[Robberthoffman]

Hello everyone,
My name is Robbert and live in the Netherlands. After watching a lot of videos on YouTube about lawn care I've decided that I also want a beautiful lawn. After neglecting my lawn for a few years it looked terrible. I have a lawn of 350sf with PRG





I have taken al the advise that I found on internet and uses it.

First I aerated the lawn and brushed in some sand, seeds and fertiliser.



When the seeds germinate I found a few patches of poa what I didn't like. I sprayed the poa with roundup. After a week I dug it out, filled in in and seeded it. While is was digging I found some grubs. So I also did a grub treatment.



In the same week I sprayed the clover and the dandelion.

After 3 months, different kids of fertiliser and tons of seeds my lawn looks like this





So what do you think of it?
Thank @wardconnor for your video's. they helped a lot!

Sorry if my sentence structure is not good!

 

[jessehurlburt]

Very nicely done! Congrats! What kind of grass did you seed with.

 

[wardconnor]

Nice work there. Nice small little patch of heaven.

 

[Robberthoffman]

Very nicely done! Congrats! What kind of grass did you seed with.

Barenbrug. Its a dutch company that als delivers seeds for world championships foodball. Is a blend with English ryegrass and something that's called rpr. It helps the grass to fill patches quicker than normal grasses and it germinates very quickly (3 to 4 days)

 

[Hieronymus]

You work with RPR as well! Nice! Reno looks good! But you where lucky to get a lot of rain lately!

 

[Robberthoffman]

You work with RPR as well! Nice! Reno looks good! But you where lucky to get a lot of rain lately!

Last few weeks we didn't had a lot of rain here. North Limburg was very dry. Farmers are not allowed to irrigate their land. South Limburg what's very wet. I irrigate the patches 2/3 times a day and the rest of the lawn I measure the moist in the soil and water it if needed. That's approximately every 5/6 days.

 

[Hieronymus]

You work with RPR as well! Nice! Reno looks good! But you where lucky to get a lot of rain lately!

Last few weeks we didn't had a lot of rain here. North Limburg was very dry. Farmers are not allowed to irrigate their land. South Limburg what's very wet. I irrigate the patches 2/3 times a day and the rest of the lawn I measure the moist in the soil and water it if needed. That's approximately every 5/6 days.

I actually thought the hole region was wet. I have some friends in Reuver, they almost floated to Venlo the past few months. Here it's very dry. I try to irrigate every 2 weeks so the poa will die of drought.

 

[Robberthoffman]

I killed my poa bij using round up. Waiting for a week. Dig it up, put new soil in the hole and re seeded it. 3 weeks later you can't see where it was. I had patches and it wasn't scattered around. For al the other weeds I use Bayer net ultra. Just spray the intire lawn and a few weeks later is al gone. I'm kils everything except poa and normal gras

 

[Hieronymus]

For the seeds I use Luxan Primstar. Basically the same ingredients. I totally understand you did it with round up. But I got a lot of patches en 350m2 so that will be a lot of work. But in August I will overseed the hole lawn again with about 15kg of RPR. Hope that will do the job.

 

[Hieronymus]

Seeds = weeds......

 

[Robberthoffman]

Nice work there. Nice small little patch of heaven.

Thanks @wardconnor it's not a huge lawn but it's my pride. When someone comes by and asked me if it's Astro turf. you know you are doing something good. Congratulations by your 10k subscriber. I really love your channel on YouTube. Keep up the good work! Maybe you should try round up and barenbrug seeds for you pao patches!

 

[Hieronymus]

Just curious. Did you put the seeds under the soil as well or just on top of it? The picture you send in my journal suggests only on top.

 

[Robberthoffman]

Just curious. Did you put the seeds under the soil as well or just on top of it? The picture you send in my journal suggests only on top.

Both. I put the seeds on the patch. Put some soil over it +/- 2 mm. and than put some seeds over the soil. The seeds on top was not I good idea. After watering they all landed on the sidewalk and now I have a beautiful lawn in the cracks

 

[Robberthoffman]

After putting down triferto N23 and watering the lawn for 4 hours 2 days ago I mowed today and it looks beautiful!

 

[Hieronymus]

Any special reason to put down only nitrogen?

 

[bellts02]

Any special reason to but down only nitrogen?

Wow, it looks great!

 

[Robberthoffman]

Any special reason to put down only nitrogen?

I do it to prepare for the levelling job.
When I put the nitrogen down the gras will grow quickly and recover faster from the levelling. I've put down 4 bags of DCM vivimus with a total of 240 litre of soil on my 30 m2 on July 6th and it looked like this. (Also reseeded)



The new seeds germinated in just 4 days with a temperature of 30 degrees celcius and watering every day the lawn looks today: 10 days after levelling great.







So I push growth to quickly recover from levelling and reseeding.

 

[Hieronymus]

Next time you can try Vivifos. That's a root stimulator. It will help with the recovery. The high doses of nitrogen can really stress out the grass since it's push to grow fast in extreme warmth and drought.

 

[TravisH06]

Looks great Robbert. 👊🏻