How to Dethatch a Lawn a Different Way
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- How to Dethatch a Lawn a Different Way
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Kinda strange to see your boots "above" the grass and not sinking down about ankle deep. Will be interesting to see how this experiment goes. Thanks for taking us along.
oh yeah...talk about strange...I went from deep grass all year to i can see my shoestrings now...LOL
i read boots as "boobs"
Jeff Poplin just think a month later and the experiment bombed. Live and learn.
@@MichaelRei99 did it?
Whoever can invent a reel mower that can vacuum like a rotary should win an award.
That expensive Swordman is pretty close isn’t it?
Wow that 2nd pull was so therapeutic!!!
that was one of the most satisfying things ive ever seen in my life... when you pulled that entire clump of poa triv and it came out perfectly. i almost wish i had some in my yard just so i could pull it out like that!
Allett build and system is awesome. This is very similar to the Lawn Ginja's process . He refers to the junk as lawn debris . This is the best way to remove it
Great video Pete...very educational. Did you realize your shirt colors were matching the color of the sky and grass.
had no clue
Once you use a reel mower its hard to go back. Nothing cuts as clean. Great job, great video. I scarified mine last week and took a phenomenal amount of moss and thatch out, quite an eye opener left the turf looking great. Top job mate big up from Wales UK. Stay safe and god bless.
Brother, that is a whole lot of prayer time right there. I took your advice to heart on that.
Your grass seed is working out well for me. Putting in customers yard.
thank you friend
My neighbor cut his fescue lawn at 1 1/2 inches and looks great all season but his lawn dries up quick . If he water his lawn which he does not it would look good. Myself I cut mine at 31/2 inch or on the highest setting my mower cuts and with proper irrigation I have the best lawn in the neighborhood.
I have been cutting tall fescue t 4" - 4.5" for 15 years...this is only a one time experiment I am doing this year
You are a hard worker! Between family and business it takes a lot of work.
@@Dstromb232 agreed
I love the carpet look of really short grass, but yeah I think it's easier to keep it healthy by keeping it longer.
It should be interesting to see how your turf reacts during the hotter months. I love your channel Pete. And I appreciate the time you take to help DIYers, like myself, improve their own lawns. I’ve learned so much by watching your channel.
I appreciate you friend
Starting to get into lawn care live in Oklahoma . Love hearing all the lingo just about a yard it gets very technical
Allyn the lawn care nut is a huge helper! His knowledge has a huge range and I trust him, and for more entertaining yard work, I actually recommend fried eggs golf, a son and his dad have a backyard course (9 holes, all within 120 yards of pin) and vlog the process of managing it and play games on it. Great stuff!
Lawn looks absolutely stunning.
I'm curious to see if you get more weeds in the shorter fescue. Thanks for taking one for the team!
Good question
I am curious as well
Pete thanks for planting seeds. God bless
The stuff you pull out of your yard would look great in mine!!
Now THAT is a lawn. I do not think I have ever wanted to lay down and roll around in some grass, but this lawn.. yeah, I'd do that!
Lawn has been so much better compared to everyone else since using your products, send me a sprayer, lol...
My yard hasn't been cared for well last couple years due to too much going on in my life. I mowed it low the other week because it was badly matted and I wanted to just get a fresh even cut to start the year. I mowed it about 2" tall and bagged the clippings. After that the whole yard died, nothing but 2" thick of dense thatch. A couple days later virgin blades started popping through. I have a new yard now, but still unbelievable amounts of thatch. I'm not even going to attempt to "take care" of my yard anything like you do Pete. Not at this point in time. But I have been thinking about renting a de-thatcher to clean up the mess I created the last couple years from irregular mowing. I atleast want to mow it regularly this year.
Keep mowing it at that height and it'll kill off the weeds. Roots will eventually takeover the weeds since you're not letting them grow.
Just put the side blower attachment on and you'll be set
@@llamacebu216 That's what I'm doing anyway just by necessity, don't have time to do anything more. I did have to raise the deck one notch though, I was cutting dirt in several places. My yard was poorly graded and very uneven. The problem still remains, that thatch isn't gonna remove itself. Not untill it completely turns to dirt anyway, I'm curious how long that would take.
