What about you! Today I'm going to show you a step-by-step everything you need
to thicken up your lawn. Today we're going to be working on this small lawn. I'm going to show
you everything I do, and how we get a really thick lawn. Before I begin I'm going to say
this Video is in association with Milwaukee Tools UK - but more than that later. Let's go ..........
First task any lawn renovation, get the grass cut, that's what I'm going to be
doing now. Now in some of my lawn renovation Videos you see that we don't cut the grass, but
I'm trying to show you, if I was a homeowner, if this was my lawn, what I would do. Should
you shave the grass right down or shouldn't you ? Today I'm going to cut the grass a bit shorter
than usual but I'm not going to shave it right down. That comes down to personal
preference. Now I am going to show you on the Community page exactly how this lawn
goes for the next few week, so if you want updates on what this lawn looks like in a week in two
weeks, three weeks,, make sure to Subscribe and you can follow along the journey on the Community Page
We're going to have a look, you can see that there's a bit of thatch there,
so we can see our soil and then we can see our thatch, so this layer, material here, some thatch is
healthy, then have too much thatch, then it becomes unhealthy and it becomes a barrier layer.
but if we squeeze that together you can just see wel have some worms and stuff in there which
is pretty good, always like to see worms in the soil because that's going to indicate healthy soil.
So that's the aerating done so let's have a look just at some of the random cores that were pulled
out. You can see that we've got a bit of thatch in the top. A little bit of thatch in your lawns good,
whenever we have too much such as we're previously explained and it becomes a problem these cores are
the cores on this lawn are fine.
So just to have a quick look at it you can see the usual fare we have the moss and the thatch, this is
just one pass. I am going to do two passes over and I'm gonna go across each other, take the most out.
Never fails to amaze me whenever you scarify a lawn just how much comes out. With that small lawn !
Before we get on to the next bit, I'm going to take the lawnmower and run around the lawn. now I'm
going to give a quick shout out to my sponsors, who are Milwaukee Tools UK .
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lawnmowers from a participating dealer - I'll leave a link down in the Video Description -
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My next task now we've got the grass cut we're going to get the compost roller out, seed it , mix
some soil up in the compost roller, put it on, and that's going to put it on really well and
I'm going to say I'm I'm really struggling here because I'm filming this in a evening after
work, I don't want to be working in the dark. It's's forecast to rain - so let's get on with it ..........
So my next task is we're going to use the topsoil. I talk about this top soil
a lot of my Videos, the reason I use it is it's heat treated, it's Weed Free .
So we'll put it into that, we'll throw in a bit of soil into that, we'll throw some seed onto it and
then we'll put it onto the lawn. So anytime you're going to the Garden Center to buy these here bags,
always check to make sure they're dry. That stuff there is still a bit damp, bit damper than I would like.
But the stuff at the top was he stuff at the top was really wet so
As I see it, if you're going to the Garden Center to pick this stuff up always take it
from below the bottom of the stack. So for grass seed today we're going for a rye Fescue mix.
We have that in, now let's put in a bit more seed.
What I'm going to say is, the soil's a little bit damper than what I would like. It is coming out okay
but I'm finding I'm having to do a couple of passes. If the soil is dry you do one pass and it's, it's
over and it's brilliant, it's really really quick. Two passes definitely isn't the end of the world.
A lot easier than using a shovel!
So that's one bag so far. I have four bags with me so we're gonna go one two three
four. Just about four bags. Today we're seeding with the Rye and the Fescue. Rye is
a good hard wearing grass seed. There's a lot of Rye already in this lawn. We're going
for some Fescue as well there's some fescue here as well, we've got the shade, the Fescue is going
to do well in the shade. If you just go with 100 % rye then it's going to thin out a lot
in the winter and we don't want that, want a nice even lawn the whole year round. That's
the benefit of using a couple of different grass seeds. I suppose, just at the minute
seems very fashionable just to use 100 per cent rye, the problem with that is it thins out in the winter.
There we go, we're halfway, two bags down two to go, just gonna say last time, the first time
I put on too much seed last time I think I put in a good amount so we're gonna do
something similar this time so put in about three quarters of the bag and then hand ball a lot in.
A lot of people are always asking me how much seed do you put in. What I say is there's no
hard and fast rules just play about with it, put some in, mix it up, put it out see how
you go where you can always put on a bit more and you'll just learn by experience have a bit of fun.
So in the end I only used the three bags. The last bag that I used wasn't as damp
and let's go and have a look and see what we've got in it.
Just to see all the stuff it stops from landing on your lawn. Quite a few stones through this, if
I was putting this on with a shovel then I'd have to rake all these stones off it - and I might miss
some and some might stay in the lawn . Like I said if we were putting that on with the shovel we would
have used a lot more and it wouldn't have been as even as it currently is. Today I'm not going to be
using the mat. I'm actually just going to be using the lawn lute. I forgot to put the mat into the van.
Now, I'm breaking one of my golden rules here. I always say that you should leave this to dry.
Unfortunately I don't have that luxury. At the minute it's trying to rain and it's
getting very late, it's going to get dark soon, so I'm just going to have to crack on with it.
So there's the bit that we've soiled
and then just one or two passes with the lawn lute has matted it in really well.
That's us. We've got it matted in.; Now it is starting to get very dark so I have
to be quick my next task I'm going to do the seaweed I went to Donegal during the
winter to find out all about seaweed and why seaweed is so good for your lawn if you want
to find out more about seaweed I'm going to leave a Link down in the Video Description.
That Video, it was really, it blew my mind going to film it and I'm going to say that if you
watch it you'll definitely learn something from it if you pay attention to it. Before I
start putting the seaweed onto the lawn, I just want to tell you if you want to find out the best covering,
or how I pick the top soil or the soil and the compost that I use watch this Video next ......................