You might have done this but double cut it down and back up the same line I have found that helps get more of the seed head we Been getting it bad on the golf course this session anyway have a good one 👍
Those dry spots in clay can be helped with vertidrain or using a pitfork, drill around 5 to 10 inches deep, than topdress with a higher peat content so it holds a little more water but roots can grow deeper like in the green. This is all about maintenance practices to be honest watering and so on. I have empire zoysia in clay with roots ranging from 6 to 9 inches deep. I will get some dry spots if it doesn't rain for 2 weeks or 1 week in hardcore heat.
Gee I'm jealous! I live in central Vic and have a very large yard. 3.5 acres. About 1 acre I would call my yard. But I'm on tank water and my buffalo grass dies in summer. Not to mention my ground is hard clay and used to be sheep paddock, so it's full of high and low spots, with holes everywhere. I want to make it look nice, level my yard with some good soil and maybe some sand, but it's impossible without enough water. By the time it grows back in winter and gets nice and green, it starts to die off again. I want to put in some nice garden beds, but I'm worried the buffalo will eventually take it over. I'm 63 and I don't think I could keep up with the weeding. So, I'll just live vicariously through your beautiful yard. Cheers mate.
Buffalo grass isn't as hard to control as say kikuyu or couch so controlling it from gardens isn't a huge task but not having water is a problem unfortunately. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you continue to enjoy the vids, Cheers Brenton
@@theaussielawn Thank you so much for replying. Actually, my buffalo is Kikuyu. I planted a garden 25 years ago, on a couch lawn, using black plastic to cover the couch, which I cut holes in for the plants and covered the plastic with mulch. Around that I simply placed sandstone rocks. Today, that garden still thrives, none of the plants died. So, against most expert advice I thing this is the way I'm going to go with the gardens around my new property. Thanks again for your videos. As I said, do enjoy looking at your awesome lawns. Cheers.
12:54 LOOKS GREAT, 12mm HOC. it looks like it's got green leaf super low to the sub soil, as in I can't see the brown storks the leaf come from...or are they down there but just cause your TiF is so tight knit I can not see them in the vid when your hand is rubbing across the lawn? I have had my Tif at 9mm but lacking the green, so have just lifted to 11mm to see if it improves the green colour. Gave it a hit with iron which did not seem to help...maybe I need to give it a feed on fert? ( it does not seem thatches yet, but will come as normal ) Would like to see a real up close view of your Tif bending back the leaf to see under the canopy to help compare to mine please - cheers
Hey mate, everything is looking awesome! Interesting to hear your comments on the Santa Ana. I have it also and in area's it's amazing, others not so much. When it's good, it's really good, and seems to need very little product for it to be a beautiful turf. I find mine likes to be at about 9mm better than 12mm.
Thanks Dave Santa Ana has proven itself over the years and I agree it's a good variety once you get down to about 4.5 or lower it starts to become a tricky beast to manage also. Sweet spot IMO is def 8-12
My TifTuf has seed stalks as well. Had 2.5m of rainfall in the last 13 months so grass isn't coping now we finally have 35° days then goes back to cloudy and back again to hot... Weird
Watching your videos always gets me inspired to start up new projects, it all looks great. I have couch on a clay soil and forever have issues with stunted growth from what I think is couch mite. Have you run into this problem at all?
luckily for me I don't have issues with couch mites. But I know of people that do and they are a constant battle. They will need to be treated with a miticide rather than an insectile
hey mate, love to see all the different varietys, i also have santa ana with alot of seed head, and the odd bare spot waiting to recover. Would the use of PGR tackle both these issues, slow down seed head but promote lateral growth at the same time?
@@theaussielawn thanks heaps for your feedback as everyone has their own opinion. i dont have much to mow so getting the mower out atm isnt to bad so i will stick with that. Thanks again
Great video, would you happen to have more info on the zoysia and if/when it'll come to market? Was thinking of getting sir grange, but if the one you have is coming out soon, i might hold off.
As it's a trail and assessment grass there is no guarantee that it may ever become available, If Lawn Solutions do release it down the track then that be great but yeah that sort of info is something I'm not privy to
That zoyzia is looking tight! I am still very grateful to receive those 4 plugs of tifdwarf from that location, a year on and its powering strong, currently restricted to a 5msq "nursery" patch but those runners just wanna run even in the qld winter. Great to see you back up running with the content mate!
