When we moved into our house, we immediately removed the lawn front and back. In the front we replaced it with rocks and native flowers, succulents, and cactus. In the back we built raised beds to grow food. The HOA tried to make us remove all of it and issued us a violation. At the end of the day, we were allowed to keep our landscaping, but had to replace the "lawn" between the street and sidewalk.
Turned .25 acres of lawn into mulch / veggie garden. This year the other .25 goes! I am planting goldenrod, coneflowers, and a smattering of trees the Arbor society will mail me randomly when I'm unprepared :D
Depending on where you live you may be joining me in the "I hate rabbits and deer club". Guard your trees. Those overgrown rats are voracious. If there's something new in their environment they will go straight to it to have a taste and having a taste frequently involves nipping small trees at ground level if they're thin enough (~1/4" max) and leaving a tiny stump and the severed top part of the tree laying beside it if they don't like the taste. Seriously if you see any rabbits or deer around your area take precautions and protect little saplings. They really do B-line straight to the new "flavors". Don't learn the hard way.
I killed my backyard lawn with 6-8 inch layer of oak and sugar maple leaves! Now I can easily plant into the earth. Ditch the lawn! Wear earplugs with that machine.
@ogonbio8145 my dude there are tiny rc engines that scream like an f1 car. It aint the size of the ax its how its swung. All depends on how many holes are in the muffler. Exposure length will also make ear protection more important. You only get one set of ears, protect them.
@@ogonbio8145 ignorant ass comment lol, it's not about the size of a motor, it's about the decibel levels, duration of higher volume, and most importantly, the frequencies. Smaller engines often have high pitched overtone that you don't really notice, and THOSE frequencies are the ones that will mess up your hearing. From someone who spends most of his time with audio and sound engineering, I can promise you that running an engine like this (which Ironically, I used to work in Home Depot's tool rental dept and rented out/maintained THIS EXACT TOOL...) for long periods of time without protection can and often does hurt people's ears. MANY customers mentioned to me how their hearing was diminished the next day after their project when returning it, so much so that myself and another co worker started warning people to wear hearing protection when renting it (and several other tools) out.
I've enjoyed seeing that pup in all your vids through the years. I had to put my dog down in Oct 2023. He was one month shy of making it to 15 yrs old. It was some of the most intense heartbreak that had to endure in a long time. Cheers 🍻 to the years with your pup. He has had a good life with you. 🤘🏼💥🖤
Preach. I killed my lawn here in the RGV over ten years ago and have never been happier in my life. I now have a food forest in it's place and building soil. Funny thing is that the lawn was too expensive to keep it alive during our inferno summers and so I took it out, or so I thought. I still find a patch or two of St. Augustine thriving without any water. It really exemplifiies that a healthy soil microbiome and soil structure can create the ideal environment to support the da' plants and sh*t.
Listen bud here's what you do: I've never done this job before but I'm mexican so I have supreme authority okay You take the first row of grass and you haul it away. Just put it aside, don't worry about it. Then you flip the 2nd row into the first, just flip it over. You see? You just saved a lot of work! You can flip long sections now with a shovel. No more picking up each little section, be smart okay? Then at the end you're missing the last row right? Whatcha gonna do? I'll let you figure that one out for yourself alright tough guy, cheers!
I love the idea of nosy neighbor Karen watching you film this through her blinds and maybe juuuust maybe questioning her automaton lifestyle. Solid stuff, my man.
They're lucky there if they can plant their front yard however they want. I live in a much more rural area than that and if the plant life gets a couple inches tall the city will mow it and bill me. I can't under stand why people have a problem with it. Society is weird.
@@RealBradMiller when we were buying our house we looked at a place out in the country that had a HoA but it was just like 10 houses all pitching in to get the road plowed in wintertime
@@RealBradMiller You'd be surprised, it's a growing problem of HOAs in the country. Although depending on what state you're in, mine has decided that HOAs cannot go after people with fines for ripping lawns out and putting in native plants. It's a major win.
I had to put a raised septic in when I got this place. 30 x 60 x 3 tall. sand with 6 inches to soil. the septic guy says to get grass going fast so it doesnt wash away ... I says Im planting native wildflower seed so I dont have to mow and so its covered with flowers for birds and bees. He looked at me like I was speaking Martian, sayin something he never heard before. Had to pull out several invasives that were smothering my natives I seeded. now its flowers covered w butterflies n birds
Had a patch of pasture we didn't get all the invasive (bull, Russian, etc.) thistles out of, and I used it as a pollinator garden until the Mississippi kites showed up and used it as a buffet just in time for us to start chopping it down before that could seed out. Whole little cycle of nature just for waiting a few extra weeks.
You bring me so much joy. I'm a Chicagoan too and you remind me of half my uncles. You are so inspirational to me as I am starting my journey from geologist to farmer/botanist/chemist. What you are doing is truly holy work.
Between your videos and some well timed sales at a local native plant nursery i was inspired and did this exact method last fall! Hopefully in the next 3 years it will start looking close to a short/mixed grass prairie! Keep on doing good work like this and inspiring others to care for their local environment!
