Do Liquid Dethatchers work? LAWN Thatch Reduction in ONE EASY STEP.

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11 ай бұрын

Do you have lots of thatching your lawn, sometimes you need to get a mechanical dethatcher other times, doing what I do here in this video is all you need to reduce the thatch in your lawn this summer.
30 days ago I Applied Liquid D-Thatch from Greene County Fertilizer Company. In this video I will show you the difference it made not only to the overall health of the turf but also to the reduction in the debris in the health of the root system.
When your lawn thatch is very thick, water is reduced, root systems begin to shrink, and nutrients are less accessible. Often times this can lead to disease and stress in the lawn. Regular applications of a liquid DeThatching agent will help keep many of these problems at bay.
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@TheMrwright1 11 ай бұрын

Please keep talking about and using your own products. I love these prove it over time videos.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

@joshuaorr9566 11 ай бұрын

I am a fan of Dethatch for my St. Augustine lawn…definitely works and performs magic!

@user-uz4xy4lh5k 11 ай бұрын

Used dethatch for the first time 6 weeks ago hope I see a different result from years past after I run my machine over it. Excited

@TheLawngestYard 11 ай бұрын

Great Comparison. I always wonder if it is actually working or if it's just making me feel better. Great Video

@Aerialphotovito 11 ай бұрын

Great comparison JP - I use De-thatch too bi-monthly I believe it helps

@trevormuggeridge4560 11 ай бұрын

First Aussie 😁. John, it works , whichever way , another great video, I appreciate the time and effort you put into videotaping your content and editing. 😎

@goathead821 11 ай бұрын

Awesome video John. As always wish I could get in Canada. Might brew up something

@josephrottina1901 11 ай бұрын

Great product big John.👍🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸

@jasonvortherms1167 Ай бұрын

Love your videos keep up the great work

@RioTheHitman 11 ай бұрын

Good work great comparison

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

Thank you

@pkiknex 11 ай бұрын

I enjoy these little experiments and that your products do result in higher quality turf and soil. The results (and variety of ways you showed them) speak for themselves! Regarding the last question though, I think it could be answered by adding a Humic12 plot if you were to repeat the test. That could shed light on if it was the D-thatch breaking down thatch and clippings, or just the humic in it creating a better decomposition environment.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

That’s a great point

@Shunya0101 11 ай бұрын

Awesome experiment. This video inspired me to spray D-thatch, Humic-12 and Air-8 after watching. I’m in uncharted territory with my yard looking so good in July. Using all GC ferts and bio stims. Thank you.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

I’ve got to get that neglected main portion of my lawn caught back up

@marcemarc6516 11 ай бұрын

I’m located in the northeast, the biostims (especially the RGS) let’s my Kentucky bluegrass roll through the summer without any issue. Without I’m constantly watering and fighting to keep it from going dormant but with the biostims the lawn just stays green. I’m not one to say you need this and that to have a nice lawn but I will say it’s has made a such a different in the summer. I basically have the only green lawn on my block

@brandonhyden9454 11 ай бұрын

I’m going to try some of dethatch this fall.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

Warm temps help

@daflea66 11 ай бұрын

I used dthatch at two personal properties and there's a difference for sure in the building of material. Subjective observations, but i practice what i call summerbaggin. I mulch and discharge lush spring valuable growth, and when the heat wave hits i bag the more useless lethargic and dryer out material. I collect less than before dthatch and the periods triggering summerbag are longer save more frequent the past two years also

@mwoody1958 11 ай бұрын

Once we hit the 90’s I usually get out 3-4 applications of Dethatch per season. I believe it chews thatch, improves the soil and also gives a nice little pop of green. I say let the haters hate.

@fusfea 11 ай бұрын

I think all your products make the turf healthier... im in NC and never used detach yet. But I did just buy a 2.5 gal jug of it and I bought Pete's injection system that im going to try with all the biostems. That sunjoe your useing is that battery operated. I've only seen corded versions so far.

@jimmied2838 11 ай бұрын

I have a few planted aquariums and beneficial bacteria plays a huge part in breaking down waste. I know that yeast is used to grow certain types on bacteria so it could be that the yeast helps to multiply the bacteria that break down dead vegetation and the waste from the bacteria is beneficial to the grass

@dj-dg2wx 11 ай бұрын

I love the experiments!! I’m on board w RGS and now Air8. Looks like d-thatch is next!! I had a soil test consult w you this Spring. My turf rehab program is in full swing. Update coming to you soon. Thank you. Thank you. ❤❤

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

awesome!

