welcome to my channel it's matt the garden and lawn care guy here and today we're going
to show you the step-by-step process to do a full lawn renovation this is a fantastic lawn
it's in need of a bit of tlc but we're going to show you how to get to a result like this
including scarification aeration top dress seed and some fertiliser so stick around for the rest
of the video just to see how we get going so for this job we've got three main bits of kit
this soil spreader here this is a very nice bit of kit and stick around and we'll show you how
that works in in a little bit and then the other two bits of kit we've got is a hollow tine aerator
and this scarifier here so the first step of the process is around aeration we're using
hollow tine aeration which helps pull some plugs out the soil and it can help relieve
compaction and give a nice seed bed for the soil to for the seed to sit in this particular lawn
has had a hard time over the winter there's lots of trees and shade and quite a bit of
debris that's dropped on it and it's definitely a need of a spring renovation we're going to go
through the whole process and do a follow-up video to see how the results so if you're
interested in that please subscribe to the channel and you'll see the follow-up results
you can see actually the compaction isn't that bad on this lawn it's come up quite well after
an aggressive aeration and all of these little plugs that just pulled out the lawn
you can see these little plugs here it's a clay kind of loam
and that's going to give a really nice bed for the sea to sit in
when we're doing the scarification of the lawn we're going to do it in two passes
and it's always best to do that where you take a first pass not too heavy
and deep and then we're just adjusting the blade down a little bit you can do that by
just adjusting these adjusters here and drop it down a little bit
so that was the scarification part and the scarification is designed to just remove any
thatch that's left in the soil and help create a bit of a better seed bed for the seed to sit in
now you can see for this particular lawn there isn't much grass there in the first
place so the soil is breaking up really nicely and it is a little bit muddy however
this is going to give us a really good bed for seed to soil contact when we do put the seed down
and i can't wait to see how this one turns out it's going to look amazing
if we just have a little look around the lawn you can see
some of the plugs that the machines pulled up and kind of little tracks that the scarifiers made
and these little tracks are ideal safe place for the
seed to sit in you can see overall from the amount of debris coming up there isn't too much thatch
in this lawn but we've got a really good working surface now to start the next step of the process
after the scarification we're going to just rake up some of the debris and this is just going
to take any of the matter out the soil and then we're going to prepare for another scarification a
little bit deeper this time just to cut into that soil ready for the seeds to sit in that soil zone
so
now the lawn surface is all prepared we're going to start the overseeding process
i'm going to do a nice generous overseed to get this lawn thickened off and within
around anywhere between two to four weeks depending on the weather
this lawn is going to look absolutely fantastic there's loads of soil so we've got a good seed
to soil contact which is really important for germination and i can't wait to see how it looks
after we've done the seed in the top dressing we're just putting a bit of fertiliser down
and the fertiliser is going to help push the growth
help the seeds to germinate and really boost this lawn into the spring
so we can see the guy's done an absolutely stunning job on this lawn
looks super healthy really nice quality seed
and a nice quality top dress that's going to feed that lawn and help protect it from the birds
so let's go and take a little bit look a lot closer what's going on
really nice and generous application of seed birds are coming around already for the breakfast
and we're going to be doing a follow-up on this lawn in a couple of weeks time just so you can
see and some of the really good quality results we're gonna get so if you're interested in that
and you've enjoyed this video please give me a like and subscribe to the channel for more lawn
care content this is matt the gardener lawn care guy and thanks for watching