How To Top Dress And Level Out A St. Augustine grass Lawn. Get your lawn thick and level in one step

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How to get rid of Crabgrass:

How to fill in thin and bare areas:

What are chinch bugs:

Compacted soil:

What are sod web worms:

How to treat and identify grey leaf spot fungus:

What is thatch:

How to fertilize your lawn and shrubs part 1:

How to fertilize your lawn and shrubs part 2:

[jokrazy]

Finally a St Aug video instead of cool season or Bermuda. Thank you

[dhavalmysore]

Glad to see this video showing top dressing the full lawn. I watched your previous video on filling in bare areas of lawn using either Command or Black Kow plus sand. I should have used Black Kow, but went cheap and used Timberline Cow Manure and Compost, big mistake! It's mostly mulch, and some top soil and barely any Manure. Worst part is, it doesn't "become part of the soil" even after a couple of weeks because there is a lot of mulch in it.

[asp]

Glad to see you back on YT. Always with informative content

[unfaix]

Whoaaaa i did this exact thing april an dmay of this year after my lawn totlaly died last year. i broguht black kow and play sand from home depot and yried to level and help gut nutrient to what ever is left growing on the yard. It is august and my grass are back baby.

[kostasd]

Love your videos. I put down manure/sand on my lawn about 3 weeks ago after watching some of your previous videos, and my lawn has filled in incredibly already! Will have to find some Comand locally and put that down in the next round - will try aerating it first. Appreciate your videos - my neighbors appreciate them as well!

[DarthDougy-vmwk]

New subscriber here...like your videos, they move quickly and nicely. I like the ability to send you pics for evaluation...that puts you a cut above

[mikewalker]

Happy to see new videos, just found your channel recently and binged all the videos, , I'm up in Jax and our home was a rental for about 11 years and the prior occupants only mowed, so it's been a journey the last couple years, my next steps will be applying a liquid pest killer, I used granular Spectracide a month ago to make sure either cinch bugs or possibly mole crickets get eliminated, (I had to re-sod part of the yard that something killed the grass) then will be using celcius weed killer mainly spot killing, then apply the fertilizer with nutrients (learned about those 3 numbers from you), then I'll start the long process of giving a hard yard rake, and then do a topping with probably Black Cow and leveling sand. Thanks for all your videos!!!!

[blake]

Great info. Did you fertilize after laying the soil or do you recommend waiting?

[willwakefield]

Great video, thank you. Do you fertilize and water directly after?

[ernestolongoria]

Great video and awesome work! I live in Estero, South Florida and my home is raised on a hill. Would this method work for the hillside? Or will it just roll down the hill as I water it?

[bensmith]

Just realised you're in my town based on your number. All ready requested a consultation on your website. Looking forward to hearing from you.

[edwinpena]

Thank you for all the time that you dedicate to make these very insightful videos. I just laid out new st Augustine grass in my backyard. I can already tell that it is going to be very bumpy, even though i level the soil as much as i could before i had the installer laid it out.

I have a lot of top soil left. Can i use that top soil to fill in the gaps and level out the the yard? Should i mix the top soil with sand? How long should i wait to begin this process (the lawn is literally 3 days old).

[tguid]

Chadd, can you make a video on how to aerate St. Augustine grass? I’ve watched your video on growth spots in a yard and that’s what I have. Any tips would be great. Thanks for all the great videos!

[ruthlowrey]

Was each pile that you made on the lawn a whole bag or part of a bag? I am trying to determine how much I need to buy. I"m thinking I might need 4 or 5 yards of top soil. My whole yard is in poor shape and I have thinned areas where there was too much shade or not enough water or a combination. I live in a northern suburb of Houston, TX, The Woodlands, actually, and we had water rationing for the last three to four years and I inherited a very bad sprinkler system and soil quality. I think the previous owner just re sod much of the problem areas before putting it on the market so I had no idea what I actually had. I"m so glad I found your channel.

[KrisAlcordo]

So glad you're in jax. Will be reaching out soon!

[carolanne]

After doing this when do I irrigate? How often do you recommend irrigation and for how long? Do I buy a gauge and water until 3/4 in full? How far from spinkler head do I place guage. I’ve water 15 min and gauge says 3/4 in full but that seems short of a time to water

[rickgedden]

Unfortunately, I can't get Command in my area. Would a mixture of Black Cow and Peat Moss work well?

[flstrong]

Good afternoon, glad to find you! NEED YOUR HELP PLEASE: overthatched beautiful 5000 ft² St Augustine yard and ended up killing 50%. There's still a few blades growing in the worst parts. Just put out 47 bags of COMMAND and watered it in. Do you have any suggestions?? Also plugged the worst areas and they've taken root.
Thank you!!!

[gregrivers]

Do you have a video showing how to fill in ruts from tires on your St. Augustine lawn

[johnerickson]

I need to address the large areas of bare lawn in my backyard. Lots of exposed sandy soil. I recently began watering with an oscillating sprinkler, since the irrigation sprinkler system is not reaching the bare areas due to the growth of two croton plants in the middle of the yard. Additionally, 50% of the lawn doesn't get full sun due to trees creating a lot of shade. It's my thinking that as the croton plants have grown to be about 5' tall over the years and coupled with the irrigation heads that aren't getting much water to the areas around the crotons, that is the reason my St. Augustine grass has stopped growing. What if I did the top dressing process and then put seed a grass seed that's similar to St. Augustine. Would that create a bad look with mixed grass? I suppose after putting grass seed down I would then need to put straw down for a few weeks. Correct? One last thing - in this video, what is the name of the plant that is next to the house? I'm looking to put in new shrub-like plants on the backside of the house, an area that doesn't get any sun until maybe 2pm. I live in zone 10a.