Yellow Lawn Fixes: Water, Feed, Mow, Disease? Too Much or Not Enough Water?

[@jeffzimmerman25]

Can pesticide turn the grass yellow too?

[@rongoodman8350]

With is the shelf on the BioStimulant Pack in a 105 24hr a day

[@popeyeyankee5477]

Great channel. I have a question. I have surface tree roots on my lawn. I only see a few, but there could be more below the surface of my lawn. What product of yours do you recommend me using to help my lawn to stop dying off in July and August. The grass looks great after I overseed in the fall but once the hot weather comes around the lawn turns to crap. I know its hard to diagnose without seeing my lawn but any suggestion would be great. Btw..I've been having this problem for the last 5 years. I need help. Thanks😉

[@codered37]

Great video John! Spot on

[@mikemorris8497]

It all makes sense. Thank you for your videos.

[@Lawncology]

Thanks Mike!

[@FrankVallor]

The man... the myth.... the legend. Thanks dude.

[@d27mcccarty]

Should I eat the tuna first?

[@Lawncology]

🤔🤢

[@greenuplawnworks2407]

As always great content JP! Thank you.

[@zekedavila2651]

I have a quest instead of throw away weeds is it good to compost it?

[@Lawncology]

Sure. Just make sure they aren’t covered in seeds

[@zekedavila2651]

@@Lawncology thank you

[@ColeSpolaric]

If you get your compost up to 150 degrees F it will kill the seeds. I don't remember how long you have to keep it up there though.

[@eugenieandrews8874]

Do you want to maintain a minimum of 6 inches of soil moisture at all times or do you aim to water to 6" and then allow the soil moisture to naturally decrease before the next watering to say 3" in depth?

[@PoloFieldsLawnService]

Question, Can you spray Microgreen, Greeneffect and RGS at the same time in the same backpack sprayer or is this overkill? Trying to get good color response before 4th of July

[@Lawncology]

You can, just water it in.

[@PoloFieldsLawnService]

@@Lawncology Does it have to be watered in? Lawn is over 10,000sqft

[@barrycavanaugh2937]

Polo Fields Lawn Service , hope for rain!

[@dawalker02]

Happy 4th John. Like the common sense approach idea. Great video bro.

[@GW._.]

Can the lawn have too much gas in the tank from spring i'm finding my lawn is growing slow this year slower than other years it looks good but bad spots not growing out like past years I've used double the fert this year.

[@loveliberty2248]

So informative. Thanks for a great video. Just subscribed.!

[@ColeSpolaric]

The .62 gallons per square foot doesn't make sense to me when 1 gallon of water at 1" depth covers 19.5 sqft. Is this accounting for evaporation? Run off?

[@eugenieandrews8874]

Cole there is 7.47 gallons in a cubic foot. A cubic foot is 12x12 by 12 inches high. So if you divide 7.47 gallons by 12 inches high you see that there is .62 gallons in a 12x12x1 inch dimension.

[@ColeSpolaric]

@@eugenieandrews8874 I tried to do the math from cubic inches in a gallon of water and failed. And I was a class short of a math minor... 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@eugenieandrews8874]

@@ColeSpolaric Same type of thing happens all the time to me too.

[@zekedavila2651]

Inspiration

[@mikeadams2252]

Happy 4th John, thanks for all your efforts 👍

[@Lawncology]

Thank you Mike! Happy 4th!

[@jaygonzalez3555]

Señor Juan Perry, great video! I slightly yellowed my lawn a little this past week by spraying propiconazole with temps in the high 80's. I thought I could eke in a treatment for dollar spot.

[@Lawncology]

Ah. That can happen

[@josecito976]

I sprayed AzProp and nuked both the anthracnose and healthy grass in one fell swoop 😂 Hoping to turn things around with micro green, RGS, and Humic12

[@mattcondit356]

Sandy soil... Can do either every other or every forth day with town ordinance... Sponge metaphor makes me lean towards about 1/4" every other while in 80s and 90s (cool season mutt lawn). Correct?

[@michaellewis6569]

Yes. You might even do more like a 1/3 inch if 90s all week.

[@makoavincent8396]

How do you treat watering spots where you're leveling areas out with sand? Treat like you're planting new seeded on bare ground and keep moist or treat it like regular and deep watering when needed? I've sprayed humic12, microgreene, RGS and aer8 over it as well and fertilized with carbonx on my hybrid bermuda

[@gruvenasty3502]

Any tips on getting the top part of my lawn to take water better. I’m using air8 once a month. It’s a clay soil in upstate NY

[@Lawncology]

By Top part do you mean surface? You’ll need to trickle in the water. Slow play it as it were. Water for like five minutes, wait 20, water for 5 again, wait 20, water for 10... it will slowly break the surface tension.

