Not sure how to take all your other advice seriously when you don't know to grab a rake and clean that mess up

@Thelawncarenut

6 күн бұрын

Sometimes I like to have fun. It's healthy. Take a look at the name of the channel to understand the deeper truths. Also, your doggo is cute!

@muthagoose00

6 күн бұрын

@@Thelawncarenut you are awesome, jp. Keep it up

@Jimmy-Legs

3 күн бұрын

NOT Dominating. 😊

@TheWayICit

Күн бұрын

What did you spray to kill St. Augustine and not zoysia?

It feels like the theme of this video is "How many times can I get people to scream RAKE at their screen?"

@hammer3921

7 күн бұрын

or BAG!

@Thelawncarenut

7 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@TheLufkins

7 күн бұрын

yup, because I live in Florida and they pick up yard debris weekly with our trash. Just has to be bagged for clippings and 3'-4' for branches.

@darylh100

7 күн бұрын

Yeah. Once you get that much clippings if you don't rake the grass under will turn brown.

@jayr085

7 күн бұрын

@@hammer3921 No doubt...all those named mowers and not a single one of them has a bagger on it? No longer a sponsor, no longer going to use them...

Get to raking!

@jaystraw

7 күн бұрын

This is the way.

New video title: How far I'll go to avoid raking

@morte2195

7 күн бұрын

And when you add up all the work he ended up doing to fix that mess, raking would have actually been far LESS work.

@Thelawncarenut

7 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

dude, pay one of the neighborhood kids to rake up all those clippings. this was just confusing and painful to watch.

Sir, as my father would say when I was younger, GRAB YOUR RAKE!

@ArtieMcYardie

7 күн бұрын

Only thing is it’s Saint Augustine grass. You’ll pull up all the stolons with a rake. .

@hoopinfloyd

7 күн бұрын

​@ArtieMcYardie overstated. And even if you do.. what's worse 500 lbs of dead grass smothering everything or a few damaged stolons?

@ArtieMcYardie

7 күн бұрын

@@hoopinfloyd overstated?? Nah… you don’t rake st aug bro. 😎.

@hoopinfloyd

6 күн бұрын

@ArtieMcYardie literally do for many months out of the year. To pick up sycamore and maple leafs. It won't even rip out old dead stolons. You must have some weak ass grub laden roots lmao 🤣

If only someone had invented a bagging system for lawn mowers of even a rake and a bag/trash can. It could have solved so many problems.

Don’t understand why you didn’t bag a little bit at a time

@Ty_is_dum

7 күн бұрын

Cause he said he accidentally threw his bagger away

UGGGHHH!! As another Florida man here with Palmetto under oak trees in the backyard, I feel your pain deep in my soul. You broke the 1/3rd rule and the lawn just wasn't having any of that nonsense. I was squirming the whole time saying, "JUST BAG IT MAN!!" 🌴🌦

I would have used a plastic rake and got busy

What I do when I encounter an overgrown customer's lawn is cut it down to length, and then raise the deck an inch and go over it 2-3 more times. Doing that will give the deck more "breathing room" to mulch it up, and it will distribute those smaller clippings deeper into the lawn canopy. It sounds nuts, but it actually works. I've had centipede and zoysia lawns with 10-11" of cut, and got their clippings to virtually disappear. of course, mulching blades work best for that, etc.

@fastallowance68

7 күн бұрын

Hard to raise the deck any higher when he already cuts at the absolute top setting.

When mine got that bag, I ended up bagging it. Trying to mulch that much is impossible. Just gotta rake it up and bag most of it.

Why are you not bagging this and getting it off the lawn. You have bagger attachments. Get a few trash barrels. You made this worse.

@rustyfan89

7 күн бұрын

Like doesn’t know this? He’s the lawncare nut for christs sake!

@idigbebop

5 күн бұрын

Showing some serious bad judgement on this one.

Thank you for sharing when things don't go right for you. We all learn from this content as it can happen to any of us. Keep us posted please!

@MAGAMAN

7 күн бұрын

The only thing I learned is he needs to buy a rake. He spent days trying to solve a problem that could have been solved with an hour of raking.

Pretty sure they sell rakes in Florida. Get busy raking and own your defeat 😂

This is like a What not to do video. I think you're going to need a good old fashioned rake! Oh my!

This is a job where my father-in-law would pay some kid on summer break $20 and a rake.

I did the same thing a few weeks ago. With a crazy work schedule and coaching baseball, the lawn got out of control. Plus it rains a lot in the PNW, so mowing a lawn that was wet AND overgrown wasn’t going to work. Then after chopping down weeks of spring growth, like an idiot, I decided a couple days later to drop the deck low and try and cut pretty low to get rid of the stalks from the seed heads. It took a few weeks of babying for the lawn to recover.

