What about you! This is Robbie, Premier Lawns.
I'm a lawn care company, based in Belfast Northern Ireland.
Today's video's all about repairing this lawn that was damaged in the drought last year..
We're going to be doing some core aerating, a real good heavy scarify, an overseed, a top dress of soil and then a fertiliser.
I' m just going to talk about the different processes as we go through.
I was here two or three weeks ago and I put down some iron,
and some seaweed as well Seaweed's really good when you're over seeding,
cos it contains loads of growth hormones .
I've put it up my blog post if you want to learn all about seaweed and what it does - I'll put that in the description so make sure you check that out.
at the moment Cameron's aerating the lawn and as you can see, there's a lot of
dry patches, places where we've lost the grasss so this
process is gonna fix this.
whenever I was scarifying this lawn it was super dusty as you can see from the
video that so we go in and really give it a good heavy scarify - a double pass get
in and rake it up, takes a bit more effort but what we did was the double scarify..
Get in and clean it up, and then give it another good heavy scarify
so as we try to get rid of as much as we can.
If you leave the debris on the lawn and you
keep doing multiple passes it's just not as good a job so
your better clearing a load off and then going over it again and you see what comes
out of it again, and in that way you know the you have to removed loads of thatch
out of the lawn - dead debris.
So usually around May time you wouldn't be just as
harsh on the lawn as this because the recovery would be too slow coming into the summer.
I knew that I was seeding so I could be really hard on it, and along with the top dressing,
the top dressing that really binds the seed into the soil
so this is the lawn here you can really see just how much thatch we've taken
out of it. We've really stripped the lawn back here.
I'm overseeding this with a Fescue grass seed mix.. Fescue is really good because it'll
thrive whenever there's plenty of water but all also survive dry periods which
makes it pretty good for this lawn just with the recent history and also Fescue
doesn't mind growing in shaded areas t there is quite a lot of hedges round this lawn
Fescue is a really nice grass seed if you want an ornamental lawn, something that's ideally not going to take an awful lot of abuse.
Overseeding a lawn like this,I'm usually generally go to 30 to 35 grams a square meter for the grass seed
The spinner I use is really good because it has that the edge guard on it so you're not throwing the seed into the beds. just leave the flap up and then when
I seed the rest of the lawn I have the flap down and it throws out both sides. When you have the flap up, it just throws it out the front and down one side.
they're expensive spinner to buy but they're stainless steel and I've had this =
one for years and hopefully have it for another long time so they're not
not that long paying for themselves
So. Now we're on the top dressing element of this job
For this job we are using a seventy thirty soil sand mix. This is a specialist soil
There's not a lot of building supplies will carry material like this.
You really need to go to the specialist quarries to buy this stuff.
From what I've learnt from past times if you don't go to the right place there will be far too many stones in it.
You're best putting the soil out and leaving it to dry for a while
We got a cup of tea and came back so again I'm just throwing down a bit more seed just to make sure there's plenty down here.
The soil is really good because it just helps to bind the seed and give it somewhere really fresh to grow.
you're seeding and then top dressing you can be really hard on a lawn it's just a
really good chance to introduce a lot of new grass into the lawn.
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A lot of folks would use rakes and groups to try and dress the surface.
This here called the drag map yeah it's like a steel carpet that's the easiest way to
describe it and it pulls all the debris and material
down into the undulations and helps fill in any holes really levels out the lawn
it's really important whenever you do this top dressing can only be done on a dry day
because the stuff just has to be dry to get brushed in
and this is their last job just in with the fertiliser, again with the edge guards down to stop the fertiliser going into the beds and stuff like that . . .
So now the most important thing is explaining to the customer, how to water the lawn, and how to look after it, and what to look out for etc.
This is really important, because sometimes, customers just don't get it
sometimes sometimes customers just don't get it
which can be frustrating but that just comes with the job
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