[@gruvenasty3502]

Lawncology more that it is elevated. My lawn slopes away from the house so by top I meant closest to the house. Seems like the water runs down the hill since the farthest away part is green and the rest is brown and green. I’ll try the staggered watering and see how it does

[@kennycooperkc]

Gruve Nasty try to find a sprinkler with a low gpm so it soaks in instead of running off. The hunter pgp comes with nozzles that you can change out for different gpm to suit your needs

[@debgray4576]

Wait, did I just see you put RGS, Humic 12 and GreenePop in the sprayer at one time? Thought the Humic didn't play well when mixed with other products?

[@BermudaBrian]

Good stuff. Happy 4th!

[@TheLawnSensei]

Happy 4th John, thanks for the very informative video!

[@Lawncology]

Thank you! Happy fourth to you too!

[@grass-patch]

Fertilizer, fungus, water...how much, when etc. I've read different university extension articles and got varied answers, in particular to add fertilizer or not during late Spring, early Summer when increased temps and humidity starts factoring in, possibly causing fungus issues. I'm still on the fence with this. ~ mike

[@Lawncology]

Think about it this way, some fungus is indicative of under feeding, some from over, some from thatch, some from grass that maybe shouldn’t be in the environment it’s in. Basically you can’t breed a fungus without heat, moisture, and lack of air flow. My point is this, don’t neglect food. If you get sick and stop eating, your road to recovery is long. Energy will be needed not matter what. Treat the infected areas and continue living 😉

[@grass-patch]

@@Lawncology I guess the goldilocks rule for feeding would apply here. These are all good points you mentioned. Last feed was mid-March using 29-0-5 with 2% iron. Lawn looks good still at 2 inch HOC. If need be, I'll spoon feed for sure. Thanks John. ~ mike

[@waynehayes8237]

Happy 4th to you.

[@Lawncology]

Wayne Hayes thank you Wayne! You too!

[@eliascolon1980]

Feel like this video was made for me. I’ve been watering like a mad man these past few weeks because of past season experiences with the lawn looking like shit this time of year. We had a drought here in CT recently and I’ve been watering like 2” every 3 days. Thank you JP! Going to take the advice here. I’ve been faithful this year spoon feeding my lawn with the bio sim package at 3oz per 1k every week. ThaNGs are looking mighty fine over here thanks to you! 👌💪

[@mavcpr]

john-----i just had to add sod to my yard where fungus had killed the grass i have st augustine and live in south carolina. what of your products would you suggest i use to use on my new sod and the rest of the yard. also can i use 18-0-1 as fertilizer, thanks and happy 4th

[@joshmiller8646]

Love the common sense approach! To many just freak out and treat the whole years for 1 small isolated issue.

[@Lawncology]

Keep it simple and pay attention! That’s really all it takes

[@PacificNorthwestLawns]

Happy 4th bud.🇺🇲 Great info as always. 👍🏻 Last time I hung out with adults playing on a trampoline, the cops got called...😂🤣

[@Lawncology]

What makes you think that didn’t happen? 😉

[@PacificNorthwestLawns]

@@Lawncology lol. How come I don't doubt that it may have?

[@barrycavanaugh2937]

Happy Fourth buddy! 2020 has definitely been an interesting year so far. Keep the faith! Great video! Bluegrass has a way of doing that when it’s healthy. Have a great weekend!

[@jeffpoplin558]

Happy Fourth, man. Good tips. Oh, touch base with the Ginja and see if he will loan you a soil probe... haha

[@MCVCMC]

John. - I live in SW Florida (Ft. Myers) and have about 16,000 square feet of St. Augustine turf. We are have fert blackouts from June 1 through September 30th. I recently started a micro program with your Bio-Stimulant pack. Anything else you can recommend that doesn’t have N or P? Or do you think the bio-stim pack will suffice during the 4 month fert ban? I am getting ready to hit my lawn with Air-8 and RGS this coming weekend.

[@TheLawnCareNut]

"My pressure isn't that great" there must be a joke there somewhere. 😜

[@chrisfink1]

As usual a very informative video. The weather in Philly has been brutal for the past 3 weeks; hot and very little rain. My front turf is not irrigated but it went into summer very well fed and with a fungicide. The turf is still holding on strong thanks to a ton of RGS/Humic over the years..., but there are spots around the driveway/sidewalks that have gone dormant - and I mean brown as can be dormant. I raised the HOC to 3" going into summer and have not mowed in 2 weeks. Typically I spoon feed (liquid) every few weeks at about a .125# rate, but with my grass mostly dormant I typically abandon this in summer. What are your thoughts on spoon feeding semi dormant turf? And areas that are still green but growing slowly should I apply a 2nd round of fungicide? Disease pressure is very high. My back yard is irrigated and is much easier to manage. Wishing I had applied a growth regulator before this heat wave though...I started to water the front to try and bring it out of dormancy but this is going to take a ton of water and a lot of persistence (10k square feet).

