Ben's neighbours : sweety, that weird guy up the road is doing his lawn for the 4th time this week.. Ben : yeeeehaaaa it's mowing day Ben's neighbours : honey, now that guy is sniffing his lawn clippings Ben : ahh I love the smell of fresh cut lawn.. Ben's neighbours : Hey babe, now that guy is down on ground level talking to his lawn.. Ben : (at ground level) hmmm yeah I rekn I could take it back down to 5mm but I'll leave it here for now.. Ben's neighbours : honey, I think it's just best to close the blinds..
You just gotta embrace it at some point. Those folks think you’re weird for cutting 3-4 times a week or more, but then they marvel at the “finished product” and wonder how you got it that way. 🤷♂️
When I did my greenkeepers apprenticeship in the 80's my old boss told me early on that "a good day of rain is better than a fortnight using the sprinkler" I think he was spot on.
you are fascinating to watch, i've never met anyone more passionate about grass. Im obsessed with your videos n I hate mowing the lawn. Also if you happen to see this, what's the difference if I collect the grass in the mower vs blowing it out to the side, which is better for my lawn?
How do you rate your edger? Considering buying the same one, only thing is it looks somewhat cheap. Has yours held up well? Love to see a review video on it 👌🏼
Ben.....so much info today......so it's better to bring the height up for winter? - I'm still at 4mm and I'm still tweaking low and high spots...but Auckland is still up around 24 - 26 daytime and mid to high teens at night so still have some growth....I'll start with the liquid fert tomorrow.....Thanks again for all of your info today...I've learnt alot.
have just finished setting up the front yard and marked out a section for the new lawn. Is it too late to look at seeding a couch (bermuda) grass in Canberra? If not - where would you recommend getting the seeds from? Love the videos, so many good bits of information in there.
How well does the Ryegrass hold up in hot temperatures? Is that a Bermuda turf, TifTuf, with overseed Ryegrass for cool season green color? You said the golf course green was bent grass with Poa Anna. I assume the Poa is an invader?
Joe Quattro From what I gather in my watching, it’s affordability that pushes Ben to the older mowers. The Swardman was a demo he had to return. He said in a recent video the Swardman, while not really suitable for mowing a putting green, was a great mower, but it was a demo and due to be returned.
@@jonathanwilliams4169 I was wondering if Swardman gave these to a bunch of vloggers or if they were just on loan to them. I saw, I think it was Grass Daddy had an engine problem with his Swardman and it was out of service.
What do you do about ants?? I’ve got an rc airfield I keep cut in the summer but it’s in an open grass field and the ants have invaded so bad it’s almost unusable
As a grass seed farmer. I love watching where the product we farm goes. We farm reighgrass, fescue, orchard grass, and festulolium. USA Oregon Wilmette valley grass seed! Providing 75% of the worlds grass seed! Look at our farms in google earth 😍
Yo Ben! Nearly 60K Boy! Quick question, will bare spots in couch (maybe 60cm across) still grow in this time of year following an application of pre emergent (Embargo)? Or would something like propyzamide be better in terms of less root pruning? desperately trying to achieve 100% coverage by winter but the wintergrass pressure last year was the worst so I'm straddling the fence right now!
Did you have a proeta mower if so how do you like it..im look for a new mower have a new masport not a fan my rover 44 heaps better.. you lawn is pretty sweet
I'm a greenkeeper mate, just to touch on a few things, looks like you've got a bit of dry patch on there, and a nutrient deficiency nothing to do with the HoC, you need some wetting agents in there and some more nutrients if you want to maintain them sort of heights, i've seen myself go out and cut from 10mm down to 6mm and its only yellowed off for a day and came back with nutrients in 2 days. Also, looks like you need more lateral growth, get some products to induce lateral growth not vertical growth and give it a verticutt and you should be well on your way to maintaining them heights, plently of wetting agents on them dry patched areas though!
I’m also a greenkeeper. 1. Not dry patch 2. I use wetting agents on it 3. If you’ve seen it come back in 2 days must be bent or it’s optimal temps for Bermuda 4. Too late in the season for a verticut, it’s quite cold here, nights are down below 10 degrees C 5. Again it’s not dry patch.
