I Planted the CHEAPEST Most HATED Grass Seed: Here’s What Happened…

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Suburban Acreage

Suburban Acreage

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@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 3 ай бұрын
Is pre germinating grass seed really the fastest way to grow it? The FASTEST Way to Grow Grass Seed: Pregermination Secrets REVEALED! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYOuhWOQftx7nqs
@Hunter-vl6ft
@Hunter-vl6ft 2 ай бұрын
Dont matter how crappy your grass is. It's always better than mud.
@prjndigo
@prjndigo Ай бұрын
~laughs at you in field bahia on a sloped lawn~ Just keep thinking that.
@birdwatchohiolive
@birdwatchohiolive Ай бұрын
I seeded 4 acres with KY31 earlier this year. All previously heavily wooded area that was forestry mulched. All I did was wait until we had a few days of rain in the forecast and spread it. No prep work, no fertilizer. It came in great. Really happy with the results.
@antonleimbach648
@antonleimbach648 Ай бұрын
We used fescue seed on our lawn in Tennessee. There was nothing there before we put the seed down. We aerated and put the seed down and covered it with straw. Five years later our lawn looks great. That grass is tough as nails. We over seeded two years later and aerate every year.
@TimMcArdle
@TimMcArdle Ай бұрын
Just caught your thumbnail and had to check this out. I work for my local water dept and we are constantly digging in customers yards. We found this seed at our local farm store a few years ago and the stuff for us is just amazing! The stuff will grow with no care it seems and 9 out of 10 times, our patch looks better than the rest of the yard. We literally seed it, throw some straw down and leave. We've had several calls wanting to know what we use! We are in central Illinois so I don't know if that makes a difference or not but the stuff has been great for us!
@davidtaylor6772
@davidtaylor6772 13 күн бұрын
I am a disabled combat vet and pushing 40. After I could no longer mow my entire property within a weekend due to my injuries, I seeded the 2 acres behind the house with clover. It has been great for us. Looks good in my opinion, and the chickens get to feast non stop. I still have a normal lawn in front of the house, but the clover in the back has been life changing for me in being able to have more time with my family.
@davidtaylor6772
@davidtaylor6772 13 күн бұрын
If anyone is curious, I have had it for 4 years now and I have over seeded it a couple times to ensure it fills out uniformly thick.
@SeahawkAz
@SeahawkAz 3 ай бұрын
KY31 is great if you don’t have irrigation and want a low maintenance grass where all you will have to do is fertilize a couple of times a year and mow. If you have a dense lawn you can make it look pretty good
@nickbailey202
@nickbailey202 3 ай бұрын
I've been on a multi-year quest to level my yard (20 yards of topsoil), fill in the bare spots, and get a consistent type of grass. It never once occurred to me that the lighter shade of green of the fescue blend I'm using was something others didn't find appealing. Then again I don't like bourbon or sushi either so I guess I'm just oblivious to most things.
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 3 ай бұрын
20 yards is no joke! What kind of equipment are you running? Please say a shovel and wheelbarrow!
@chrisball8663
@chrisball8663 2 ай бұрын
Nah your not oblivious your just smart. These grass snobs on here that thinks K31 is a “trash seed” are just stupid and they probably live in a subdivision with about 100sf of yard. K31 mixed with annual rye (annual rye is very quick growing giving a good base for the fescue) and you’re good.
@chrisjohnson4666
@chrisjohnson4666 Ай бұрын
Did our yard in KY 31 and our grass stayed green all summer while the landscaped neighbors was brown by mid June.....
@GopherYourself-qd5dr
@GopherYourself-qd5dr Ай бұрын
and what kind of biological activity do you have?
@chrisjohnson4666
@chrisjohnson4666 Ай бұрын
@GopherYourself-qd5dr chickens seem to like it and they find plenty of fodder always chasing something... Yard is full of deer tracks and they love it in early spring or late fall when most everything else is frozen. Moles can be a pita but never seem to get too bad the Hawks or the fox get them.... we don't have to hatch it and never once fertilized it......