Think a bag may cost less than dealing with that

Also... Not the most fun for you, but seeing a pro mess up too is a great reset for us DIYers... Thanks for showing the bad along with the good... And how you worked to fix it.

A man in the lawn business can't let this happen.

just rake it up . Man, you put all this bull s*** on your lawn then complain that you can't keep up with the cutting . Gimme a break dawg.

I appreciate the reality of the situation that most of us at sometime have had to endure when we had other things in life going on and the lawn got away from us. Way to stick with it and sharing the reality you experienced!

happens to the best of us Allyn, but I probably would have gone out and bought the cheapest mower with a bagger and got rid of the clippings

@quallzone6219

7 күн бұрын

EGO electric mowers already have a grass catching bag. If it is damaged, you can even buy a 3rd party replacement grass catching bag for an Ego mower for as little as $35 USD online. . . And that makes it so confusing. WHY didn't the Lawn Care Nut simply cut and bag at least some of the grass during multiple mowings in this video?

I hate when I have side discharge

As I watch, I think of all the amazing fertilizer you can make with these clippings. Fill up a bunch of totes with the clippings, add some Bokashi and water then let it decompose.

When life gives you grass clippings make compost out of them. Buy some hay/wheat straw and a few bags of Black Kow Compost alternate layers and water heavily between layers.

Had to do this before as well. I mowed it in the morning and let it dry out and mowed again in the early evening after it dried out all day. Of course I didn't get any rain that day, good luck! May need to look into getting an Accelerator aluminum bagger and some G6 Gator blades just in case.

I'm in Mn and had to do this 2 weeks ago. Grass was so long from non-stop rain. I filled 10 of the paper yard bags on 1000 sq/ft of front yard. Same thing, very yellowed and brown underneath. Hit it with some fungus control and it bounced back nicely.

So on the big mowers they typically mow a half inch sometimes a more lower then the setting due to the weight of the mower compressing the grass unlike a push mower that can ride atop the grass. You would have been better off with a mulching deck. My 48” ex mark can cut at 6” and it doesn’t clog up. The 48”toro I had with a bigger motor would clog up. Ex marks deck is designed very well.

Great video and great recovery. It’s amazing how that Palmetto acts so different. Loved seeing the entire process.

What about cutting 1/3 several times over several days to get it back to where it needs to be?

@poisonousnut

7 күн бұрын

most mowers max out at 4-5 inch deck height. some go up to 6 inch. making it impossible to cut any higher. when it gets this bad you just gotta cut it and remove the clippings from the lawn. not sure what Allen was thinking here

@pdureska7814

7 күн бұрын

@@poisonousnut Yes i agree but the point was that i think he was trying to mow it down to his normal height and thats why he scalped some areas. I doubt he had it set at the highest setting. He had a hayfield and for all the cutting he did he needed to spend the time to do some raking. he should have just cut a center swath with a few passes then throw all the clipping towards the center working his way out. Then rake the center swath and repeat the cut to mulch whatever was cut or drop the deck a smidge and do the above. Probably just too busy to take the time to cut over several days.

@rogueonevo

7 күн бұрын

​@@pdureska7814 he did actually have the highest setting, he mentioned it at the beginning.....1/3 can't really be followed once grass gets this high.... he probably should have cut his loss short early and grab a rake or a lawn sweeper of some sort.... mowing away 5inches worth of grass clippings was never going to be the answer, not sure what his strategy here was but for once, he's made himself look more like a youtuber than a lawn care professional....

@pdureska7814

7 күн бұрын

@@rogueonevo yeah i missed that. Dare we say rookie mistake haha

I would highly recommend getting a Honda mini tiller with the thatcher attachment. It does an excellent job of bringing dead material out of the grass and would also break up the clumps. I’ve had mine since 2023 and it gets used frequently. It is a workhorse and it pays me every time I use it!!

@mattbliese

7 күн бұрын

I don't think SA is one of those grasses you can dethatch. You'd end up cutting the stolens off.

When You have to break the 1/3 rule that much…mow a little part of the lawn at the time bagging it, then as You go You put it in thick large black plastic bags and later on you will think what to do with those clipping…why would You even think about mulching or side discharging?! I don’t get it, we watch Your KZread channel because You are very knowledgeable about lawn, You know these stuff better than us?! I guess You jumped into this project just a bit too quickly without giving it a proper thought first…but I guess it is good for KZread content (and future content on how to recover it from here) 😉

@andresruiz62

7 күн бұрын

Come on, its all about content.

