what up i do this is robby from
premier lawns and welcome to another
primary loans video
this is a frequent question that thumbs
up on this channel
robby how do i get rid of weed grasses
like here's some weight grasses that you
would typically find in your lawn
so stick around to find more out
a bit of background about me for those
of you
that don't follow my channel i was a
green keeper for 20 years starting off
at a small local golf course
i was lucky to work at a very good golf
course
called clandy boy golf club in north
down
with one of the best managers around
terry crawford
who i learned a lot from working both
inside and out of the club and with his
encouragement i set up primary loans
during this time i also did three years
at night school two nights a week
learning about business management
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and then i left green keeping eight
years ago to do premier launch full time
and as they say the rest is history
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regular viewers of my channel will
recognize islam
this is a lawn where i fill them up
quite a bit
you can see that there's a lot of weed
grasses through here
but i'm going to put on pictures of weed
grasses to show you what they are
it's an ongoing battle to keep
wings and weight grasses out of your
lawn especially
with grasses as there's no camel control
your best weapon against long waves is
cultural
controls that's things like cutting your
grass
at the right height keeping your lawn
aerated
reducing the fat levels and all that
other fun stuff
4d cutting or vertical mowing is
something that
professional groundsmen do the
ornamental lawns and golf grains
it's a cultural method of controlling
weeds in your lawn
though not to be confused with
scarification
the main difference between
scarification and verdi cotton is
very cotton isn't as aggressive
the blades are finer and are not
designed to
penetrate as deep as those on the scar
fire
they should be set to just touch the
surface of the lawn
and flick through the grass or the sword
the benefit to this is it lifts the
seed heads up so you can cut them with a
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lawnmower
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now i know that most people won't have
access to a tool like this
so i'm going to show you a trick or a
tool that you can use
that will mimic this and you should have
one of these in your shed
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a good simple effective way for you to
party cut your own grass
without the specialist tools is to take
a springtime rig
and gently break the surface
not as aggressively as if you were
trying to pull out moss
you can pull out quite a bit of such
with this method
and you can do this before you cut the
grass to lift up the seed heads
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simple things like cutting your grass at
the right height
and the right frequency all have a big
part
to play and keeping the weight grasses
out of your lawn
for example annual meadow grass is happy
being cut at five mil whereas the rest
of your grass
and your lawn may not be
cutting your lawn too often or excessive
cutting can often lead the weight
grasses coming into the lawn
as you're going to stress out the lawn
from cutting the grass too much
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fertilizing your lawn is a very good way
to keep the weed grasses out because it
keeps your grass
lush and green and your lawn can
outperform
any grass weeds that are going to get a
chance to come in year long
but equally putting on too much for
laser
a lot of people that are new to lung
care this is a mistake they frequently
make
they put on too much fertilizer trying
to get the gas really green
so it's about a healthy balance
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aeration is key in lawn care for
a thick healthy lawn soil compaction
is a common cause of pearly performing
grass
and bare spots in your lung that lead
weed grasses
such as catch grass meadow grass and
yorkshire fog
get under your lawn a raisin
will allow the roots of your lawn to
drive
deeper into the soil and create a
stronger
root base
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some of these roots will survive and
some
will perish as they push deeper and the
drier layers of the soil
depositing organic matter and
kick-starting the
carbon cycle this carbon cycle
constantly
deposits humus and creates topsoil
throughout your lawn
this increases microbiology and
fertility within the soil leading the
lush green lawn
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watering deeper but less frequently
along with regular
aeration is the number one way of
stimulating
root growth bigger roots increase
efficiency of nutrient uptake when when
and whenever you couple that along with
annual meadow grass that has shallow
roots and it can't go down
into the soil then it's going to put it
under stress
during drought periods
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over sitting your lawn with fresh grass
seed anytime you scarify
or area is a very good way to thicken up
your lawn
and stop the weed grasses from
encroaching into your lawn
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the best thing to do is identify the
weed grasses
and take a knife and cut them out now i
know
this can be a very slow process if you
have a large lawn
but it is worth doing as you can see
here i just take a knife to it
and i actually cut them out if you pull
pull them out with your hand
without cutting down into the roots
that's not going to work it's going to
grow back so
even if you spend 5 or 10 minutes every
day before you cut the grass
and you do a patch and you pull some out
and then replace that with fresh grassy
that could be
a very effective way to stay on top of
the lawn weeds but what i would say to
you
one near seeds with poana is four years
weeds
so it is an ongoing thing just because
you do it this year doesn't mean to say
you're going to get weights next year in
the year after that
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