@ChiroTom5
@ChiroTom5 Ай бұрын
The grass actually looks better than I thought it would, but I can’t say I’m a fan of that color. I love tall fescue and the modern cultivars are so much better with color, disease resistance, drought resistance, texture, etc… GCI laterally spreading tall fescue is ~$150 shipped for 45 pounds. To me, that extra price is worth it.
@scottmoore7226
@scottmoore7226 Ай бұрын
Not “cheap” here in NC. Cost as much as blue tag seed. It’s an extremely durable grass and with proper fert applications it’s plenty green.
@JCLawn51
@JCLawn51 2 ай бұрын
If you use any iron supplement it will darken that grass. I've used it in areas where grass is hard to grow and color is highly dependent on what's in the soil. That's why you got light and dark areas. Lots of trees around and no grass, that's usually a sign of depleted nutrients in the soil and your pH might be wacked. The only time I have lime green k31 was planting where pine trees had been. A perfect lime green color where the needles were and then outside of that circle it was dark green.
@RionPhotography
@RionPhotography 9 күн бұрын
Seems like a pretty big issue for most people
@G.I.JeffsWorkbench
@G.I.JeffsWorkbench 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for outlining all of the steps you used. Very helpful. Nice results. K31 might not be for every application, but it seems like you got the results you were looking for. Sure beats those bare (muddy when wet) spots.
@riccochet704
@riccochet704 2 ай бұрын
It will darken up as it matures. You can also spread some ironite to darken it up. K31 is pretty low maintenance as well. Great for large properties for cost and maintenance reasons alone. I have 2 acres of lawn to maintain and generally buy 1000 lbs of K31 to overseed every year. If I was buying turf type that would get expensive quickly.
@richardbalka3353
@richardbalka3353 2 ай бұрын
I have only used K31 as a pasture grass. It's qualities make it perfect for that.
@JHorvathCinema
@JHorvathCinema Ай бұрын
This is really interesting! I manage a soccer facility and we have spent a fair amount of time digging out clumps of k31 from our kbg and ryegrass fields. It sticks out like a sore thumb, but I think looks pretty dang nice doing it like you did!
@CADguru78
@CADguru78 14 күн бұрын
Go with the Scotts Green Max, has a bunch of iron in it, should darken it up.
@richmanwisco
@richmanwisco Ай бұрын
I wish I had all of that equipment. Problem is, I have a small lawn and while the seed is cheap, almost nothing else is. So I'm in search of a way to do that without having to buy all of those implements. Nice job, though, and that grass will darken over time.
@jacobhaynieful
@jacobhaynieful 25 күн бұрын
A cheap manual aerator roller, a bucket, and some #1 elbow grease will give you a lawn you love
@prjndigo
@prjndigo Ай бұрын
comb-shaft (the long finned thing) seeder/fertilizer applicators are literally designed to be able to do wet seed I always found it funny when people complained about how bad the grass seed looked in a location that grass wasn't growing but weeds would grow. That means you've screwed up the soil. If grass already isn't growing but the weeds love it it means you need a "bag of" fixing the damned soil. I had one customer complain about a patch and he kept buying sod and just tossing it on - so a week after he went back north I spent the 3 hours it takes to properly implant StAugustinegrass blocks and used 6 8" by 4" deep blocks from my yard. My yard is a late 1970's original varietal that likes to do things like attack traffic, cover bushes, open the back door and grow inside my air conditioner. Its slowly taking over his yard year-on-year and impossible to kill through mistreatment. I would say you should have used a cultivation hoe or a loop hoe and scraped up the top 4 inches of soil then just rolled it flat with the tractor and let the weeds germinate and kill them before seeding. Plausibly even added a "french pocket" (field drain with no outlet that goes over into tree roots) I _have_ planted old 31 a couple times but never ever in broadcast, I always used it as a slot-fill beside brickwork or in a blended-plug (grind a hole, mix the seeds in, put it back in the hole and stomp) or in rows like no-till grain crop using an actual single row hand seeder with share and wheels. 31 *loves* being put in shallow with a no-till unit so if you can borrow or cheap rent a 3' no-till tow behind and need to do a large area then go for it.