@MAGAMAN

7 күн бұрын

@@andresruiz62 Yeah, either he's an idiot or this is just exaggeration for the video.

My bahia absolutely took off with all the rain in the last week, highest i could cut it was 5 inchs, had to send the hubby out with the thatch rake and fill the lawn bins.

I'm lucky that I can bag my clippings when needed and put them out to the curb in compostible bags and the village picks it up twice a week.🙂

I think part of why it’s clumping so bad is since your lawn is used to that small walk behind mower, the weight of the kubota weighs down and it cuts lower even with the deck at 5 inches, I see the same on my front yard when I use my riding mower every once a while on it. The toro recycler isn’t as heavy so it doesn’t sit in the grass

I have that same Kubota zero turn at work, that thing is so friggin loud especially when you start it. The choke is full throttle pushed all the way forward, so when you start it you have to back down from full throttle and that sucker in an enclosed shop area, boy you know when someone fires it up 😂

Love the Floratam and crazy example of how great it is if you left it to over grow. We had this happen a few times because rain would not let up and work schedule got in the way for cuts. Love my Honda HRX 217 for bagging in these situations.

I live in the southern part of the state and my husband cuts our yard twice a week right now to avoid this problem. It’s a standing joke in our neighborhood that my husband cuts the yard every day😂. We are having a really bad fungus problem & I think we waited too long to treat our St. Augustine with your fungus recipe. Your yard looks pretty amazing compared to ours. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🙏

I understand your feeling about the Kubota. I have a Z411 and it is the best mower I have ever used. I love it.

During the summer, especially during the rain season you have to stay on the lawn almost twice a week for it to remain manageable with a push mower in Florida...🌞🍊🌧️

@richardanderson1732

4 күн бұрын

So true, which is why I try to mow my own. Lawn care companies typically try to keep to their weekly schedule, so will tend to cut it shorter to avoid overgrown lawns in a week. Paying them to mow twice a week would be exorbitant. I also have the same Ego self propelled mower on a quarter acre lot, and I can barely cut the lawn once on a 10 amp-hour battery.

I do the same thing. I either blow the leaves out of the St. Augustine or I blow off the cut grass. Alot easier blowing then raking.

Edit: Clumpy Balls…I’m dying Al! That slow mo at 0:57 reminds me of a big bowl of green Spaghetti. I keep watching it for no reason. 😂

Hey AL. Greetings from Northwest Indiana. My lawn has been looking great thanks to all your knowledge. Last week I applied some green pop, at correct rate, with a half rate of propiconizole. Every is yellowing!! I've been watering heavily to try and "rinse" it out. But it's not working. Do you think an app of chelated iron would help the yellowing, or is that just too much going on??

Just did this to my yard today. Took me 4 cuts to get the front yard ‘cut’. Out of town for 12 days and a lot of rain.

19:57 what I used to do with no blower was wide discharge and cut forward back cut then make all my lines the same direction so all the clumps are in one big pile so I can rake it in a bag. But yea LCN. Keep those baggers. LOL

Do you have any recommendation for chinch bugs? I have put down well beyond the yearly recommended rate of bifenthrin and they are still devastating my ProVista St Aug. Is there another chemical I should be applying, or does bifenthrin really take weeks to kill chinch bugs?

We get it. You have nowhere to put it. Put on your truck bed and take it to the dump.

Take those clippings and throw it in a compost bin. Take your greens, brown leaves or ripped cardboard and mix in a little soil and keep it moist, within 3 months you'll have some excellent soil. I built two compost bins (it's like a 35x35x35 areated bin made from old scrap 2x6s) I alternate between the two bins, turning it maybe once every two weeks.

A lot can be said for a bagging attachment once in a rare while when the grass gets so overgrown. The lost nitrogen from bagged clippings is negligible if you're using ferts anyway.

install mulching blades on the big boy and put the chute down. Mulch it over and over. No point in side discharging after the initial cut.

I wish my empire zoysia could get overgrown. It struggled this year but its getting there now. Man all that grass, I probably would have composted some, and put some down as mulch in my garden beds and put straw over it.

Rake, yard Vac, bag it and bring it to the dump. I've been watching your videos for the last two years in an effort to be better at making my yard look great. So far the efforts are going great, I've gone from a pretty barren weedy wasteland, that was only mowed as maintenance, to greenery all around now. I get told my yard looks better now than it when it was previously professionally landscaped. I've gotten the itch and want that spray cart set up and to start trying all these great products you advertise. As much as I love scotts, I dont want to be just a step product line guy anymore. For those who watch and don't play golf, pick it up. You get to spend 3 to 5 hours on 130+ acres of maintained and landscaped property and all kinds of great ideas as to what to do to your own property.