@@LawnTips 8:35 looks hella like dry patch! i beg to differ but if not thats some serious nutrient deficiency so i hold my hands up if im wrong! Nice one! If its not dry patch which is awfully hard to tell on camera even by eye its nutrient deficiency so my bad, i'd bet if you probed it for moisture with a meter it would be around 12-13% though, would be an interesting test to see what its at. You can verticut or scarify any time with the right cocktails do it all the time never stopped us in 20 years. I've seen it, lack of nutrients like i said but it may of picked up if you've fed it. Again, you've got too much vertical growth i can see on the camera the greens bare on the close up even on your new videos top dressing just wont do it, get some lateral growth going and your ball will roll better and you can mow lower even in winter 7mm-8mm is fine, roll will pickup when you get some lateral growth on it aswell. Hope it comes good! nice to see the progress!
Glen S I’ve done a few videos since this you may like to watch. Not sure where you live, but here this grass is about to go dormant so there will be no growth at all and it will go brown. You might not have experienced that before. It’s 100% not dry patch. But anyway, all good, definitely hard to tell on camera. Thanks for watching mate, hope all is well. I’m also aware of everything you are saying with Height. I was a super at my golf course. 👍🏼 Not anymore because I’m doing this as my job now.
@@LawnTips Ah nice one! Nah mate never experienced true dormancy always get around 1mm a week in winters here fair one , i was a super for 10 years but now im just a grunt, its less stressfull and easier after being in the game as long, but im more into growing veg now haha than lawncare, the passion is dying out after being in the game this long anyway good project to keep an eye on! hope it comes good cheers.
Your surrounding neighbours must be thinking there’s where our waters going without knowing you have bored water. Interested to know if you’ve had anyone from the council or a local talk to you ?
Ben's neighbours :
sweety, that weird guy up the road is doing his lawn for the 4th time this week..
Ben :
yeeeehaaaa it's mowing day
Ben's neighbours :
honey, now that guy is sniffing his lawn clippings
Ben :
ahh I love the smell of fresh cut lawn..
Ben's neighbours :
Hey babe, now that guy is down on ground level talking to his lawn..
Ben :
(at ground level) hmmm yeah I rekn I could take it back down to 5mm but I'll leave it here for now..
Ben's neighbours :
honey, I think it's just best to close the blinds..
I don't doubt that is what it's like 😂
At some stage of the illness, I stopped caring as evidenced by my using scissors to edge in front of passers by.
You just gotta embrace it at some point. Those folks think you’re weird for cutting 3-4 times a week or more, but then they marvel at the “finished product” and wonder how you got it that way. 🤷♂️
Haha or the wife is going "Honey why does our lawn look like crap compared to his? Get out there and do what he's doing! "
I've never been so interested in a small patch of grass in my life. And I can't stop watching.
Kyle lmao
When I did my greenkeepers apprenticeship in the 80's my old boss told me early on that "a good day of rain is better than a fortnight using the sprinkler"
I think he was spot on.
Darrin Lawton
Its the trace elements found in the rain that makes all the difference.
I think you could well be right James.
"Today is Friday... edit this today so you can see it tomorrow"
Me, living in a place where it's still Friday: I have defeated time and space.
I’ve seen every episode. Where have my TH-cam recommendations gone
Just mowed my lawn. Thanks for the motivation.
I’m glad I’m not the only ones who edges and whipper snips
you are fascinating to watch, i've never met anyone more passionate about grass. Im obsessed with your videos n I hate mowing the lawn. Also if you happen to see this, what's the difference if I collect the grass in the mower vs blowing it out to the side, which is better for my lawn?
Cut grass is a fresh... fresh smell! I love it! That rye is looking really noice!
Lol yr neighbours are good letting u take over partof their front lawn
Another couple of months and the putting green should be looking stellar.
Thanks for the advice on the measuring device Ben. Nice putting green, nice lawn.
Can’t wait for spring here in the United States, I miss lawn work
Love your videos! Keep up the great work! Lawn looks AMAZING.
How do you rate your edger? Considering buying the same one, only thing is it looks somewhat cheap. Has yours held up well? Love to see a review video on it 👌🏼
Always putting a good video of your green.
Ben.....so much info today......so it's better to bring the height up for winter? - I'm still at 4mm and I'm still tweaking low and high spots...but Auckland is still up around 24 - 26 daytime and mid to high teens at night so still have some growth....I'll start with the liquid fert tomorrow.....Thanks again for all of your info today...I've learnt alot.
The speed looks good on the green. I would have thought you would have to get a greens roller to get it to roll like that at 6mm.
I beat Ryan Knorr 😀. Did this aussie really just fart on youtube?! Hahahhaha
Ooo shes coming along.