16:07 wow Quality info Brenton. I have a 2 yr old Rye Fescu blend. I’m finding the rye is taking far too much water, that I don’t have. I’m thinking of going to Santa Anna or Kyk so I would love to see what you did in November. I’m in Mansfield so can be similar climate to you and Ben.
Hi mate I've always had the Santa it was just an oversow with rye for the winter. Basically all I did was apply a selective herbicide to kill off the rye and allow the Santa to come back through. In your case you could really just use a glyphosate product to kill your lawn if you are looking to change to kik or santa (obviously improving the exisiting soil along the way removing dead rye / rescue mix etc)
@@theaussielawn ok I’ve watched the oversow in April, that was over an existing Santa. And now this vid is killing off the Rye to allow Santa back. So I’m planning to Topdress Rye end Feb into March. If I wanted to go to Santa in Sept does that allow me to do with seed or is it something that only works from an original lay of Santa turf. I suppose, did you originally lay Santa turf?
@@Summer-Lea-105 yes it has to be planted, Santa Anna seed is sterile as are all the big names in couch grass. Santa, Winter, Tiftuf, T31 etc all produce seed that is sterile therefore wont germinate.
Good to see you back mate! I have been tearing my hair out with the seed head on my tiff tuff it looks so god dam ugly. The pgr did help but I've only been doing small doses and it went stupid again after 2 weeks. Even my GGD where only at 180 but I'm glad it's not me and just the season where having. Cheers
you might find you could up your PGR rate a little more and increase mowing frequency if possible. The season has be bad for seed head in general and yes they are not attractive at all 😔
Thanks for the vid! What would a permanent solution be to fix the dry clay area? Annual gypsum, coring and filling core holes with a 80/20 organic mix to change soil structure? Im in SA mid north and have quite clay red soil and have resulted in using a soaker hose like yourself in certain areas but hoping to eventually fix it
Its a very slow process, Mine gets a lot of attention but at the end of the day its just the watering requirements are somewhat different to the rest of the area hence why it made no sense to simply dial up more water. It is simply a case of supply the water in a way that best suits the conditions, And for that sorta situation a soaker hose is the ticket
Hey mate, I’m just wondering we’re u got the plugs from? I remember u saying in one of ur earlier videos but I can’t remember which. I’m looking to get some plugs of some sort of turf type and just can’t find any in my area WA that supply plugs that arnt kikuyu or wintergreen couch. I know you said the zoysia u have isn’t for general public but would like to see what else they offer for the general public. Cheers!
Hey Brenton, great video! Just curious - for the section with excessive clay in the soil, could you just core-aerate to a deeper depth than usual, then top dress with a more ideal soil? Over time with repeated core-aeration, the soil could probably be converted/improved... PS. for the Zoysia, is it the Empress variety? Looks awfully similar :) I'm still currently fighting a fungal infection in sections of my Empire Zoysia (spring dead spot / brown patch )... it suffered from it last spring/summer and then recovered in winter, and this spring it didn't seem to show any signs... come late December, it started to rear its head again, so I've treated it with Bumper 625 (Propiconazole), followed by Chlortan 720 treatments a month later, and it finally seems to be holding it at bay with new grass slowly in-filling the dead areas. I've also got some Impala to try out (Azoxystrobin & Triticonazole blend), to replace the Chlortan 720. Next spring/summer I'll just spray it pre-emptively; I guess I was a little too optimistic this spring/summer about having kept it at bay!
Hi mate it’s actually not the fact the growing medium is clay it’s the sub base lower down probably about 150-200mm It’s the original rocky poor ground where as above that there has been nice black self mulching soil used as the sub base with the same growing medium as toward the road. A little extra care below will have it as good as above . No the zoysia isn’t empress. It’s a new sports turf variety that’s here under assessment. It’s not commercially available
You never fail to disappoint Brenton, thank you. How is your parents build going & do you have any planned content from what they might do, may be some Tahooma31?
Build is complete, I will do a few things down there. As for T31 I'm sure it's a good couch but Im a little over the hype and claims about it. I don't think at this stage ill be getting on the T31 train
Hey i have alot of nut grass in my lawn, do u have any suggestions that wont kill the lawn. The other section of my lawn is durban grass, would it be hard to remove and are the runners bad. Thanks
You will really need to get some sedgehammer herbicide it will take a few goes but if you are persistent you will have a win. Are you asking is it hard to remove the durban and are what runners bad?