I’ve been waiting for this video after seeing the pictures on Instagram. Wish I had one to do my yard, I rake it but it’s a lot of work.
Looks great because the turf is super healthy but I’m still liking the tall grass but that’s only because I don’t like battling weeds plus I like the tall grass because it leaves deeper and darker stripes! Pete still and always will have the best looking yard in his neighborhood and every other neighborhood around.
Allett make the best cylinder mowers period
Thanks, Pete. When I need motivation to tackle a project outside, I pull up your channel to see what you're up to. Love your passion.
my pleasure friend
Poa Trivialis is the enemy of my lawn in NJ. GCI tall fescue went down in the fall and looks great. Paul
Pete. How many times have you cut your lawn this year before power racking it. Third cut in NJ since March 16. Just wondering?
@@user-ly3du9pk2m at least 8-9 times so far
Another great video Pete I have to say watching your videos are so relaxing and very informative I have learned a lot about how to work around my yard here in Colorado thanks
That Allett mower seems like it has so many purposes. Looks like you got some good kindling out of the lawn.
You not lying about it being a lot of work. Just did half my yard and it was like 15 50gal bags full. I’m trying something new to see how much of a difference it makes.
Very informative video. Here in the UK we refer to this as scarifying our lawns. Looking forward to your next one.
Dag gum You must have had a whirl wind of clippings behind you going down the road .... hahaha
Beautiful grass you have😲😲👌👌👍👍 I just wish that I knew how to take care of my lawn like you do??😟😟
Thank you Pete your videos have been very very helpful for me and my lawn care business eventually I will get on your email list many thank you‘s from cut to the chase landscaping
You’ve got the best lawn on TH-cam 👍
Blessed morning Pete, your lawn looks impressive even at that H.O.C I have to say that hands down the single best thing I done to improvmy yard was power raking.
I think fescue looks good cut low because I like the tight look. I may be one of the very few who like fescue cut low. I've been cutting mine at 2.5" and I may go to 3" during the summer months. I went down to 1-7/8" when I overseeded, which is the lowest I've ever cut it. My fescue lawn produces very little if that, but when I had a 100% bluegrass lawn, I was dethatching at least every other year. Bluegrass provides a better looking lawn, in my opinion, but it requires more work than fescue. I am working more bluegrass seeds into my lawn now that I have pruned the trees and getting more sunlight on the lawn.
Happy Easter weekend Pete. I hope the family is staying safe. I’m not sure a low cut would work here in Georgia. Even on the highest setting, we can struggle during peak summer months.
It’d be great to see if you can reduce chemicals needed for lawn maintenance this way. As well as risk reduction to yourself and your environment, cost reduction of products is another potential benefit.
That battery one... Dang, if I had the moneyyyyy!
Ul find ul use less water and send the root system further down which will protect the grass against heat greetings from Ireland you got a great new mower there
Poa trivialis is a nightmare. Would love a product that takes it out selectively.
me too
Pete, looks like a really good start to a compost pile!
You just explained why you SHOULD NOT MULCH mow. Thatch chokes your turf. Bagging is king.
Spring time always cut my tall fescue about 3”1/2 in summer time I cut 4”. Pete I like your channel and I’m learning every time you post a video.thanks..!Pete 👍🏽
Nice machine and a beautiful lawn
Looking great Pete!
Happy Easter!
You 2 bro!
Keep putting preemergent where you’re pulling the trivialis. Fall preemergent. Plug it with grass from another area of lawn and seed THAT area.
Good gracious alive. Great video.
Looking forward to how this experiment turns out!
