
Amazing! Thanks for the info. I'm in Visalia and was looking for a company that delivers manure. How big is your yard and how much did you buy/ apply? I have about 5,000 sq ft..
Great results, I think I'll make the spreading roller, looks easy enough and appears to do an awesome job. G'day from Aus. I'm Brent, using wife's account. Won't be pleased either .🤣🤣🤣
Pretty cool Sir! I added compost early this week also but wish I had that wheel to spread it. I ended up putting in few sticks in my lawn...my St Augustinegrass was actually pretty green already but wanted to add the compost more to improve my sandy loam soil. Thx for your vid it pushed me to do the job.
That's the exact reason why I bought that spreader. Years ago I spread manure and ended up with sticks/rocks/clumps/etc. That spreader did the trick on keeping it clean.
Yes, Here in East call it Mushroom Dirt or Old Compose or Dark Lume - all this years ago was just Called Good Top Soil . . Milky Spore to the Lawn will Naturally Keep Grubs from Killing Root system , Very Good Protection - End Up Watering Less as the Plants aren't Stressed . " Grubs Love Water "
I'm in Canada we don't have spreaders like that here have to order from states . Might bite the bullet and get one will cost me over $450 Canadian for one! Good job good results!
This just proves what is right and more economically sound instead of buying pallets of sod no matter what type of grass you want to grow always works with manure you will have weeds but it can be controlled
Fellow Bakersfield resident u have nice looking lawn 👍. Planning on killing my lawn and starting over. Is your lawn sod or was it seeded? Looking to purchase some Bermuda grass seed u have any recommendations where to buy from?
Ronnie, this is Tiff Green Bermuda. It's a hybrid strain of bermuda that does not spread by seed (seeds are sterile, kind of like a Mule). If you have bermuda grass and you're planning kill and start over, I'm assuming because you have a serious weed issue and/or feral grasses in your lawn? If this is the case, I found a better solution after fighting it for years. In December/January after the bermuda goes dormant, I sprayed my whole lawn with a chemical called Paraguat (product was Gramoxone). What it did was burn everything to a crisp, killing every weed, every feral grass, everything. But because the bermuda was dormant, it didn't harm it one bit. The bermuda came back in the spring perfectly. This is a restricted product and the only way that you can get it is from a licensed farm supplier. I was able to acquire it from my neighbor who is a crop consultant (guy in the cowboy hat in the video). Another thing that I did twice a year (early March and mid June) is spread pre-emergent. This will keep any weed or grass seeds from taking root in the lawn. Pre-emergent can be found at Kern Turf or Abata-Weed. It's not cheap, but it's worth it. But beware, never spread pre-emergent right before or after spreading winter rye or the rye wont germinate. Best of luck Ronnie!
Very cool video! Thanks for the post. I’m trying to fill in some brown patches of my lawn (St.Aug.) that I burned out because of over use of herbicide in spot patches. My lawn is very shallow due to our lava rock base. I hope I can use the manure to level and top dress too. Appreciated your time lapse very much!
@@rushmuzik it’s creeping back with some seed germinating. Going well, but have to be vigilant about the seed watering. All the attention means my lawn is getting better and better.. 😃
Bermuda grass sucks in the winter, but usually pops right back as soon as the weather warms up again. I’ve found while it’s heat tolerant, it does like water too. Having said that, I hated it. It grows sideways and I have to constantly edge it.
Southern Hitta you should have seen the response from the neighbors in this high end neighborhood. I got a lot of funny looks, then a week later they’re all spreading shit in their lawns as well.
Kelsey Gallegos haha I bet I’m in North Georgia my uncles neighbor owns a lot of cows and it always smells bad but the grass in the summer looks amazing very green and it’s just a whole field so it’s a good view in the summer
Hi Kelsey, I'm from Mesa, AZ, preparing to transition from winter rye to bermuda similar to your situation. I'm overseeding the rye with bermuda and last summer gave me some probs because I had numerous bare spots and weak bermuda growth. Wanted to confirm that the manure is ok to place on top of bermuda seed? Thank you.
I’m not an expert by any means, but if the manure is composted and no longer hot it should be good to grow just about anything I would think. Best of luck partner.