@@realdragon It depends on where you live. Where I live if I went to the nearest forest that would be a county forest preserve which is protected by law. If you take so much as a seed out of a forest preserve you could face steep fines. So, to answer your question, if you don't have those laws over the open land in your area (or don't care about the laws) then I guess there's nothing preventing you from doing just that.
These videos give me life. I've killed off my lawn as of this past year and had originally replaced it with clover, which was at least better for winged insects, but I'm planning to get more native plants in this spring 😊
I have went through HELL With bermuda grass, smothering does NOT WORK Unless you get ALL OF IT. if your neighbors have any in their lawn, itll just return to yours too. it's hell on earth of a grass
I planted a garden in the desert. When I went out to check on it in the summer, it was all on fire. The only survivor was the Bermuda Grass. It's indestructible. I don't even think the glycophosphate will kill it for very long. And, how do you prevent the herbicide getting rained on and washed into the plants you want?
Fusilade II...I don't like using herbicides but bermuda grass is evil af and I do have to spray a little into my neighbors to give myself a 1 year head start
@@jamiepippin3892 the big trick to kill bermuda is it has to be growing vigorously the p then spray. it can go simi dormant and the plants metabolism slows down in the warm season when it is dry so the spray does very little. even then you will have to repeat application on some parts the stolons can go very deep and re-sprout.
Smothering does work because you KEEP it smothered and you don’t plant through it til the following spring so it’s had all winter to die. Old burlap coffee bags that roasteries give away or sell for a nominal fee (we got an entire carload for $10) works wayyy better than cardboard which not only slips around but degrades too fast for smothering the tougher things. Glyphosate is FUBAR and should NEVER be used unlike what some folks are talking about in these videos. It’s not meant to ever be removed, and mulch should always be several inches deep to keep everything in complete darkness. Been there done this for 20 years and it’s always worked.
A green grow landscape rep knocked on my door yesterday ,introduced himself and proceeded to talk shit about my shitty lawn. I told him to get outta here with that bull he froze and I closed the door on him and had my kids had a good laugh
Can you imagine being the type of person so caught up in appearances that that type of marketing works on you? I know they're out there, and I know they're miserable.
Killed my lawn, both front and back yards, 10 years ago. Neighbors stayed in their houses as I rototilled but when I laid down cardboard to sheet mulch and lay dirt on top to drive the final nail in the sod farm coffin, the neighbors poured out of their houses and the rioting began. One questioned my sanity. Another threatened to throw grass seed down in the middle of the night. The guy next door would send his wife outside to talk to me while he hid behind the curtains peeking out the window. I confirmed to her hundreds of times there would be no turf in my lifetime. And that was the final straw for him, he had two strokes when his wife reported it was the end of the sod as they knew it. 😎😎😎
I never understood why people care so much about someone else's property. Absolutely bizarre behavior. Not their property so not their problem; this is why people need HOBBIES. Watching one's neighbors all day doesn't count.
@@scoobydoo5447 Sorry for the double post, but I didn't answer your question... Cemeteries are a waste of land because you're planting a body in a plot of land that can never be used for anything else but a monument to you. That's quite a conceited action to take if you really think about it. Consider this as well... I live in America so I'll use it as an example. 100 years ago the population of America was about 114 million people. 50 years ago it was 214 million. Today it's about 335 million. With population growth like that it's simply not feasible to just keep memorializing people by planting them in the ground taking up land in the process.
You're a blessing Tony!!! I've heard of this method before but when I tried it, I clearly did it wrong. I didn't let the roots die before I covered them up. Thank you!
Bermuda grass is a nighmare to remove, it develops tubers and comes back from them. It hates shade, tho. I have used the paper and cardboard smothering - trick is to overlap so there is no light getting thru. Helps to put brown packing paper down first if you can get hold of that. Then cardboard, then soil.
I just luv ya man. I took out my rage years ago, busted up the earth by hand and started a garden. The flip the earth thing and cardboard gardening were my first ways to garden. All that is what has brought me here years ago. Right on. 😂❤️🌵🍓🌽🥕🌱👩🏻🌾🌾🌿🥀
All over the neighbor hood people are peering out the kitchen window and texting each other, "What's going over over there at the Smith's?" "Hey, isn't that that crazy TH-cam guy who knows all the plant names?" "My God, he's ruining that yard and lawn! It's probably un-American or something." - Keep up the good work Tony!
@@Invading-Speciousyes! Queensland heeler, Australian cattle dog, Blue/Red heelers, dingo dinguses are all names for the same breed 😋 Blue or red Heeler just refer to the color of the dog.
getting rid of an old lawn is a big hard job down here is southern cal. we have 2 predominant grass both are invasive common Bermuda grass and Kikuyu grass does not matter what you do it will take a few years to totally eradicate both of them but well worth the effort. I would guess that lawns might be easier to eliminate in climates too cold for either of those two.
