Now, as you guys know I always put the moss control, I always put the moss control
on afterwards. The customer's actually put the moss control on
himself. I'm gonna be breaking three of my golden rules today. Never work for
friends, don't let customers help you, and only do part of the job. usually whenever
we're working, whenever I'm working I always insist I do all the
work. But my friend actually put the iron down about a week ago and he's going to
give me a hand to scarify, and then he's gonna do the weed control and the fertilising
afterwards. Usually I would always say no to things like this, but this
is a friend he's helped me out in the past
so he knows how I do it . . . .stick around!
For those of you that don't know, scarification is the process of removing
moss and thatch from your lawn the Americans call it "dethatching".
This lawn is mostly moss it's at a very exposed spot and the winters on this
lawn can be very hard. They have their gardener Alan come, and cut the grass very
short before my visit. He's a nice lad - I just wanted to give him a bit of a shout out!
if you're lawn gets a buildup of thatch it creates a natural forming organic
layer that the moss will thrive in and this chokes the lawn. The only way to
remove it is with scarification or dethatching. Once we get that organic layer
then you get all the extra moss and that moss stops the water from penetrating
down into the roots and into the soil, and that then leads to more thatch
more thatch leads to more moss so this is why we scarify.
Having the mower to collect all the debris, I wonder could I get my friend
to bring that to all my jobs. He could tow it behind the Porsche.
The second pass over the lawn was fairly hard on it. It could have nearly had a third but then it
would have needed to be reseeded afterwards, and this wasn't in the budget.
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it's important whenever you scarify your lawn that you clean up all the moss
and the debris and the thatch because anything you leave lying on the surface, guess
what it's going to do it's going to go back down into the lawn and create more
problems. For people that follow my channel, will know I always put the moss
control on afterwards, and I'm gonna show you a classic example I'm just gonna
go to a random part of this lawn and pull out a little bit of grass, and you
can see in the thatch layer you can see some green, some live moss, and this is
why would do you the moss control afterwards. I recently did a video on
this, and if you look in the right-hand corner of the screen you'll see a little
" i " and that will lead to that video. So listen, thank you for watching - see you in the next video!