What is your opinion on skipping that scalping procedure you appeared to do at the very beginning? If you just spread over lawn, still would be a nice benefit I would think.
Wow that's beautiful hey. Am stunned at how much everything changed in 7 days. You really did an amazing job hey. Am starting mine as well and am thinking chicken manure. Any advice on how I should do that will be highly appreciated. Thanx
That’s interesting. I just shoveled out my chicken coop and have 2 wheel barrel loads of chicken manure. I’ve never tried chicken manure but from what I read it’s good shit (pun intended)! You’ll have to let me know how it does for you. Best of luck and thanks for the nice comment!
Proper use of manure in the garden can supply your plants with nutrients and help improve soil structure. Adding too much manure can lead to nitrate leaching, nutrient runoff, excessive vegetative growth and, for some manures, salt damage
I am in Fort Worth. A part of my lawn seems compacted despite using the sprinklers. I used Black Kow compost and I think the results were poor. What compost brand did you use and did it help the soil get softer?
Hi love ur one compost manure process. My lawn in vegas kinda looks likes ur however heard that i should manure use top soil use n overseed use. Urs is way easy easier How many times u watered that day n for how many minutes
Great idea. But I'm curious do you mulch your grass clippings into your lawn that can replenish up to 25% of what is lost during growing maybe that will help your lawn. Mulching the grass clippings and also helps keep the ground moist.
How about seed? Did you mix manure and seed to your compost? I had sod laid down on my yard and it now is turning yellow. Can you show me step by step to help my lawn get back in track?
Can you put this if you have a bit (not a lot) of weeds on your lawn? Can it stop the growth of weeds as the grass grows? I plan on mixing cow compost manure with seeds. Thanks for sharing.
Fredmullegun You're absolutely right! I've used rabbit manure, corn gluten, spoiled milk on my lawn and took it from looking like a sand dunes to a great lawn. I wish I only had Bermuda instead of that St Augustine tho. It can't tolerate the TX heat like Bermuda. The $$$ saving is superior to chemical treatment.
How often did you typically mowed prior to this? Is pushing growing season for me right now and I mow twice a week. My Bermuda can definitely use this technique. Did it grow any weeds weeks after?
2 questions: 1. What mower was used at the beginning there? I've never seen one with a front bagger 2. How long did the grass stay this green after this one 7 day treatment?
2 answers: 1. It's a front throw reel mower. It's for mowing grass really short and it leaves a very nice clean finish. 2. It stayed green for the summer. I sold the place after that, so I'm not sure if it carried on the next year.
Had to laugh at the wife comment. I'M the one that sprays for mosquitos and fleas, and treats the yard for fire ants. Now I will be treating the yard! Hubby never questions anything I do. He just thanks me for all the work I do. But man, how nice your yard turned out! Hope I will be as successful as you were! Thanks for posting this video. 👍🏻
I had a customer who every so often would clean out their pond and spread the pond muck on their lawn, I thought they were busy but Christ did that grass grow fast after. Great job and thanks for the video.
Great Video and informative in an old fashioned simple way.... Without any obnoxious music or drumbeats, etc! Love it, thanks!!
Thank you
That manure is the shit
I’ve used this guys compost the past few seasons after overseeding and have had great results. 10/10 customer service as well!
Manure was used for thousands of years it always gives the best results.
People used it thousands of years ago on their lawns?
@@SOLDOZER Yeah, don't you remember the oases around the teepees? LOL
Compost is like black gold to a lawn. It’s amazing
I live in Bakersfield too and I did it it and it made the lawn start growing like crazy
This has to be the #1 lawn improvement before/after video I have seen on TH-cam. Awesome job man!
I had my yard composted today (San Antonio, TX). I'm hoping for the same results. Simular story, clay soil, compacted, contractor tore the soil up building the homes in this area 15 years ago and the ground is still struggling. However, I enjoy a challenge. 😉
Thanks, and best of luck!
How did it come out? I'm over here in Conroe just north of Houston so weve got the same enviroment..
Thomas Wilson I live in new braunfels. Where did you get your compost from and did you do it yourself? Thanks in advance!
Your ground is struggling likely because the builder took the valuable top soil and sold it off leaving you with garbage. Happens a lot here where I live.