My 8year old lad loves watching your videos. He’s really getting why lawns are such a bad ecological idea to start and maintain and why we need to get rid old and native ! Go Joey
Ive just seen a different channel thats not giving you credit, but a good person put your channel name in the comments section. So....as i was saying....just seen your coyote pup video and gotta say...your a HERO buddy. Thankyou for helping that poor little coyote pup!. I can only reward you with likes and a subscribe mate...so here goes. Oh, and who knows, i may pick up a udea or two for crazy types of plants as i love keeping different types of cactus and other plants here in the UK !!!. Love how you handled that little pup!.
Good job well done! I'd love to see what this front garden looks like when it's finally reclaimed from the grass. Hope you get the chance to post some follow-up videos.
I've killed four so far. Found burning and tilling works well if adverse to the chems. Makes for easier tilling too. Cardboard leaves even worse chemicals in the soil. Paper binders and inks are nasty stuff. I'm just fighting off annoying invasives now.
@@StoneE4 most hardware stores sell a tool called a "brush torch"/"pavement torch". It's just a gigantic propane torch on a stick specifically designed for burning grass. Some people use them to de-ice their driveways and roofers use them to heat up and soften asphalt. You want one with the hose, so you can use a big propane tank instead of wasting your money on little 1lb tanks. Something like the "Flame King Heavy Duty" is what you want, it's not much more expensive than the shitty ones they sell at Tractor Supply and it's a lot nicer to use. Don't waste your money on the version that has the built-in push-button igniter, the flint striker is a lot more durable and reliable, and it's ten dollars cheaper.
Actually tilling destroys the microbes in the soil, messes up drainage, and pushes thousands of weed seeds into the soil from its actions. Cardboard only has chemicals if you’re not using the plain brown stuff, and is absolutely NOT worse than glyphosate which is poisoning groundwater and pollinators, not to mention is banned as a carcinogen in many other countries. If you’re terrified of cardboard, an even more effective smothering method is old burlap coffee bags, which you can get for free or next to nothing from local roasters and/or coffee distributors.
Love it! We always use native annual and perennial wildflower seed rather than transplants. So much cheaper and easier than mulch and plug plants. Annuals give you colour in year 1 while the perennials establish. Cut and rake off annually in September/October to simulate grazing and maintain low fertility.
It's good to see so many people nowadays strive to stop being grassholes 😂😂 Slowly over the years I've been converting my yard to food Forest 3/4 of an acre is expensive to mulch when you are in the city.
Cardboard? Yeah, that's what I did, mostly. I did strip* 12" +/- along the edge. Then cardboard, then 12-18" of the free leaf compost from the town. I added mushroom compost (from my work) , & sometimes a little topsoil , where I planted. 4yrs later, it's now really nice soil. :) Main reason for doing it that way is tree roots. There is a line of trees along the far side of the driveway, that continues in back of the house , + an 8'-12' wide Cornus stolonifera hedge surrounding those trees. Dug one test hole, &......+wiping sweat away+ "No way!" . Too many tree roots. The other reason is that it can be pretty wet at times, & also very dry in midsummer. It's sandy loam, with a high water table, at the bottom of a hill, close to a river & creek. Changes happen quickly, & it can vary greatly. The loads of compost (35-40yds?) mitigate all that, = + IT'S FREE + . ;P *I use a sod-lifter. For small areas, and narrow strips , where a sod cutter isn't needed, it works very well. Much better than a shovel. It also is a good edger. I find it easier & better than tools labeled as edgers . www.homebyames.com/en-us/lawn-garden/garden-landscape-tools/long-handle-tools/specialty-tools/62218.html
Don’t rent either. Look up a local coffee roaster (the big distributors are even better than local shops) and get old burlap coffee bags from them and smother and cover it with several inches of mulch. Far better for the soil health than the horsesh*t they’re peddling in these videos about using tillers/cutters.
The most important part on lawn maintenance is the way you mow. The hight and the time decides, what will grow. 2-3 times a year. More often is rarely good for the plants.
Stop pushing the sod cutter lol. pull it instead way easier. At my golf course we use a 14” cement cutter as a sod cutter and we run it in a circle around the greens to kill the popler tree roots that grow horizontally into the green. Then we dig out the pieces of root that are visible, use a cup cutter over where the roots were and replace with fresh plugs from our extra green. When you’re putting in the replacement plugs make sure the grain of the plug is facing the same way as the rest of the green when you put it in, makes it recover faster. I live in Saskatchewan so it’s basically a miracle we can have bentgrass greens at 2mm. We don’t use any sort of pesticides or chemicals except right before winter we use a fungicide on the greens because you can get issues with snow rot in spring.
I don't know that he's doing any lord's work, but he's certainly doing good work for the environment. What lord do you think he's doing work for? Lord Macbeth? Lord Blackadder? Lord Farquaad? Lord Vader?
Problem with Glyphosate is the barren ground combined with residual effects means you end up with the worse weeds filling the ecological gap. Ends up taking years to manage into something biodiverse.
Every one of these makes me feel bad I don't have a lawn to kill. I try to evangelize, but alas can't lead by example. (Living in the mountains almost nobody imagines they're going to play soccer on their near-vertical property, thankfully.)
this is wonderful. after years of wanting to rip out our sod that refuses to die, which came with the house when we bought it, we're finally KILLING OUR LAWN, too! already got the clover seeds ready to go so we can just have a yard full of clover. hoping to plant cali poppies, too.
