You've Never Killed GRASSY WEEDS Like THIS Before

[@TurfMechanic]

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[@bigjigg5672]

Lmao- How can you question a Man's dedication when he's out there hand painting WEEDS!! Good stuff Brian.

[@TurfMechanic]

I am a bit weird though, gotta admit that. LOL

[@bigjigg5672]

@@TurfMechanic My Daughter told me a while ago, "Dad who exactly sets what normal is?" It made me wonder..... So I guess, perhaps we're all "weird" in some kind of way. 🤔😂🤣

[@diepenj47]

An easier and faster technique is to wear a cloth glove over your protective rubber glove. Simply dip your gloved thumb and index finger in the Roundup solution then lightly pinch the blade of grass and pull. This is much less tedious than using a paint brush.

[@JaredHoutsma]

I have a few grasses that I've had to do this for. I recommend the $0.75 1" foam brushes you can buy at any hardware store over an actual paint brush. They'll hold the chemical better and they are a little easier to hit the grass blade with. I suspect I have a little more friendly fire of other grasses than he has seen but it is significantly easier. As always, wear gloves when doing this.

[@rubenharris9241]

Another good one Brian. Appreciate that you show the before and after in your videos…

[@TurfMechanic]

I try these days but no doubt it's harder to keep things sorted out on the backend, LOL - Thanks for watching!

[@rubenharris9241]

@@TurfMechanic so many KZbinrs want us to “tune in next time” for the next installment of their video….often times they dont follow-up. Doing it the way you do shows professionalism and a respect for the time of your viewers 👍

[@rudolphleroux47]

Great idea Brian. I was thinking of doing the same with Yorkshire fog grass that keeps invading my front lawn. You can use a Stanley knife to create an incision in the stem and then paint on the Glyphosate into that ‘wound’. Using an earbud with roundup gel also works but as you found out it is tedious when there are many blades or stems to do.

[@OspreyFlyer]

I've used a very small foam brush and "painted" foxtails, crabgrass, and dallisgrass. I clipped off any seeds. It works, just be careful and steady handed. I think I used baby shampoo as surfactant. I used cardboard underneath weed blades to protect Bermuda grass and also carefully dabbed center of weeds as well.

[@TurfMechanic]

Good tips and extreme dedication - much respect 🙂 I'm mostly tempted to try the cloth glove over the chemical rubber glove and pinch the product on with my fingers next time. I might try glufosinate instead as it's less risky for people than glyphosate.

[@OspreyFlyer]

@@TurfMechanic I had maybe 25 plants maximum to treat. Not a wall of weeds you have. It was tedious work, lol. Later I dug up some some foxtail and crabgrass outbreaks, ensuring I got the deeper roots. I then filled holes in lawn with good garden soil. I finally beat them down. This spring I had a few foxtails pop up after being absent 2 - 3 years. I pulled the small plants out by hand. The soil was moist so the roots came out easily.

[@TurfMechanic]

@@OspreyFlyer that's how it's done, im sure your place looks amazing 😊 👊

[@LawnRight]

I believe you can buy roundup as a gel. I've also heard of painting it on too and I do believe this will work. Good luck with it.. hopefully you wont drip any on the lawn (havent watched it all yet 😁)

[@TurfMechanic]

I managed to not get any on my actual lawn grass but a gel or thicker solution might be better for next time.

[@dvxAznxvb]

Make a paste with corn starch or baby powder; not sure if gel does as fast

[@TheNortheastAl]

Thinking outside the box again, Brian. Too much work for me to try, but the concept is good.

[@TurfMechanic]

Lol, I think the tactic may be too much work for my tastes also!

[@mattfrekwentflier8342]

This was very informative. I think for the amount of time spent (and more time will be required to complete it), it would be better just to kill the entire area and reseed. Will you put some kind of underground plastic barrier by the fence to try to prevent the wild grasses from investing again? Would that even work?

[@TurfMechanic]

Time/energy spent to kill the entire area and reseed would be smaller for sure but I'd never get a match in my cultivars which is a big deal for lots of lawn care nuts. For me it's not as important to match cultivars but doing it this way gives me experience doing new techniques...helps me better understand things to try stuff out like this. Around my garden I trenched down 12-inches and lined the lawn with pavers standing on end to create a semi-solid foot deep border between the lawn and the garden space. So far it's showing signs of working well to stop spread from one side of the line to the other so I may do something similar here separating the landscaped area around the well from the lawn under the fence line. Not sure yet it's it's worth the effort because it won't be perfect, the fence post there has a big cement base in it so there will always be cracks between the pavers and around the fence post base. It's a cheap deterrent though so I may do that when I finally landscape that area outside of the fence.

[@thurstonr9929]

Hey Brian, That’s dedication. Now that we are approaching summer heat wondering if you can do a video touching on summer fertilization on tall fescue. Do we fertilize or not and what you recommend.