Heather Sowell - Hi Heather. The service I used did a good job, but I may do it myself next time. It will be cheaper and great exercise. The service I used: Eco Lawn San Antonio (Brad Walser is the owner - great guy btw). Call him @ (210) 316-9444. The bottom line is I wanted to stimulate my soil with micro organisms and he delivered.
He used a compost that's high in "nutrients" (manure based.. lol) and my grass responded VERY well. I have a variety of grasses; Bermuda and St Augustine. The Burmuda was the greenest I have ever seen it... the St Augustine... not so much. I expect that the extra Phosphorus has a better impact on the Bermuda. I could go on-and-on because it is my pet project.
If you have any additional questions let me know and good luck! 😃
Looks awesome. If you want it to be even greener add a little iron. It'll make it a darker green and sort of acts like a sunscreen in stressed times. Try it you'll like it.
I get the same reactions from my wife.
Total disbelief!
Then... amazement at the results.
You'd think she'd stop doubting.
Just keeping us humble!
I had to laugh when you mentioned not telling your wife about spreading manure on your lawn. My Dad was to buy steer manure to fertilize the lawn but instead bought and spread chicken manure. Oooops!! Neighbours 10 zip codes away could smell it. It took a long time for him to live that down...this happened decades ago and still makes me chuckle. I own a horse and know the benefits of livestock manure. Black gold!!
lol
Great story. I made that mistake once. It took weeks for the smell to go away.
Thank you for the great tip! Put some manure over some dead areas in my lawn and man what a difference. Cheaper yet most effective way to bring back the life of Bermuda. Manure, Scotts and Milorganite!
I use Milorganite also, just started last year. Trying to maintain a nice lawn without chemicals. Curious as to which Scotts product you use?
Nice to see a lawn tutorial from a California resident. I just fertilized and seeded my lawn with steer manure three days ago as it's cooling down here in So Cal. Not sure how often to water, but I knew I had to keep it moist initially so I may have broken the law, as I've watered for three days. I'll give it a break for the next couple days.
Wow! The results of a beautiful lawn w/ no detaching, no aerating nor reseeding!...it almost hard to believe! Well... One thing we do have in Puerto Rico, is MANURE. I'm on it KG, Thanks!
Ferdinand Vazquez agree. We do have enough manure to spare. Cheers
None of those things are necessary for a nice lawn (well, except for seeding if you have bare spots). This worked because manure is simply nitrogen. All he did was fertilize his lawn.
ryeguy01 very true!
Ferdinand Vazquez im curious to know if you were affected much by the hurricanes last year and if youve recovered much.
Ferdinand Vazquez don't use fresh, it will burn your yard. Compost it first.
Beautiful, I love using blackow in my yard. I mix it in every year when I seed my yard.
Blackkow is great but too expensive to spread it on my 10k lawn.
yes sir use black kow every year in the spring with some seed it works miracles but thankfully I don't have as big of a front yard as this video.
Hi Kenny! I’ll try this....
If you also wanted to Level your lawn, would cow manure work or would you suggest to mix it with topsoil or sand? I also plan to overseed .
What type seed do you use?
Good work and good job on a time-lapse my dad's lawn when I lived in Bakersfield to do exactly the same thing responded really well to manure but don't be afraid to Super over fertilize it because you can't kill that stuff and then it will have lots of fertilizer so I sometimes double or even triple the normal fertilizer. This is the proper way to dominate your Neighbors lawn especially artificial turf!
We did this to a country home with horse manure from the neighboring horse barn onto plain dirt with grass seed. Can I tell you... It stunk heavy for about a week, but a month went by and it was the freshest greenest grass I've seen for a while...
If the manure was composted, it wouldn't have any smell at all. Other than earthy dark dirt smell.
Hi. I’m in Tulare Ca. Can you please tell me what’s the best time to do it? Today is june 6 .2023 we’re almost in summer time . Nice video btw.
Any time is good, but early spring is best
Holy amazing results! Assuming Bakersfield is still as hot and dry as it was when we left in the 90's, I feel hopeful this would work in Texas too. Thanks!
caliv0608 did u try it?
???
