THINNING My Lawn on Purpose...Why?? // Dethatch and Overseed Your Lawn

There comes a time in the life of Kentucky Bluegrass lawn when thinning it out can actually be a benefit. This process today is what you would do if you want to dethatch and overseed your lawn. We remove the old brown material from the lawn with the Swardman Electra and and the scarifier cartridge and it does a fantastic job! The lawn is then thinned out enough to add some new elite kentucky bluegrass cultivars and begin watering to keep the seed from drying out. The lawn will begin to regenerate in a few weeks time!

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[kamilr]

Nice Ryan! I now like your channel more than the LCN's. You give good and simple advices, you show the work which is satisfying and esential to do, to make the lawn look its best. You're not trying to sell me anything, you don't show how to do tons of long mathematical calculation, you don't dump gallons of chemicals on your lawn... Just simple, manual work that always gives great results. Keep it up man!

[YardGuy]

This is essentially what I did with my lawn last Fall. It turned out great. My lawn has never looked better than it did this year.

[dronemaddness]

Really loved seeing the aerial views of your home town with the music was surreal.

[kove]

Dethatching is the furminator of lawns. It's so satisfying seeing that dead brown stuff up!

[jdrobbi]

I had to get under 2" before my lawn started thinning out. I pounded the lawn w/D-Thatch in June, so there wasn't much there for that.

I scaled the lawn to 1 1/4" and overseeding w/bluegrass today.

Lawn looks great, brother. Thanks for the great videos!

[DIOSpeedDemon]

I used a thatch rake and spent about 150 hours this winter doing my lawn. I am on furlough and wanted to see what a dethatched lawn looks like with nothing but grit, sweat and a wheel barrow. I am amazed how much matting and dead grass and weeds and pine needles and other Detrirus is in the grass itself. I went over the grass in 5x5 foot areas, first north to south and second rake, east to west. After the entire lawn was done, i skimmed the entire law with the rake to catch any misses. Cant wait to spring to see if my hard work will pay off. RHD DSD KING DIO

[johnlozauskas]

I love when engineers do videos. The reason why I like it is he went right to the meet of the matter which he is clear, logical, and ex to understand.

[hack]

Been liking the "vibe" you have been giving these with the into, outro etc.

[ricbaker]

Your back yard looks so much better now. A shorter lawn just seems to look neater. There is something so satisfying when dethatching and seeing all that junk come out. It's going to look so good in a few weeks 👍

[davidlongenecker]

That sunset stuff at the end was so calming 👍🏼

[francescodias]

The ending part was so peaceful!
Your lawn is looking great! Cutting shorter made a huge difference.
The vegetable garden is going to love that extra organic matter :)

[bonkersmcgee]

That's more satisfying than watching pressure washer vids. Definitely renting one of these.

[JEK]

Great renovation. I always look forward to new videos from this channel!

[JasonExplainsThings]

Thanks for all the info! My new back yard is in terrible condition. I'll be using a lot of your tips in my renovation this fall.

[brianluby]

I aerated and dethatched my lawn using brinly brand that hooks up to the back of my ride on mower. The aerator worked pretty well with weight on it. Plan to begin overseeding and fertilizing. Hoping to bring the lawn back to life for the fall

[LawnDad]

Something so satisfying when you see that dead grass material shoot out on top of the lawn.

Side note, I bought the Sun Joe and it works a little better than the Greenworks.

[zacharywhittle]

Great video! I’ve read that spraying T-Nex about 5 days before your low mow, dethatch/aerate, and overseed with KBG works well to keep the existing grass at bay while your seed germinates.

[MsTonya]

Wow Ryan, I feel like you can see my lawn. Mines does the very same thing, beautiful in the spring and looks kinda crappy in the summer. It lays down in areas and is thick and dense in others. I get fungus because of this, I think, I dethatch and thin the yard but stupidly I think I over seed too much and this makes the grass bunch up. I'll try your way this fall.
Great video, keep'em coming

[DIYDad]

Man, that swardman is a beaut! I just picked up a manual reel mower this week from FB marketplace for $20, going to try to keep it reel low for the rest of the year and into next year and see how she does. This new kbg I seeded with supposedly does fine down to an inch.