Andy Robinson, The Landscape Renovator explains how to properly prepare your old lawn for fresh sod. For more landscaping tips visit www.thelandscaperenovator.com

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Andy: You live here 12 years and… Bob Six. Andy: Okay, so called 6 years Bob and you let your neighbors looked at this, with this lawn you called grass. Bob: It use to be worst. Andy: Hi! I’m Andy Robinson, the Landscape Renovator and we are back at Bob’s house. Okay now, the first thing we’re going to do to come in here, or the next thing we’re doing after our design after we got our initial pruning stuff done is to go in here and kill the weeds. According to Bob he has grass out there, but there is not a blade of grass on his property. I don’t know Bob, 12 years you lived here and you think there is grass out here, I don’t know what you are thinking. Bob: Six years. Andy: Right, whatever. There’s a lot of product in the market to use. We are using glyphosate, it is a chemical in round up. Okay, what we are going to do is to spread it in a none windy day because it’s very volatile and you don’t want to be killing your neighbors grass as well as your grass, as Bob would say grass…weeds. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to go ahead and spray it, we’ll wait a week and make sure it’s all dead. Then we we’ll go on ahead and strip it. This very, very boring. Chemical company say that you want to wait at least a week before you go ahead and put some grass down after you sprayed any kind of chemicals round up or weed killers in your lawn. Now this is fully applied, it means that it is absorbed to the foliage of the plant and not to the root systems. So basically when it hits the ground, it’s kind of inactivate. But we still want to make sure, that with any kind of residue down, we don’t going to put down our new turf, our new plants on whatever is out there. They say it’s about a week before it breaks down. Bob: Don’t spray it on my camera. I don’t want my camera to die.