I live in Northern CA and ALL OF THE PLANTS IN MY FRONT YARD ARE NATIVE!!! Lawns look terrible and so do imported plants. I don't understand why more people don't put native pants in their yard!
@@luvmechanixhoney bees are a non-native invasive imperialist use as slaves for human crops...our native bees are meant to be here and planting natives supports our native insects and fauna
@@fuxan hey bub, if you're mad about honey bees, wait til you hear about livestock! everyone gets hungry sometimes...you sure you're not part of the problem? how's about not feeding the trolls?
Really looking forward to planting this spring. Finally have my own yard to work on and what is awesome about this project is it won't cost an arm and a leg you can do pretty much all of it DIY.
Walio!! I freaking miss Kiddieland! My old coworkers son married into da KL family.. Walio what’s da song from Disneyworld??? It’s a small world after all!!?!? ?!!!?!❤❤
I just found out about the kill your lawn show and I’m making my parents record it on their directv so I can watch it. My mom was telling me “it’s this show with these funny guys who plant natives and they say fuck a lot, so I thought of you”
Here in Scotland the current battle is prevent people from bricking over driveways - I'll take lawns over that, esp as most are native and ignored here. Not too many people up care about fertilising or watering them!
"Kill the lawn within yourself". i will, Tony, thank you.
Right? Best self help advice I've heard in decades.
I've been dead inside for decades.
cut it out and mulch it all @@daveadalian4116 Get some native seeds in there too
@@daveadalian4116It's OK we got some mulch for ya to get the system back up ad running.
Edit: Auto word sucks.
@@daveadalian4116Release diaphragm and you will literally breathe life into yourself ;)
Tony probably just wakes up and thinks “today is the day the lawn gets it”
Every gahddamn day
"Kill the lawn within yourself," omfg give this man the Pulitzer fr
The thumbnail has me imagining Joey posing with a lawn like hunters do with deer they've shot, lol
Thats funny
27th lawn tagged and bagged boys
There's a lawn growing in my heart, but with these techniques, I think I can heal. Thank you Mr. Santoro.
Somewhere, an HOA president is frothing at the mouth.
When we moved into our house, we immediately removed the lawn front and back. In the front we replaced it with rocks and native flowers, succulents, and cactus. In the back we built raised beds to grow food. The HOA tried to make us remove all of it and issued us a violation. At the end of the day, we were allowed to keep our landscaping, but had to replace the "lawn" between the street and sidewalk.
Turned .25 acres of lawn into mulch / veggie garden. This year the other .25 goes! I am planting goldenrod, coneflowers, and a smattering of trees the Arbor society will mail me randomly when I'm unprepared :D
Fantastic!! You keep on going! 🌼🌼🌼
Depending on where you live you may be joining me in the "I hate rabbits and deer club". Guard your trees. Those overgrown rats are voracious. If there's something new in their environment they will go straight to it to have a taste and having a taste frequently involves nipping small trees at ground level if they're thin enough (~1/4" max) and leaving a tiny stump and the severed top part of the tree laying beside it if they don't like the taste. Seriously if you see any rabbits or deer around your area take precautions and protect little saplings. They really do B-line straight to the new "flavors". Don't learn the hard way.
I killed my backyard lawn with 6-8 inch layer of oak and sugar maple leaves! Now I can easily plant into the earth. Ditch the lawn! Wear earplugs with that machine.
I did that too but with 6-8 inches of free mulch on top of cardboard. 4 years ago. Sure takes longer than leaves but the price was right.
You don’t need earplugs with a 5hp Honda engine lol
@ogonbio8145 my dude there are tiny rc engines that scream like an f1 car. It aint the size of the ax its how its swung. All depends on how many holes are in the muffler. Exposure length will also make ear protection more important. You only get one set of ears, protect them.
@@ogonbio8145 ignorant ass comment lol, it's not about the size of a motor, it's about the decibel levels, duration of higher volume, and most importantly, the frequencies. Smaller engines often have high pitched overtone that you don't really notice, and THOSE frequencies are the ones that will mess up your hearing. From someone who spends most of his time with audio and sound engineering, I can promise you that running an engine like this (which Ironically, I used to work in Home Depot's tool rental dept and rented out/maintained THIS EXACT TOOL...) for long periods of time without protection can and often does hurt people's ears. MANY customers mentioned to me how their hearing was diminished the next day after their project when returning it, so much so that myself and another co worker started warning people to wear hearing protection when renting it (and several other tools) out.
@@ogonbio8145 Maybe YOU don't. Enjoy not being able to hear because it makes you feel like more of a man to unnecessarily hurt yourself.
I've enjoyed seeing that pup in all your vids through the years. I had to put my dog down in Oct 2023. He was one month shy of making it to 15 yrs old. It was some of the most intense heartbreak that had to endure in a long time. Cheers 🍻 to the years with your pup. He has had a good life with you.