I cringed when you drove the drum over the street. But Reel mowers are the way to go for stripes and short grass. My acre of fescue is at 4-5" now. weednfeed in spring, standard fert in fall, dethatch and aerate in mid spring, water every other day and side discharge. But it used to handle about 1-1.5" cut in summer just remember to keep it cool and well fed. We used to spray the greens twice a day when temps got over 90° so when i was at 1" I'd water morning and mid noon. When it's tall, grass stays cool, green, and weed free. But short it heats up and can wilt and makes disease easier to show up. I mowed a neighbor's yard and got red thread for a whole season. Learned my lesson on cleaning mower decks real fast.
Pete man I appreciate / respect you being 100
First time seeing any of your videos. I appreciated the calm and pleasant tone of your narration and very down to earth instruction. Thanks!
Can't wait to see the battery allent work. could be intrested in purchasing it. Happy Easter Pete and family. stay safe. Keep up the great video
gonna film that after church tomorrow
Fantastic machine. Love your channel. 1 3/4” is still to tall. Lawn still looks shaggy and not very tight. You’re probably just better off using one of your rotary mowers since you could get the job done faster with less fatigue and wind up with essentially the same result.
then the entire year experiment reel mowing would be ruined...LOL
@@GCITurf Happy Easter Pete.
A reel mower made for a mans man! I have a Perennial Rye, Tall Fescue mix that I'm keeping at 2.5 inches. Not nearly as brave as you are, but trying to find the happy medium between the two.
Signed up for your email list. I gotta do the same thing to my lawn and edge it again. Kinda let the grass grow way over. You do what I normally do, except I'm gonna raise my edger blade a little
Great video and explanations Pete , hope to win a sprayer !! God bless you and your family and God Bless America!!!🤘
That Allett is impressive.👍
Pacific Northwest Lawns I think you misspelled ‘expensive’.
The stripes are popping looking good! Happy Resurrection Day Pete to you and your family!
What an awesome machine!!
Wow, that's a lot of walking with that Thatcher, at the end of the day my legs would fall off. Not to mention that all of the thatch debris is in a pile that has to still be loaded into a truck. My system I've built requires little if any effort, it's a older john deere 445 with engine mounted turbo bagger unit that has a modified Thatcher unit. The Thatcher attachment is hydraulically controlled separately from the mower deck, I can drop the Thatcher on the dime to precise locations with no effort except to push or pull a hydralic lever, when the Thatcher drops the mower deck instantly sucks up the thatch without cutting the lawn because I have the engine speed turned down just enough to create lift for the thatch to be lifted off the lawn and the deck high enough where as it is not cutting the lawn. Every drop of the thatch which is then collected into the triple bagger unit, once full the bags are tossed into dump truck and ready for disposal. Once on the dump truck it's just a matter of taking the load to my private compost site and flipping a switch to dump the days load of thatch/yard waste onto the compost pile for mixing into topsoil for later use, once the compost and topsoil are ready for sale their is a ****bonus**** because all grass clippings & yard waste debris is mixed into my topsoil are sold as organic composted topsoil which is worth big $$$$ in the organic gardening world...
Btw Over aerating a lawn can lead to insect problems as a overly thick lawn leads to insects finding homes between the topsoil and the dead thatch layer which is almost always present in any lawn especially super thick lawns. (This then leads to having to treat the lawn for insect problems)
Pete, maybe try growing grass in a small dedicated spot used specifically for back-up patching, like where you pulled the poa or for urine spots. As for raising the bar by further lowering the HOC @1.75 in, my guess would be better at 2 inches during July-August time frame. Hopefully your irrigation system will be the saving grace. Happy Easter! ~ mike
Great looking lawn.
Got to love that Allett mower! Your yard is looking on point! Blessings to you and your family pray y’all stay safe: Psalm 91
Amen Brain!
I bought some of your seed last fall, could have come in better if I hadnt left for a week, but it's coming along.
That’s a bad machine there brother, I need this done on my yard I would be less afraid to do it with this machine
Man, Pete, I can't wait to see some tight Bermuda mowed with that thing.
#lowmow
OMG The way that whole Poa T came out!!! Whoaaaa!!!! (8:15)
That's some really nice equipment. Wish I could do lawn care for a living. Much better to be outside in some grass than inside of a dirty concrete plant fixing shit.