I just moved into a house and gave this a test run on a small patch of my backyard. It worked really well! The yard was badly neglected so there are patches that need to be re-seeded, but the composted manure is a winner.
this is awesome. I'm going to do the same to my lawn here in the Northeast this week.
Organic cow manure is a great supply of nitrogen. I've been using it on my lawn and the results are very good: a darker green lawn, healthier grass plants and good growth - requiring more frequent mowing. That's how I like it. The manure smell isn't noticeable after a couple of days.
Looks great, I will try this in the U.K. synthetic grass has its uses but does nothing for the native birds and wildlife. My wife just watches me work too, whilst giving me “helpful “ advice. Thanks for the video
Wow! That's so awesome. fingers crossed, I hope my yard turns out as nice as your with the manure I used.
How's your yard look 4 years later? Are you still using cow manure?
Can’t believe you missed the chance to say “without further a doo doo...”
Bahahaha!
Lol
Ya u doooo it good 😂
excellent job...did the same to a section of 1000 sq ft of my 5000 sq ft lawn to see what happens.(cow manure and compost).spread milorganite over the top(about 15 lbs of it) and raked it in with a garden rake.
i should have taken pictures of before and after..this was st augustine floratam in south florida,..the difference in color was amazing..took about 3 weeks to show up but once it started it did not stop...did the rest of it..happy wife happy life.
Great video and great job. I hope Mrs. is happy.
I hope so too, lol.
Awesome job, the wife’s just don’t understand our madness!! Beautiful Lawn!
Thanks - it's not madness, it's a lifestyle.
Ya lol
wives vs wife's
I have been considering doing this to amend my soil. Areas are dry and dusty, lacking organic material. I have been considering manure hoping it might open up the soil a bit. Our climate in West Texas is nearly identical to Bakersfield. We get a bit more rain, but you guys can water more often. Because of the similarities, your video has been super helpful and it has convinced me to go ahead. Unfortunately I happened to mention it to my wife already...
Haha, I'm familiar with Midland/Odessa/Pecos (Oilfield).
I’m in Tulare county, totally true with soil. I’m working on my yard we just moved into a new construction home.
Thanks for the help
Really did a great job...Talked to my sis about this just tonight...
What were her thoughts?
Thank you for the time-lapse! this is one of the most satisfying video on TH-cam.
Haha, I'm glad you enjoyed
Which spreader is that? Can it spread compost like Leafgro? I just replanted my lawn (till in some compost to about 4-6"). That spreader is something I needed years ago. It would've save me tons of time spreading compost. I knew there had to be an easy way - haha!
Great job.
Thanks
I'm not familiar with leafgro, but it works great for regular compost.
Great results. Did you have any problems with runoff due to the sloped yard?
Did you find that you had to eat more food to produce all that manure to cover your whole lawn, or was the regular diet enough? Thanks.
You're joking of course, lol.
Trick is to eat the grass you're trying to grow more of
Eat more fiber. Bulky!
A speader is not needed if you eat plenty of ex-lax.
PA TV stupidest comment ever
Are you always commenting with smart-ass remarks or is that just a part of your regular diet?;)
So you top dressed your lawn. Very nice. I've got to top dress my lawn. It's all clay. I can aerate until the cows come home and it won't do much for it. I don't fertilize with chemicals or spray for weeds. I love the distribution wheel. I'll have to look around for that one. Never saw one around here in Pa. Thanks for not using chemicals. They're killing my honeybees and other beneficial insects.
since you have clay soil look for the Next products from lawn care nut. They have a product called air 8 which will soften your clay. Not sure I spelled air 8 right but you will know it when you see the products. It will help.
peat moss spreader vs distribution wheel
That’s a very good demonstration and explanation. I’m sold. Thanks for the help. I’ll bet your wife forgave you.
Buddy that’s insane well done
Just put down 2 tons of compost this morning in my back yard. This red clay is a biotch to get right for a lush soft lawn.
Great video Kelsey, thanks for sharing.
Mine looks the deep rich green all the time but I'm in the UK so it rains a lot and doesn't require any special treatment luckily :)
Sounds like you have some great soil! Wish I had that. Cheers!
