What about you! Welcome to another Premier Lawns video. Today we're going to be
doing some top dressing with pure sand. I'm gonna give the lawn a quick cut and
we'll get it down so we can see where the undulations are on the lawn, and I
want to use the sand to bring the level up so as we get a nice
level surface the whole way across. I know I usually say don't use sand - but
I'll go - this is very specialist sand and I'll be talking more about why I use this
sand later on in the video, so stick around!
Right. We've got the lawn cut. The Hayter 48 is a smashing job. This mower is actually from
2006. I used it commercially for a few years and retired it to this lawn but it's
still doing a fantastic job. So you can see some undulations in
the lawn. I don't know just how well the GoPro picks it up but there's slight
undulations in different places and I just want to use the sand to level
those areas up. If I take a walk over to here you can - if the GoPro
picks it up - there's a bit of a dip through here, so we're looking to top
those areas up. You can see the areas here where where we seeded last week.
Now it was only a week ago so I wouldn't expect those, to be seeing any grass there
just yet. Another week or so we'll start to see the grass appearing.
The sand that I am using here is I'm using here is USGA top dressing sand. This sand is really good
as it's really fine and it tightly grated. They use this stuff to make golf
greens out of, the best golf greens around Northern Ireland are made of
this sand. its hydro washed and it has a very small particle size meaning that
it's really easy to walk into the surface. Biggest downside of this sand,
the cost of it! it's very expensive to buy. If you have a look at this diagram
on the left hand side is the sharp sand otherwise known as plastering sand.
It was very good for plastering sand as it binds together, and it compacts.No good
for a lawn though. USDA sand is subangular, rounded shape and it's free draining and
really easy to walk into the surface.
Today I'm only top dressing the lawn. I'm not doing over seeding. I plan to do a
major renovation at the end of the season, September October, time and I'm
gonna be really hard on the lawn and I'll be doing a lot over seeding then, and
if I over seeded it now, a lot of that would have just gone to waste.
Whenever you watch YouTube and you see all the guys in America topdressing their lawns
they're putting on absolute tons of top dressing in small spaces, but what you have
to remember is, their climate's different to ours. The grass grows much quicker. They
cut their lawns a lot longer, and just taking climate into account,
here in the UK we can't put on that amount without smothering the lawn.
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This is one of the areas that I pointed out at the start, that was low, You can see here
I can get my fingers underneath the rake
I'm going to carry on adding the sand until I can find the level up
smothering the grass. So it's just about putting something down and this is where
that sand really comes into its own. It just rakes into the ground really
well as it's so fine.
I've raked the sand really well into the lawn now and as you can see I can't get
my fingers underneath the rake. It's important that you don't smother the grass.
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