What about you? I'm Robbie from Premier Lawns lawn, i'm a lawn care service based in
Belfast Northern Ireland and today's video is all moss removal on a small lawn
The biggest problem with most lawns I deal with is moss, and in my experience, it comes
down to a mixture of these things: compacted soil, thatch, shade, poor drainage, poor nutrition
As you can see from all the shadows in this lawn, this lawn was really badly shaded
There's a big tree in the neighbor's garden, and it's blocking all the natural sun coming in to the lawn
blocks all the sun on the lawn
And the rest of the garden is surrounded by bushes This creates the conditions that moss likes to grow in.
The first step in controlling the moss is hollow tine aeration.
Hollow tine aeration has loads of really good benefits for your lawn,
and it's key in helping it stay moss-free. Moss spores can be found hiding in the thatch layer.
Aerating the lawn helps to remove some of the thatch from the lawn, and enables the exchange of the gases.
This is great, as it help nature break down the thatch
Lack of air has a negative effect on the microorganisms in the soil, which need air to survive.
Microorganisms are required to break down the thatch layer and return nutrients to the lawn.
Here are some cores from the hole tine machine
The soil in this lawn is fairly sandy and that's quite unusual to find in Belfast, as most of my lawns are in clay.
that's quite unusual to find in Belfast, as most of my lawns are in clay.
another really good thing about aeration; it encourages the grass to go deeper and grow deeper
As you can see, the roots in this core are going down because we aerate this lawn quite frequently
. It help make the lawn handle droughts better, and gets rid of the surface water,
come the winter time
So, this is the scarification underway now
You always look into scarifying and say, "God, that's brutal on it." And it really is
Scarifying your lawn is one of the best things you can do for it, as well.
As you can see, it just pulls it all up, the moss and the thatch. It declusters the surface of your lawn.
You can do it yourself using a spring rake, but be prepared to spend a long time on it.
And you'll have aching shoulders by the time you've finished.
Or use a mechanical scarifier, like this one. It's got blades that loosens and removes
the thatch and the debris from your lawn. Scarifying is really good and you can see a
a positive impact from it right away, because it just opens up the soil profile and lets the air down in.
Really useful for getting rid of the moss and the thatch.
This is a double-pass on the lawn, just trying to get out as much moss as we can
without putting too many holes in the lawn.
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I'm now on the last stage of treating this small lawn for moss
At the moment, I'm applying a good, healthy dose of seaweed and iron
The iron helps control any other remaining moss, it actually burns it. Whenever you scarify it opens the lawn up
and lets the iron down out into the lawn, and it gets right down to the base of the lawn, and it's really good for controlling it.
and it's really good for controlling the moss and also, feed the lawn; after the
initial dose, you'll see the lawn and any remaining moss turn black.
Initial dose you see the lawn and any remaining moss turned black
And then, whenever the blackness goes away, it turns a lovely, rich, dark green colour, it's amazing.
You also have seaweed in the mix. Now, seaweed is a really fantastic product; it's a soil improver
It doesn't feed the lawn, as such, it improves the soil.
I have a really good blog about it I'll put the link down in the description
down below if you want to read more about why you use seaweed on the lawns.
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