[@Lawncology]

Heat from sidewalks and driveways are causing your edges you go drought dormant. It’s hard to keep those areas strong without supplemental irrigation. If you have a way to get water to it, then yes, you can bring it back out with light feedings.

[@johnscherder4483]

Good video! Happy 4th of July John! 😎 I’m in Northern Ky, mowing my KBG @ 1.25. Just top dressed my yard with sand.

[@josephrottina1901]

Another great video big John happy Fourth of July to you and your family be safe.👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@gregoryjackson3674]

Happy 4th everybody! John could you please address over watering and disease? Thanks! Enjoy all your informative videos!

[@jameslouque8652]

Happy 4th of from Louisiana 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@LawnJourneys]

Funny I've been monitoring how much each of my zones puts out with the idea of doing 1/2" waterings. I've had to increase run time and as expected not all zones flow at the same rate. Keeping a log and continuing to tweak. My point is, arbitrarily running for x number of minutes is not a good plan. Everyone should run their own tests.

[@Lawncology]

That’s right.

[@seansmidwestlawn8991]

Another great video! THANK YOU for your comments about over-application, drives me crazy when I see people going nuts with fertilizers and products. Also, I think you need more tabs open on your laptop 🤣🤣

[@eugenieandrews8874]

John enjoyed your video! Last year I over watered and this year I've over compensated and under watered. I've listened to several of your videos on watering. I think I've consistently made the mistake this year of waiting too long looking for signs of water stress and in the end weakened the grass similar to your description of not providing adequate nutrition. Not doubting your figures but how are you able to get by on .75" or even 1.25" of water a week? If I look at Park City's July 2019 monthly ETo it was 7.1" after accounting for rain, which would imply your lawn would require 1.8"/week of water. You don't seem to have shade trees, which could decrease your ETo, so is the explanation the humic acid retaining water in the soil and lowering your ETo? I would think with the lower cut, especially in the past, you'd require more water too. Also are you basically applying water on a schedule of 3 times a week as it sounded from your example? After trying the method of looking for water stress in the lawn, I am currently trying to water every 3rd day and applying around .75" each time...I think I need 1.5"/week in Sandy Ut. Not sure if this is the best way but I feel the lawn's health has declined when it gets water stressed.

[@bermudalawnnc3516]

Happy 4th!

[@theturfnerd]

If I’m in Maryland and my house I just moved into does not have irrigation and it has been in the 90s with no rain and my yard (8000 sq ft) is starting to brown and go dormant all over am I able to save it? I was afraid to put any fertilizer down this month because I didn’t want to stress it out. I have carbon X and XGN in the garage, but I wasn’t sure if you had any recommendations!

[@Lawncology]

Water will be needed, but you can feed it slowly. Get the soil moist down to 6 inches. It has a cooling effect on the turf. This will help it stay green

[@theturfnerd]

Lawncology perfect and thanks! Should I not feed it anything else until I get more water down because there’s like zero rain in forecast here and steady 80s and 90s? My flow sucks so watering takes forever unfortunately.

[@whereisthedollar]

@@theturfnerd May make it to 100 tomorrow in MD, I'm there too. Just set up to run water at 5AM, 11AM, 5PM 45 minutes each time. Trying not to lose my tall Fescue. If your fertilizer is like my CX 24-0-4 wait. I did my last feeding 5/21 half rate. Try the Milorganite 6-4-0 which I put down this past Saturday. To help with the soil a light layer of Xsoil won't hurt either which I did yesterday. Then water, water, water, even with the hose.

[@bermudalawnnc3516]

If its yellow stay mellow if its brown flush it down, shower maybe twice a month this allows all the watering you need, you will need lots of air freshener and cologne.

[@ayy1n]

😎✌️💪

[@Lawncology]

😊😊

[@ayy1n]

Lawncology awesome stuff ..yes it’s been a while..we need another morning event ASAP 😎✌️😬

[@lawnrebel]

"People tend to go way to the other end of the spectrum"..... This is me. Good info, good video

[@YardGuy]

*Me too.*

[@natewalls4850]

“Listen, if you’re buying tuna in a can, I.....”😂😂😂. If I’m buying tuna in a can, I’m just dumping the tuna out so I can use the can to measure how much I’m watering.

[@CCCC-tq8yo]

I pay 275.00 a month for water. :(

[@dougmate2378]

tuna in a can is raunchy. I prefer fresh fish.

[@TheLawnGuardian]

Yellow lawns? What about leopard lawns? lol!

[@billie_d_goat]

Ah man number 3

[@FrankSchwarzfree]

"and whoever else stays at my house..." Are you running a brothel?

[@OmarGarcia1]

You strike me as tall. Are you like 6’12”? 😂

[@bermudalawnnc3516]

He’s under 83.75 inches

[@Lawncology]

Lol. 6’7”

[@JLavoe111]

First