That scallywag Max taking your ball. I should not have lol'd as hard as I did
hahaha it actually turned out well hahaha
Maxi loves golf ⛳️❤️
Max is just a showoff 😂
Thanks for the reminder of the common sense approach to dry sections.
no worries at all mate
Max stealing the golf ball 😂😂
haha yeah his a little bastard at times but it was a bit funny
Yay, my favourite lawn tuber is back.
Haha thanks John
Looking great Brenton.
Thanks Andy
Great vid mate. Very laid back but informative. This was my first vid that i have watched. Cant wait for the next
Welcome mate glad you enjoyed it.
That zoysia is unreal
Its next level hey I love it
Great to look around your yard and see how it's all going. Really looking forward to the Zoyzia project continuing.
The Zoysia is magic I really like it
You might have done this but double cut it down and back up the same line I have found that helps get more of the seed head we Been getting it bad on the golf course this session anyway have a good one 👍
It will actually be my next mow I was gunna do it that last time but wanted to keep the stripes for the vid
@theaussielawn nice mate I hope it helps I hate seed head
Those dry spots in clay can be helped with vertidrain or using a pitfork, drill around 5 to 10 inches deep, than topdress with a higher peat content so it holds a little more water but roots can grow deeper like in the green. This is all about maintenance practices to be honest watering and so on. I have empire zoysia in clay with roots ranging from 6 to 9 inches deep. I will get some dry spots if it doesn't rain for 2 weeks or 1 week in hardcore heat.
Good to have you back!!
cheers Simon
Great content, edits are chilled & smooth. Really like the more in-depth turf discussions and grass types. Top channel 👍🏻☀️ 🌱
Thank you thats so nice of you to say
The video I've been waiting for! I get withdrawals when I don't get to see all of your turf. We need more frequent updates :)
Haha hope it didn't disappoint then mate
@@theaussielawn always top notch! Too bad we didn't get to see the rye sprayed out. Hope you show that if you do rye again next season!
Good to have you back Brenton 🍻
Thanks Trent 😎
Gee I'm jealous! I live in central Vic and have a very large yard. 3.5 acres. About 1 acre I would call my yard. But I'm on tank water and my buffalo grass dies in summer. Not to mention my ground is hard clay and used to be sheep paddock, so it's full of high and low spots, with holes everywhere. I want to make it look nice, level my yard with some good soil and maybe some sand, but it's impossible without enough water. By the time it grows back in winter and gets nice and green, it starts to die off again. I want to put in some nice garden beds, but I'm worried the buffalo will eventually take it over. I'm 63 and I don't think I could keep up with the weeding. So, I'll just live vicariously through your beautiful yard. Cheers mate.
Buffalo grass isn't as hard to control as say kikuyu or couch so controlling it from gardens isn't a huge task but not having water is a problem unfortunately. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you continue to enjoy the vids, Cheers Brenton
@@theaussielawn Thank you so much for replying. Actually, my buffalo is Kikuyu.
I planted a garden 25 years ago, on a couch lawn, using black plastic to cover the couch, which I cut holes in for the plants and covered the plastic with mulch. Around that I simply placed sandstone rocks.
Today, that garden still thrives, none of the plants died. So, against most expert advice I thing this is the way I'm going to go with the gardens around my new property.
Thanks again for your videos. As I said, do enjoy looking at your awesome lawns.
Cheers.
Man that zoysia is next level
Its amazing stuff I really do love it
Great to see you back. I was talking to jason at old time parts last week saying i miss watching you on a Saturday morning.
Its good to be back mate, I was a victim of circumstances 😎
G’day mate 😃, so Much value in 16 minute 👌🏻 the yard is looking good 👍🏻
Hey Dylan haha clearly your easily pleased 😂 But seriously thanks mate
Good to have u back mate 👍 loving the lawns, especially that tiff tuff
Its often hard to show on camera how lush it is but when the sun hits it just right wow its next level
@@theaussielawn I bet & those phat stripes - MINT!!!!