🤘🏼💥🖤
So sorry friend, it's a hard thing 💕
I am that wheezing geriatric, stay well and remain positive. We can do this if we work together. Stay the course.
You rock man, we got this
Preach. I killed my lawn here in the RGV over ten years ago and have never been happier in my life. I now have a food forest in it's place and building soil. Funny thing is that the lawn was too expensive to keep it alive during our inferno summers and so I took it out, or so I thought. I still find a patch or two of St. Augustine thriving without any water. It really exemplifiies that a healthy soil microbiome and soil structure can create the ideal environment to support the da' plants and sh*t.
Listen bud here's what you do:
I've never done this job before but I'm mexican so I have supreme authority okay
You take the first row of grass and you haul it away. Just put it aside, don't worry about it.
Then you flip the 2nd row into the first, just flip it over.
You see? You just saved a lot of work! You can flip long sections now with a shovel. No more picking up each little section, be smart okay?
Then at the end you're missing the last row right? Whatcha gonna do? I'll let you figure that one out for yourself alright tough guy, cheers!
K settle down there guy
😊
Nailed it
You can take that first row of grass and roll it up, leave it in the driveway, then unroll it upside down on the last row. Badda bing, badda boom! ;-)
Least aggressive mexican
"sick and twisted cult of the lawn" "Kill the lawn within yourself" this is worthy of a face book share
I love the idea of nosy neighbor Karen watching you film this through her blinds and maybe juuuust maybe questioning her automaton lifestyle. Solid stuff, my man.
They're lucky there if they can plant their front yard however they want. I live in a much more rural area than that and if the plant life gets a couple inches tall the city will mow it and bill me. I can't under stand why people have a problem with it. Society is weird.
@@MrPortajohnNever heard of an HOA in the country!
@@RealBradMiller when we were buying our house we looked at a place out in the country that had a HoA but it was just like 10 houses all pitching in to get the road plowed in wintertime
@@RealBradMiller You'd be surprised, it's a growing problem of HOAs in the country. Although depending on what state you're in, mine has decided that HOAs cannot go after people with fines for ripping lawns out and putting in native plants. It's a major win.
I had to put a raised septic in when I got this place. 30 x 60 x 3 tall. sand with 6 inches to soil. the septic guy says to get grass going fast so it doesnt wash away ... I says Im planting native wildflower seed so I dont have to mow and so its covered with flowers for birds and bees. He looked at me like I was speaking Martian, sayin something he never heard before. Had to pull out several invasives that were smothering my natives I seeded. now its flowers covered w butterflies n birds
Had a patch of pasture we didn't get all the invasive (bull, Russian, etc.) thistles out of, and I used it as a pollinator garden until the Mississippi kites showed up and used it as a buffet just in time for us to start chopping it down before that could seed out. Whole little cycle of nature just for waiting a few extra weeks.
You bring me so much joy. I'm a Chicagoan too and you remind me of half my uncles. You are so inspirational to me as I am starting my journey from geologist to farmer/botanist/chemist. What you are doing is truly holy work.
*holey 😉
Holly*
🤣🤣🤣 "Cult of THE LAWN"..... 👍🏻👍🏻. ❤ this guy!!!! ✌️🥰🥰🥰🇨🇦
Between your videos and some well timed sales at a local native plant nursery i was inspired and did this exact method last fall! Hopefully in the next 3 years it will start looking close to a short/mixed grass prairie! Keep on doing good work like this and inspiring others to care for their local environment!
What is preventing me from just going to the nearest forest and grabbing bunch of shit?
@@realdragon It depends on where you live. Where I live if I went to the nearest forest that would be a county forest preserve which is protected by law. If you take so much as a seed out of a forest preserve you could face steep fines. So, to answer your question, if you don't have those laws over the open land in your area (or don't care about the laws) then I guess there's nothing preventing you from doing just that.
These videos give me life. I've killed off my lawn as of this past year and had originally replaced it with clover, which was at least better for winged insects, but I'm planning to get more native plants in this spring 😊
You gotta LEAN INTO IT
Thanks! ❤
I have went through HELL With bermuda grass, smothering does NOT WORK Unless you get ALL OF IT. if your neighbors have any in their lawn, itll just return to yours too. it's hell on earth of a grass
I planted a garden in the desert. When I went out to check on it in the summer, it was all on fire. The only survivor was the Bermuda Grass.
It's indestructible. I don't even think the glycophosphate will kill it for very long. And, how do you prevent the herbicide getting rained on and washed into the plants you want?
It doesn’t kill Bermuda permanently. It doesn’t leave much residue. It would have to be sprayed directly on the plants foliage to harm it.
Fusilade II...I don't like using herbicides but bermuda grass is evil af and I do have to spray a little into my neighbors to give myself a 1 year head start
@@jamiepippin3892 the big trick to kill bermuda is it has to be growing vigorously the p then spray. it can go simi dormant and the plants metabolism slows down in the warm season when it is dry so the spray does very little. even then you will have to repeat application on some parts the stolons can go very deep and re-sprout.