@dhol267
@dhol267 Ай бұрын
This may not be relevant in your context but the real issue with k31 comes down to the breeding and its intentional inclusion of endophytes. It was intended to make it pest and disease resistant but as many have learned with this approach- the long term is that you create issues with the health of the animals that graze on this variety and you reduce the overall biodiversity of the environment you are culturing. Again- maybe not something one cares about if it’s a home lawn but for farmers and those concerned with the ecological big picture of their property this variety really is a problem and should be avoided. It’s a big picture thing.
@ryan.coogler
@ryan.coogler 3 ай бұрын
I think you might be the only person to per-germinate K31 for the own home lawn! The Venn Diagram of those two things don't usually touch 😅
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 3 ай бұрын
It’s a very silly video for multiple reasons, thanks for checking it out!
@johnnywyskiel
@johnnywyskiel 3 ай бұрын
My K31 looked fine initially, but it became way too coarse after a year.
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 3 ай бұрын
That seems to be the popular consensus. I guess I’m in for a longer experiment than I thought.
@lisamoss3146
@lisamoss3146 2 ай бұрын
I just threw some down not even a week ago. It's my 3rd time seeding this fall. My first time was early September and i used up a bag of Champion 3x3 fescue seed that I bought from a nursery two years ago. I thought I stored it properly but for some reason it didn't come up this time. Maybe too old? I couldn't get back to the nursery to get more premium seed because they were always closed when I was off. So I went with what Lowe's had at the time and that was Sta- Green performance Max Tall Fescue. Threw a bag of that down and 3 weeks later.... nothing. So here we are, beginning of October and I came across the Pennington k-31 in Lowe's, and even though I saw this in the store and looked it up online and was met with not such great reviews, I went with it anyway because my yard is looking pretty bad. For the first time in years I lost a lot of grass this summer. I normally let my lawn go dormant and it's not an issue reviving it in the fall but this year I had used a lawn mowing company who came out and mowed every single week regardless if it was dormant or not, even after they assured me they would never cut the lawn if it didn't need it, so a lot of my front yard burned up this year. At this point I'm just desperate to get something to grow and cover up the bare spots and make my yard look green again. If it's not a great grass I'll deal with it next year in the spring. From what I read though this stuff is pretty indestructible and heat and drought tolerant and I know for a fact that the premium seeds I have gone with in the past have been very tough ro maintain in the summer heat. I do not have a lawn sprinkler system and I'm not up early enough to water during the recommended window and then I'm gone all day and by the time I come home it's pretty much night.
@NextLevelLawnCare
@NextLevelLawnCare 3 ай бұрын
just wait till its mature, and feels like walking on thistle weeds (my neighbors yard is all k31, then its lime green color is its best trait. Kentucky 31 was developed by the University of Kentucky in 1931, hence the name. at its creation it was intended as a drought tolerant cultivar. in the last 93 years since it was created the genetics of grass has improved so much that even the least drought tolerant modern cultivars are still more drought tolerant than k31 rendering it a cheap pasture quality ground cover that has no business in a yard that wants to be used by even just the dogs. you get what you pay for.
@coreysellers4529
@coreysellers4529 3 ай бұрын
Right! I made the mistake of falling for the k31 hype and overseesed my whole lawn a few years ago. Now I have clumps of very fast growing pasture grass. I'm in the process of glyphosating and re seeding.
@drewdevon2009
@drewdevon2009 3 ай бұрын
k31 sounds great then, i dont want people or dogs walking on my lawn anyway
@coreysellers4529
@coreysellers4529 2 ай бұрын
If you want grass that grows really fast then go for it. You must like mowing.
@drewdevon2009
@drewdevon2009 2 ай бұрын
@@coreysellers4529 i dont mind, more grass clippings for the compost pile!
@rhietpas
@rhietpas Ай бұрын
​@@drewdevon2009What's the point of a lawn but for people and dogs to play on it?
