What about you - and welcome to Premier Lawns Videos. If you want a good lawn next year -
follow these tips. Today we're going to be doing some aerating, some scarification, some overseeding
and some fertilising. This is the first time we've done this type of work
since we installed the lawn last year. Stick around.
We have the grass cut. Now the lawn does look really good . I'm really happy with the way it looks
but to maintain a lawn, and keep them looking good next year, scarification is a really important part in
controlling the thatch that's in the ground and so as next year we can have
a really nice lawn as well - and plus, we're going to do some overseeding today.
So today we're not doing hollow core aeration, and as you can see you would, you wouldn't even know that
those holes were there. The beauty of this machine is it doesn't pluck because the action that goes
straight up and down you wouldn't even know that there's the holes on the lawn. So today we're just
really aerating to let the air down in, and then to relieve any compaction that's built up
in the lawn because we're always cutting it with a cylinder mower - so that's why we're doing this today.
Before we get properly into this video folks - if we could ask you to hit that Like button - Subscribe
for more Videos like this. I post regular lawn care tips and tricks on "bringing your lawn to the
next level". Well we have the lawn aerated. Now I just want to show you something guys, which is because
it's quite unusual in my lawn. I have some weeds of all things now, and I think these weeds came
in whenever we did some top dressing a month ago, so I'm just going to show you some more in the
lawn you see all the nice holes everywhere you wouldn't see them unless we're looking for them.
So just around the edges here, the weeds are going to come in, but I think these weeds
actually came in from as I say whenever we did the top dressing. They must have come in with the sand.
Frustrating, but I'm not too worried about it because - there's another one over there - but
I'm not too worried, because they're very few and far between. But the lawn looks really well.
Now I didn't do hollow coring today. we just did the solids. I don't think there's that
much thatch in the lawn, but I want to just keep getting the air, keep getting air down into it.
So we've done two passes over the lawn. We haven't been too hard on it, but we've taken a fair bit out.
We've done, we've gone down a bit deeper than what we would if we were just verti cutting.
So just clearing some of that off. I don't know if the camera picks it up, there's
lines in the soil there and we're wanting to, so we're going to get this cleared up
and then we're going to seed and the seed's going to find its way down into those lines.
This is really just the weed grasses that we're pulling out then we're going to thin out some
of the grass and this is going to let us seed into it - so you can see all that's all the crap
that came out of this lawn so now we're going to do the overseeding. Where - this lawn was sewn
out with a with a dwarf rye and a fescue and that's going to be what i'm going to put on now.
Just to show you guys, we have the lines in the soil here. Now to get good contact with the
soil, we're going to use the drag mat. I did a previous Video about how to make a drag
mat for about 35 pounds. It works very very well for doing this. You can see these lines
that's where the seeds going to grow.
Now this tool here is called a drag mat, and it does literally just that. It drags the seed
down into the holes, so i'm going to show you that in operation now. Now it is a fairly simple tool.
So this is just literally going to drag the seed down into those lines
and make sure that they have a good contact with the soil.
Now, professional green keepers and groundsmen would favour this method. A lot of people would
roll their lawns, but I would always do my best to encourage people not to roll their lawns.
It's times like this I miss Daniel here to do the work - i'm having to do a bit of work myself.
the guys in the Community will definitely understand that joke!
Our next step is to apply seaweed to the lawn.
We use seaweed as it "sweetens" the soil, and it also helps the seed get off to a good start.