What about you! Spring's just around the corner, start of February it's time to wake the lawn
up and get it ready for spring. Let's go. The biggest problem I have with my lawn is this clematis
behind me. Due to the height of it and where the sun is, this area of the lawn never gets
any winter sun at all. Another problem I have, I always ignore the edges so we're gonna have
to get these sorted out as well. You can have a look, that's well overgrown. I have a sleeper
that's, we have a sleeper that's nearly broke - but the edges look really untidy.
To get this edge a bit tidier we're going to use a powered edger. Now if you don't have
one of these tools you can just use a normal edging iron, or a spade. I'm going to leave
a Link to the Video where I covered this in more detail this time last year. So let's get on with that now.
Whenever you have a nice sleepered edge, you can follow the line lovely and get a reasonably straight line without too much
effort. However I'm going to show you on up the top here where the sleepers are very tired
and they're more or less disintegrated, there's not very much of them left, so you can see
we have this area, we have a bit of a sleeper here, and then there's not much there at all.
See this, every time I do this we lose a bit more of the sleeper.
Used the strimmer on the lawn, and the edger, I know some of you will ask will ask what's the battery life like. So on the Big 12, we have two bars left and that
was with the strimmer and the edger. So now we've got our edge off we'll have the fun bit.
Edges done, first cut of the Year - Happy Days! Really looking forward to getting the lawnmower out and getting
the first cut in let's do that now.........
I'm just going to cut the lawn in two halves, this is going to speed it up for
me, it's firm enough underfoot that I think I'm going to be able to get the cylinder mower
out after I get this cut, and if you're wondering why these are up here - I'm not trying to look
like Mickey Mouse. I've put them up here so as I don't lose them.
I have the grass cut. Pretty happy with that. I'm gonna show you a couple of ways to get
rid of worm casts. Number one, we've got the brush, you can just brush them out of the way
I prefer this here it's a green keeper switch now I know a lot of people will be saying
why didn't you do this before you cut the grass with the ordinary mower. The battery lawnmower
with the four wheels isn't going to flatten down the worm casts the same way as the roller mower
will, so using the switch the green keeper switch is hard in long grass so the grass
needs to be a bit shorter for this thing here to work, otherwise it's really really hard work.
Looking forward to getting the cylinder mower out. Now I have set it to its highest setting,
which is about 26 mil or thereabouts, with an old machine like that, it's not always going
to be 100 % accurate especially, at those higher heights. First time this has been started in
months. Let's see what we're like.
Oh, first pull, second pull ...............
I'm gonna show you a wee trick that'll really save the edge of your lawn
anytime your cutting autumn, winter and start of the spring. If you always have to turn in
one area. So even whenever I have a look here, you can see some of my turning lines from
the battery lawnmower, so I'm going to show you a way to stop that. So I went to my local
hardware store and I picked up these boards for the grand total of two pounds each. I just
went into a hardware store and asked them for a couple, a couple of cutoffs and these
are just chipboard and this is what we're going to use;. There's a very light stripe there
you can see so just the top of this stripe to the top of that dark stripe where I'm going
to be coming up, I'm going to put this board.
At the bottom of my next stripe, sort of this side here, I'm going to put my next board
in, so whenever I come down I'm gonna be turning on that. So I have my board at the top.
This board down here.
So I've got the lawn all cut. It doesn't look too bad. Just to show you how much grass is
in this, not too much grass. These boards, as I say these boards cost about twp quid each
from a local hardware store, just go in and ask for cut offs - dead easy. There we go, lawn cut.
Now before I get on to the the next task that I have to do, just want to touch on something
a lot of people have been asking me about scarifying, and should you scarify in the winter.
My answer would be no. Now, I could jump in the van tomorrow, and do 100 miles an hour. I wouldn't,
because there's a good chance I'd wreck something. Just because it's there and I can doesn't
mean to say that you should. I don't think you should do any scarifying until the grass
is actively growing. But I know at the minute it's eight degrees I'm actually standing here
in a tee shirt - so it's not that cold - but it's not that warm either, so just hold off.
My next task, I'm going to put some seaweed onto the lawn. Now unfortunately it's starting
to rain so I'm going to have to be really quick here - so let's do that now........... Now if you've
enjoyed this Video, watch this Video next - and I'll see you over there now.