@BOOGiNS
@BOOGiNS 11 күн бұрын
You need to increase the pH level of your soil and aerate. Then you'll see it start to darken.
@brianbrinegar6086
@brianbrinegar6086 3 ай бұрын
Excellent video. Please follow-up with your recommended seed for Temperature Zones.
@GlenironPa
@GlenironPa 2 ай бұрын
Well, I planted 1.5 acre lot with it 20 yrs ago and it looks great. I spray for weeds in the spring and mow it 3 inches in height. It's more like 3.5 inches accurate measurement. Mowing it long really does help the ground retain water longer getting thr grass through dry spells. People harping on it's a "course", whatever, like you actually walk around bare foot in the yard.
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 2 ай бұрын
Haha, love it! Good to get some long term perspective!
@GopherYourself-qd5dr
@GopherYourself-qd5dr Ай бұрын
so why not artificial turf as you said your yard has literally no benefit useless space
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage Ай бұрын
@@GopherYourself-qd5dr artificial turf is still hugely expensive. Cheap grass seed is still the most economical ground cover when it comes to large areas.
@GopherYourself-qd5dr
@GopherYourself-qd5dr Ай бұрын
@suburbanacreage interesting how you don't calculate the 20 years of maintenance. Or the calculations for ecological loss for future generations you do realize you are actively promoting dumb practices that harm literally everyone. If someone doesn't care to do calculations on their OWN property why would they bother doing it for anyone else. What economic or ecological benefits does ky31 offer? If you wanna literally just want green living grass offers no benefit to the homeowner unless they are slow
@BasedBidoof
@BasedBidoof Ай бұрын
neat tools, never seen one of those compost roller, gotta get me one of those blade sharpening jigs
@DavidHickenbottom
@DavidHickenbottom Ай бұрын
I bought that for my pasture and got mostly Orchard grass win win for me.
@chuckHart70
@chuckHart70 2 ай бұрын
I live in a cul-de-sac and I have the triangle of death part where you got Street sidewalk and then the walkway to the street the absolute best thing to put there has been k-31 I've tried all the fescues Etc 231 wins out. And for those that say it hurts their feet I suggest you man up Plus in my yard what hurts is the sticks that fall from the twenty trees I have in tiny Suburban yard. So for me its price point and performance and k31 is a good seat if I can't find something else
@shawndarter5159
@shawndarter5159 2 ай бұрын
I only use this grass seed and works well for me
@winthorpe6594
@winthorpe6594 Ай бұрын
Thank you, very informative. Don't let the haters get to you Trolls live on here because nobody can stand them in real life. Great job, good tips.
@rustyfan89
@rustyfan89 3 ай бұрын
My backyard is just over an acre and my front is around 2000 sq. ft. I ve put all my time and money in to the front, the back, well, it gets mowed. I was thinking of trying to find something on the cheaper side, I’ve known about Kentucky 31 but never used it so I appreciate the video, might be the ticket for my back , don’t want to fork out the bucks to cover an acre with barenbrug like is in my front. Tractor supply has a northern landscapers mix that’s like 100.00 for 50 lb bag was thinking about that, I’ve never heard or have seen anyone use that. But might have to consider the Kentucky 31. Like I said I don’t really do anything other than cut the back, I’ll hit it with some cheap weed killer in the beginning of the season when the first dandelion s pop up but that’s about it
@bryrusmi4001
@bryrusmi4001 Ай бұрын
If it's a shaded area and not high traffic you could just go with clover
@PhillyFail
@PhillyFail Ай бұрын
No I'm just prepping to be a homeowner one day and I want to know what kind of grass will resist Texas heat and be soft
@peter2liter
@peter2liter 19 күн бұрын
Probably some sort of Bermuda.
@lefty5885
@lefty5885 3 ай бұрын
I love the vevor spreader. This is my second season using it.
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 3 ай бұрын
Right?! I try not to recommend crap to people and that thing is awesome. Can’t believe I spread peat by hand for years. If you hate money you could always buy the Landzie one for $400. I have a few things from Vevor, solid all around!
