What about you! Today we're going to be fixing this bumpy lawn.
All the tools shown in this Video can be hired from your local hire shop.
Our next step after aeration is to do this process, which is called scarification. We do this to remove
this material here. This is what we call "thatch". It's a layer of organic material that naturally builds
up in the soil. It's perfectly acceptable to have some thatch in your lawn, as it helps retain moisture
and it keeps the lawn healthy. However whenever you get a lot of it - then it starts to choke the lawn.
Show you the lumps and the bumps in this lawn, the easiest way is just with a line.
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So today we're going to be using 100 per cent top soil, the main reason for that is the soil that's in that lawn is topsoil.
there's no point trying to change the composition of the soil at all, especially we'll want the seed
to take. We just got this from a building, the local Building Supplies, there will be some
stones in this but I'm going to show you how to how to deal with the stones as we go.
So it's important just to put a bit down, level it out, put more down, keep doing that until you get
a reasonably up the top, and then we're going to get the lawn lute out and start to level it out.
I talk about this in all my leveling Videos, big rake, they're really handy, this big straight edge on it lets you push and move soil about.
I'm coming to my final rake on this bit, there's a few stones sitting on
the surface so we're just going to pull them off and put them into the next hole.
We're coming to the end of this bag here. So the best way to do with these bags - a lot of people cut them
but we use them for the scarifying so
we actually fold them down. We'll roll them over, and you get right into them then.
Without too much hassle.
Time, it's just like working out of a new bag, there's a obviously a full bag
and then there's a wee half bag it's full to roll down, easy, just that's an easy tip.
So now we have it all pretty much raked off there, it's fairly level we're going
to get the lawn lute out now and give it the final level. These things are pretty
good for doing small areas like this here, I've turned into a big fan of a lawn lute.
Next job now, just to give this a quick final rake off to give the seed something to stick into. Whenever you
throw the seed down on a on a very flat surface it's going to have less to stick on to so we're
just going to give all these areas a quick rake a really light light tickle just to create a bit of
a seed bed for the seed to get into. Today I'm just going to put it on like chicken feed with my hand.
If you didn't know the amount of grass seed, you could measure the area out and measure
the amount of seed that you need for that given area and then you'll not be too far away.
And then just a really nice slight rake, just to get good seed to soil contact, a tickle.
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