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Today we're going to be renovating this tired old lawn,
we're going to be stripping it right down,
scarifying it, aerating, it, seeding it, top dressing it.
Whenever you walk across the lawn you can feel that it's very spongy. To show you some of the thatch
in this lawn, and why we're going to strip it right down, I'm going to take a section out here.
So you can see there's a high amount of thatch in it. We want to strip that thatch layer back down.
Now if it was your own lawn, you'd probably want to cut it beforehand, but we're going
to be giving this a really heavy scarify, and we're going to be stripping it right down.
So you can see the state of this, on a previous visit we were here and we put down the
moss control - that is why the Moss is all black underneath. If you're enjoying this Video don't
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Now you can see the amount that's come out of this garden, so we're going to get this cleared up
and then we're going to scarify it again. Let's do that now ....................
That's one pass of the lawn, you see the amount of waste there, I expect to pull that out again
out of it whenever we do a second pass I'll pull that same amount out again.
Let's have a look and see how much thatch is left in the lawn. So we've still quite a bit
here to have a look at the profile, you can still see, there's still moss through that.
So that's after one pass, now we're going to do two ................
We have now scarified the lawn twice. I'm gonna clear up all the debris and see where we're at.
You can see the usual affair that's come out, we have our moss, and we
have our grass, and we have our thatch. If you continually go over the lawn with
the scarifyer you'll eventually remove it, and that's not what we're looking to
do today, even though we are seeding. So. Let's get on with that ............
Now if you're scarifying lawns these rakes here are brilliant. Because it has
the big long teeth on it, and it covers a big area, and it means that you can keep
your back straight with these rakes. You don't want to bend down into it.
I'll leave an Affiliated Link down in the Video Description where you can pick one of these up.
So that's now the two passes out of it. Generally I wouldn't go over a garden again but as we're
going to be top dressing today, I don't mind being a bit harder on this and I'm going to go over it again.
Today on this lawn, we're going to use a dwarf rye and a red creeping fescue, and it's going to
add a really nice texture to the lawn.
Now that we've got everything cleared off, we've got our seed spreader set up, now let's get the seed onto the lawn.
Today we're going to be using some of this topsoil. It's really good. We've used this
previously the fact that it's weed-free, it's heat treated and it's Weed Free, you're not going to be
bringing any additional weeds into your lawn whenever you top dress with bagged screened topsoil.
Whenever we scarify, it creates these lines in the soil. So the seeds going to go on those lines
and then whenever we soil over the top
then the seed's going to start growing out through those lines.
Whenever you're top dressing a lawn you just want to put on a light dusting.
Small lawn like this you don't need any additional tools, really easy, just put it on with the shovel .
One of the best bits of advice I can give you whenever you're top dressing lawns -
after you get it all top dressed you want to let it dry so go and have a cup of tea.
We've gone away, we've had a cup of tea, we've come back the soil is nice and
dry you know there's a couple of ways you can work the soil into the lawn.
You can use this rake, which is a really good method and you can use a drag mat. Now, I did a Video,
a previous Video, on how to make a drag mat for under 40 pounds. I'll link to it at the end
of this Video, or in the Video Description, but for now we're going to use this rake.
This tool here is called the drag mat, and it's something professional groundsmen and
green keepers use, it's really good it's a very very fast way to level the surface after you
top dress your lawn. Now you could use a lawn lute, but this thing is a lot quicker. Now I did
a Video previously on how you could make one of these for under 40 pounds and they work amazingly
well, but for now I'm going to be using my own drag mat to do this. So let's get on with it ............