DONT DO THIS if you want to get rid of WEED GRASS
DONT DO THIS if you want to get rid of WEED GRASS
DONT DO THIS if you want to get rid of weed grass on your lawn. This is the worst thing you can do
I recently did a video on how to fix weed grass – POA // AMG // COUCH GRASS // Yorkshire Fog and the feedback from some parts of the community was that I was doing it wrong and this is the worst thing you can do if you want to get rid of weed grass on your lawn
In this video, I will be discussing why I do it this way and the benefits of it. If you disagree please leave me a comment below and keep it friendly.
👉Helps in the prevention of annual meadow grass (poa / AMG), which is crown in nature and vertical cutting can help remove the seed heads which spread it further.
👉Encourage the grass plant to grow in a more vertical position
👉Removes surface debris such as seed heads, leaves, small twigs and animal dropping which can break down and create organic matter in the soil, which you want to prevent.
00:00 DONT DO THIS if you want to get rid of weed grass on your lawn.
01:02 Fact checking content
01:51 Lawn update
03:13 You can’t use that
03:52 Why I verti cut my lawn
04:35 vertical mowing
05:55 Weed seeds
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Further reading
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Spot on bob, your logic is sound bud.
I have watched your channel from start because I have never had a nice lawn and any info helps. I moved into new home with just a lawn put down & first year I cut couple of times a week but did not collect cuttings. Not too low. Grass nice green. I was really pleased. Just the odd weed. Best lawn I ever had. Now I cut and collect clippings I have more weeds and this poanna in the lawn? I give up.
Weve got more amg than before this year. Verticutting? Would using my scarifying rake achieve the same thing as your machine Robbie? We only have a small 20m square lawn.
Nobody is perfect. Please always show us the good and the bad 👍
I find my cylinder mower does a much better job of getting rid of amg than my rotary mower.
My Garden is full of POA, Is it ok for me to Verticut in late July?
Yorkshire fog is the only one I remove; thick leaves, light colour. It is best pulled out by hand before it drops seeds and any patches filled or reseeded
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This year is the worst I’ve had for Poa. This video was really useful and validated the approach I’m taking. I am doing a monthly light scarify with the box on. It does stress the lawn so feeding/seaweed etc are used as well. Keep up the great content.
My verticutter has a box on it and still pisses seed heads out everywhere, don’t think it’s the end of the world. Trick is to use a rotary mower after with some decent filtering on the bag and decent suction like my advanced rotak has, then you’re at least getting most of it up. To be honest, my lawn is fairly new and doesn’t have much in the way of weed grass and the seed heads tend to be the grass i want so with mine I don’t mind them dropping, but yeah..
Liked 😊👍 and the dog😊
great.
I work on the assumption that those seed heads are flower heads to start with. If I’m verticutting and mowing weekly then I’m never allowing the vast majority of flowers to turn into seeds.
It’s the way I treat the problem as well. Great job Robbie! Keep up the great work and inspiring videos. 👍
If you enjoyed this video please SMASH the like button and leave me a comment if you think I’m right or wrong
If the experts make mistakes it gives me a bit slack.
I think you’re right. I’m in MD, USA. Warmer than you, but we get a freeze winter. Seeds are considered ubiquitous here, stop seeds with pre-emergent and deal with overseeding by timing (its hard). I have a beast weed called wild bermuda (and I get Poa). The emerged plants are managed the same way. I use a thatch device towed behind the riding mower. It has spring tines that scratch the surface and bring up a little thatch and breaks the stolons and pulls up the shallow rooted Poa. Its messy on a bad year, but it works. Thanks for the show.
Would it be better to cut with a rotary after with them causing suction, sucking the seeds up into the bag? I run a cylinder too but do have a rotary aswell. I only have a few patches of this so might cut them out and get a turf roll to replace it. Grass is looking lovely.
If I see a seed head in my lawn is it 100% a grass that has to be removed? In other words does the desirable grass also produce seed heads?
Mate, off with depression, anxiety and as a focus I’ve been sorting our rented overgrown mess of a garden which is right ar the bottom of a hill from a farm, so all sorts blows over. I made my lawn lush and was so proud, my one satisfaction and genuine enjoyment at a tough time and your videos helped me along my journey. So firstly thanks mate but secondly any videos on moles as they’ve just effed up all my hard work, little c#nts lol 😆
Had 3 years of POA hell Robbie . .still ongoing ,digging out and reseeding even got hold of some Tenacity and tried that , killed it off for sure but the new stuff keeps on coming
You seem like your panicing, calm down your a great guy, great videos. Don’t let people put you down. My lawn is so much better because of you.
Great video as always Robbie, maybe using a rotary mower would suck up more seed heads into the box compared to a cylinder mower
Question? What’s the depth of your verticutting?
…are you just scratching the surface?
Keep up the good work!