Looks awesome I wish I could afford to redo my lawns the people that owned my house previously had garden beds everywhere so nothing level.
this guy is makin mowing your lawn cool
Looking great! I love your channel. Thanks Ben!
have just finished setting up the front yard and marked out a section for the new lawn. Is it too late to look at seeding a couch (bermuda) grass in Canberra? If not - where would you recommend getting the seeds from? Love the videos, so many good bits of information in there.
Thanks for sharing mate. Really enjoy your videos
Looking great mate, Its really kicking hard now
Thanks my bro!
Last Aussie 😁Ben , coming along nicely. How is your brothers lawn coming along ? Great video. 😎👍👍
Did you say whip snipping? That’s the most awesome thing I’ve heard in a while.
Whipper snipping. That device he's holding is called a Whipper snipper
Whipper
“As you can see... it’s long”
You said “it’s starting to creep into the cooler months” I was like “it’s late winter and early spring!” Then I realised you live in Australia.
Looks great. Building a green myself.. This Bermuda grass? What type of Bermuda works best for putting green?
Getting up there on the stimp.
Next project, putting green on the nature strip across the road!!
if you're wondering why you've just burned hours watching a man mow grass, it's not the grass. ITS THE PASSION!!!!
Your lawn looks epic! Even better when you compare it to your neighbors!
That fart was epic 😂
Love watching your videos. Always interesting.
The 6 people who disliked this video are uncultured swines!
Keep up the awesome videos!!!
Damn thats some nice grass. Hows your Brothers lawn looking?
How is this such amazing content? I’m watching you mow the lawn. I freakin love it though. Also you should power wash your driveway!
I would watch that too. Love watching people power wash things.
Loving that edging footage, they look so neat Ben mate 🤙🏾
Mowmaster in WA sell height bars, just like that.
How well does the Ryegrass hold up in hot temperatures? Is that a Bermuda turf, TifTuf, with overseed Ryegrass for cool season green color?
You said the golf course green was bent grass with Poa Anna. I assume the Poa is an invader?
That arm tan bro 👌👌
I see you mowing with older reel mowers and the greensmaster. Was the Swardman junk or what pushes you to the older mowers?
Joe Quattro From what I gather in my watching, it’s affordability that pushes Ben to the older mowers. The Swardman was a demo he had to return. He said in a recent video the Swardman, while not really suitable for mowing a putting green, was a great mower, but it was a demo and due to be returned.
@@jonathanwilliams4169 I was wondering if Swardman gave these to a bunch of vloggers or if they were just on loan to them. I saw, I think it was Grass Daddy had an engine problem with his Swardman and it was out of service.
What do you do about ants?? I’ve got an rc airfield I keep cut in the summer but it’s in an open grass field and the ants have invaded so bad it’s almost unusable
As a grass seed farmer. I love watching where the product we farm goes. We farm reighgrass, fescue, orchard grass, and festulolium. USA Oregon Wilmette valley grass seed! Providing 75% of the worlds grass seed! Look at our farms in google earth 😍
your energy in this video seems a bit stressed/down. maybe i'm imagining it but hope all is well. another great video
Nah not at all, probably was that I was rushing cause I had a 2 hour window to edit haha. Thanks for checking in though mate 👌🏽
12:40
Golfers tan, boi!
When you outmow all the other dad's in your neighborhood this man will show up, he is the final boss, be in fear
Man I'm invested in that grass... And I'm not even in the same state...
Yo Ben! Nearly 60K Boy! Quick question, will bare spots in couch (maybe 60cm across) still grow in this time of year following an application of pre emergent (Embargo)? Or would something like propyzamide be better in terms of less root pruning? desperately trying to achieve 100% coverage by winter but the wintergrass pressure last year was the worst so I'm straddling the fence right now!
What do you think it would read on a stimp meter right now?
Count me in for a hoodie when you get them!
Did you have a proeta mower if so how do you like it..im look for a new mower have a new masport not a fan my rover 44 heaps better.. you lawn is pretty sweet
What do you think the green would be running on the stimpmeter? 11’s, 12’s?
Yeah looks good. But what about your brothers place.?
Do you bin your grass clipping or compost? If you compost, there's a couple of videos in it!
I'm a greenkeeper mate, just to touch on a few things, looks like you've got a bit of dry patch on there, and a nutrient deficiency nothing to do with the HoC, you need some wetting agents in there and some more nutrients if you want to maintain them sort of heights, i've seen myself go out and cut from 10mm down to 6mm and its only yellowed off for a day and came back with nutrients in 2 days.
