How to Grow Grass Like the Pros - Part 3

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Alright, DIYers. I want you to know just how important straw is. That's what this whole video is going to be about. I'm going to take you out on many sites, multiple sites. I'm going to show you jobs with straw, jobs without straw, just to show you how important it is to put down the straw. It's as important as the grass seed itself. If you don't put down straw, you are honestly just wasting all that time, all your sweat equity, all the money that you spent in the seed because it's just going to blow around. Birds are going to eat. If it germinated it's just going to dry out.

Now see where there are some patches of topsoil? I want to point this out. This is my cousin's house and we're using it for this series and her husband Tom is doing a great job. This guy has worked his tail off. We actually went back and got some more straw and they'd put it over those areas where you just see topsoils. The results are fabulous. We'll get to that. Don't put any fertilizer down at that point. Wait until you start to see sprouts. So I'll help you with that as well. So let me take you into just some different job locations. Results with straw and results without straw.

Alright. Grass seed was put down on this yard and I just wanted to show you guys, let's see. It's a brand new house, your beautiful house but and, and they slit seed. There are spots where you can see some grass plants, a few, a few grass plants and spots. But for the most part, because there was no straw here, it didn't take. They got a couple of grass plants, not much going on. See the weeds actually came in, but look at the grass where there was a straw netting. Look at that.

You can see the difference that the straw makes. There's a lot of grass seed coming in here. I mean it's just, it's just amazing. Remember the straw holds moisture and it keeps the seed in place so that it doesn't wash into the little low areas. Then the birds can't get at it. So the straw is doing many, many things. And then when it biodegrades it feeds it like a fertilizer.

I want to show you what happens when you don't use a straw. So straw wasn't used here. You can see there's a couple of little... But look, when you water it there's always going to be like little low areas, little potholes. I mean, no matter how perfect you grade this, the water is gonna run and lay somewhere. Now, right in here you can see there's a lot of seed that germinated cause it all washed into that, that pothole,

Now the crabgrass is no threat. And this is crabgrass cause you can get that with your pre-emergent in the spring. And then this is nutsedge is pretty popular in the North here. So you know what? Don't even worry about that. Winter is going to kill that off so, but you can see with no straw down to protect the seed from washing away and birds and the wind blowing it away. You just have these areas that are low lying. You can see every low lying area. There's a little Chia Pet. [...]

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