We’ve gotten diddly squat here in East Tennessee. It has been quite frustrating trying to establish a new lawn these past 10 months or so. After seeding last fall we didn’t get rain for at least a month and now this summer has been ridiculous. I’ll be surprised if I have any fescue left at all by the end of this.

I would say that getting rain catch barrels at your gutter downspout might help with having extra water in these dry times

Hey Mr.Ferguson, where did you get the SolarGreen you are using? I'm having a super hard time finding it

The pH difference is actually significant

I’m sure the death dormancy has to do with the salt of the fertilizer that you used. Do you think so? Yes it’s due to no water, but most fertilizers have some form of salt within the compound. Agreed?

Have you thought about rain barrels for your downspouts, for using for watering the lawn? Love your videos

I get it. watering is expensive. you might want to skip a round of golf just to keep it alive.

Bad thing is Ive got it greened up again , hydratain and watered 1x past 10 days , but that common bermuda is on fire!! its gotta go!!

Killing it all this week!!! So much Bermuda invaders, its senseless to fight off. I need to level a few areas anyway...Cheaper to start over than fight that creeping, crawling Devil-grass!! I WILL PREVAIL & RETURN STRONGER 💪GL to the rest of you!!

Yeah it is not good. Pete got an order from me the other day preparing for how much I am going to be overseeding this fall. I lost 2 large areas because I didn't water due to not wanting a huge water bill. Oh well it is just grass the worst thing is I got to put more seed down this fall.

Relax, it's just grass. It's a COOl Season grass. It's not only the water it's the temperature. Some thoughts: Stay off of the grass. Don't water it. Watering might bring it of of dormancy but, if you can't really pour on the water that's very hard on the grass. Dormancy is a natural protective measure. If you don't get about.10 "" every two weeks you can hand water JUST TO KEEP THE CROWNS ALIVE. You don't need much to save them. ( It's now the sea k and Hydratien(sp) will work their magic!)You can use your hose end sprayer with a penetrate, you can use Dawn dish soap, the one with the duck (no anti-bacterial) at 2 oz per 1000 sqft. Do it early in the AM. Being a golfer watch how the greenkeepers syringe the greens when its +90. Just keeping the crowns alive. Don't over water remember it's about keeping the crowns alive. When the fall comes you'll find out the benefit of all of the work you did ahead of time. I spend 9 months getting the lawn ready for 3 months of summer. and other than hating that brown, the lawn comes right back and it's KBG! Don't get it to turn green! Better than even money with all of the work you did it will come back strong. DON"T USE ANY WEED KILLER. You can get them later. Just let it sleep!!! BTW we went 30+DAYS WITH NO RAIN and 95+ temps for 10 days straight. Even the tomatoes dropped their blossoms and fruit in spite water and mulch. ( Gettysburg PA) Thought about rain barrels?

Bermuda ftw😂

That looks dead to me. I’m not a fescue guy, but I am in NC with st Aug and centipede in back. It struggles in the dry spells but my little irrigation at times helps. I’m only dormant from dec- feb on average. I’m ok with that because it gives me time off from the lawn. Good luck greening up. Should get good rains starting Thursday

Honestly sad to see.. I’m sorry to see all your hard work turn brown 😢 I hope most of it comes back starting September! Luckily our irrigation is pretty cheap or else everything would be dead, we’ve had a total of 1.2 inches of rain since March here in Tri Cities Washington.

I have a Tall fescue lawn i planted last fall (Barenburg water saver with RTF) and my front yard is doing great conpared to my back yard. The difference is i keep my front yard watered. I dont have irrigation so i use one aimpulse sprayer. I know they say your suppose to water your yard in the mornings but since this drout started i have been watering my lawn in the evening between 3:30 and dark. I consentrate on one section a day and do a deep watering one area per day, and my grass has flourished. I am using propaconazole and azoxystrobin to combat any fungus and so far i have no fungus. I live on the maryland eastern shore and we havent gotten any good rain in Over 6 weeks and its been terribly hot and humid. I wish i could post some pictures of my evening watered yard. It looks amazing compared to my back yard and neihbors yards that hasnt recieved any water i have the greenest (front) lawn on the block. And the only tall fescue lawn on my street. My semi watered tall fescue is doing waayyyy better then their burmuda right now. I do have some bermuda popping up now the prodiamine has worn off. I will be killing that off with Fusilade in august. FYI, if my math is right , you can save you alot of $$. You can make 14.5- 32 ounce bottles of ornemac 170 (@ 40-60 bucks per bottle) with one 32 ounce bottle of fusilade II for 89.00. And you can make 3.5 -32 ounce bottles of ornemac over the top with one 32 ounce bottle of fusulade II which has 24.5% of the same active ingredient vs ornemac 170 has 1.7% and ornemac over the top has 6.75% active ingredient.

I did green shoots yesterday!! First time use so I am excited to see the results. I am battling some sort of vine taking over our woods and saw Pete use the green shoots on what looked like the same vine in his trees.

