What about you! Welcome to Premier Lawns Videos. Today we're going to be renovating
this very bumpy lawn, we're going to go through it step by step. Let's go ..............
We're having a look. Here's one of the holes. There's a few holes the whole way up there, it's hard to see them, there's
a bit of cave there.
Now, if this was your own lawn, you'd want to cut this before you started.
As this is a customer's lawn, we don't always have the luxury to cut the grass before we get here!
We're just here to do the renovation work.
So to stop and have a look at some of these cores, just take a small selection of the cores that
have come out of this lawn, there's not a lot of thatch in this lawn. We're not aerating the lawn
to remove thatch, because there isn't a lot of thatch here. We're aerating the lawn to let the
air down in and help stop compaction. If you're enjoying this Video folks - don't forget -
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Stopped halfway, to see what's come out, and it's the usual affair we have to have a sample of this we
have our moss, we have our thatch, we have mostly moss through this lawn, a fair bit of thatch.
"Thatch" is just an organic layer that grows naturally in your lawn, and we'd need to do the scarifying
to remove it, just to control it, some thatch in your lawn's good - but whenever you have too much
it starts to become an issue, so getting it out's really important. Great for your lawn. Let's get on with it ..............
We now have it scarified just the once, I'm going to go over it twice, so I'm going to take
it down at that angle. We did it straight across, and I'm going to go at that angle.
That's quite harsh on the lawn, and should take enough out.
You can see the amount that's come out after the double scarifying, I'm going to say it has been a
bit damper this week than what I thought. This stuff's quite damp, so I think what we'll do,
he'll finish this off, and then we'll go and have a cup of tea, and that will give a chance for all
this material to dry, and whenever we come back it's going to make it much much easier to tidy up.
I'm going to give you a quick tip. If you have top dressing coming to the job
always cover it up. Whenever topsoil gets wet it's a disaster. The place we buy it from,
they keep it under cover and it's a joy to work with that stuff.
There you go, lovely dry topsoil, perfect.
Now we'll just start leveling these out. Always say in all my leveling Videos, always put a bit out,
level it out. if you do it in bits, if you if you put some in,
level it down, put more in, level it down, then you're going to get less sinkage later
It's always amazing whenever you start to fill in a small hole,
whenever you start to push it out, a small hole can turn into
a very big hole, and you can end up using a lot more material than you first originally thought.
I only started a wee small hole and it's going to end up being quite a a large area by the time I finish.
There's quite a big dip through here - so go ahead and put it in here Danny.
Anytime we're doing bumpy lawns, or leveling lawns, people are always saying, "Robbie how come you only
ever fill in dips, you never take off rises?" Well, a lot of that's to do with the gardens we work in.
The likes of this garden, it's very bumpy, there's a lot of dips in it, that is just the way the gardens
are whenever we come to them. Now, if you have a garden and there's a rise in it, the best thing
to do is to strip off the turf, take the soil out, and then put the turf back down again. For dips in
areas like this here, by the time we strip that out there's chances are the turf that comes out of it
isn't going to be in any good shape or form, and it's not going to be usable, so it it's a lot more
cost effective for us and for the customer, for us to fill those dips in and then to seed them.
You can use this bit of the rake to push, or if you have a big pile you can use this to push.
So there are some places in this garden don't know whether or not the camera picks it up, down here
through here there's a big dip. Really caused by these big trees here, so a lot of big trees here
and over time it's causing a lot of dips through there, and that's all we're looking to do,
any holes in the garden we're just looking to fill those in say
any big massive indentations that's gonna be far too much and that'll be a totally different job.
I had a walk across the lawn and we're finding a couple of holes just
so we're going to fill these in.
For a final level, a lawn lute's hard to beat.
Just nice and easy, pull it across and use it to pull any high bits over into the low areas.
So it never fails to amaze me, you start off with what you think is a small hole and by the time
you finish you can see all this area that we're actually filling in. Today we're using a mix of rye
and fescue just uh we're not using the dwarf rye, we're just using a normal rye and fescue because
I think it'll work really well in this garden. Now, I'm going to put the grass on just with my hands
like chicken feed. Now I know some of yous get upset, if you think I've done it wrong - leave me
a Comment down below. I've been doing it like this for 30 years. If you didn't know how much grass seed to use,
what you would do is, you would measure out the areas, and then you would measure out the weight
of the seed, and you would use enough seed for the area . That's a, that's an idiot proof way to do it
We're just going to throw it out on the different
piles, and then we're going to give it a light raking.
If you want to get good seed to soil contact, you can stand it all in. I'm going to give it
a really really light rake. You could use a drag mat, you could use a roller. There's different ways
you can do it, just giving a light rake will do it 110 percent. So that's what I'm going to do now.
Our next task, now Daniel's just putting on the iron. We'll put that on afterwards because we
want to burn the moss. Now any of the the areas that we've soiled and seeded, we're going to
leave a good space around those because we don't want, whenever you put down iron it can burn seed,
so we don't want to put iron down on top of the seed. If you've enjoyed this Video make sure to
watch this Video next - it's all about filling in holes in your lawn and I'll see you over there now!