A Putting Green Mow | Discussing Maintenance for a Back Yard Golf Course

I wanted to get back into consistent recording and uploading. As a part of that goal, came this video. I got a recording of a mow on the putting green and wanted to take an opportunity to define what a given week, month, and season looks in terms of the time and effort that I put in on an ongoing basis to maintain my little back yard golf course.

Mowing and raking off worm castings are the bulk of the work and require very little time or effort. On a once a week or every 2 week basis I try to top dress with sand to keep the playing surface smooth and keep the worm casting layer buried. Also typically twice a month I'm spraying some combination of fertilizer, plant growth regulator, and fungicides. Watering is also an ongoing activity for the warmer, dryer, and sunnier times.

Finally, about once a year I'll come out with a heavy sand top dress to work more on level and smoothness beyond the routine surface maintenance top dressing.

[robyn]

The first thing i thought of when i was watching the start was the old saying "Nothing runs like a deere." lol. Great vid and the putting area looks spectacular!

[bryceburkhart]

Awesome video!! Really helped me understand when and how often I should do things

[mrlz]

Nice job Jason. Green looks amazing! Thanks for all the content and help you provide. I’m along for the ride⛳️👍

[familybarton]

Great vid. Seems like the best it's ever looked to me!

[krusej]

I love the start. My wife looks at me like I'm an idiot when my 220C stalls out like that when I'm just getting started. The lighting takes it to a different level.

[lxiong]

😮wow that last scene with the yard lid up!!! 👏 👏

[AndrewDobek]

Really enjoying the putting green videos! The lights at the end look sick, remind me of a local course/range here in Chicago that is lit up for night golf like that

[sting]

Jason, Mike from Ohio here. I seeded green last August and earthworm castings caused severe damage and really delayed establishment. Nothing I tried worked however so far I have them finally under control. I use carbaryl (insecticide) and thiophanate methyl (fungicide). Stay light with the carbaryl because it can burn the green at normal label rates.

[malarkeywithmatt]

It’s awesome you’ve got the three major greens mowers, you should do a comparison video on the positives and negative’s of each mower and what one you like using the most

[ThePhantom]

I’ve always wanted to get lights for my front yard because I made a temporary green that I practice on when I’m not working, it would be nice because I get off right before it gets dark and I have like no time to practice or mow

[PerfectBiscuits]

Looks awesome and thanks so much for doing all these videos about the green.

What’s the difference between your green and what you see at a high end golf course? Is it the usga root zone setup? More time/resources for maintenance? More dialed in equipment? Will your green keep getting better and better as it matures?

[docsteve]

Insane brother!…👏👏…in the “real” world you gotta be famous greens keeper /superviser at some high end country club!!🙈🤣🤣🤣…cmon man!…Lawncology 👑

[chrisdee]

@JasonSeiberlich I notice you are starting a series of recap videos to share what you have learned over the last few years about not only a golf facility, but lawn care in general. Next spring, im going to begin a bent grass putting green and I have been watching hours worth of your content as well as others. I struggled a while over weather i could cheap out on a push reel more but it is evident i cant after doing the research. I was wondering if you would consider doing a recap video on your reel mower journey with your opinion on brands, what you get for your money, etc...

[ChadHileman]

I have appreciated all your videos. Do you use all three of those fungicides at each application? Do you use a herbicide like Trimec?

[andrewszabo]

The stall out happens to me too. I think it just needs warmed up a little more, but I'm impatient. My workaround is to throttle to MAX ⚡, drop the clutch and peel out for the first lap.

So sounds like you may have a gantt chart for your application schedule?

[johnpecorari]

When did they change their tagline to “nothing stalls like a Deere”? 😊

[josb]

What type of sand are you using and where do you buy it?

[kimueland]

you should apply some sapphire green, then youre wormhols are gone

[hoilst]

Ah, John Deere. Don't worry, they'll have a guy out your way maybe next week, week after, who can fix that. No, you can't do it yourself, or buy your own parts.

[chosenone]

John Deere are so bad, horrible cutting habits but supposedly they have fixed that with lower cutting heights on new model