What about you! Today we're doing a before and after of a lawn renovation.
Now this job here, we scarified, we aerated, we overseeded and we top dressed - so stick around..........
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more Videos like this. So just a a quick look at some of the cores out of this lawn.
Now I pulled this, I picked this core up just from down here, there's actually a bit of sand in the bottom of it so
Whenever the builders were building the house, they must have had a bit of sand left over
and they just dropped it into this sort of area. Whenever I have look at cores from
on up into the garden we have our usual affair, so see there, lovely soil, look at that,
lovely crumbly soil, roots going the whole way through,
but then we'll have our thatch, this is our thatch layer here, you can see that's quite bouncy. I squeeze it down, and then we have our soil. So this area here would always dries out.
We're gonna be, we're gonna be top dressing in around here, just this very localized area.
As we're seeding, we came and put the iron down a couple of weeks ago. You can see the grass
is quite black from it - don't want to put iron down because iron will dehydrate the seed,
so we'll always put it down a couple of weeks beforehand and then come back and do the work.
Daniel is carrying out the scarification. Scarification is a very important step
whenever you're trying to level up your lawn. You want to get rid of all this stuff, this is
debris and thatch and dead organic material.
So all that sort of stuff, it's going to hold your lawn back. So we've done the aeration and now we're
scarifying it, and whenever we scarify it's going to create lines in the soil and then whatever we
see it into it then that's going to give the seed somewhere safe to grow so that's why scarification
aeration, really important step if you want to level up your lawn. So let's get back to it.......
Okay so I'm going to have to put the camera away, meant to be dry today but
big dark clouds and it's trying to rain there. Typical.
Four seasons in one day. We had a full-on hail storm there, but we're gonna get back to work now.
All right guys, so we're going to seed this bit in here now I'm just going to throw the seed
on by hand. I know some of you purists will say to me probably, that's terrible you can't put on
seed by hand - but it's like feeding the chickens, honestly.
We're just going to take our trusty knife. Now this is just the 100 per cent screened top soil in these bags.
You can see the lines in the soil here. So these lines, that's where we're hoping the seed it goes
down into and it's going to germinate in here, and then we're just going to put
our screen top soil and we just bought this out of a hardware store nothing
nothing fancy but it's really good soil. Okay so I have my trusty rake, we don't have a lute,
we're just using this rake, we're going to use the back of the rake and just to spread it out.
The rain's just coming on here so we need to be quick. I'm going to
stomp this down in and maybe throw down another drop of seed and that'll be us for this area.
All right guys, so just at the minute the rain is about to come back on again here, so I'm gonna
have to put the camera away. We're just standing in here, your feet's enough to compact this down,
then we're going to run the rake over it and that should be it.
Although I'm going to overseed the rest the lawn I've other patches to do like this but I'm
going to overseed the rest of the lawn so we're going to be around the drag model for this but anyway so I have to get on, to get the camera away because here comes the rain again!
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This tool here is called a "drag mat", and it does just that - it drags the seed down into the lawn. To
find out how to make one for under 40 pounds make sure to watch the Video at the end of this video.
Daniel here is putting on some seaweed onto this lawn.
As far as I'm concerned the customer's on the holy grail here, he has,
he has these little tuna tins dotted all round the garden. Anybody that's watched my Video
on how to water your lawn will recognize these things so as far as i'm concerned as customers
doing the holy grail for the water. Always nice to see whenever you call back to do different things,
the customer's actually following your advice. Brfilliant.
If you want to learn how to make a homemade drag mat watch the Video on the left, now.