This might sound like a trick question but is a 1000ml of petrol heavier than a 1000ml of water 💦 why I’m asking this question is when I fill the genuine 1ltr bottle Stihl mixing bottle I can only get around 800ml before it’s full right to the top and there’s no room to add oil am I missing something or is petrol heavier? I measured the weight on a accurate kitchen scales I appreciate your comment on this or if you can try this and see for yourself if I may be right if I go to the line on the mixing bottle it would mean the 20ml you add to the mixture is to much ? I would have thought if the water is the same weight as petrol the mixing bottle is not correct ?
Cut your lawn at 4 inches. Follow the 30 percent rule
I’ve a terrible issue with a weed: Creeping Cinquefoil. Any advice? Please.
I really enjoy your videos, just brilliant. So just sharing a wee tip, I have heard that putting some tomato juice in the dog food helps to prevent the dog pee burning on the lawn.
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Thanks for your help Robbie
Maybe go over rotary after you finish with scarifier it will suck all the cut seed heads, and cut the remaining standing ones and you can finish off with cylinder.
Good reaction and explanation Robbie. Your videos are always quality mate.
I take the routine every day to go pull the weeds by hand and feed them to our chickens. We had so many that it would have take a complete makeover to deal with it. I have not yet find a method that would be a quick fix.
Omg Robbie, ye get a wee wuman to do yir scripts and research. Top notch. If you didnt you would need to put in a 36 hour day with your day job etc Lol. Another honest and informative video and what you say makes sense to me (But then I am half Irish Lol). Keep up the great work
There’s only one answer… Reno that field next door … hit the like button if you agree!
Get the logic but biggest threat would be from the nearby field. If that was controlled some chance of getting rid of 98% of it
Top man
I wanted a pristine lawn in my in my new house so weedkilled the whole thing, dug it all out, new topsoil, seed etc… looked amazing. The following year it got infested with leatherjackets and ruined my lawn. Again I dug it all up and repeated the whole process again (whilst continuously treating the leatherjackets with nematodes). 1 month later… amazing lawn again! The following year and still treating for leatherjackets, they once again ruined my lawn. This time due to a bad back I just patch repaired it in the worst affected areas. Seem to be ontop of the leatherjackets but they weakened my lawn and the weedgrass has taken hold… not far off breaking point now! What a ballache having a nice lawn turned out to be!
100% correct that logic my scarifier has a box I’m going to start doing this with mine.
I just had my lawn scarified and overseeded maybe 3 months ago and suddenly there’s seed heads everywhere. I’m so disappointed. Can only hope that when I scarify and overseed again maybe September/October it has a better result.
Good Help for me.
Robbie you can try dog rocks in your dogs water bowl to combat the pee stains on the grass.
I have a few clients (one of them a veterinary assistant) who use them and there are no longer stains on their respective lawns.
They don’t change the PH in the urine and is perfectly safe for the dogs.
Lawn looks absolutely beautiful
I’m having a nightmare with them 😢
Let’s face it, if there was a 100% right way to get rid of it, if there was and you knew the secret then you wouldn’t need to work anymore as you’d be very rich!
Verti cutting is all well and good, however not very many amateur gardeners and lawn enthusiasts have access to such equipment. I will try my electric garden rake and see how that performs. Excellent videos by the way.
It seems like POA has really taken over my lawn this year it actually looks ugly 😢 I just hope I can get back on top of it soon
Good morning, from Newmarket, Canada. I want to thank you very much for all the information and tool recommendations you have provided I have watched all of your videos and you have become my grass mentor. I just started a landscape business and use much of your information to produce literally "MINT" lawns. I want my entire business under the electric battery-operated equipment umbrella I recently purchased the Milwaukee M18 self-propelled battery-operated mower along with all my other battery-operated lawn tools- hedge trimmer, grass trimmer, chainsaw, spray pack and blower all on the Milwaukee battery platform. Future purchases include Allett Stirling 51 battery-operated interchangeable cartridge reel mower, an electric cargo van, and Toro Revolution Battery Standup Mower. Are there any other recommendations for my electric business that anyone could provide?
I’ve done by best to help you towards £30 for this video ! (PS a few, non related tip bits in and around lawn care like the comment about monetisation are always interesting). As always helpful and thought provoking. Whilst I’m fortunate to have a collection box – I have (lazily) not tended to always use it because when I verticut (a bit deeper than you – I still have quite a lot of thatch) I find the machine throws up a large amount of material which I would otherwise have to empty quite frequently (in part because the material is heavy & tends to lie at the front of the box "filling it more quickly"). I have therefore tended to verticut periodically (your comments about grass stress are well noted – thank you) and immediately scarified – lifting the grass up and finishing off with a cut – so like you, I’m resigned to some seeds falling into the lawn as a by product of this process – but having listened to you, I shall probably try to be less lazy and use my grass box at all times. Many thanks – as always.