@dj-dg2wx 11 ай бұрын

@lawncology I have a question. Is there a soil core tool you like? I want to buy one of the testers for a 1” or so diameter core. Hate to just start ordering what I see online I’m sure some tools are better than others. Have a recommendation? Thanks-

@viccou 2 ай бұрын

Sorry buddy, everything else works but the Air-8. That does not work, plenty of studies on liquid aeration suggesting that it doesn't. Stick with mechanically aeration for better results

@charlesmitchell9647 11 ай бұрын

How about BOTH. With everything you are doing to the lawn it is just a great looking healthy grass.

@josepheckonen6910 11 ай бұрын

Hey John. Speaking of testimonies of proof being in the pudding, I wanted to share something. I never treated my side yard or the side area next to the cars. So last year after I ordered your biostims, I decided to just haphazardly put a little down in those areas at the same time I treated my showcase area out front. Again, I really wasn't looking for any results. And really didn't care. I just wanted to get some Into the soil for no other reason than, just because. Well little by little, those areas started improving dramatically and fast. A year later, which is this year, those areas are looking showcase now..just in one year and not even really trying to improve those areas, the liquid N-Ext bio-stims and ferts have totally turned those areas around fast. So now I treat them the exact same way I treat the front yard and I'm even watering those areas regularly too. Why, because after seeing the results of what the NExt products did to those areas, there's no way I'm gonna let them get crappy. So I just wanted to share that with you especially since this video is about testing a product. They truly work if you work them in. And they work fast. Thanks for your products and teaching videos.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

That’s an awesome story. Thank you so much!

@johns1646 11 ай бұрын

Is there a benefit to letting the d-thatch spray sit on the lawn and let the rain eventually push it in? Or always water in after applying (thinking battery sprayer instead of hose in here)? I can see both arguments

@thomasmeagher4801 11 ай бұрын

John, who would dare doubt what you do for us.....😂been using your products for 3 seasons now and my lawns night and day from where it was......I'm happy with my results always gonna be doubters tho

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, it’s ok. There’s plenty of data on liquid dethatchers. I’ve been holding one very cool study back

@lawncaredave4492 11 ай бұрын

I see what you did at the end...😆

@SingleStacked 11 ай бұрын

It's recommended to use multiple apps of D-Thatch a few weeks apart. It has helped my St.Augustine since I can't use mechanical de-thatching.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

Bad situations require a heavy hand

@tdougiefresh1506 11 ай бұрын

Like Ron Henry says put down as much as your wallet can handle

@Ryush806 11 ай бұрын

Had a lot of die off over the winter in my St Aug so I got The Groundskeeper II rake and went to town on it. Pulled out a LOT of debris. Not as good as a real detach and lots of manual labor but totally worth it if you have some excess thatch in the St Aug.

@TofuInc 11 ай бұрын

I know for a fact some dethatch products work. I've used them for years to start compost. The pile can sit there a week being watered and do very little. Then I'll spray it with Thatch Buster and it comes to life within 24 hours. The N-Ext D Thatch only mentions sugar and yeast no microbes. Is it just counting on the yeast activity to heat up the thatch layer and the sugar feeding whatever microbes are there? If you're putting down some form of sugar to feed microbes and kelp containing cytokinins you going to have a healthier lawn. No doubt about that.

@blankman6626 11 ай бұрын

Great video. Thank for your hard work.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@BermudaBrian 11 ай бұрын

#1. Man, that core comparison is awesome! 2nd, what are your thoughts of stand alone molasses vs D-thatch. Finally and totally different product. Last September I wanted to finish off all my products and start new. I decided to put out 3/4 of a jug of RGS on 4k sq ft. My Bermuda lawn stayed greener than anyone else's lawn in my neighborhood. Would the RGS have had anything to do with that? Thanks!

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

A friend of mine did a multi year study on molasses on golf greens, it was published a couple years ago. Molasses reduced thatch more than any of their treatment

@johnbiggins2105 11 ай бұрын

Blackstrap Molasses. It's cheap and it comes in big bottles

@johnjrkean7008 11 ай бұрын

The only next product I havent bought is D thatch I'm gonna get me some for next year definitely.......also a bit off topic but I'm going to apply floragreen to a sick tree my wife loves do u think micro green would be pointless to add or does it absorb foliar as well??? Thanks again my man 🇺🇸🇺🇸🤘🏻🤙🏼

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

It will work but a little N would help

@johnjrkean7008 11 ай бұрын

@@Lawncology thank u very much cant tell u how much ur knowledge is appreciated God Bless my man

@jefferysantos8392 11 ай бұрын

John, still waiting on my soil test analysis. My order # is 1618LGY.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

I’ll find that. And shoot you a video tomorrow

@johnfetter3252 11 ай бұрын

How about those roots John Perry 😂

@kennyjohn3774 11 ай бұрын

At 9:50...mic drop.🎤😂 Bottom line... GCF and their biostems make the soil/roots SO much healthier. My turf care customer's roots are full of longer roots and the hairy rhizomes are crazy thick. And these are in clay soils.