Quality content as always mate. great to have you back 👍🏻👌🏻
Thank you 😎
12:54 LOOKS GREAT, 12mm HOC. it looks like it's got green leaf super low to the sub soil, as in I can't see the brown storks the leaf come from...or are they down there but just cause your TiF is so tight knit I can not see them in the vid when your hand is rubbing across the lawn? I have had my Tif at 9mm but lacking the green, so have just lifted to 11mm to see if it improves the green colour. Gave it a hit with iron which did not seem to help...maybe I need to give it a feed on fert? ( it does not seem thatches yet, but will come as normal )
Would like to see a real up close view of your Tif bending back the leaf to see under the canopy to help compare to mine please - cheers
Hi mate stick bout there maybe be some shots of what you are after in tomorrows vid
Hey mate, everything is looking awesome! Interesting to hear your comments on the Santa Ana. I have it also and in area's it's amazing, others not so much. When it's good, it's really good, and seems to need very little product for it to be a beautiful turf. I find mine likes to be at about 9mm better than 12mm.
Thanks Dave Santa Ana has proven itself over the years and I agree it's a good variety once you get down to about 4.5 or lower it starts to become a tricky beast to manage also. Sweet spot IMO is def 8-12
My TifTuf has seed stalks as well. Had 2.5m of rainfall in the last 13 months so grass isn't coping now we finally have 35° days then goes back to cloudy and back again to hot... Weird
Its definitely the season for them unfortunately
Watching your videos always gets me inspired to start up new projects, it all looks great.
I have couch on a clay soil and forever have issues with stunted growth from what I think is couch mite. Have you run into this problem at all?
luckily for me I don't have issues with couch mites. But I know of people that do and they are a constant battle. They will need to be treated with a miticide rather than an insectile
hey mate, love to see all the different varietys, i also have santa ana with alot of seed head, and the odd bare spot waiting to recover. Would the use of PGR tackle both these issues, slow down seed head but promote lateral growth at the same time?
There is a lot of misconceptions about PGR’S and what it can do it can help reduce seed heads but not really useful to promote lateral growth.
@@theaussielawn thanks heaps for your feedback as everyone has their own opinion. i dont have much to mow so getting the mower out atm isnt to bad so i will stick with that. Thanks again
Great video, would you happen to have more info on the zoysia and if/when it'll come to market? Was thinking of getting sir grange, but if the one you have is coming out soon, i might hold off.
As it's a trail and assessment grass there is no guarantee that it may ever become available, If Lawn Solutions do release it down the track then that be great but yeah that sort of info is something I'm not privy to
That zoyzia is looking tight! I am still very grateful to receive those 4 plugs of tifdwarf from that location, a year on and its powering strong, currently restricted to a 5msq "nursery" patch but those runners just wanna run even in the qld winter. Great to see you back up running with the content mate!
glad to hear they are going well mate. haha does Qld even get winter?
16:07 wow Quality info Brenton. I have a 2 yr old Rye Fescu blend. I’m finding the rye is taking far too much water, that I don’t have. I’m thinking of going to Santa Anna or Kyk so I would love to see what you did in November. I’m in Mansfield so can be similar climate to you and Ben.
Hi mate I've always had the Santa it was just an oversow with rye for the winter. Basically all I did was apply a selective herbicide to kill off the rye and allow the Santa to come back through. In your case you could really just use a glyphosate product to kill your lawn if you are looking to change to kik or santa (obviously improving the exisiting soil along the way removing dead rye / rescue mix etc)
@@theaussielawn ok
I’ve watched the oversow in April, that was over an existing Santa. And now this vid is killing off the Rye to allow Santa back.
So I’m planning to Topdress Rye end Feb into March.
If I wanted to go to Santa in Sept does that allow me to do with seed or is it something that only works from an original lay of Santa turf.
I suppose, did you originally lay Santa turf?
@@Summer-Lea-105 yes it has to be planted, Santa Anna seed is sterile as are all the big names in couch grass. Santa, Winter, Tiftuf, T31 etc all produce seed that is sterile therefore wont germinate.
@@theaussielawn thank you for your Brenton. Appreciated.
Good to see you back mate! I have been tearing my hair out with the seed head on my tiff tuff it looks so god dam ugly. The pgr did help but I've only been doing small doses and it went stupid again after 2 weeks. Even my GGD where only at 180 but I'm glad it's not me and just the season where having. Cheers
you might find you could up your PGR rate a little more and increase mowing frequency if possible. The season has be bad for seed head in general and yes they are not attractive at all 😔
@@theaussielawn I'll try that cheers mate
Where did you get the Durban? I’m in Sydney and can only find it in Brisbane.