@bensexton254
@bensexton254 3 ай бұрын
Agree. Picked up one on eBay a few weeks ago for 60 bucks!
@lefty5885
@lefty5885 2 ай бұрын
@@suburbanacreage no need to pay for a Landzie
@lefty5885
@lefty5885 2 ай бұрын
@@bensexton254 that's a heck of a deal.
@ellwoodwolf
@ellwoodwolf Ай бұрын
Ain't nobody got time for all that !!!
@kellyk8702
@kellyk8702 Ай бұрын
😂😂 that beginning was good!
@fenceman53
@fenceman53 Ай бұрын
Not bad for lime green grass
@CyanCerulian
@CyanCerulian 2 ай бұрын
Thumbing my nose at all the lawn snobs.
@kd6836
@kd6836 Ай бұрын
🎯
@Wakeywhodat
@Wakeywhodat 2 ай бұрын
That is a pasture grass.
@twilson377
@twilson377 2 ай бұрын
Looks pretty!
@drewdevon2009
@drewdevon2009 3 ай бұрын
why is grass seed outrageously priced?
@wilsonline90
@wilsonline90 2 ай бұрын
It's not. If disagree, go produce your own and sell it. Bs
@drewdevon2009
@drewdevon2009 2 ай бұрын
@@wilsonline90 you have a good point. that argument can be used about any product for sale though. dont like the 100K dollar price of a tesla? go make your own!
@obsessedwithlawnoddswithgr2092
@obsessedwithlawnoddswithgr2092 2 ай бұрын
price gouging brother. rice and weat are much cheaper after all the processing. even the most expensive rice is cheaper than grass seed. They always say make your own. make your own rice it's gonna be $10 a pound. I gust quit buying grass seed. I just put lots of nitrogen in fall and got kbg to spread.
@SnowRaver-p2v
@SnowRaver-p2v Ай бұрын
I don't have 90% of the tools you showed... And I'm not buying them for a single seeding and subsequent reseeds later.
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage Ай бұрын
Good feedback and maybe a future video idea to do a seeding project using minimal tools.
@ridgerunner5772
@ridgerunner5772 Ай бұрын
Certain Herbicide companies have provided incentives with these bulk, field seeds is the addition of evasive Weeds.... In particular, the seeds have about 2% Thistle....
@hatpeach1
@hatpeach1 3 ай бұрын
I hate K31. Took me ten years to get it all out... TEN YEARS.
@drewdevon2009
@drewdevon2009 3 ай бұрын
better than crab grass clover dandelion etc that covers 60 percent of most peoples lawns
@BrandenH-O051
@BrandenH-O051 Ай бұрын
​@drewdevon2009 an all clover lawn is actually quite nice.
@drewdevon2009
@drewdevon2009 Ай бұрын
@@BrandenH-O051 i dont mind some clover here and there but definitely not the entire lawn
@BrandenH-O051
@BrandenH-O051 Ай бұрын
@drewdevon2009 I've seen it done. Dont know if it's a specific phenotype, but less mowing, less water, it's soft. But yeah not for everyone.
@henryknox1186
@henryknox1186 2 ай бұрын
K31 is awesome. Box store seed is crap and way too expensive.
@drew-shourd
@drew-shourd 2 ай бұрын
Great video, thank you for making and sharing it. Great tips...appreciated. 💚🙏🌱
@rentoptional1524
@rentoptional1524 2 ай бұрын
Nearly my entire lawn died from fungus this year. It was hot/humid and we barely had rain. I over watered. I power raked everything and reseeded with ky31. My previous lawn was a mixture of ryegrass and TTTF. I know its cheap but i have a dog and kids that beat the hell out of my lawn. I didnt want to drop 5x on KBG. Also put down a ton of lime and the necessary amount of starter fertilizer. 3 weeks in, and my lawn looks great. Sure ill have thicker grass blades and some clumps in a few years, but the lawn care reddit leads you to believe that you're planting spurge.