Smothering does work because you KEEP it smothered and you don’t plant through it til the following spring so it’s had all winter to die. Old burlap coffee bags that roasteries give away or sell for a nominal fee (we got an entire carload for $10) works wayyy better than cardboard which not only slips around but degrades too fast for smothering the tougher things. Glyphosate is FUBAR and should NEVER be used unlike what some folks are talking about in these videos. It’s not meant to ever be removed, and mulch should always be several inches deep to keep everything in complete darkness. Been there done this for 20 years and it’s always worked.
A green grow landscape rep knocked on my door yesterday ,introduced himself and proceeded to talk shit about my shitty lawn. I told him to get outta here with that bull he froze and I closed the door on him and had my kids had a good laugh
Can you imagine being the type of person so caught up in appearances that that type of marketing works on you? I know they're out there, and I know they're miserable.
I would say theres no need to be rude to sales reps but if he's talking shit on your lawn then good on ya :D
Killed my lawn, both front and back yards, 10 years ago. Neighbors stayed in their houses as I rototilled but when I laid down cardboard to sheet mulch and lay dirt on top to drive the final nail in the sod farm coffin, the neighbors poured out of their houses and the rioting began. One questioned my sanity. Another threatened to throw grass seed down in the middle of the night. The guy next door would send his wife outside to talk to me while he hid behind the curtains peeking out the window. I confirmed to her hundreds of times there would be no turf in my lifetime. And that was the final straw for him, he had two strokes when his wife reported it was the end of the sod as they knew it. 😎😎😎
Should have told them to "sod off".
I never understood why people care so much about someone else's property. Absolutely bizarre behavior. Not their property so not their problem; this is why people need HOBBIES. Watching one's neighbors all day doesn't count.
You're not a success until you take on a golf course.
Fort Sheridan is your poster child!
Yes! Fort Sheridan!
There are bigger fish to fry than golf courses. How about the biggest waste of land on the planet... Cemeteries.
@@StoneE4how do you figure cemeteries are a waste of land? Are we just supposed to grind up grandma and grandpa and spread them in your garden?
@@scoobydoo5447 Grinding them up as mulch is a better idea than planting them in the ground below a headstone in a sea of non-native grass.
@@scoobydoo5447 Sorry for the double post, but I didn't answer your question... Cemeteries are a waste of land because you're planting a body in a plot of land that can never be used for anything else but a monument to you. That's quite a conceited action to take if you really think about it.
Consider this as well... I live in America so I'll use it as an example. 100 years ago the population of America was about 114 million people. 50 years ago it was 214 million. Today it's about 335 million. With population growth like that it's simply not feasible to just keep memorializing people by planting them in the ground taking up land in the process.
This is the biggest and easiest way to help the environment. Thank you!
Joey using a sod cutter is the hottest thing I've ever seen on the Internet.
You're a blessing Tony!!! I've heard of this method before but when I tried it, I clearly did it wrong. I didn't let the roots die before I covered them up. Thank you!
Ole Jack could have 7+yrs left in him my cattle dog is 21 and is still pretty normal outside of cataracts and a bunch of lypomas
I ordered a Kill Your Lawn hat last week- I haven’t been this excited for a hat in a long time! Thanks for sharing the very satisfying video.
yo, cool channel, plants are awesome
@@dertythegrower i’m going big brother. I’m trying to make a whole forest in my backyard.
Yes they are, m'dude
I like turtles too
Grass is also a plant. 😂
@@Northerncacti2021 i got giant tortoises roaming as part of my forest project!
My Aussie is just turning 15 as well still crushin hard. Good boys
I fucking love you man you’re my hero
Bermuda grass is a nighmare to remove, it develops tubers and comes back from them. It hates shade, tho. I have used the paper and cardboard smothering - trick is to overlap so there is no light getting thru. Helps to put brown packing paper down first if you can get hold of that. Then cardboard, then soil.
Please wear earplug protections, we appreciate a lot your godamm timpanes, awesome job, i love this man
I just luv ya man. I took out my rage years ago, busted up the earth by hand and started a garden. The flip the earth thing and cardboard gardening were my first ways to garden. All that is what has brought me here years ago.
Right on. 😂❤️🌵🍓🌽🥕🌱👩🏻🌾🌾🌿🥀
All over the neighbor hood people are peering out the kitchen window and texting each other, "What's going over over there at the Smith's?" "Hey, isn't that that crazy TH-cam guy who knows all the plant names?" "My God, he's ruining that yard and lawn! It's probably un-American or something." - Keep up the good work Tony!
Killed my lawn last spring, local co-op sells local native ground cover seed and I’m so much happier.
Spread that philosophy and that accent around Texas until everyone complies!
I rented one of those things to make a small garden, but it got all out of control so I ended up with a much bigger garden, which was OK in the end.
God bless and thanks for all the information you share and teach us with.
Your projects and the conceptualization are everything!!! ❤
Can I just say hi to your Queensland Heelers? They are awesome dogs! You’ll never have a more loyal friend. Thanks for sharing them! 🥰😘
Aren't Those blue heelers?