Lawn looks real good. Nice job. I did notice that in the final picture there seems to be a little manure on the areas where it was dry to begin with. Might want to cheap your sprinkler head for clogged or calcium build up might not be getting enough water in that particular area. That is what happened to me. Great video. From Bakersfield, CA.
yellow driver 602 yep, it was a sprinkler coverage issue. This was a couple years ago, it has since been adjusted of course.
This was great. What type of Manure? Chickens, horses, cows?
Great vid. Any reason you didn’t overseed those patch areas at the same time or the whole garden in general?
Perfect, i just did this to my lawn. I mixed it with top soil. I have my fongers cross. I wish I had that mesh tool instead of using the back of the rake.
fongers LOL
It came out really well, great job Kelsey
Thanks Sonny
Kelsey great job! I now want to fix my lawn. It looks like yours prior to adding the manure. How often should this be done to the lawn, monthly, quarterly, yearly? Can a Mesh drum roller be rented to spread the manure? Thank you for your help. Hope you see my comment.
I apply it once a year. Too much manure can burn the lawn. You might be able to rent a roller at a garden center, but if you can’t find one you can always spread it with a rake and shovel. Best of luck!
My buddy swore by it. Used the same process as you did. He would move his lawn at the lowest setting bagging to pick up weeds or die off and then would lay manure. Neighbors complaining about the files but heck after a few weeks he had the best lawn.
We had some flies as well, lol. But they went away.
mow vs move, flies vs files
Damn i need you to come do my house since were in the same city help a local out haha!
Good stuff tho lawn looks beautiful!
Amazing results! How many sq ft is that front yard and how much did it cost you in manure? I have a corner lot and I'll need to cover about 2000sq ft.
approx 1800 ft^2 and $40 in manure.
Amazing! Thanks for the info. I'm in Visalia and was looking for a company that delivers manure. How big is your yard and how much did you buy/ apply? I have about 5,000 sq ft..
I spread a pickup load in that video. My pickup bed is 6’4” long.
Looks like crap! Oh wait...it is crap 💩😂. Great job on the lawn. That green color doesn’t lie. That’s a happy and healthy lawn!
Great results, I think I'll make the spreading roller, looks easy enough and appears to do an awesome job. G'day from Aus. I'm Brent, using wife's account. Won't be pleased either .🤣🤣🤣
I Did This As Well But With K-31 Fescue In Southern California.(San Bernardino) Excellent Results And Inexpensive!
Nice!
Pretty cool Sir! I added compost early this week also but wish I had that wheel to spread it. I ended up putting in few sticks in my lawn...my St Augustinegrass was actually pretty green already but wanted to add the compost more to improve my sandy loam soil. Thx for your vid it pushed me to do the job.
That's the exact reason why I bought that spreader. Years ago I spread manure and ended up with sticks/rocks/clumps/etc. That spreader did the trick on keeping it clean.
Wow, that is amazing, can't beat manure. Looks great!
The lawn look s great. How much compost did you spread in cubic yards? Approximately how thick of a layer was there when you were done? Thank you.
I spread it about 1/2 in thick. I'll let you do the rest of the math ;)
Very nice. I’ll need to look for one of those spreaders. Curious,...did you consider core aerating before composting?
It was on my "to-do" list, but never got around to it.
Yes, Here in East call it Mushroom Dirt or Old Compose or Dark Lume - all this years ago was just Called Good Top Soil . .
Milky Spore to the Lawn will Naturally Keep Grubs from Killing Root system , Very Good Protection - End Up Watering Less as the Plants aren't Stressed . " Grubs Love Water "
Holy Crap!! your lawn looks great!! I got some manure at Home Depot $2 a bag.
I'm in Canada we don't have spreaders like that here have to order from states . Might bite the bullet and get one will cost me over $450 Canadian for one! Good job good results!
This just proves what is right and more economically sound instead of buying pallets of sod no matter what type of grass you want to grow always works with manure you will have weeds but it can be controlled
when it is composted properly there are no weeds
Fellow Bakersfield resident u have nice looking lawn 👍. Planning on killing my lawn and starting over. Is your lawn sod or was it seeded? Looking to purchase some Bermuda grass seed u have any recommendations where to buy from?
