What about you and welcome to a Premier lawns video. Today I'm going to give you my top three
tips on July's lawn care, with a bonus tip. We are going to be covering how to edge your lawn.
We're going to be covering how to deal with the ugly weed grasses that are in your lawn
and lastly, I'm going to show you a really easy way to fertilize your lawn, so stick around...
Welcome back now for our bonus tip i'm going to show you something that i hadn't planned to talk
about today so we'll have some mushrooms and we have some mushrooms in the lawn
I get a lot of questions about mushrooms and it's all I'm really going to say is that
today they don't do any harm to your lawn if they're really bothering you
just pick them out with your hands before you cut the grass
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Today we're going to be doing this edge here now a good edge will really set off the garden
you can see this here it's just it's actually just breaking away. This edge was put in these I
put these sleepers on about 30 years ago and they are just disintegrating so there's only so much we
can't do, but I believe that a really nice edge sets off along so if you don't have a nice edge
then it's going to really take away from the rest of the lawn
I've talked about this quite a bit in the past and i've covered in other videos
we killed this lawn off last year and we redid it because it was covered in weed grasses,
now you can't keep the weed grasses out but if you want to keep your lawn in best order there's
a process called verti cutting. Now Verti cutting is very similar to scarification, though we
don't want to go as deep. So some of our grasses especially the weed grasses they grow out instead
of up so whenever we've already cut we're we're cutting those lateral stems and encouraging the
grass to grow upwards and whenever that happens we get a far better cut on the grass.
That's what I'm going to talk about today now you don't need any fancy tools to do this you can do it with just
the spring back rake if you want to, obviously a smaller lawn that's going to be more practical
All right so to show you what this is we'll have our knife here we're going to I'm going to cut
The weed grass that I am looking at is called
annual meadow grass or Poa annua, if you're just in the states poor if you're in America just called Poa
It grows out the way and it's always a lot paler than other grass and it stands out like a sore thumb
you can hand weed it out but it's going to constantly grow and annoy you so as you can
see there I'm lifting that grass up and you see how much is there whenever it grows out the way
then it gets very thick and ugly you actually see how much grass is there and as you get further
down into the base you can see it turns yellow and it's very very ugly and not very pretty at all
Whenever we're very cutting we're putting lines across it and that's going to cut into it and cut
those stems off so guys I can't stress this enough whenever you're vertical and it's not scarifying
you're not looking to take out a lot of thatch, you're just looking to take out that lateral growth
the plants that are growing that way instead of growing that way so that's all we're looking to
do we're just looking to tickle the surface now now before we start doing the Verti cutting I'm
going to give the grass a cut because we want we want the grass sort of at a normal length and
then whenever we're on the vertical mower over it, we just want to tickle it so let's get the grass cut now
We have all this blown up into two piles so just to show you a selection of what came out of this
so we have this stuff here which is very thick and crappy and then this is the material we took
whenever we cut the grass so you can see that's lovely fine grass and then whenever we do the
vertie cutting we're looking to remove all the crop and the dead growth and all that lateral
growth and then after we get all this lifted we're going to run over the lawn again and that's going
to lift the rest of any of the debris that's left on the lawn leave a really nice tidy cut
so just to show you guys there's the stuff out of the second cut you can see there's a
a lot of crap though it let's have a look and see what so there's the stuff we've already cut out
there's the stuff we've already cut out and there's our first cut so you can see a
a lot of difference between that between that and then our second cut is this stuff here
so this is actually a mix of what's in the wheelbarrow this is a mix of grass and then
a mix of the grass so this is what we're trying to pull out with a verti cutting
Our third tip for July lawn care is compost tea this is a diy method to make your own
fertilizer for the lawn. I'm going to show you how to put all this together now just to let you know
this product was sent out to me from Symbio I've sorted you guys out with a ten per cent
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make videos like this possible but we're to go and put it all together and
I'll see you for the next bit. This is the the bucket that it comes with now
I'm told that it's all together so we'll have a water pump or an air pump
with some liquid seaweed
and then we'll have a box then that must be our compost
and then life in your soil, activating nutrients
For the compost tea Then we also have the air stone
And a couple of bits and bobs
so there you go we're going to get this all together. Let's get on with that now
We got it together
We got it together and found it was leaking air so we got some cable ties.
cable ties i don't know if there are cable ties in in the packet but we put a couple on there anyway
I'm just going to apologize now for there might be a bit of road noise we've sort of come to a
busy time of day. So we've let this go for about half an hour it's doing its thing now we're going
to add in the few bits and bobs so we'll have the activating agents and we'll have the compost so
All right so we've had this brewing for the last 24 hours
We have added some cms shoot in it or have some seaweed in it. Now you're probably wondering
the benefits behind this so number one you're going to increase all the bacteria in the soil
you're going to increase the root mass of your lawn you're going to decrease thatch
you're going to make your lawn more disease resistant loads there are lots
of balance which are going to even encourage a lot of the finer grasses to come through so
probably the easiest way to apply this is through a knapsack sprayer you can also use a watering
can with a rose you can put it onto your plants as well really good for your plants now one
application if you do one application you're probably not going to see that much benefit
from it. I'll be using it as part of my lawn care program now I'll be putting it on once a week for
the next few weeks and then after that I'm going to drop down to probably once a month something
like that, I'm going to play a bit with it and see how it goes it is a really good tool to to use
there is a lot of different products you can put in what i would definitely say guys is don't be
putting iron in this or don't be putting iron into the mix because what they're really trying
to do is create a lot of really good bacteria and whenever you create the bacteria if you put the
iron in it's going to kill all that so we don't want that so look let's go along with that now