I was looking at a few Power Equipment Rental places to see if any of them had a dethatcher for sale, but no luck. Thinking about doing lawns on the side. Tell you what, raking a yard full of thatch is not fun. I did my lawn last month with a tow behind. Was sore for a week. haha
Lol 1 3/4 in. I'd be mowing dirt half the time. Great yard bro.
Happy EASTER to you and your family thank you
Just subscribed to your channel! And looking forward to purchasing your care guides. Thank you for taking the time to teach myself and others the proper way to do things. God bless and be safe!!!
Whitney
Your going to have absolutely no issues cutting that low! You got irrigation and know what your doing if Bentgrass golf greens can survive the heat in the transition zone I know your yard will! No way your lawn has the stress of a golf green during the summer! This is going to look phenomenal!
thank you for the encouragement...LOL...I am still pretty nervous about it..LOL
GCI Turf Services you got this brother!
Awesome machine!
Liking the background music! 👍💯
At 10:37 that's why I wanted a traditional dethatching machine is to tare my 1970's yard to pieces, and over seed with new cultivars.
If you have a lot of poa mixed in what’s the best way to get rid of it, put premergant down in the fall and spring maybe? Don’t really want to kill whole yard off
Lawn looks great but while I was watching I was wondering why you wouldn’t go an opposite way while dethatching wouldn’t you pull out more? Maybe do a horizontal run then a vertical run? Would that create a little less stress possibly?
same direction as mowing is what Allett recommends
That homeowners Allett at the end looked fire.
bad to the bone bro
We're watching you up here in East bend North Carolina
That mower is a beast with all the attachments. I have never detached my lawn but this video makes me think I should do it sometime. If I remember correctly the best time for cool season is in the early or late fall? Thanks again and Happy Easter!
early fall if you using a typical thatching machine
All I see is a pile of worm and microbe food... Love your channel, Pete. Stay safe!
Looking good! Mine is starting to warm up
May 1st if my 49th birthday.
I pull the non grass items out of the grass as well... Then i treat that area with a liquid killer to help kill any roots that didn't come up. Then i will replant that area after a couple weeks with grass.
But yours is the best looking yard around!!
Loving the try it and see approach! Nice to see someone willing to risk changing things up to learn.
Your kids can now play in the lawn and enjoy . Maybe a soccer ball might even roll on it now.
there you are! where you been friend?
More great Lawn Care Education!
Nicely done! Lawn looks better already!
Holy hell I absolutely love these videos. Ive got mad respect for the size of turf youre managing, and managing very well!
Thanks for the chance to win Pete! Love your videos
You have a beautiful yard and property!
Hi Pete I have some spots of triv i n my yard also , is it possible to yank them out and plant squares of sod in place ? just wondering your thoughts on that , love the good info in your videos keep em coming .
you can do that
Thanks for giving back! You’re a great man, God bless you and your family!
Just say it your yard is by the the best in the neighborhood. It's not bragging of its true.
It’s ok for others to say it ,but if you are trying to walk with The lord you know Pride is a slippery slope and always try your best to have humility.
Humble is where it’s at ,and that my friends is why guys like Pete continue to receive blessings.
We can learn about more than yard care here if you’re paying attention.
Happy Easter to all!
I honestly dont like doing that...makes my stomach feel funny...LOL
#PetetheLawnBarber making sure his fade is looking sharp! I hope the reel mow works for you. I really do like the attachments the Allett mowers offer.
Ughhhh! I wish I would have known about this channel a few weeks ago...I've been looking for a backsprayer for weeks.
Loving the Content. Had my yard looking great through winter. In western NC. Having some henbit and clover issue right now. Have tried a few different approaches and so far they only stunt the growth but not stop. Love your content. Love your life guidance.🙏 thankyou for what your doing.
You say that pile of thatch is crap on top of crap, but to me that looks like future compost!
Pete, don't mess around with that triv. Dig it / spray it out ASAP.
Good job Pete. God bless
Hey Pete, great tips on dethatch.. Keep'em coming.