What about you and welcome to Premier Lawns Videos. Today we're going to talk about the best times to
scarify your lawn, whenever you should start to scarify., whenever you should stop and everything
in between. Let's go .....
Now for my first tip I'm going to say that if you're scarifying your own garden, chances are you're not going to be using the professional tools like we are doing today ,
So we're going to get the lawn mower and give the lawn a quick cut before we start.
Now we're doing aeration. Aeration's really good to do on any lawn, over time your lawn
becomes compacted and aeration puts lots of little holes in your lawn, thousands and
thousands of little holes in your lawn and it lets the air and the water down into your lawn .
and helps your lawn breath. Absolutely fantastic to do on any lawn. So at the minute
we're doing some solid tine aeration. We're doing the solid time this time of year
as we don't want to dry out the surface too much. If you do hollow tine aeration
coming into the summer, you can find if you get a dry spell you can dry out the lawn.
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We're currently filming this in May, and you never know when
the weather's going to turn, if it's going to turn really dry, if it turns really dry then you risk
the lawn not recovering properly if it's going to be your own lawn there's not so much of an issue
if you're happy enough to water, but you always have to think about if it's been dry for an ex,
an extended period of time before you started scarifying, are you going to risk a hose pipe
ban? Because say for example you're very hard on the lawn and then you need to seed it afterwards,
and then there's a hosepipe ban, you're going to be in trouble, so if you're going to be scarfing
this time of year always think about condition the lawn's in are you best to hold off to September, can
you do it in the autumn, whenever you're going to be guaranteed warm soils and it's going to be damp
enough, you're not going to have to worry about a hose pipe ban. It also depends how far north or how
far south you are. We're just outside Belfast Northern Ireland, and we're fairly far north
in the UK. If for example you're in he southeast of England, scarifying in May might be too late for you.
The best time to scarify your lawn? You can actually scarify your lawn all year round if ground
conditions allow. But you really really shouldn't, so you only want to do it whenever the grass is
actively growing and whenever there's going to be good recovery typically you would do it in the
spring from March through to May. We're filming this in the middle of May now and this will be
the last we scarify until the middle of August. We'll scarify from about the middle of August
through the the end of October. Different parts of the UK will carry on scarifying right up until
probably the end of November or into fNovember. We can't do it here because it gets too cold in the winter.
At the minute there my helper Daniel, he's doing two passes. The closer you bring the
lines together, the less hard you are on the turf. So as we're getting very close to the end of the
year we don't want to be too hard . If I run a straight crisscross, ot would take a lot more out,
be a lot harder, and if we have that dry weather please dry weather in a couple of weeks time then
that's going to work against me for the scarifying because the lawns aren't going to recover properly .
now we have the lawn scarified, t you can see the stuff that's come out of it, which is quite usual .
We have a lot of dead grass, moss, thatch, this is typically what you'd expect to see coming out of
a lawn that's just been scarified. You can just see it's just a selection of organic material,
and removing this here is going to help the lawn breathe. Having a bit of thatch in your lawn is
perfectly acceptable, and it's actually healthy for a good lawn. The trouble is whenever you get a lot
of thatch, it creates a barrier layer and nothing can penetrate down through that, and then what you find
is you get a build up of thatch over time and that's whenever your lawn starts becoming very spongy to
walk on. Keeping a healthy thatch layer is important, we don't want to totally remove it, want to
leaves some there because it's going to lead to a healthy lawn, but we'll want to stay on top of it .
Now something that's really good for scarifying. We use these commercially are these rakes here.
The good thing about them is they have these teeth on them, the shape of it means you can keep your
back straight and you can gather up quite a lot of stuff with them. So if you want to buy one of these
here , I'll leave an Affiliate lLnk down where you can pick one of these up from Amazon. Really good -
been using this particular one for years too!
Our next step is now to put on the moss control. There is no products in the UK
that kill moss. The only product that we can use to kill moss is a thing called
iron and you can either put it on liquid or granule. We're putting it on in liquid forms just
for ease of use. If you're wondering why you don't put iron on beforehand - a lot of people in the past
would have put the iron on and then they would have scarified their lawn, but the trouble is if
you think, the easiest way to think if you, back to our thatch, so that's your thatch layer, the thatch layer ,
and it's grown on the lawn so you put the you put your moss control on and
the iron and it lands on top and it only burns the top of the moss so whenever you scarify if
you think you're actually opening the moss right up and then you put the iron on and
it gets right down to the base of the plant and it does a much better job of controlling it all
because it burns it, doesn't kill it, it burns it and and that's how it controls it.
The blower is good to get the most of it lifted.
and now we're just going to get the rake out and finish this bit off at the back.
Our next step then is we'll put the iron onto the lawn, and then we're going to do a feed.