I'm in Central Florida and last week we got rain almost every day later in the day. I missed my mow day of Thursday and cut Saturday and I also had a ton of growth, so much my lawn is yellow now. I did bag though as soon as I saw how much got cut. IDK why you didn't just rake it up and toss them in those trash bins!

Not here to beat a dead horse about raking. It’s a learning experience either way and that’s sometimes what it’s about. Thanks for the longer video and all the content! Stay safe out there!

I know you've said before that you don't want to get into PGR (plant growth regulators), but it might be worth it to look into. It's a game changer (at least on my Bermuda)!

@chatch15117

6 күн бұрын

Yes he has to keep doing stupid shit like this to keep making content. It would be boring if he wasn't constantly chasing his tail. Easily could have put fungicide and insecticide down after properly bagging this grass. Also put PGR and iron. I live 15 miles away (he says he is in Bradenton but I found his place in Parrish) and mow once every 3 weeks. I have floratam, disease free. I use PGR of course

You really are a nut if you think you are going to mulch all of that in. lol! 🍺🍿

19:02 Is the electric thatch rake an option to bring it all up? The best thing to do with such an overgrown lawn was to blow the first cuttings into small piles and start packing the brown leaf/lawn compost bags. The mulch blade is just making everything smaller and it will suffocate your root system.

I know you say the St Augustine is best when it's cut long, but I cut my a little shorter because of all the moisture that gets trapped within. I don't cut to low, but deff. not really tall.

Thank you for showing this and normalizing screw-ups. I can't count how many times I've credited you when I get lawn compliments. I have a huge party this weekend, but I missed my last tenacity window and now I have weed overgrowth - every single second in the yard I shake my head and say Allyn would be so disappointed in you 😅. thank you so much - I appreciate you!!

@Thelawncarenut

6 күн бұрын

Thank you !

Most of us fans in SE Texas wish we had that "problem". The heat pump is already in full effect and the St. Augustine is having trouble with staying hydrated and growing so lush. Another month of high water bill.

I really have no idea why you did not rake it all up when you did the first cut, I bag every 6 or so mows and take it all to the local dump. Otherwise when I de-Thach in the fall I will have a bigger job on my hands. Looks like you really F up on a number of levels. Glad to see that us mere mortals aren't the only ones with lawn care problems.

Got to give the mower a real test. Get a blower to make piles and get to bagg’n. That electric blower isn’t strong enough to move that grass around.

When I my get behind on mowing my yard Ill bag all of the clippings to avoid that problem!

Couple of options: Rake and create a Compost pile OR rake it in the grass every time the sun comes out. Most imp next time don't let the grass grow so tall. Don't sweat, all will be fine.

Oh my god... we've all been there. I feel for you Al and I also feel like I'm watching a Conner Ward video!

Question, do you not like St Augustine grass or just want two Zones? I have St Augustine grass/Buffalo lawn here in Cali and curious if I should change it.

As dad that has a daughter in travel softball I feel the pain of not having enough time!

Last week I saw some mowers pull up to my neighbors house with one of those giant ride on mowers… mind you their yard is small, only 1-2 passes on one of those and it’s done. They spent more time maneuvering the thing around than they would just pulling their push mower off

I fully understand. I have a mix of Saint Augustine and Palmetto because that’s all I can find at Home Depot and for some reason the grass doesn’t look as good as a Saint Augustine. I do not care for the Palmetto. And it seems like the palmetto doesn’t even grow as good as Saint Augustine, but I also bag mine it’s extra work but I don’t like having the clippings all over the yard and then it dries up looking brown

When mine gets that tall, I side discharge and then double or triple cut mulch it.

Dude, as my lawn hero I am speechless 🥲

Much easier to use zero to to discharge it in large pile. Then trash bags or can. Then you can spread out the remaining. No way all that is going to fall in the canopy. No matter how dry it is. I’m sure many of us have been there before

Why the yellowing? And how do you fix it? I go through this every year with my St. Aug and still haven’t figured out what to do to get rid of the yellow.

What can i use to get ride of yellow nutsedge in my centipede yard that wont burn up the grass?

This is one of the most painful videos Ive watched that you’ve posted. Ouch! My condolences. With all of this Florida rain, whats worse….wait and cut when overgrown, or cut when damp/wet?

why didn't you just rake up the clippings and leave it for yard waste pickup? Also, tip for sod planting. Use wood golf tees to keep your seams together. Once the roots start taking, the wood tees will start pushing out and they won't damage your blades like garden stakes/staples will

Sounds like we can look forward to a recognition video some time next year. It’s worked great for me this year so far!

