This a great! I'm excited for you, holler if you need anything! It's all in the prep work, I am impatient but it pays to do it right while you can. Looks like you are doing it right.

 

This is going to be great, buddy!

 

Looks like a great start! Kill, kill, and kill again the old 😂. Looking forward to following the updates.

 

Excited guys! @Chadwicktr have one app of glyphosate down, will go for another two more hopefully this weekend. That Arden is already smoked though between tractor work, glyphosate, and 100 deg heat in drought conditions. Definitely don't want it coming back through the tahoma though. I'd consider spraying it out via "triple threat" in the future if needed.

 

This a great! I'm excited for you, holler if you need anything! It's all in the prep work, I am impatient but it pays to do it right while you can. Looks like you are doing it right.

I'm going to really work to get the dirt absolutely perfect. Will flood these ditches with water as I fill them back with dirt so they settle, go out at night to look for bumps, etc.

 

Got all the irrigation piping laid and connected the upstream components to my main line and all is well. Looks like it will work great and with plenty of flow. Sorry about the sideways photos. Escaping the heat but will get back out there this evening and continue filling the trenches then install the sprinkler heads.

 

Finished the irrigation install. Got the valve boxes nice and flush with grade and all sprinkler heads attached and trenches filled. Still need to bring up the perimeter trenches some and adjust the sprinkler patterns but for two weekends of work and my first time designing and installing an irrigation system, I'm very pleased.

After the above, just need to hand rake and it'll be ready for sprigging! Ordered an R&R 4' leveling rake so hope that fit the ticket. My landscaping rake just isn't working well with how loose I have the soil. It's all compacted btw, just loose in the top inch or so.

 

I use a 4 ft level to help with making boxes and sprinkler heads level with the ground. You will love the leveling rake too. I've been very happy with mine. Looks great!

 

I use a 4 ft level to help with making boxes and sprinkler heads level with the ground. You will love the leveling rake too. I've been very happy with mine. Looks great!

I need one! I just used a 1" PVC pipe. The firm ground was close enough to the boxes it worked well. I also set them slightly above grade so I was able to hammer/compact them down into position. Good to hear about the rake! Most folks are using smaller variants but I'm looking to get this yard like melted wax, no place for bumps or divots.

 

I watered dirt at night and raked the following day 4 times. Ended up getting the dirt damn near perfect but used a 36" landscape rake since the leveling rake was far too heavy and dig in too much. It's probably better for sand leveling on top of established turf.

Received 3 pallets just after noon and spent the next 4 hours breaking them down with the SunJoe. Still have half a pallet remaining and the denisty in the yard is crazy. 2 pallets would have been better and 1 would have sufficed. Regardless, got it down. Sprinklers running and I'll get back out there tomorrow to break down and spread the remaining pieces as well as redistribute the thick stuff I already threw out. Between irrigation and sprigging, this was a ton of work. Lost 20# just in the last 3 weeks.

 

Awesome work! It's going to be a quick fill in! Kudos

 

What model of the sun Joe did you use?

 

Thank you sir! Used the 13" 12 amp variant since it was on sale last week. To be honest, I would have used my tractor tiller if it wasn't buried in the back of my garage. It would have taken probably 15 minutes to shred it all.

 

Nice! Do you think you could use it for verticutting too if not lowered too far down?

 

I was wondering that and do plan to try it out. I also have a crazy number of reel mowers and was considering swapping one out to verticutter blades.

 

@clbphllps looks like it! https://thelawnforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=11374

 

Oh ya, that's legit. Just need like a 300' extension cord lol (curse of a 70s house means outside cords are getting fished through a window)

 

Day 2 and only real action was spreading out the clumps better and moving sprigs from high denisty areas to low density areas. Might do some more of that yet. I didn't really feel like breaking up the last half pallet so I just laid them along the driveway, much like WillyT. Figured it would be good having a control too.

I'll fertilize tomorrow and roll as well. Have been watering hourly during the heat and about 8 minutes a zone does the trick.

 

This is going to be incredible!

 

Very nice. Yea, the sunjoe sprigs are less chopped up / fine than the bermuda king road ready harvester sprigs! While it was super convenient to pickup and then immediately spread without any manual labor, I'll bet you'll get faster results (if you aren't top dressing)!

 

Great coverage! Just keeping it wet is the name of the game. May have to hand water a few spots that don't get hit by sprinklers. Should tack down about day 3-5. Looks like you're on your way! Lot of hard work that will pay off!

 

They went on there thick, like peanut butter gravy. Also very chunky but that'll sort itself out once I start mowing. I have one small spot beside a sprinkler that's staying dry. Not sure what's going on with it but I'm not too worried; otherwise the irrigation coverage looks great. I did get it rolled this morning and sprayed 0.5# of N then ended the day with a 3 hr soaking rain!

I'm tweaking irrigation settings and have it at 15 times throughout the day for 4 minutes a zone now It's going to be cooler this week and with higher chances of storms, I'm trying not to water too deep.

Day 3:

 

This is going to be incredible!

I hope so! If it doesn't turn out, I'm broadcasting fescue and selling the place.

 

This is going to be incredible!

I hope so! If it doesn't turn out, I'm broadcasting fescue and selling the place.

Glyphosate everything and mulch the entire front yard

 

Glyphosate everything and mulch the entire front yard

Basically where it was at when I started this journey in 2019 lol. Literally removed so much mulch from trees they had chipped and left mounded in the front yard. To be fair, they were only trying to hide rootballs and stumps.

These sprigs are doing great though! Very healthy with lots of new roots and even starting to grow leaves.