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Channel: Blades of Grass Lawn Care, LLC
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Hey good morning guys, I'm Johnny owner plays the grass lawn care if you had any questions about pine straw I
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Would attempt to give you the answers?
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Welcome to pine straw 101 with blades of grass lawn care and enjoy
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Okay, this is long needle pine straw
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and we call it long needle because
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see how long the needles are and
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typically long needle pine straw is
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Fresher is a light color pine straw, and it will last a lot longer than the average pine straw
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The average pine straw is the one that you will purchase at the Home Depot or the one that you purchase for real real cheap
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now
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The difference is that this will last longer and the other one is called slash
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slash is
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Okay, how can I say this is one that freshly?
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Dropped and it looks nice and pretty and slashes one has been sitting for a long time in the bottom
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And the scraps the scraps of the pine straw, and that would typically last
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Three to four months less than long needle pine straw now another question that I get is
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How often should I replenish my pine straw, and it's just like mulch hardwood mulch mulch
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It depends on the look that you want for your property
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I would suggest every six months you put a like top coat of pine straw to make no real nice for you
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another question that I get is
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How much area does a bale of pine straw cover a build up a straw?
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covers an average of a
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hundred to two hundred and fifty square feet again it depends on who you get it from and
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how
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Compact the bale gets packed
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okay, so there is no one specific answer now when it comes to slash again guys it depends on who you purchase it from and
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How much?
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Pine straw is compacted within that Bale
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All right, let me show you what a bale of pine straw looks like
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This is what it looks like
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And it always have
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Two pieces of twig wrapped around it and you just pull on this and we'll show you how it looks like
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When we're actually installing the pine straw
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Long needle pine straw is extremely more expensive because it lasts longer and everyone doesn't do long needle straw
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You know only a handful of people actually do long needle because it's more expensive
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We at blades of grass lawn care specialize in only long needle. That's it. We don't do
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/no long needle on average
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we install between 8,000 to 10,000 bales per year of
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Long needle pine straw because again guys you're only as good as what people know
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That you can do they do know we take a lot of pictures of our installation we show customers or bales
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Prior to actually installing it because we want to reassure them that they're getting the best
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pine straw all
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available
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another thing is I've
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Turned a lot of our bulk delivery back because you have to inspect your pine straw
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You know you get a lot of lonely upon straw from these guys and they have a lot of trash in it the goal is
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To minimize the amount of trash and sorry pine straw because again you're only as good as your installation
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We have guys we have companies and in locations and in residential customers that only
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Call us every six months or once a year for pasture installation
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We have a good working relationship with them because they know that we're gonna give them the best pine straw available everyone
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Have pine straw when you when you initially initially build your house
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That's what they put their put pine straw because it's inexpensive
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It's available and it gives it a good look now when we first installed
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It postural is usually nice and thick and fluffy and just keep in mind guys with time it
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Condensed down and it packs and it minimizes the amount of weeds that you are you find
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in your in your plant beds and
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This past raw comes from a farm. It doesn't come off the regular pine trees that pine straw is dirty
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It has a lot of leaves it has a lot of sticks cones this is
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Shifted and clean so we can get the best installation possible all right guys. Let's get hot
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Let's go to the installation. All right guys. Let me show you
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This pine straw has been here for roughly
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Six months
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So that's what it looks like you're gonna fill the beds
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And put straw all the way around
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They're in there
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And all the way around the bed
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All in here
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Here we're gonna try to just do a ban all the way around
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not too deep
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And in the back over here and over here
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And the nice thing about pine straw guys you can put it on top of the leaves and everything would decompose together
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And here we're gonna do probably just a front
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And over here
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All right so the first thing we'll do is put out the straw
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Every five to ten feet and see if we have enough nails
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All right, let's get hot
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All right guys now we have all the the bales stage
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And again, we stage them every five to ten feet
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And I'm not gonna go all the way around but yeah, that's where you stage them
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Part let's begin the process
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This is Quest putting down some straw
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Now always make sure that you put it underneath the plant underneath the shrub
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While you blowing you'll blow the straw off the top
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and
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You can also use a rake to rake off the straw. I'm gonna pop of the plant
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That stifles the top of the plant eventually it's gonna
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Go in between the flower plain or whatever, but it gives it a prettier parents now if you notice here
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He's putting it
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six or seven inches
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beyond the border
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Okay, six, or seven inches the border
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And what that is for is for when we're blowing we can blow it on there and tuck it and give it that nice
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pretty effect
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like this
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See
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So again when you start your strong and give it a six or seven inches like so
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Look here it is and here's the border all over here, so why are you tucking it? It's gonna look nice and pretty for you
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