i started a long renovation around eight weeks ago and it looked a little bit like
this fast forward the clock six weeks later we're looking like this and in this video
i'm going to show you week seven and week eight and how to fertilise a new lawn
welcome back to the four week lawn care challenge in this video i'm more starting
to focus now on the aftercare elements after implementing a new lawn from seed or
new lawn from sod in the last video we talked about and applying a liquid seaweed treatment
this was around four to six weeks after the first batch of seed had started to germinate
and now we're a little bit further down the line we're around eight weeks on
and i want to show you the results over the last two weeks because we've had some great progress
in terms of filling the spots in and also applying the first fertiliser treatment to my new lawn
so walking through the steps this was where we were at around week six
overall the lawn seed took really really well and there was a few little spots which were
over watered i think that lost some seed or maybe even we lost a bit to bird take
here we are in week seven you can see those spots starting to fill in i also went for a double
stripe and you can see the stripes are starting to fill out now here we are moving over halfway
through week seven pretty much all the areas are now filled in and the lawn's striping up well
one of the things i wanted to talk to you about was mowing a new lawn and cutting a new lawn and
what you should look out for one of the key things is keeping a sharp blade you need to keep a sharp
blade and you'll be able to see this from having clean cuts on the grass blades and you won't see
much tearing the other thing you want to look out for is not taking too much off the grass you'll
see here regular mowing taking a small amount off each time i'm not left with big strands of grass
and we're looking at more of a fine cut on the lawn this will help reduce the stress of the plant
and overall help the plant grow stronger and establish itself during its growing
phase
okay so here's week eight now you can see all the spots are filled in
and the lawn looks absolutely brilliant i couldn't have asked for much more to
come out this project but i've got something else to show you as well in this next step
i'm going to be looking at fertilising this lawn and you won't believe the results you
get
in this part of the video i'm going to be looking at what to apply as your first major fertiliser to
a new lawn now in general new lawn's not going to need too much in terms of fertilisation but
what i'm going to do is use the remaining bag of pre-seed fertiliser i used during the application
part this is a 696 fertiliser from a1 lawns the pre-seed fertiliser can also be used post seeding
and it uses up pretty much the rest of the bag it's slightly reduced dose to more high strength
fertiliser but it's ideal for giving the grass a little boost towards the end of this season
stay tuned at the end of this video i'm going to show you how to apply the fertiliser and some of
the fertiliser results this particular fertiliser is designed to rapidly improve the growth of a
newly seeded area by providing vital nutrients to the root zone and helping grow a sturdy plant
we've got enough phosphorus in there to promote the root growth and is especially good on thin or
low nutrient soils all the links the products that i'm using are in the description below including
the a1 pre-seed fertiliser and the scotch spreader you can see here i've also linked a card up
above on the scot spreader where i do a full review on this product which was my last video
when doing the passes you want to overlap them a little bit and
also make sure you've got a nice edging pass to cover all the areas
coming up we've got the results of this so don't leave the video just yet stay till the end to see
all the results that i'll get from applying this fertilisation product if you're enjoying the video
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overall i really like this scott spreader one of the things i've noticed you've just seen there is
sometimes you have to bump it to make sure all the particles fall down onto the spreading bar below
it's not ideal but i've really appreciated the
ease of application for granular products using this and i'm really happy with the purchase
this is what i meant before by slightly overfilling more than you need i always leave
a little bit in the bottom here because this bit doesn't tend to come out smoothly as the stuff you
do when you've got a full spreader so keep it full and it'll come out fine just leave a little bit
at the bottom so here's the final result as you can see the fertilisers worked an absolute treat
the lawn's really full deep green colour and the stripes are absolutely popping i'm seeing people
walking up and down the street and stopping to have a look so it must have meant that i've done
a good job and i'm hoping that you guys have taken something from this video series to pick
up some tips from home in the next video i'm going to be doing how much it cost me to do
this full renovation plan so please subscribe to the channel to keep up to date with that
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