The MOST IMPORTANT Time For Your LAWN IS NOW // Cool Season Fall Lawn Care Tips

It's that time of year for cool season lawns! What you do this fall will set you up for great success next season so let's go over some tips and tricks to give you the best lawn this fall.

00:00 - Intro
00:47 - When To Begin?
02:12 - How Much Fertilizer?
04:04 - Dethatch And Core Aeration
04:43 - Seed Or Overseed?
06:28 - Weed Control
07:04 - Mowing
07:58 - Lawn Supply Co 2023 Sale

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[jakeerdmann]

Just thatched/aerated and reseeded my front with your tall fescue/blue grass mix. And overseeded my back with the same mix. Fingers crossed it all comes in.

[armycrazyhawk]

Did my aeration/dethatching two weeks ago between heat stretches in NE Iowa. Been watering everyday while overseeding with Ryan’s Perrenial Elite Ryegrass and Scott’s Starter Fert. The grass started to “pop” on day four and has been filling great across the board. Very happy/impressed with the seed considering the less than perfect conditions (patience got the best of me).

[crazyjim]

Over seeded with a tall fescue and I'm back to mowing after an amazing germination, super grateful for your advice. Watched my neighbors lawns burn right up as soon as it got warm right after they spent good money on lawn service, kind of a shame imo. You helped bring life back into my lawn and being out in the yard ive met a bunch of ppl who live in my community. I'm way pumped to see my lawn next spring 🤙

[BenNawrath]

Great video! Keeping it simple. I put down some seed last Monday and it’s popping today (Sunday). So I was kinda hoping to get a cut in before it popped, but oh well. Combo of overseeding and some bare spots. For anyone looking for a great patching soil mix, I do 2 bags of el-cheapo Home Depot top soil to 1 bag of “washed play sand”. One is listed by volume, one by weight, so I honestly don’t know the real ratio, but it’s probably more like 3 or 4 to 1, soil/sand. That little bit of sand makes it spread SO nicely. Great for areas you just need to add a little depth and feather out.

[sammyburrows]

Just purchased your Fescue seed for fall overseeding. Had germination in 4 days. Wow good stuff! My question is when should I mow and fertilize my new grass?
Thanks

[scottmarunowski]

Great video Ryan! All the questions that I had you answered in this video. Thanks for all your hard work creating this content so we can have amazing lawns like yours. Take care Ryan!!

[hhhAmbientElectronic]

Started a complete lawn renovation today. Spent three hours scarifying 2200 sq. ft. raking and piling up the debris. Tomorrow, I'll remove it all to our compost pile. I'm also ordering 8 cubic yards of organic topsoil. That will get spread and leveled this coming week, after which I'm putting down Defiance XRE Tall Fescue. Because of our intense Summer here in North Texas (2nd hottest and driest ever recorded), I basically had no lawn and barely even any weeds. We've received less than half of our annual rainfall, so I'll be watering religiously to get this Fescue established before our first frost, which is normally in about 5 weeks. I was forced to wait until now, because this cultivar of Fescue requires a soil temperature of less than 72 degrees and we're still in the 90s, but with cooler nights (finally). If there is some way that I could share progress photos with you, I'd love to do that, just let me know how.

Cheers and thanks for sharing your experience and expertise.

[naturalsr]

Can not wait to get back at it. Had a company take over my fertilizer/weed control last year. They also did aerating and seeding. Not happy at all with their results. I used to have the greenest, if not top 3 greenest yards, not anymore....

I feel like I'm starting over again, although, I'm not doing a full renovation again (did that 2 years ago). Definitely going to be dethatching, aerating and overseeding. Trying to stay on a better fertilizer program this time

[elpaniagua]

Loved cool season grass. Had that for 3 years. When we moved to our new house (Oct 2022) I performed a complete lawn reno and went with warm season turf, GCI Alpha Elite Bermuda. So my season is coming to an end. 😢

[HaiTheGreat]

When you mow after youve applied seeding and fertilizer, do you want to bag the lawn clippings or leave them on the lawn?

[ron]

Love the quick pace, to the point, video! Thanks from the Netherlands!

[osoquik]

Temps have started to cool in Eastern NE. Leveled my lawn with top soil after cutting down a silver maple & redoing a retaining wall. Laid down fresh sod but mature areas of the lawn will get the falls works this weekend. Aeration & over-seeding with Compost FTW!

[TheBoydClan]

I planted my KBG here in MN at the exact same time you planted yours, not on purpose, just a happy accident. Anyway, my grass doesn't look nearly as filled out as yours does. I've been considering putting down another round of seed because I have some really bad bare spots. We had a LOT of heat this late summer/early fall and I just don't think they could germinate. Hopefully this will help going into winter so I can have a good healthy KBG lawn come Spring '24.

[TopTierLawnCareServices]

I wanted to get better quality grass in my tall fescue lawn without doing a full renovation so I killed the worst problem areas. During the hottest part of the summer I then scalped and aggressively dethatched and cut the watering way down to cause extreme stress and thin it out. Just a few days ago I aerated the hell out of it and then went down with a mix of premium Kentucky bluegrass and turf-type tall fescue. My hope is for the new seed to come up and take over before the old mutt varieties of fescue have a chance to recover. I'm hopeful since I could clearly spot the areas of my premium grass since it die off when I induced stress. Most of the stuff I hoping to choke out just kind of died off.

[nopenada]

I'm in the DFW area. 4th hottest and 3rd driest Summer on record. We'll set two more records today and tomorrow. I'm doing a full lawn reno as soon as our soil temp reaches 72 degrees. I had planned on starting September 15th, but that clearly isn't going to happen. Probably 1st or 2nd week of October. Doing the whole nine yards. Removal of old "turf" (nothing more than dead weeds at this point, no grass). Scalp > scarify > dethatch > remove all debris > aerate > top dress with 2-4 inches of sandy loam topsoil > Level > seed > roll/press > roll a thin layer of peat > fertilize > water 3 times/day and pray that the work pays off. Did a soil test and determined proper fert needs. Really hoping that I'll have a nice lawn come Spring.

Cultivar: Defiance XRE Tall Fescue
I know, we're hotter than balls in the Summer, but I had a fescue lawn here about 20 years ago and it did fantastic, but failed due to neglect. Swinging for the fence on this one.

[KC-qvyt]

Hey Ryan I've been seeing a lot of videos online about Pre Germinating grass seed, especially for Kentucky Blue Grass. It's supposedly going to cut the germination time by have and some people have been getting Blue grass sprouting at about 1 week. Have you ever looked into this at all? Have you ever tried it? I look forward to hearing your response and possibly a new video on it. Thanks!

[StripeLife-cybc]

I have a project lawn we did a full renovation on. I used your fescue blend seed.
For my lawn just doing the classic dethatch n aerate with a nitrogen blitz plan. I'm doing bi-weekly AMS and 2 apps of granular.

[miked.]

Coming back to this video for my fall lawn renovation, if I overseed (tall fescue) and use a starter fertilizer, do I then use a fall fertilizer in mid October or is it not needed?

[jamesreichert]

Would you recommend dethatching before doing any fertilizer/overseed regimen? I plan on doing two rounds of fertilizer.

[dylan]

Just did my fall height of cut reset to keep my lawn shorter for fall and over winter and put my fertilizer and pre emergent out. Trying my best the past few years to keep poa in check with fall pre. Then overseeded the past two early springs like just as the grass is barley waking up