Also, looks like you need more lateral growth, get some products to induce lateral growth not vertical growth and give it a verticutt and you should be well on your way to maintaining them heights, plently of wetting agents on them dry patched areas though!
I’m also a greenkeeper.
1. Not dry patch
2. I use wetting agents on it
3. If you’ve seen it come back in 2 days must be bent or it’s optimal temps for Bermuda
4. Too late in the season for a verticut, it’s quite cold here, nights are down below 10 degrees C
5. Again it’s not dry patch.
@@LawnTips
8:35 looks hella like dry patch! i beg to differ but if not thats some serious nutrient deficiency so i hold my hands up if im wrong!
Nice one! If its not dry patch which is awfully hard to tell on camera even by eye its nutrient deficiency so my bad, i'd bet if you probed it for moisture with a meter it would be around 12-13% though, would be an interesting test to see what its at.
You can verticut or scarify any time with the right cocktails do it all the time never stopped us in 20 years.
I've seen it, lack of nutrients like i said but it may of picked up if you've fed it.
Again, you've got too much vertical growth i can see on the camera the greens bare on the close up even on your new videos top dressing just wont do it, get some lateral growth going and your ball will roll better and you can mow lower even in winter 7mm-8mm is fine, roll will pickup when you get some lateral growth on it aswell.
Hope it comes good! nice to see the progress!
Glen S I’ve done a few videos since this you may like to watch.
Not sure where you live, but here this grass is about to go dormant so there will be no growth at all and it will go brown. You might not have experienced that before.
It’s 100% not dry patch. But anyway, all good, definitely hard to tell on camera.
Thanks for watching mate, hope all is well.
I’m also aware of everything you are saying with Height. I was a super at my golf course. 👍🏼 Not anymore because I’m doing this as my job now.
@@LawnTips Ah nice one! Nah mate never experienced true dormancy always get around 1mm a week in winters here fair one , i was a super for 10 years but now im just a grunt, its less stressfull and easier after being in the game as long, but im more into growing veg now haha than lawncare, the passion is dying out after being in the game this long anyway good project to keep an eye on! hope it comes good cheers.
Smick! Mint! Amazing 😉
❤️❤️
Where did you get that edger? It's getting warmer in the US, and I want to start working on the yard, but mine isn't doing much.
I just got this one from my local hardware store here. Good chance they have similar ones at yours as well!
Mmmmmm that looks nice.
Yeah boy
Awesomeness! 😎
Do birds ever pick at your seeds
Nice vid keep it up
What are those red flowers at your front door?
Need to trim the hole mate !
Did today 😉
Will you roll the green?
Nah, I don’t think so
It’s still Friday here :)
Mate the lawn is looking sexy as, please please please make sure to do a vid on getting those weeds, good putting YEAH BOY!
Definitely will man!
hey Ben love the Vid. how much golf do you play?
Not much at the moment to be honest. I'd love to go twice a week. Might be a winter thing I do. I'm not great at golf though haha
Tan lines ! 💪
First Floridian.
that cup is looking pretty sad.. need to rotate that everyday!
Haha everyday is a little extreme. I'll do at least weekly when I fix the hole changer I have
Another killer video, yewww
Your surrounding neighbours must be thinking there’s where our waters going without knowing you have bored water.
Interested to know if you’ve had anyone from the council or a local talk to you ?
How much for a round brah?
What type of grass is this?
Do you have any pgr applied to the tiftuf?
I won't until next season now. Getting too cold
Does your neighbors ever get mad or jealous at your lawn
just once while putting do the Caddy Shack "Cinderella Story" just for shits and giggles
How’s your brother’s lawn looking?
G day
That could be running at about 12 on the stimpmeter bro
Is that your drone buzzing???
Yeah, it was pretty close
Yo Mate!
Please buy a straight shaft whipper snipper every time you get the bent one out I cringe!
Heading into winter?????? It’s almost summer
His in Australia different when the southern hemisphere is in winter the northern hemisphere is in summer
More coffee art.
Bet it kills looking at your neighbours edges and lawn
Mowing "Long" Grass After Rain
It’s long for me haha
First one to notice the non silent 💨🤣😆
Wish it was real 😂 was my gimbal
Lawn Tips riiiiiiiiight uh huh sure lol
Who lives this close to someone?
That’s not tight it’s toight bro.
Beat Connor that’s all that matters
First Pom
First!
you win
First
His lawn is as flat as my bank account