I think id at least dethatch to let water get to soil. Follow up with iron & hydratain/rgs mix weekly

For what it's worth I'm thoroughly enjoying this experiment 😂 i have a fescue lawn too and dealing with 110 degree days. Mine is looking rough too but luckily i have a very small lawn so I'm keeping it alive

I live in Texas with Artimuss TTTF I have to let the lawn go dormant. Doesn't matter how much water the lawn gets its the heat that forces the turf to go dormant. I water just enough to keep the crows and roots wet.

It's a struggle with global warming (heat/drought) in my area, NE Florida. HOA is on my butt for dead grass. City says were only allowed to water 2 times a week. It is time for the HOA in my region to approve front lawns that look like front lawns in Arizona.

At least if it doesn't bounce back you'll love the new GCI seed.

Stop cutting in this heat

I know this may sound a little crazy, but have you ever thought about watering when it’s raining to add more water to the grass. Don’t know if this would even help purely a guess. It probably doesn’t matter with how hot it is there they’ll just all evaporate anyhow!!! are your soils more clay-based?

The total "event" as my weather center captures it, was .23 of an inch. That's a decent recovery for that little. We have decent chances every afternoon this week, which should tell us what is truly dead vs. dormant.

Man youre neighborhood is getting so unlucky, rain all around you smh!

Mr F.....it might be to late but what I have done this yr is run 10 min cycle every morning. My lawn is surviving and my checking account is too......just a thought for next yr.

I’m in nh the weather is the same as yours and my lawn looks like yours .looked great in spring.same problem with water do I eat or water the lawn

You need a water sprinkler system

We've been long overdue for a drought for a while. This is not global warming!!! It is called weather, and it changes the way God wants it to!!!!!!!! Just need to plan better for next year and stock up. Glad I have plenty of seed and bios saved up. Tenacity working great on that underlying wiregrass I've been dealing with.....Putting down about an inch a week, but yeah, I'm not going to go broke either! Just trying to survive what I can..

We got some rain Friday right after i through down some freedom fert. I received my first sumer water bill only 137.00. Hopefully i can keep it at that each month.

Are you able to collect rain water in your city? Maybe this would help out a bit.

That's impressive how much color came back to your lawn. I was looking at the forecast looks like greater chance of getting some rain this week. Any way thanks for the update.

Hope you get some more good rain soon!! I’m sure a lot will come back. We got close to 2 inches here in Archdale yesterday!!

Don't worry - it will come back. Just get water on it at least 1x a week to keep the crown from dying

What time of the day are you watering? It just hit me that in the videos that youre watering in its the hottest part of the day. Ideally i try to water at 5 am. I notice if i water in the hottest part of the day it basically evaporates more than soaking in. Especially with the type of sprinklers youre using. The style that i would suggest is the impact style (shhhh-tik-tik-tik 🤷 dont know how else to describe them lol) it forces the water into the ground better than the fan style. The fan style is superior in seeding times because it wont move the seed.

Your lawn looks amazing! Good job. The change up in my lawn came when I started using Flagship and RGS. The growth and greecoloring is amazing. My St Aug is like a thick carpet. Its amazing. Going to do that magic combo again in about a month. Love your vids and learning along with u.

Has anyone tried the fireball/hatrick perineal ryegrass? If so what did you like or not like about it? I’m planning to overseed with it late this August

Was ARTIMUSS in the line up? A 4 way blend with the top scoring cultivars (no fillers) in one 50lb bag no 40 or 45lbs.. 0% weed seed and 0% crop seeds..

Have you planted gci cool blue next to black beauty ultra? I’m using black beauty now looking to over seed with cool blue. My goal is to have the darkest green what’s your thoughts

I've used Talstar P for several year's now and it's a great product. I used it mostly around the perimeter of our home, on bushes, landscape areas, foundation. It controls mosquitoes, spider's, various bugs from entering the home. Thanks! John.

How do you know and calculate how much water to add to the Urea? Thanks

Water it

Since I have summer patch which is root borne fungus I don’t use a adjuvant. Needs to get down to root zone

Have you planted cool blue next to Johnathan green? I’m looking for the darkest tttf I can find. I’m using black beauty ultra now thinking about over seeding with cool blue this fall what’s your thoughts?

JG is one of the best. The only thing I don’t like is I noticed after overseeding with it I did get some weird species of other grasses popping up in my lawn which I had to dig out or use non-selective herbicide on.

Nice change of content to get us looking ahead. I’ve been transitioning to Jonathan Green shade fescue over last 2 seasons. I think it has really helped. But I think I may have one section that needs a sun/shade mix to weather the summer a bit better. I plan on using my Sun Joe over entire lawn and a couple sections of rototill to just start fresh. The plan is taking shape. Happy Fourth!🇺🇸

Your yard looks nice

Jesse lawn life hatrick fireball grass seed. Tried gci turf seed. Mvs seed Ntep trials as part of my golf course superintendents career working on pga championship and us open championship courses. Ive been able to work with turf plots for bentgrass for all cool season and warm season lawns. Mr Ferguson great call!!!! Ppl overlook Jonathan green products. Ive had good luck with my dads back yard shaded area

Got my GCi spreader elite going to give it a try this year. Done the regular TTTF last year done pretty good. Can’t wait till fall!!