@stevenbanks4411 11 ай бұрын

Does this product need to be watered in if using a backpack sprayer?

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

Yes

@CoryLancasterYT 11 ай бұрын

Uh oh! Here come the Dethatch Wars 2.0!

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

There was a war? How come nobody told me

@CoryLancasterYT 11 ай бұрын

@@Lawncology great results BTW!

@steffen707- 11 ай бұрын

So is adding unsulfured blackstrapMolases to my dethatch spray a waste?

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

Molasses has so many benefits. There’s no harm and it will enhance effects

@steffen707- 11 ай бұрын

And it smells nice

@steffen707- 11 ай бұрын

@@Lawncology what about adding a gallon of 1% milk to the solution? Old wives tale, new wives tale, or Wisconsinites will make all sorts of excuses to consume milk?

@cretene1 2 ай бұрын

sadly in ireland this wont work , too cold temps

@HangryPandaMike 11 ай бұрын

What hose were you using and so you like it?

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

Flexzilla

@HangryPandaMike 11 ай бұрын

@@Lawncology cool. Thanks. Great video btw.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

@@HangryPandaMike thank you!

@mfrns01 11 ай бұрын

So what do you recommend?

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

If you have a real bad problem, use a mechanical dethatcher/power rake. Otherwise. Use d-thatch from GCFC

@disinvited 11 ай бұрын

Im confused did he say he added RGS to that plot as well...or was that just mispoken and a mistake. Surely putting RGS down as well will contribute to Root Growth...at least i hope or i am getting ripped off by buying it 😅

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

Yes I put it through the area not treated with dethatch about 5 days ago. I ran that section with rgs.

@ColeSpolaric 11 ай бұрын

If you had to choose only one biostim, which one would it be?

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

That’s tough. RGS has always been my goto

@Striperman 11 ай бұрын

One 4 pack lol

@ColeSpolaric 11 ай бұрын

@@Striperman hey now... What's the fun in that 😆

@Striperman 11 ай бұрын

@@ColeSpolaric 🤷

@monkeyslawncareandgardenin473 11 ай бұрын

No doubt healthier!

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

For sure

@atbashmusic1 Ай бұрын

I'm sorry I was more confused after this video. Did the liquid dethatch work or not?

@Lawncology Ай бұрын

Yes. The most obvious points are when material was being pulled

@tedaut 11 ай бұрын

The turf samples look the same between d thatch and nothing applied.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

I’d say you’re right if you threw out color, root density, turf density and actual measurements. To be fair, this isn’t a real test, it’s purely a visual experiment. There’s isn’t a thatch problem on the turf, treated or not. If there were, we likely would have seen something greater and I would have followed the protocols for problematic thatch reduction. It’s a lawn. Not a lab

@lawncaredave4492 11 ай бұрын

Too funny John.

@tedaut 11 ай бұрын

@@Lawncology meh. You sell products so you are going to be bias and say your brown water is magic. You can't fool me JP. I'm not drinking the Kool aid from the cult of lawncology.

@reallmccoy9043 11 ай бұрын

you used to tell people to use dthatch in summer heat. Are you changing your tune? Also you should tell people it has an expiration date.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

May 31- July. Hot.

@scottgieringer8589 11 ай бұрын

Sorry so late life gets in the way of my video time. How's it going jp

@johngrinnell 11 ай бұрын

Can you just put it down with a backpack sprayer?

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

Yes

@milanjurich1526 11 ай бұрын

Where’s the cup?

@ecotangokeithfugittrkkf733 11 ай бұрын

Hmm

@DaddingAllDay 11 ай бұрын

Healthier grass... I think that's all that matters.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

That’s what it’s all about. Stronger, more disease and stress resistant with deeper color. That’s it.

@LawnNOrder 11 ай бұрын

Proof is in the pudding. Hard to deny those results unless your from Venus😂

@rickscheiba1338 9 ай бұрын

What did he say !!

@untouchablejay6536 11 ай бұрын

Mic drop..

@dennispage5333 11 ай бұрын

WARNING, WARNING, using these products will make you raise your sprinklers. Ask me how I know. Green County Ferts work.

@GrassGawd 11 ай бұрын

Maybe it's me, but the difference wasn't that impressive.

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

One app. The fact that you can see a difference whether it impresses you or not means it’s working.

@richardsmith1161 11 ай бұрын

John Perry>Matt Martin

@kevinsolomita672 11 ай бұрын

That product is bs

@Lawncology 11 ай бұрын

No it’s not organic, but there’s bs in it

@kevinsolomita672 11 ай бұрын

@@Lawncology lmao