@@Invading-Speciousyes! Queensland heeler, Australian cattle dog, Blue/Red heelers, dingo dinguses are all names for the same breed 😋
Blue or red Heeler just refer to the color of the dog.
Keep up the great work, like you’re on a mission from Gaad
getting rid of an old lawn is a big hard job down here is southern cal. we have 2 predominant grass both are invasive common Bermuda grass and Kikuyu grass does not matter what you do it will take a few years to totally eradicate both of them but well worth the effort. I would guess that lawns might be easier to eliminate in climates too cold for either of those two.
My 8year old lad loves watching your videos. He’s really getting why lawns are such a bad ecological idea to start and maintain and why we need to get rid old and native ! Go Joey
I live in Harlingen. I'll check out Mike's nursery.
Would love to go check out this project/house to see its progress.
Ive just seen a different channel thats not giving you credit, but a good person put your channel name in the comments section. So....as i was saying....just seen your coyote pup video and gotta say...your a HERO buddy. Thankyou for helping that poor little coyote pup!. I can only reward you with likes and a subscribe mate...so here goes.
Oh, and who knows, i may pick up a udea or two for crazy types of plants as i love keeping different types of cactus and other plants here in the UK !!!.
Love how you handled that little pup!.
Good job well done! I'd love to see what this front garden looks like when it's finally reclaimed from the grass. Hope you get the chance to post some follow-up videos.
I want to request a yearly update, please.
Pictures before-after ... Thanks
I've killed four so far. Found burning and tilling works well if adverse to the chems. Makes for easier tilling too. Cardboard leaves even worse chemicals in the soil. Paper binders and inks are nasty stuff. I'm just fighting off annoying invasives now.
How do you burn the lawn?
@@StoneE4 Napalm
@@StoneE4 most hardware stores sell a tool called a "brush torch"/"pavement torch". It's just a gigantic propane torch on a stick specifically designed for burning grass. Some people use them to de-ice their driveways and roofers use them to heat up and soften asphalt. You want one with the hose, so you can use a big propane tank instead of wasting your money on little 1lb tanks. Something like the "Flame King Heavy Duty" is what you want, it's not much more expensive than the shitty ones they sell at Tractor Supply and it's a lot nicer to use. Don't waste your money on the version that has the built-in push-button igniter, the flint striker is a lot more durable and reliable, and it's ten dollars cheaper.
Actually tilling destroys the microbes in the soil, messes up drainage, and pushes thousands of weed seeds into the soil from its actions. Cardboard only has chemicals if you’re not using the plain brown stuff, and is absolutely NOT worse than glyphosate which is poisoning groundwater and pollinators, not to mention is banned as a carcinogen in many other countries. If you’re terrified of cardboard, an even more effective smothering method is old burlap coffee bags, which you can get for free or next to nothing from local roasters and/or coffee distributors.
I just had a flashback thanks for sharing with me
Love it! We always use native annual and perennial wildflower seed rather than transplants. So much cheaper and easier than mulch and plug plants. Annuals give you colour in year 1 while the perennials establish. Cut and rake off annually in September/October to simulate grazing and maintain low fertility.
Most conservation districts have Native Plant Sales where you can get natives for pennies on the dollar compared to plant nurseries
It's good to see so many people nowadays strive to stop being grassholes 😂😂
Slowly over the years I've been converting my yard to food Forest 3/4 of an acre is expensive to mulch when you are in the city.
Cardboard? Yeah, that's what I did, mostly. I did strip* 12" +/- along the edge. Then cardboard, then 12-18" of the free leaf compost from the town. I added mushroom compost (from my work) , & sometimes a little topsoil , where I planted. 4yrs later, it's now really nice soil. :)
Main reason for doing it that way is tree roots. There is a line of trees along the far side of the driveway, that continues in back of the house , + an 8'-12' wide Cornus stolonifera hedge surrounding those trees. Dug one test hole, &......+wiping sweat away+ "No way!" . Too many tree roots.
The other reason is that it can be pretty wet at times, & also very dry in midsummer. It's sandy loam, with a high water table, at the bottom of a hill, close to a river & creek. Changes happen quickly, & it can vary greatly. The loads of compost (35-40yds?) mitigate all that, = + IT'S FREE + . ;P
*I use a sod-lifter. For small areas, and narrow strips , where a sod cutter isn't needed, it works very well. Much better than a shovel. It also is a good edger. I find it easier & better than tools labeled as edgers .
www.homebyames.com/en-us/lawn-garden/garden-landscape-tools/long-handle-tools/specialty-tools/62218.html
This is truly wonderful, all around.
Please tell Jack that he's a good dog and everybody loves him!
Ah man, I need to rent the tiller. I've been digging out the sod with a shovel and I'm getting old for that. Stoked I found your channel. Peace
*sodcutter, not tiller
Don’t rent either. Look up a local coffee roaster (the big distributors are even better than local shops) and get old burlap coffee bags from them and smother and cover it with several inches of mulch. Far better for the soil health than the horsesh*t they’re peddling in these videos about using tillers/cutters.
The most important part on lawn maintenance is the way you mow. The hight and the time decides, what will grow. 2-3 times a year. More often is rarely good for the plants.