Lesson for today is always have a mower with a bagger. Ware is your recycler, super recycler and timemaster. The timemaster would have cleaned it up nice with how big the bag is

Any great plains people know a good mostly-shade grass that will stand up to Oklahoma heat? I'll be seeding, not sod, and I'm not experienced.

My neighbor said to put beer on the lawn. But my problem was I drank all the beer before it hit the lawn.

Hey Allan, do you use the super turbo setting on your mower? (you have to enable it in the app when it's connected via Bluetooth)

Should have bag mowed it with the ego cutting 1/3 off, maybe a little more, right b4 trash day, fill your and as many neighbors trash cans. Then they pick it up. Then 2 days later you can bag mow again 1/3 off again and fill your trash can. They pick that up and you bag mow again 1/3 off. Takes like 10 days and you fill your bins 3 times but it's takes just as much work to keep it short lol so I don't let mine over grow.

@poisonousnut

7 күн бұрын

you have a mower with a 10 inch deck height???

@natewalls4850

7 күн бұрын

He said though that he accidentelly threw away the bag for the Ego, so he had no bad, that's why he was saying he had no choice and had to do what he did.

@natewalls4850

7 күн бұрын

He said though that he accidentelly threw away the bag for the Ego, so he had no bag, that's why he was saying he had no choice and had to do what he did.

@jesusjones3014

7 күн бұрын

@@poisonousnut mine goes up to 8, so just go as high as possible, then 4 days later come down 2and then 4 days later down 2 more..etc..make it work

@jesusjones3014

7 күн бұрын

@@natewalls4850 missed that. I'd borrow a bag mower from neighbor. Trying to mulch that much is more work than just bagging it plus none is spread on the mulch beds etc.

Hey Allyn - I have actually thought this several times. Understanding this is a DIY channel - I would love to see you keep an up-and-coming professional lawncare company on alert for times when you have a brutal week. Shoot a video of them learning your lawn. I realize many will think this is blasphemous - but, hey, stir the pot!

The only bad part about lawn care. You aren’t allowed to be busy or go on vacation 😂

I made the same mistake while waiting for my ride on mower. My St grow like 14" and my lawn suffered a lot and I did rake and bag everything up lol. I thought those yellow and brown spot in ST Augustine is fungus mine are brown with gray and do you have something for that wild Bermuda I have a couple spots to fix :(

I kept thinking, grab a rake and problem solved. After the rain, I was thinking of a mechanical dethatcher. They rent those too.

@richardanderson1732

4 күн бұрын

I have Floratam for a lawn and when I mentioned the difficulty I was having getting the mower through it every week, I was told by the company, “We’ve been taking care of St. Augustine lawns only for over twenty years, and have only recommended dethatching twice. On both occasions, the customer said that was a really bad decision.” I have to mow every 3-4 days to keep to the 1/3 rule, but the thatch layer keeps thickening. Not sure what to do.

It would have been awesome if one of your buddies did a lawn recue video onyou. Kinda reminds me of auto shop owners that drive around in beaters because they're too busy or tired to work on their own stuff. You should have bagged it and included some in each merch order like Cleetus does with his broken race car parts. Or turned it into some limited run "super fert" and sold it.

My St Augustine grass was so thick n pretty just like yours. I cut my grass nd didn't realize the blade was bent so it dug up a section of grass nd it grew back with wild tall grass in one lil section nd by it being so dry it have yellow spots. They said it don't like to be cut low 😢

You are killing me smalls. Bag it and tag it!🙂🙃😉🤪

I cut my lawn every 3to4 days, I went to Guam for 3 weeks, and even though I had someone to cut it once a week, it is now 4 inches. You probably already now this, just use your bagger of rake it up. I would have started with the bagger.

Would have been nice to see how each of your mowers did with that type of challenge. I can see how you’d want to just get it done though.

This was a good test, hopefully we can all learn from! Didn’t look fun lol!

I'm happy that you make mistakes. We are all human and life gets in the way. No need to apologize. Now we can see how the D-thach works wonders. Thanks Allen for giving us DYI's a fighting chance.

You should of got your crew to rake it up that's OK we still love you anyway happy 4 of July brother

as a viewer, got very good lessons from this, thank you

Wow, this is something alright! All that extra debris makes me cringe! I prefer solid mulching blades and slightly heavier overlapping when I cut. Bagging just isn’t an option for me.

What can I use on Dallisgrass Besidews to move. In California

Neighboor looking out the window... "Jesus Christ....is he out there with the blower again?"