My yard is extremely hard and the amount of rocks in it is horrible! The grass I put down a couple years ago just didn’t root deep enough and eventually just died off. Gonna try what you did since I have the same issue with compacted soil. Great simple video btw!

Fun video dude! Had a viewer ask me about black cow and leveling, never tried it but glad to see you like it

Great video Chuck, great way to start a Sunday morning..great information explained perfectly

Thanks

I really enjoyed this video, very well done!

Great start look forward to watching progress around the yard.

ty for sharing brother

Addressing focal areas of compaction instead of core aeration of the entire lawn is a great idea! So glad I watched this 🌱👍🌱

Very well done Chuck. 👊🏼

Very well done, Chuck! To the point and easy to understand.

Thanks bro, after a more than a few years of drought out here in Cali I find myself with both front and back yard being compacted and so far been difficult getting garden going. Think this will help tremendously, thanks again 👍🏻

☀️Top notch video, Chuck!! Enjoyed it 👍😎

Well done video! Great tips!

Great tip on the black kow it works. Love that stuff too! Bet people walking by the drive might be causing that compaction? Look forward to seeing the results.

Great work Chuck. I love my Corona Aerator. I too am dealing with a couple of compaction spots this season. 😎🌴👊

The poop kiss was really something. Subbed.

👍Just what the lawn doctor ordered .👍

Thank you for this video, exactly what I needed to watch to help me fix my lawn.

Well done good sir! I also SMASHED the link button so hard I cracked the screen. Keep on keeping on!

Solid explanations buddy! I need to give the ole black cow a spin one day. Keep up the good work!

I found value in this video, therefore I gave it a thumbs up. Step #4 water.

Three good points. What liquid fertdidvyou use?

I used Dawn dish soap as a surfactant. I put about a 1/2 cut in my hose sprayer, filled the rest of the sprayer with water and walked the yard.

I'm terrible working on my lawn. Aerated last year and applied some winterguard to get a better start in spring. Unfortunately haven't had the time and got injured so I can't lift more than a lb for next 2 months. Lawn still hard compacted, weeds everywhere, grass dying, tons of holes, got a long way to go.

Thumbs and subs because you told me the info I literally couldn’t find anywhere else!

I never want to look at soil again.. last fall I did a reno since I moved into a house with terrible soil and clumping fescue. I scarified multiple times, pulled up construction trash, raked up rocks, core aerated, and moved in / leveled 15 yards of top soil manually. When I did my soil test this year, it was like a knife going into butter! Unfortunately now I need to go around and fix up spots that had erosion with no grass, along with areas that have a million pea sized rocks. I was running out of time last year and did not have a good way to pick up the smaller rocks.. so I just buried them as best as I could under the new soil. But then it was all dug up when my irrigation system was installed.. leaving the rocks on top and no grass growing in the areas. There's no more room to add anymore top soil either :(

great video. thanks man! Keep up the great work!

Great vid! It's a little too late for me to plant grass in our new home here in California so I'm prepping our compacted dirt in the backyard in the meantime. So I'm tilling and cultivating the ground to break it all up. Any tips on keeping the soil healthy while i wait for september to plant the seeds?

Good stuff! This TN clay kinda sucks here too. Aerate, compost, and sand!

Thank you!

Good info thanks

Great content Chuck! Any thoughts of using sand instead of compost? Seems that it’s not as dense as compost?

OK OK OK...after watching a few videos I have subscribed... great info awesome content and the best part is at the end " God bless "

My backyard is a compacted mess from vehicles (we recently renovated). I’m going to have to hire a core aerator machine.

you need John and Bob's Smart soil solution (Penetrate with a pump sprayer at least 4 to 5 application for 5 weeks.

Hey Chuck, any opinion on a spike aerator vs core aerator? I have a handheld spike but wondering if while the hole is being made, the dirt is being pushed out around the spike, further compacting. Great video.

Thanks Chuck. Could I follow this same process when planting grass in the fall?

You left off in-laws not knowing how to park in a driveway.