[@TurfMechanic]

Thanks Thuston, maybe too much time for me this season, too many responsibilities this year for paining my weeds. 😅 Did you see my summer fertilization video from last June? It should apply to tall fescue a lot like other cool season grasses. For fescue you actually want growth to slow and to cut as tall as possible as infrequently as possible to limit moisture loss the need for supplemental irrigation. High dose nitrogen or fast release N is off the table but if you put K down you do need some N for the plant to use too. See my 99% don't know this about nitrogen fert vid for more details on that. For recommendations see my lawn luxe video from July last year for a great naturally sourced mix of slowly available goodies (7-0-7).

[@thurstonr9929]

@@TurfMechanic Thanks Brian. I just finished watching your video on tall fescue and maintaining it through the summer heat. I have a mix of tall fescue and kbg so does the same rules apply in terms of keeping it high at 4” ? I’m watching few of your videos niw. Another DIY mistake I made in the past is feeding high doses of nitrogen to the lawn in the summer. Tall fescue definitely takes some effort to maintain. I have a lot of seed heads right now , but I will keep it high. I’m debating on the Hydretain . Caught your video on deep summer lawn care and you do recommend it. I do have an area or two that my irrigation don’t hit as much. The price increased on Amazon. Amazon has the Lawn Luz 7-0-7 you suggested - kinda pricey. I’ll need four bags since one cover 2,500 sq feet. I see another product by Yard Mastery for summer lawn stress with Analysis 7-0-20: Contains 3% Iron + Bio-Nit Mind providing your input on this since it’s higher in Potash Budget dictates right now with prices skyrocketing. Thank you again for your reply. Much appreciated!

[@wcbscout]

I read in a study that adding some fertilizer to the gly improves uptake by the plant thus greater efficiencies at killing target plants. I have done this and it certainly was effective, not sure how well as I didn’t use a control. Perhaps this could be a video idea.

[@TurfMechanic]

Interesting idea, ill research a bit but I do know uptake of all herbicides can be greatly improved by applying in optimal weather and at optimal times of day so I try and shoot for finding the best environmental conditions first thing.

[@stash7714]

I just purchased a weed wick. I aerated last fall and the bit if quackgrass I had went wild after that.

[@johngrinnell]

Can you do a video on how to clean out your sprayer?

[@TurfMechanic]

Not yet but i will, im still using my sprayer on my hill yard to kill everything off. It's also a video I want to take my time to make since there's more risk involved in delivering poorly outlined information.

[@marcobrown83]

Great video!

[@keneil01]

Great work. I did the same thing a week ago :)

[@TurfMechanic]

You're on fire! :D I may try it again using a different technique, fancy gloves and finger app using a safer product: glufosinate

[@dvxAznxvb]

Just use gloves to pull it on the grass blades like coloring hair; brushing it on with a tiny brush is the worse case since you can’t paint on something that isn’t separated and isolated out To clarify use nitrile not cloth for god sake

[@TurfMechanic]

I thought about trying that but I didn't trust the gloves I had on at the time. Next time I'm using the best quality gloves that might be a much faster method.

[@jackderaway]

I think it would just be easier to pull what you can. I dig and pull Bahia grass out of my st aug/Bermuda lawn every day. Especially if I see it’s getting seed heads.

[@robertlark10]

Can you provide for me a link to the blue dye

[@terrywatts1060]

Going to try this

[@emerickscott]

I have that brand of glyphosate, and it already has a surfactant in it so you don't need to add that - just FYI

[@TurfMechanic]

Thanks Brian, ive used this brand previously too and knew that. I may be just too deep into the habit of adding a pinch anyway. I should try it without the addition sometime just to see how it coats.

[@erikpena122]

That’s some BOB ROSS VANGOGH painting each weed blade just get a cloth glove n damp it n rub each blade like a game of tag but 1st put a nitrile rubber glove then the cloth glover over just a thought

[@davidgonzales-ec8bo]

I've done this many times, with my unwanted bermuda grass.

[@TurfMechanic]

Do you have any special technique you've settled into using since you've done it a bunch of times in the past?

[@MadManInMyVisions]

Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me… I welcome perennial grass weeds and annual grass weeds, like Barnyard grass, Dallas grass, Quack grass, rye, etc. I have a cool season lawn mixed with Kentucky Blue, Perennial Rye, and Fescue. I welcome a few weeds to fill small voids. Let the weeds live!!! If it’s green it should stay!!!

[@TurfMechanic]

Nothing wrong with that attitude at all! I'd never knock a yard owner for allowing "other grasses" to mingle in a bit.

[@wcbscout]

It’s mostly reed canary grass there he has, that’s some seriously aggressive stuff. Maybe it’s a plus to have in the field nearby but creeping into the cared for lawn it can be a real bear. It’s doesn’t have the pleasantness of the traditional cool season grass attributes. But to each his own.

[@MadManInMyVisions]

@@TurfMechanic I'm a fan of salad lawns. Your videos are very informative btw. Thanks, for doing what you do. Please, make a future video on weeds.

[@bmac9706]

Double up your medical gloves, put thin cotton gloves over them, dip your cotton glove in the glyso, use you’re wet finger to rub the blades.

[@RichFitzwel]

💪

[@TurfMechanic]

:D

[@davidgonzales-ec8bo]

Did you say the greener lawn? Why did you say the greener lawn. ;)

[@TurfMechanic]

Check out his channel! He's got some good stuff going on over there and he's been doing this for a long time too!