Ronnie, this is Tiff Green Bermuda. It's a hybrid strain of bermuda that does not spread by seed (seeds are sterile, kind of like a Mule). If you have bermuda grass and you're planning kill and start over, I'm assuming because you have a serious weed issue and/or feral grasses in your lawn?
If this is the case, I found a better solution after fighting it for years. In December/January after the bermuda goes dormant, I sprayed my whole lawn with a chemical called Paraguat (product was Gramoxone). What it did was burn everything to a crisp, killing every weed, every feral grass, everything. But because the bermuda was dormant, it didn't harm it one bit. The bermuda came back in the spring perfectly. This is a restricted product and the only way that you can get it is from a licensed farm supplier. I was able to acquire it from my neighbor who is a crop consultant (guy in the cowboy hat in the video).
Another thing that I did twice a year (early March and mid June) is spread pre-emergent. This will keep any weed or grass seeds from taking root in the lawn. Pre-emergent can be found at Kern Turf or Abata-Weed. It's not cheap, but it's worth it. But beware, never spread pre-emergent right before or after spreading winter rye or the rye wont germinate.
Best of luck Ronnie!
Very cool video! Thanks for the post. I’m trying to fill in some brown patches of my lawn (St.Aug.) that I burned out because of over use of herbicide in spot patches. My lawn is very shallow due to our lava rock base. I hope I can use the manure to level and top dress too. Appreciated your time lapse very much!
Thanks! Best of luck with your lawn!
Did it work????
Im in the same boat
@@rushmuzik it’s creeping back with some seed germinating. Going well, but have to be vigilant about the seed watering. All the attention means my lawn is getting better and better.. 😃
We have a heavy clay based soil in Texas. Did you aerate or just mow prior to laying the manure? I am thinking about aerating then manure next spring.
Did you get some interesting mushrooms when the rains came?
They rains never come in in Bakersfield, but yes, I did get some interesting mushrooms when the sprinklers came on.
Why do you have those two spots where the grass is facing difficulty in growing?? Nice job btw
The sprinklers needed adjusted. Thank you
Bermuda grass sucks in the winter, but usually pops right back as soon as the weather warms up again. I’ve found while it’s heat tolerant, it does like water too.
Having said that, I hated it. It grows sideways and I have to constantly edge it.
Agreed - but when it's in good shape it sure is a good looking lawn. Just high maintenance.
Real grass allways looks better than fake :) good job on the video!
always vs allways
Do you have a model number of that spreader. Such a great idea.
Google it.
Haha good grass man you probably have some of the greenest and healthiest grass in Southern California
Southern Hitta you should have seen the response from the neighbors in this high end neighborhood. I got a lot of funny looks, then a week later they’re all spreading shit in their lawns as well.
Kelsey Gallegos haha I bet I’m in North Georgia my uncles neighbor owns a lot of cows and it always smells bad but the grass in the summer looks amazing very green and it’s just a whole field so it’s a good view in the summer
Hi Kelsey, I'm from Mesa, AZ, preparing to transition from winter rye to bermuda similar to your situation. I'm overseeding the rye with bermuda and last summer gave me some probs because I had numerous bare spots and weak bermuda growth. Wanted to confirm that the manure is ok to place on top of bermuda seed? Thank you.
I’m not an expert by any means, but if the manure is composted and no longer hot it should be good to grow just about anything I would think. Best of luck partner.
Sweet video!!...what the tool called you used to spread the manure..?
peat moss spreader
Awesome. Just moved out Bako to Wisconsin, there’s no lack of rain here.
I just moved out of Bako to Colorado, there's no lack of clean air here.
Kelsey Gallegos I concur.
Amazing good job on the tiny piece of dirt that you own
Thanks sir.
What is your opinion on skipping that scalping procedure you appeared to do at the very beginning? If you just spread over lawn, still would be a nice benefit I would think.
That was just the weekly mowing. I just wanted it mowed before i spread it because I knew it was going to really grow.
Awesome👍🏾..what were you doing in the beginning of the video? Cutting the grass? Detaching?
Just cut it short. Did not de-thatch.
I'll have to give this a try next year.
look very green after applied the manure?
