What about you! Robbie from Premier Lawns. This is probably my most requested
video how to scarify a lawn, step by step. In today's video I'm gonna talk you
through all the different ways I go through to scarify a lawn and I'm gonna
talk you through all the different ways why we do different things, the products
we use and how to use, them so make sure you stick around. At the end of this video
there's going to be a bonus tip on getting your lawn to the next level.
So this is the lawn that we're scarifying today. The grass is quite long - so we're gonna
give this a bit of a cut and get it down. The shorter you can cut the grass without
scalping it it before you scarify the better job it's gonna be. It's less work
for the scarifyer to go through the grass if the grass is a bit shorter, so
we're gonna give this a quick cut and then we'll get the scarifier out.
okay just to show you. I've been cutting the grass here , we haven't taken loads off it
we've taken enough off. As I explained before you want to have you want to have
the grass short, but you don't want to cut it away that you're absolutely
scalping the life out of it. Whenever we scarify, whenever we scarfiy a lawn it's
gonna be hard enough on it as it is we're just cutting it down, take a couple
inches off it, it's gonna be less work on the scarifier but we're not putting the
lawn under too much stress by absolutely scalping the life out of it with the lawnmower .
So this is a really key important step and how quick your lawn's gonna
come back from the scarifying. A lot of people ask me what thatch is and what thatch
looks like. There's not a lot of thatch in this lawn. But I'm gonna dig a bit of a profile out here and hopefully I'll be
able to show you.
So there's the grass. This little layer here, it's slightly darker, it's the thatch, and this is what we call the root zone.
The root zone is actually the soil. So this lawn was actually installed
I installed this lawn, myself this is my own lawn and it's 70/30. So what that is
it's seventy soil and thirty sand it makes it for a really good lawn. So
hopefully hopefully the camera picks that up, that dark layer there is the thatch
layer, here is the soil.
We'll just drop that back in there.
If it's not a big lawn, you can use a spring tine rake, but you can see how much
effort that is there just to do a small area. Iit does work but it's hard going so
we prefer the scarifyers. This is a scarifyer, this works much like your lawn mower.
So your lawn mower typically has a a blade that goes round and round on it,
this has blades that go round like that and it pulls it out - so I'll just turn this
over and show you it. So you see the blades underneath this and they turn round and
they get into the thatch and they and they pull the thatch and the moss out.
So I've just stopped halfway here I know myself that this is the level I want, but
just to show you guys why we're scarifying like this so I'm gonna pull a wee
bit of this away just to show you the lawn. whenever your scarifying you just want
to scarify into the thatch. If you remember that core that I pulled out
a wee minute ago, you don't want to be going right down into the soil.
if you go right down into the soil then you're gonna start damaging your
equipment. So scarifying is all about a little and often
whenever your scarifying I recommend that you go two passes
so again just up and down and then across. The closer, you the closer you
bring the lines together the less hard you are on the turf. If you bring the
lines like that, your gonna be harder on the turf and you're gonna take more out.
It's going to be harder on the lawn. This lawn wasn't too bad whenever I started
scarifying, not too much thatch in it we're just giving a gentle go over and
I'm gonna keep the lines nice and tight together so as we're not too hard on it.
So you can see you can see there's quite a lot of thatch out of it.
Thatch is just dead grass. There's not very much moss in this lawn but there's a there's a wee bit.
Dead growth, and every time you cut your grass some of it goes back down into the lawn
and wherever gardens grow, little storons grow off the grass and they grow in and
it just creates this little organic layer and the scarifyer
is the only way to get that out. So even though this lawn was mint before we started
into it before we started scarifying it you can see how much came out of it all this thatch,
organic material and what this'll do is it'll help lift the grass
up through the grass will be sitting like that and the next time we cut
it we'll get a really nice clean cut on it,
I get asked a lot of questions about rakes, and how do we rake up, and how do we clear up.
This is a landscaping rake and I'll show you, there's a bit of a trick to it.
It's really easy to use. They're designed for you to keep your back straight. If you see how
little effort, it's so little effort for me to rake up there and it's so quick.
You sometimes see people bending down into it like this and the teeth are actually
digging in, and it creates a lot more work for you. It's so effortless
to use this rake, but the key is to keep your back straight
and you can see it's just the way it flicks up so if you have it like that
then the teeth, the teeth are digging into into the grass and it's gonna make it a lot
harder for you to rake, whereas if you keep your back nice and straight and
it's sitting like that, it's a lot less work.
As you can see there's quite a lot
videos and tips on how to look after your own lawn and get it up to the next
level. I have a couple of really good videos that I think you'll enjoy!
The video on this side five simple steps to a perfect lawn and on this side here it's
gonna be my last upload so listen, before, just one last thing before I go - all the
products I used the seaweed, the iron, and if you need to buy the rake, you
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