Having a yard that never needs mowing because there is no lawn in the first place is even better. :)
Nice! I can't wait to see the "after" video.
You did all that in an hour?! I need to work on my bloodlust 😅
Just found you via Facebook, the coyote rescue.❤ you are awesome! Thanks for being you! Love from South Africa 😊
❤ your outlook so much
Stop pushing the sod cutter lol. pull it instead way easier. At my golf course we use a 14” cement cutter as a sod cutter and we run it in a circle around the greens to kill the popler tree roots that grow horizontally into the green. Then we dig out the pieces of root that are visible, use a cup cutter over where the roots were and replace with fresh plugs from our extra green. When you’re putting in the replacement plugs make sure the grain of the plug is facing the same way as the rest of the green when you put it in, makes it recover faster.
I live in Saskatchewan so it’s basically a miracle we can have bentgrass greens at 2mm. We don’t use any sort of pesticides or chemicals except right before winter we use a fungicide on the greens because you can get issues with snow rot in spring.
Just told a coworker about you and the Kill Your Lawn philosophy last week, excellent timing! Will be sending this his way :)
The vindictives shout out just made me really nostalgic.
Dude i love you and i'm only 10secs into the first of your videos I've ever seen. What a fucking badass.
'this grehss gone get it'
-Tony
25 years of not having a lawn has given us a front yard 5 inches higher than the sidewalk, so your Texan might want to plan for that.
Jack is a good boi
Genius video and performance.
You have redeemed my faith in the human species.
I dream of a day when your efforts and your comedy go mainstream.
The HOA kicked me out of my home.
feels good just fukin watchin ya do it man
Nice to follow up periodically to see how nice it looks.
Dude out here giving a whole character to the name Tony
Lmao love that Kiddie Land nostalgia! Guerilla Earthwork, thanks for all of the knowledge shared Tony!
love the enthusiasm
😂❤ great channel
Tony doing the Lord's work, gotta love it!
I don't know that he's doing any lord's work, but he's certainly doing good work for the environment.
What lord do you think he's doing work for? Lord Macbeth? Lord Blackadder? Lord Farquaad? Lord Vader?
Oh Lord, Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder…🖤
The Texas Spiney is my favorite dinosaur
I'm with you when it comes to lawn! What good is it?? Except for maybe pathways and borders . . . 👍
Problem with Glyphosate is the barren ground combined with residual effects means you end up with the worse weeds filling the ecological gap. Ends up taking years to manage into something biodiverse.
Every one of these makes me feel bad I don't have a lawn to kill. I try to evangelize, but alas can't lead by example. (Living in the mountains almost nobody imagines they're going to play soccer on their near-vertical property, thankfully.)
I keep a little Yellow Rattle seeds in my pocket in case I ever meet a lawn in the wild.
this is wonderful. after years of wanting to rip out our sod that refuses to die, which came with the house when we bought it, we're finally KILLING OUR LAWN, too! already got the clover seeds ready to go so we can just have a yard full of clover. hoping to plant cali poppies, too.
I love you. Thanks for the tutorial on the rental btw.
I live in Northern CA and ALL OF THE PLANTS IN MY FRONT YARD ARE NATIVE!!!
Lawns look terrible and so do imported plants. I don't understand why more people don't put native pants in their yard!
Do you also hate honey bees?
@@luvmechanixhoney bees are a non-native invasive imperialist use as slaves for human crops...our native bees are meant to be here and planting natives supports our native insects and fauna
@@luvmechanix bro how exactly does a lawn help the bees? Don't you think a variety of native flowering plants would do them a lot more good?
@@fuxan hey bub, if you're mad about honey bees, wait til you hear about livestock! everyone gets hungry sometimes...you sure you're not part of the problem? how's about not feeding the trolls?
Really looking forward to planting this spring. Finally have my own yard to work on and what is awesome about this project is it won't cost an arm and a leg you can do pretty much all of it DIY.
Walio!! I freaking miss Kiddieland! My old coworkers son married into da KL family.. Walio what’s da song from Disneyworld??? It’s a small world after all!!?!? ?!!!?!❤❤
Great video! People in my local native Facebook groups have asked how to kill their lawns. I've posted your video to help them. :-)
you got any more of these videos? I think it would actually be a good series
Now show us what the dead lawn becomes! Make it a quasi series, this s#%t is great!
Ill make sure when i get a house to do up the lawn with that nice midwest grass
Love it Tony
Omg kiddie land! My grandma use to live really close to it and take when I was a kid. Blast from the past.
I just found out about the kill your lawn show and I’m making my parents record it on their directv so I can watch it. My mom was telling me “it’s this show with these funny guys who plant natives and they say fuck a lot, so I thought of you”
Good money in starting a native plant business right now. Growing demand and not a lot of supply.
Here in Scotland the current battle is prevent people from bricking over driveways - I'll take lawns over that, esp as most are native and ignored here. Not too many people up care about fertilising or watering them!
im going to have to do this.. it felt so good just to watch it MUST feel great to do!
CPBBD, I think you would love the old Pixies albums.