Wow that's beautiful hey. Am stunned at how much everything changed in 7 days. You really did an amazing job hey. Am starting mine as well and am thinking chicken manure. Any advice on how I should do that will be highly appreciated. Thanx
That’s interesting. I just shoveled out my chicken coop and have 2 wheel barrel loads of chicken manure. I’ve never tried chicken manure but from what I read it’s good shit (pun intended)! You’ll have to let me know how it does for you. Best of luck and thanks for the nice comment!
That’s awesome bro! Thanks for the tip. Looks amazing
Justin Blanc anytime
I would add another layer
Proper use of manure in the garden can supply your plants with nutrients and help improve soil structure. Adding too much manure can lead to nitrate leaching, nutrient runoff, excessive vegetative growth and, for some manures, salt damage
Maybe a week or two later. You want to add just enough so you are not smothering the existing grass blades.
Beautiful work. Question: how much manure for how many square yards of lawn +/-?
1 pickup load easily covered 1800 sq ft.
I am in Fort Worth. A part of my lawn seems compacted despite using the sprinklers. I used Black Kow compost and I think the results were poor. What compost brand did you use and did it help the soil get softer?
I didn’t use a brand. I got it from a dairy.
Great video. Thanks for posting
Hi love ur one compost manure process.
My lawn in vegas kinda looks likes ur however heard that i should manure use top soil use n overseed use.
Urs is way easy easier
How many times u watered that day n for how many minutes
I can’t remember exactly, but I believe I watered it once a for about 20 minutes per station.
Great idea. But I'm curious do you mulch your grass clippings into your lawn that can replenish up to 25% of what is lost during growing maybe that will help your lawn. Mulching the grass clippings and also helps keep the ground moist.
This subject has already been covered somewhere in the comments below.
Ok Kelsey. But thank you for letting me know and the reply. I'll dig further in to the comments.
Wow!!! That looks great.
Can you do it again and see more results or is that overkill on the lawn?
My dad used to do it once a year. I just don't have the time nor am I willing to put in the effort to do it yearly.
How about seed? Did you mix manure and seed to your compost? I had sod laid down on my yard and it now is turning yellow. Can you show me step by step to help my lawn get back in track?
No seed, just manure and water. Good luck
So did you have to scalp your grass before the application ?
Plus, a big plus! No poisons or other dangerous chemicals!!
Can you put this if you have a bit (not a lot) of weeds on your lawn? Can it stop the growth of weeds as the grass grows? I plan on mixing cow compost manure with seeds. Thanks for sharing.
...They say the best defense for weeds is a very healthy and thick lawn.
it looks great !! I need to do that to my yard did you mixed the manure with grass seeds or just manure alone ? thanks in advance for your response
Just manure - no seeds.
Looks dam good. I'll have to try it sometime
The greenup isn't the main benefit. You are putting money in the bank here by adding organic material to the soil.
Fredmullegun You're absolutely right! I've used rabbit manure, corn gluten, spoiled milk on my lawn and took it from looking like a sand dunes to a great lawn. I wish I only had Bermuda instead of that St Augustine tho. It can't tolerate the TX heat like Bermuda. The $$$ saving is superior to chemical treatment.
This is so satisfying I wish I could do this at my house but I'm just a kid and I can't buy composted manure
Mexican cartel ! It's incredibly cheap
How often did you typically mowed prior to this? Is pushing growing season for me right now and I mow twice a week. My Bermuda can definitely use this technique. Did it grow any weeds weeks after?
No weeds out of the norm, weekly mowing.
Looks great! I'd love to see what it looked like after another week or so.
Stayed green all summer
2 questions:
1. What mower was used at the beginning there? I've never seen one with a front bagger
2. How long did the grass stay this green after this one 7 day treatment?
2 answers:
1. It's a front throw reel mower. It's for mowing grass really short and it leaves a very nice clean finish.
2. It stayed green for the summer. I sold the place after that, so I'm not sure if it carried on the next year.
Had to laugh at the wife comment. I'M the one that sprays for mosquitos and fleas, and treats the yard for fire ants. Now I will be treating the yard! Hubby never questions anything I do. He just thanks me for all the work I do. But man, how nice your yard turned out! Hope I will be as successful as you were! Thanks for posting this video. 👍🏻
Haha! Good luck to you!
Thanks! :)