@AlexKunstar
@AlexKunstar 3 ай бұрын
Wait til that k31 actually matures into thick corse nasty blades after a year
@chuckHart70
@chuckHart70 2 ай бұрын
Cry more. Its grass
@AlexKunstar
@AlexKunstar 2 ай бұрын
@chuckHart70 it makes no difference to me, not my lawn. I'm just warning anyone else from making this mistake. I'd honestly rather have weeds in my lawn than k31, it would be much easier to get rid of
@BlackRifleRack
@BlackRifleRack Ай бұрын
Germinate in fall not summer. Trust me
@wayneessar7489
@wayneessar7489 3 ай бұрын
How many head will you be grazing?
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 3 ай бұрын
Best comment yet!
@SeahawkAz
@SeahawkAz 3 ай бұрын
KY32 is for grazing animals, KY31 has Endophytes which gives it a poor taste to the animals
@wayneessar7489
@wayneessar7489 Ай бұрын
@@suburbanacreage Thank you Sir...!
@arthurrodriguez1965
@arthurrodriguez1965 3 ай бұрын
K31 is rated at the very bottom of the National Turfgrass Ratings Index. There are a lot of reasons for that.
@tribulation138
@tribulation138 2 ай бұрын
Why. It's self repairing bunching grass
@chrisball8663
@chrisball8663 2 ай бұрын
National turf grass rating society??? WTF is that 😂😂😂
@mikecumbo7531
@mikecumbo7531 2 ай бұрын
@@chrisball8663I guess that if you run a golf course or athletic fields you might need to rate grasses. This K31 might be great to keep high school or college kids off certain green spaces.
@traviscombs5336
@traviscombs5336 2 ай бұрын
I didn't think there was another kind.
@jimray4210
@jimray4210 Ай бұрын
Bravo Zulu!
@Thoreau-e4l
@Thoreau-e4l 2 ай бұрын
Here in SC I still like centipede.
@boskosdoghouse
@boskosdoghouse Ай бұрын
If you want grass that looks like the How the Grinch stole Christmas.......... K31 is for you
@Bigredkarl
@Bigredkarl Ай бұрын
It aint got no blades on it lol Had me thinking of sling blade
@borerunner8659
@borerunner8659 Ай бұрын
Soak the seed and the power cord to really jump start the process.
@ssfish717
@ssfish717 2 ай бұрын
Seems like you have some really drainage issues with all that standing water, especially so close to the house and shed
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 2 ай бұрын
Most definitely do!
@wilburyuen
@wilburyuen 2 ай бұрын
It's gonna stay lime green. I have that.
@solow970
@solow970 2 ай бұрын
I planted this last fall. 3 spots germinated then died mid summer
@InvisibleCitizen
@InvisibleCitizen Ай бұрын
Green is green and I am cheap!
@morrismonet3554
@morrismonet3554 Ай бұрын
It's a pasture grass, not a lawn grass.
@boloyung88
@boloyung88 2 ай бұрын
I started mine lol wish me luck
@RainPoint
@RainPoint 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing the video. It's so cool.
@toddr4532
@toddr4532 2 ай бұрын
You need to clean your gutters/downspouts.
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 2 ай бұрын
Umm… that’s the start of my gutter garden and it’s growing in quite nicely. Haha, gutter cleaning comparison video filmed and ready for editing. I test 5 different methods to see what works best, video should be out soonish.
@donnobles5272
@donnobles5272 2 ай бұрын
Spend the money and buy blue tag seed. K31 has weed seed in it and you are planting lots of weed with it. Buy once cry once dont settle for crap
@royalrepublican3480
@royalrepublican3480 25 күн бұрын
why do people like darker green grass?
@heystarfish100
@heystarfish100 Ай бұрын
I believe that most people who will use Kentucky 31 will never go through the process you did to prepare the ground or invest in all of the products or equipment that you used in this video. Personally, I think you made a huge mistake and will soon rue the day of this decision. Everything you did was perfect and very helpful except for the seed choice. Great work on making this informative video.
