What about you! This is one of my favorite times of the year, March,
it's time to wake the lawn up and get started. Today I'm going to show you a really cheap
effective fertilizer so it's going to green up the lawn and it's going to help control any of
the weeds in the lawn. Before we begin we're going to have to get the grass cut. Let's do that now.
You can see we're halfway, surprising how much grass is
coming up because it's been so mild this spring .
go over with the grass cut let's go up to the workshop and have a chat about the fertilizer
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Welcome into the workshop. The fertilizer that we're going to be using today is called "lawn sand".
I recommend lawn sand every March, because it does an amazing job, does three things, it kills
the moss, it cleans up your lawn, it just gets your lawn growing - and plus the biggest reason is it's
cheap! Now long term if you're looking at different manufacturers, sometimes they're slightly different
but lawn sand is lawn sand. What they mean by that sometimes there's a little bit more of one product
than the other but they all do essentially the same thing, come on we'll have a look at it now.
This is the lawn sand here, but just to take it out to have a look at it?
Before we go out and put the lawn sand onto the lawn I thought it'll
be important for us to have a chat about what's in lawn sand and how it works.
Lawn stand is really good. It's a very basic fertilizer, our number one element is sand.
The sand is just a carrier and it helps the other two products get onto the lawn, otherwise it would
just tend to blow away. The second product in lawn sand is called sulfate of ammonia, the sulfate of
ammonia is really good as it's going to make the lawn green. Sulfate of ammonia is just if you think
about NPK, it's the air that's nitrogen it's just pure nitrogen and it's going to wake the lawn up
and get it growning. It's also going to knock the weeds back - so sulfate of ammonia is really really
good at controlling the weeds. Now it burns them, so it doesn't kill it down to the roots but it
burns them and you're not going to have weeds in your lawn for a while after you use the lawn sand.
The sulfate of iron does two things as well. It's extremely good at controlling the moss.
It does this by burning it, and it dehydrates it, it also helps the grass plant create the
chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is the pigment that helps make your grass turn green, so whenever
you put on lawn sand on your lawn initially goes black, and don't worry that
is totally natural. It goes black and whenever the blackness goes away it turns a lovely dark shade
of green. So look now we've got that out of the way let's go and put the lawn sand onto the lawn.
I'm going to leave an Affiliated Link down below where you can pick
up the long sand (for no extra cost to yourself).
I'm going to give you a little tip. Lawn sand will keep for years if stored properly, so with your bag
just push all the air out of it
and put a cable tape round it, and this will long time it'll last
you for years and years and years if you store it in a nice dry place somewhere
I've got the sprinkler out to give the lawn a quick watering. It's to be dry for the next
three or four days which is great unusual for this time of year so just watering the lawn sand in,
it's going to help make it work faster. Generally you don't need the water it in but you can
Another task. If there's any paving round where you've treated, always give it a blow or a brush
to remove the lawn sand, because it'll stain everything.. If you've enjoyed this Video and you
want to learn how to scarify your garden - watch this Video next and we'll see you over there now ............