Thanks for the vid! What would a permanent solution be to fix the dry clay area? Annual gypsum, coring and filling core holes with a 80/20 organic mix to change soil structure? Im in SA mid north and have quite clay red soil and have resulted in using a soaker hose like yourself in certain areas but hoping to eventually fix it
Its a very slow process, Mine gets a lot of attention but at the end of the day its just the watering requirements are somewhat different to the rest of the area hence why it made no sense to simply dial up more water. It is simply a case of supply the water in a way that best suits the conditions, And for that sorta situation a soaker hose is the ticket
Every one loves clay not.
Think you need Kikuyu at the back to help fill in them cracks.
Negative 😜 no kikuyu allowed haha
Hey mate, I’m just wondering we’re u got the plugs from? I remember u saying in one of ur earlier videos but I can’t remember which. I’m looking to get some plugs of some sort of turf type and just can’t find any in my area WA that supply plugs that arnt kikuyu or wintergreen couch. I know you said the zoysia u have isn’t for general public but would like to see what else they offer for the general public.
Cheers!
What sort of turf variety are you actually after? Lawn Solutions would be a good place to start
Great to see you back Brenton will you do anything with the back lawn next season or something like that?
Thanks Luke, No not at this stage mate, Not unless there is a go fund me page for my water bills haha
How about aerating the dry area then introduce better soil in those holes 🕳
you would be doing that for the next 20years tbh mate, Its not a solution in this particular situation
Hey Brenton, great video! Just curious - for the section with excessive clay in the soil, could you just core-aerate to a deeper depth than usual, then top dress with a more ideal soil? Over time with repeated core-aeration, the soil could probably be converted/improved...
PS. for the Zoysia, is it the Empress variety? Looks awfully similar :)
I'm still currently fighting a fungal infection in sections of my Empire Zoysia (spring dead spot / brown patch )... it suffered from it last spring/summer and then recovered in winter, and this spring it didn't seem to show any signs... come late December, it started to rear its head again, so I've treated it with Bumper 625 (Propiconazole), followed by Chlortan 720 treatments a month later, and it finally seems to be holding it at bay with new grass slowly in-filling the dead areas. I've also got some Impala to try out (Azoxystrobin & Triticonazole blend), to replace the Chlortan 720.
Next spring/summer I'll just spray it pre-emptively; I guess I was a little too optimistic this spring/summer about having kept it at bay!
Hi mate it’s actually not the fact the growing medium is clay it’s the sub base lower down probably about 150-200mm It’s the original rocky poor ground where as above that there has been nice black self mulching soil used as the sub base with the same growing medium as toward the road. A little extra care below will have it as good as above . No the zoysia isn’t empress. It’s a new sports turf variety that’s here under assessment. It’s not commercially available
You never fail to disappoint Brenton, thank you.
How is your parents build going & do you have any planned content from what they might do, may be some Tahooma31?
Build is complete, I will do a few things down there. As for T31 I'm sure it's a good couch but Im a little over the hype and claims about it. I don't think at this stage ill be getting on the T31 train
"Never fail to disappoint" would mean he always disappoints! Maybe "never fail to delight"!
Hey i have alot of nut grass in my lawn, do u have any suggestions that wont kill the lawn. The other section of my lawn is durban grass, would it be hard to remove and are the runners bad. Thanks
You will really need to get some sedgehammer herbicide it will take a few goes but if you are persistent you will have a win. Are you asking is it hard to remove the durban and are what runners bad?
Mate how's that Kik that dan sent you getting along 😅
Hahaha not sure mate aint seen it in a while. I dont think it was suitable in my area 😂
He's just Joshing. He keeps it manicured off camera
@@thegreenandgoldlife1464 hahahaha how'd u guess
Is that a DBZ noise I hear?
DBZ?
First South African
First comment too mate this vid should help you get some sleep 😴 😜
The place is looking fantastic mate. Well done on all the effort you out into your property
Thanks mate
That dry area, you mentioned clay? Could it be possible its concrete???
na there is nothing under it, its just hard like bulls forehead 😬