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage Ай бұрын
More of an experiment than anything and it’s a fairly small area so no big deal if it doesn’t work out. It was fun to try and yeah the prep is funny because I’m doing everything a hardcore lawn guy would be doing but using the worst seed imaginable. Thanks for watching!
@HaroldRutila
@HaroldRutila 2 ай бұрын
LOL I thought this was a joke! I can’t believe what I just watched 😂. This crap gets into my lawn every year and needs to be manually removed or sprayed to eliminate. Perhaps on your next video you will seed with Dallisgrass. It’s even better than K31 😂.
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 2 ай бұрын
If by better you mean worse, then count me in. You know, mowed dandelions can actually look pretty good too! Thanks for watching and glad you had fun.
@wilsonline90
@wilsonline90 2 ай бұрын
No thanks
@stugotswins
@stugotswins Ай бұрын
Why would you hit bats they eat bugs give good fertilizer and only come out at night....i bet you kill every snake and spider you come acrossas well
@dalewiley9208
@dalewiley9208 3 ай бұрын
K31 is good, but only if you can get it weed free.
@drewdevon2009
@drewdevon2009 3 ай бұрын
nothings weed free
@slimdude2011
@slimdude2011 3 ай бұрын
No grass seed is weed free! All grass seed has a certain percentage of weeds, but the cheap grass seed have a higher percentage of weeds. That's why it's so cheap! I wish there were such a thing as weed free grass seed but unfortunately, it's not.
@PsychoSinterklaas
@PsychoSinterklaas 5 күн бұрын
Reddit is cancer
@Gunzandroses212
@Gunzandroses212 2 ай бұрын
Dude you pre germinated k31?? Why ? Why a waste time on it when you are in 2024. There are much better grasses out there. Especially if you going to go through all that smh
@chrisball8663
@chrisball8663 2 ай бұрын
What is a better seed then? If K31 is supposedly so bad then what is a good seed?
@Gunzandroses212
@Gunzandroses212 Ай бұрын
@ turf type tall fescue
@dlyscas
@dlyscas Ай бұрын
I’ve planted 2 different turf type tall fescues over the last 3 years and have recently discovered that it does not spread by roots . Therefore, bare spots will not repair themselves and fill in. They have to be re-seeded. I am going to try a blend of creeping grasses this fall. The blend contains creeping red fescue, perennial rye, and Kentucky Bluegrass, which will be dead by the end of summer here in Tennessee. I am hoping that this blend will fill in the bare spots.
@Gunzandroses212
@Gunzandroses212 Ай бұрын
@@chrisball8663 turf type tall fescue
@Gunzandroses212
@Gunzandroses212 Ай бұрын
@@dlyscas I agree tall fescue does not spread
@sunseeker6088
@sunseeker6088 3 ай бұрын
Dude, you will be mowing every other day……this is the seed we use for pastures so the horses have fast growing grass to eat. Hard pass
@onecleangti
@onecleangti 2 ай бұрын
I put down half a 50lb bag of this garbage in a small area, raked it in and covered it with straw, watered every day for 5 weeks and absolutely ZERO came up
@chrisball8663
@chrisball8663 2 ай бұрын
No you didn’t
@onecleangti
@onecleangti 2 ай бұрын
Absolutely did so thanks for the response
@chrisball8663
@chrisball8663 Ай бұрын
@@onecleangti no you didn’t actually. You could do that on concrete and it would grow.
@jpmc271
@jpmc271 Ай бұрын
Should have just planted natives and instead of invasive ugly grass.
