okay in part three i'm gonna be finishing up my corridor here i got about five trays of um
plugs to do and um i'm gonna do something a little different this time with the plugs
i've seen somebody else on youtube they took a knife
and they took the plug
if i could get this really good okay here's your plug these aren't exactly the best plugs i got
today by the way and um they take like a knife and they basically score the bottom of the plug
this opens up the roots for more moisture content
so i'm going to give that a shot on a couple of them see what happens
um but okay i put down five trays i was missing i didn't have enough of four plugs in the back
but five did a pretty good job and i did tear at the bottoms of the um roots a little bit
by hand actually i didn't even use the the solid knife or whatever
but it looks pretty good i did put some of the dead plugs that i had i had about six that
were looking pretty bad and i put them at the end there to see what happens maybe they'll come back
um i think i hit him with round up by mistake when i i was spraying near them and the wind
was blowing and i think roundup got on him so i killed about six of them
but um some of them still have a little bit of life left in them it looks like
um i'll just pick another tray up i got a little spot here i hit some kind of um
concrete or some kind of material here i don't know what it is i'm gonna dig it up a little bit
or i would have filled this spot up too but now this whole side has been done it cost me about um
say eighty dollars for these plugs and don't forget they've only been in there not even
two weeks three weeks yet we did get some nice rain but um three weeks the first week it's in
shock so they aren't really doing anything you're getting some growth in the second week the third
week here we should start seeing more and then within a month it should be in pretty good shape
i'll keep you guys updated i also wanted to say that um i water these two or three times a day
for about 10 minutes and i don't even think that's enough because this this dirt here is pretty dry
if i was smart i would have conditioned the dirt a little bit before i plugged it but i don't think
that's gonna matter in the long run but as soon as i water this it it's almost like a paper towel
um that may cause a little bit slowing growth on this side this is floritan you could get like um
one of the um other types of st augustine i forget what it is winter gray or something like that i
don't know what it's called but um that doesn't require as much shade that could grow in shade
i mean um this can grow in any area that's not too shady it's pretty bright over here so um i'll give
you an update in about two weeks probably the front the front line that i did first is doing
really well and then the second line is i did a couple days later and that's taken a little longer
but um i put a lot back there they're really close so i expect that to fill them pretty quickly
and if you try to make your own plugs out of sod grass you know like take a saw to it or a cutter
it really doesn't work right um because you're basically cutting the root system off
when you're doing that these are actually stronger than actual sod that you roll out because
they have a root base already um so they're gonna be very strong grass over on this side
compared to if i just threw sod down the side would have cost me actually i found a cheap
place 500 for 500 square feet i thought that was a really good price and they install it
so if you have to go to a bigger area i would definitely go that way unless the cost savings
to you was worth it um this cost me about eighty dollars for this strip here um it would have cost
me home depot price three dollars assad you're talking a lot but that 500 for 500 square feet
deal where they install it that is not a bad deal but i would still i still enjoy doing the
plugging and i think it's a stronger grass in the end so that's all i have to say for now.
St Augustine grass plug install 3 Week progress Part 3