My lawn clogs the Corona tubes instead of purging out the previous dirt each time. I had to stop and manually unclog. I ended up having to hammer down the step and bent it. I don't know what to do with my lawn I ddnt get to far and my soil is still super hard. My 1rst attempt was just seed over and top soil My 2nd attempt I rototilled, seeded, topsoiled. 3rd attempt I raked in seeds and topsoiled. My seeds start to take, but even with good nutrient soil it still dies off and overcomes with weeds in the end Maybe getting a machine operated aerator may be the way to go?

What’s the best thing to fill the aerated holes with ,I am in north texas and my soil is clay and has poor drainage ,I want to improve it over time

Compaction cures let the soil breathe.

Cow manure can sometimes burn your lawn if not completley composted. i use chicken poop.lol on my lawn.

Isn't the compacted soil around the driveway good to keep the driveway from shifting and cracking over time?

3:49 I’m awesome 😎

My aerator I just bought doesn't penetrate and half inch, pick ax?

Thank you so much for this helpful video. Would you also add fertilizer to new pieces of sod that aren’t taking root due to the hard soil? Some areas of my new sod (installed 6 weeks ago) are easily lifted up due to the roots not taking. And the ground is very hard in those areas. I have heard that you should not add fertilizer to new / stressed sod so I just wanted to be sure. Thanks again! (New subscriber here. 🙂)

Can u tell me if I top dress, do I need to re seed over it? Ty! I have a seeded lawn!

Thanks for sharing, I have some compaction areas, can I do it during summer? Or shall I wait to fall or next spring?

What are the cords? It would be nice if you explained for newbies. My first home ever and my lawn is a nightmare. I put week killer on weeds and killed My beautiful lawn and it won’t grow back because my dirt is like concrete now.

15 cores per square foot isnt that going to end up beingg something like caring the whole square foot?😭😂 thank you for your video i have a tool that is similar but im not sure if it will be sufficient. Instead of 2 open cylinders to punch holes, my tool head is a fabrication of 4 metal "blades" that are bent downward and slice the ground open . wanted to ask you for your opinion

I have one question ( what happen if soil is not compacted .

Great video! I just sprayed liquid dethatcher on my dry land areas and because of compacted soil. Do you recommend I use Black Kow too or wait and see how the dethatcher works?

really like your chennel. funny dude!

Watching this from Crossville! Lol

Those look like Georgia homes.

The key to this problem is in construction and failing that afterthought . There is one simple tool used in construction or remedy of this problem , its name is BLEK 👍

what type of fertilizer is it that you use? God bless!

can you fix bare soil that is dusty and erosion ?

Question. I started my very first DIY lawn fix after a bunch of grass died last season from our dogs trampling it. I learned too late into the project that it died because of compaction and that I needed to aerate, so I went through and pulled plugs where grass still wasn't growing. It's now been established and been mowed several times but I notice it still grows slower. Am I safe to take a core aerator machine through the area or is the grass too young still to put it through that stress? Started this project in April, I'd say by late June/Early July it was fully established.

I have the weakest areas along the driveway just as you showed. Do you think I need to till up as there are a lot of rocks or would this process still work on top of the rocks? And is new seed necessary or no?

i bought one of these aerators and it wont go into my soil. its way too compacted. any other advice?

What fertilizer did you use?

You need to introduce that soil to the BBC😂

Hey started following a little while ago. I’m local to you. Let me know if you’d ever wanna go in on products together-Scott

its not the size that counts😭😭

My wife says I'm good at sliding it in and out... :/

IMO that corona aerator is a piece of crap. The plugs clog all the time and for a bigger job you’ll be ripping your hair out. Buy an aerator that has a slit at the top that forces the plugs out. Worth every cent. Humic acid also helps soil aggregate. Definitely a game changer

I see all the scientists have made it to the comment section 🤔

this tool wont even go through my soil :-/

Compost is good but it doesn't last forever , compost plus humichar plus sand plus organic fertilizer and now your talking