@douglasengle2704
@douglasengle2704 2 ай бұрын
Tall fescue is the only grass that can survive long term and not go dormant in Northern Virginia with hot summer 95°F days and cold winter nights at 20°F. It clumps if not cut short. It scratches human skin with rough leafs causing itching and it may have an itchy residue. It is yellowish green not green. The leafs are stiff not soft like a good lawn should be. I'm sure tall fescue dulls lawnmower blades quickly. If the lawnmower blade is not near razor sharp it gives a tearing cut to tall fescue. I'd sharpen up a shredder lawnmower blade with a chainsaw flat file before every cutting taking a couple minutes. I'd run the mower at at-least 3,600 rpms. That's above the recommended blade speed for a residential mower. Those both made for a nicer cut. I'd mulch grass with the twice a week mowing. Tall fescue's cuttings are itchy on your skin. Cutting tall fescue at 2" where it needs to be to be tolerant to barefoot walking and not clump is like cutting a wet sponge. It takes lots of lawnmower power. In Northern Virginia the lawn would get a red haze in it sometimes that I thought was some type of disease. Keeping it short, cutting about twice a week and deep watering every two weeks worked well. It got four fertilizing a year along with pre-emergent grab grass killer in the spring. For all that work, it is still not a lawn you'd want to lay on or walk on barefoot, but at a 2" cut it is somewhat nice. Now in Indiana mowing with the typical mix seed grass is much easier and walking on it is fine. It does go dormant when temperatures start going over 85°F without much rain.
@slimdude2011
@slimdude2011 3 ай бұрын
You've made a big mess of that job! Why can't people just plant grass seeds the way it's been planted for centuries? Pre-germination is total waste of time and most likely, you'll end up with bad results because, it's being done incorrectly from the beginning. Manufacturers prints the instructions on their product for the users to follow, but no. Some people are going to do what they want to do anyway regardless of, and they wonder why it doesn't work out. The problem wasn't the type of grass seed, it was your incorrect method of applying it. When you plant new grass seed, you are supposed to use a starter fertilizer (unless the starter fertilizer is already in it), not Milogranite. Milogranite is an organic, slow-release fertilizer, and it's to be used on already established lawns, not with newly planted grass seed. That's what starter fertilizer is for! Planting grass seed should only take an hour or less to plant, depending on the area, not a 2-weeks project. The time that it took you to pre-germinate the grass seed, the job could've been done a long time ago. I like to work smarter, not harder!
@inkstains1
@inkstains1 3 ай бұрын
At 3:55 he uses a starter fertilizer, the Milorganite is only used to help throw the wet seed out using a spreader. Pre-germination is not really a time saver, it uses less water. If you hate pre-germination, then don't do it. But it's very handy for me because i did it about 6 times this summer and i don't have in ground irrigation but i had great germination. I am not wanting to water bluegrass for 20 days... some of those seed will dry out for sure. Not with pregerm tho. If you've got an irrigation system, I suppose you can hate on pregerm because you've got all the water you need.
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 3 ай бұрын
The starter fertilizer used was “Scott’s Turf Builder triple action built for seeding”. Long name, great product that uses Mesotrione to fight weeds. Did you even watch the video?
@slimdude2011
@slimdude2011 3 ай бұрын
@@suburbanacreage I've never heard of putting weed control on newly planted grass seeds, that hasn't germinated yet. There are no weeds anyway, because it's only seeds. After all the hassle of what you had to go through to pre-germinate, I bet you won't do that again! You will save time and money.
@jasonfournier
@jasonfournier 3 ай бұрын
Dumb comment. You didn't watch the video very closely. Pre-germinating can also save many days of watering, saving time and money. It establishes much quicker, before your existing lawn is overgrown.
@jasonfournier
@jasonfournier 3 ай бұрын
@@slimdude2011 You aren't very educated then. Putting down tenacity is very common. Other weeds will pop up that already exist in the lawn because of all the watering, fertilizer, and bare soil.
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@davefrisby5194 2 ай бұрын
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@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 2 ай бұрын
Get out of here bot
@davefrisby5194
@davefrisby5194 2 ай бұрын
@@suburbanacreage hey Im sorry about that, I had just watched your video on the "fescue 31" (I didnt know it had that bad of a rap,,lol) and then this @chrisnaugle vidio came on and I thought that I was posting in that feed/chat. I just saw this now... anyway, I do like watching your videos too, so keet up the good work!
@suburbanacreage
@suburbanacreage 2 ай бұрын
Haha, a human after all. Thanks for watching!
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