it's around six weeks ago since i started my full lawn care renovation project in autumn
in this video i'm going to be looking at the progress across two weeks four weeks and six weeks
how the lawn looks today and some of the problems that i've been facing
during the course of the renovation i'm also going to be looking at the first mow
and some tips around that and also how you can fix some of the areas that
perhaps haven't germinated so well i'm also going to be applying the first feed
so this video is really going to be packed into the next part of your autumn renovation plan
i'll link the first renovation plan in the card above where you can see here i stripped the garden
right the way back to its basics that's been a really popular video and stay around for this one
so here's the lawn two weeks in around 15 days after first stripping it right back a heavy over
seed and some top dressing you can see in general the lawn's already started to respond really
quite well but there are some patches where i've particularly had a deeper level to fix that are
taking a little bit longer to grab hold it's also worth noting just after i reseeded we've had huge
amounts of rain i think it was one of the heaviest rainfalls in October ever on record but we've
really had a significant amount of rain this might have impacted some of the results both in terms
of almost over watering the seed but also maybe some of the washout in the areas on the edges of
the lawn where i can actually see the seed has moved off the lawn and into some of the beds
overall the garden's starting to come back to life but it's around this period you always
get that nervous feeling of is it going to come back and constantly checking the lawn if
you're anything like me what will the results look like is this normal is it gonna fill out
normally it does fill out you just need to give it some time
so you can see overall i used the lance spreader during my refurb project and it picked out a lot
of the bigger stones in the soil and any of the imperfections in there there are some really small
stones still left in the top soil but nothing that should stop any of the seeds from germinating
you can also see this area at the bottom here which still needs to fill in and
something i've also noticed is some of this greener type of weed grass coming through
now this could be a number of different reasons in that i actually held back quite a bit on the
fertilisation before i started the lawn as i didn't want the old grass to compete too much
with the soil and maybe these weeds have sort of been able to thrive while the new grass has been
stunted a little bit and you can see them much lighter in colour and probably double the length
you can see some spots that just need filling in
but overall i'm pretty chuffed
a couple of spots in the middle
i've got this area at the back that seems to really hold a lot of water and that's
also at the area that's in most of the shade throughout the day as well
so the next part i want to talk to you about giving the seed its first fertiliser now you can
put this down before seeding if you're seeding from scratch or you can use it after seeding
and i like to put it down a couple of weeks after seeding you don't want to be using anything
with iron in here this is a dedicated pre-seed fertiliser which you're actually going to put down
post-seeding and the reason i want to put it down post seed in is to allow the seedlings
to establish so they can benefit from the macronutrients and micronutrients in this
fertiliser and not be too out competed by the existing grass i'm also going to be showing you
how i fill those bare spots in after the seeding so stick around to the next part of the video
so i'm around a week later after the first fertiliser
and the grass growth has been really quite slow but i'm looking to do the first mow and
cut that grass down just take the tops off it really and you want to be looking at doing your
first mow when the grass is somewhere between 50 to 70 millimetres which is a couple of inches high
and you do want to get back into some sort of regular mowing because what this is going to do
is just take the tops off the top of the grass and almost encourage it to bunch out and thicken up
here you can see i've switched to the bosch lawn mower because it's a little bit lighter weight
and the ground has not been very favourable for mowing because we've had so much rain and water
i switched the mower to the electric mower so i can crank the height right up
to 60 mil and also not leave too much of an impact on the grass keeping a light touch
so now we've had our first mow and our first fertiliser i'm going to be looking at filling
in some of these spots that have been left behind that haven't fully germinated yet
it's still early days so some of the seed may well come to the surface and continue to germinate over
the coming weeks so i'm not in a super rush but i've got enough seed and i've got some soil left
over i'm just going to give it a little second helping on some of these areas that have struggled
i know this area out front here has struggled because of
water and you can see the seeds have been washed towards the sort of support that i've put in place
and what i'm going to be doing in these areas is giving it a little hand sprinkling and i'm just
going to cover the top with some soil or compost i'm just using regular free draining topsoil
cover the top of the seeds to create good seed to soil contact
and i can just press that down or almost give it a water in i'm going to repeat that for all the
different areas of the garden and we'll come back and take a look what it looks like after six weeks
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