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Install Straw Blankets and Secure with Staples

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POND week FINALE day6 !

What happens here

Stan and his team begin installing the double-sided straw blankets on the slope. The blankets are unrolled and laid across the bare soil. Stan demonstrates the blanket's construction, showing the woven straw encased in a fine netting. He explains that each blanket must be secured with sod staples every 3 square feet to prevent it from washing away during rain. He emphasizes that just placing the blanket doesn't count; it must be thoroughly stapled to be effective.

Goal: Cover the slope with straw blankets and firmly secure them to the soil.

Tools and materials

  • Double-Sided Straw Blanket — Covering the slope for erosion control
  • Hammer — Driving sod staples into the ground
  • Sod Staples — Securing the straw blankets to the ground

What they say

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guys let's take a quick peek at what this is and what makes it work so well so this is a double-sided straw blanket and it's got straw inter oven and then you can see it's got this fine netting and what that does perfect for seating especially you have to staple this to the soil and it creates that bedding environment retains the moisture and allows the plants to just start to pop underneath it versus and it controls erosion so this whole thing doesn't just get laid in now I've got to go through and zing zing zing zing zing zing staple it in so that it's secure to the slope but it really helps it's not a per it's not a guarantee that it'll stop erosion but it does help out a lot I add some up there some there then we can start the plantings just putting it in place don't count it's got to be stapled and this is called a sod staple it's meant to staple sod to the ground when you're putting sod on slopes or you need to put sod for some other reason but this stuff needs to be stapled everything 3 Square ft or tighter or it just don't count the first rain you got is going to wash it down some of you guys may be asking is it better to lay it this way or this way it's better to lay it this way I got lazy and I did it this way you can do it this way requires more of these things okay so we're doing the pl plantings through the quick grass surface as blanket or straw blanket um and it's okay to put the dirt on top in this situation now every Situation's going to vary but in my yard I want the dirt on top that's going to help staple and get this straw blank blanket to incorporate right back in and yeah when it rains and it's going to pour rain tonight it's going to wash some of this stuff down but it's going to wash the dirt through and into the straw matting it's going to incorporate

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