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Today we're bringing the height of the cut down on the lawn from 20 mil to 15 mil.
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Aaaah - so welcome back guys I need to hold my hands up to something I did in last week's video. I made
a mistake we did about How to Green up your Lawn an easy way to green up your lawn.
I didn't put on enough fertiliser, I was using a product that that was the first time I'd used it, and I went on a
lower rate. I could have used a bit more. it should have been a bit greener than it is now, it doesn't look
too bad but it should have been a bit greener so I just wanted to clear that up.
So the lawn from a distance does look lovely and green, and there is a really nice color in the lawn.
However, if I'd put on a stronger dose of nitrogen I think it would have been on top of the red thread that's
in the lawn I would rather err on the side of caution - you're better putting on less fertilizer
and then you have to put on more especially with a new product - so there you go guys, we all make mistakes!
All right guys - so I've talked about this before, the easiest
way to measure the height of the cut of your lawn, is actually just to take a
tape measure and drop it into the lawn so we have a normal tape measure . . . .
All right guys - so we've had a quick check with the the tape measure,
we can also check, we'll be checking the mower, and I'll be showing you that
now, and we're going to be lowering the height of cut on the cylinder mower.
So you can see there, it's cut at 20 mil, we've been cutting the lawn at 20 mil
pretty much all all spring now we're going to drop it down to
we're going to try 15 see what that looks like - so let's do that now.
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Sleepered edges around the lawn really good because you can run the mower right up to the edge. Now
the only downside is, these sleepers have been in for about 20 years, they're pretty tired.
There's a couple of places where they're maybe sitting up a bit, and as we drop the height down and
wanting to get the mower right to the edge of the lawn, we're going to do a wee bit of work and see
if we can get rid of any knots that are sitting up or any high bits - so i'm gonna show you that now.
So we have this edge here - now if you hit the cylinder mower on this edge,you risk damaging the
blade or best you're gonna knock the cut off or at worst you're gonna damage it so
I have a couple of tools here, we're going to see how we're going to take this down.
All right guys - so we have a few saws here to see what's going to work.
I think this one might be a bit big.
Probably not. Angle grinder, well no blade so that's not gonna work - ah - this is what we want!
So you can see there with that level, sitting pretty high there so
if the mower hits that it's going to do a lot of damage to it so we'll see if we can take that off with the . . .
Right guys - so we have this cut down, really happy with how they they all finished not too
much danger of the lawn mower hitting them - so let's get the mower and start cutting some grass.
All right guys - so one cut done. Must say I'm really happy with it, I had sort of, I was scared
maybe there wasn't enough fertiliser down, but we do have a really nice colour in it the grass has
responded really well to getting dropped down in height - so we're going to do the second cut now.
All right guys - as you can see the lawn's coming on really well and I must say I'm
I'm absolutely blown away with how well the lawns looking!
If you wanted a DIY project like this, you could do this yourself for about 1500 pounds.
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