What about you! Welcome to Premier Lawns Videos. Today we're going to be talking about
PRG's - plant growth regulators. I'm going to be putting some on the
lawn, I'm going to be talking about why I do it, the pros and the cons. Let's go .......
PRG's or plant growth regulators work by, there's a hormone in the grass called zebularic acid and it
encourages the grass to grow upwards. Whenever we put on the prg's it inhibits that from growing, and
it pushes the growth back down into the plant. That means it's going to thicken up the lawn.
IOt's going to increase root mass, It does a lot of good things but it also has some bad things
I'm going to cover some of those in a second. Because it slows the plant down we're going to get a denser richer lawn.
It's going to be more disease resistant, it's not going to grow as fast. They are all the bonuses now
one of the downsides to it if you have areas of your lawn that are diseased or anything like that
then it's going to take longer for to cover. I'm going to show you something now that
is going to present a bit of a problem to me. So we had a a couple of dogs staying at the house for a
couple of weeks here and their dog pee has burnt the lawn - so we'll just have a look at that, we'll go
over you can see these burnt patches on the lawn, that's from the that's from the dog urine stain, so
it might take a while longer for these to recover than what it usually would just the way prg works.
That'd be one of those downsides. If you have a lot of disease in your lawn , or if you have areas
that you need to recover then prg's definitely aren't for you. If you're enjoying this Video
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So there you can see with the grass cut let's start in day getting the prg onto the lawn.
So today we're going to be using a professional product. This isn't designed really for the end
user in the UK. Now a lot of people in America and Canada and Australia and everything else have
access to these products. In the UK these are designed for professional use only. The fact is
that they're so expensive, if you look the that's up online it's probably over three hundred pounds
for a jar though a jar does go really far. Whenever we're putting on prg just a wee green keeper's tip -
we'll do some of this stuff here which is technical grade sulfate of ammonia, this is
straight nitrogen, we'll mix some of this up, we'll put it into the tank. Whenever you're putting on
a plant growth regulator there's a chance that you can burn the grass
even if your lawn's been fed, so you might burn it or might turn a bit yellow. Now if you're
using plant growth regulators you're always best starting at a low dose and working your way up,
so I'll be putting on a very low dose and seeing how it goes probably once every four weeks.
As an extra bonus we have the test pack here. Now anybody that follows the Channel, this was a bit of
ground that we killed off him when we tried to grow, we've seen the fastest way to grow grass seed. I'll
link the Video at the end of this. Now as you can see, it hasn't been cut in a while.
The last time it was cut actually we had the sheep in here so there's a bit of sheep dung
on it, that's why we have all the little green patches on it. We're going to get
this cut and then we'll be spraying this with the plant growth regulator as well.
So that's this cut. It doesn't look too bad. As I say we seeded this out last September. Now plant
growth regulators, whenever you're using them on a lawn they do need to go on on
a dry day as the chemical is absorbed through the leaf.
All right guys - now this is not something I usually do. I'm going to hold my hands up to this one.
Last night I was editing the Video, I was going, it was really annoying me about the
burnt patches in the lawn. The way plant growth regulator works, it'll stop the seeds from growing
and it'll take ages and ages and ages for those burnt patches to grow back so I was actually
thinking to myself it's a pity that we didn't have a bit of grass that we could take from somewhere
else and put in this lawn. But guess what we do - we have the test patch round the corner!
Now the test patch, I sprayed one half with plant growth regulator and one half without, so we're going
to take it out of the bed that has a plant growth plant growth regulated on it. So let's do that now .......
We have the test patch. This side here was covered with the plant growth regulator so we're going
to take it out of that. If we took out that, then that would end up growing at a different rate. So we have
these burnt patches here, and then there's burnt patches on other parts of the lawn. So
right in the middle of the lawn which is pretty frustrating.
Now guys just before we go any further - just going to talk about the dog urine stains. The easiest
way to prevent getting dog urine stains on your lawn, is to not have a dog. If you do have a dog but -
I have a dog, I'm a dog lover, if you do have a dog and it happens to cause urine stains in the lawn
the best thing to do the first time you take it the toilet in the morning because it's that's
generally the one that's going to cause you to burn is to take it somewhere other than your lawn
to go to the toilet. Now I did a video a couple of years ago about how to repair
and how to stop dog pee. I'm not going to cover too much in this Video, I'm going to link to it
in the Video Description, so if you want to see that Video before and after
how to fix dog pee make sure to watch out for them now let's get on with repairing this lawn .......
Nice sod there , nothing wrong with that. Not too much thatch there.
Look at that , but look we have some Poa in it! Wouldn't you know!
So you can see all the spots I have on the lawn, all these
different areas, they're all ones that I'm gonna have to get fixed.
I'm going to show you a quick tip. Whenever you're filming, if you're doing a repair
like this yourself around this edge here there's always going to be a bit of a gap
so this is just a little green keeper's tip we're just going to take a wee bit of soiler
and put it in the edge. Give it a good shake in, you'll see that line less and less as that
starts to grow, just it's just a really easy quick tip. You don't need very much. There
that's going to help that mat into this here a lot quicker.
Just as I carry on doing this here, I want to talk a bit more about the plant growth regulator.
One of the main reasons we do it, I don't know if it was that clear in the start of the Video,
it slows the grass plant down. It means that the grass isn't going to grow just as quick,
and there's another real bonus to it. As you guys know I've been getting suffering with a Poa Anna.
It's hopefully going to reduce the seed heads,
's not going to stop the seed heads but it's hopefully going to reduce them. Now let's get back to the work .........
We have all the patches fixed. Now let's get back to the normal Video.
Now I'm going to say that bit at the, our test patch, we're only going to spray half
of that with a plant growth regulator, so then we can see as the summer goes on,
we'll see a difference between the bit that's done the bit that's not done.