What about you! This is Robbie from Premier Lawns. Today
I'm back on my lawn We're going to do the first mow so I'm going to talk you through
all the different processes that you need to think about whenever you're going to cut
your grass for the first time after you've newly seeded it or turfed it so - stick around . . .
For those of you that are new to my channel this is a lawn that was an ugly lawn
and we did a lot of work to it, there was a lot of weed grasses in it
so we decided to kill it off and redo it and i've been videoing every step of the way
Now in the last video. We installed the lawn that was five or six weeks ago um I haven't done
anything else to this lawn since we did that apart from clear leaves off it and keep it watered .
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All right, guys so whenever you're gonna do the first mow, for the first time you want to get the
the cutting just at the right time about five or six seven centimetres is perfect for a new
lawn between six and seven centimetres so we have a ruler here we're gonna measure the lawn.
If you leave it too long, if you let it grow too long,
you'll miss an opportunity to thicken up the lawn. Whenever you cut your grass it starts to tiller
and that thickens up itself now I have a really good blog post on this I'm going to leave a link
down in the description if you want to learn more about the stuff that I'm covering today. We have
our ruler we're going to measure the grass we'll say we want it between six and seven centimetres.
If you cut it before it gets to six or seven, centimetres, the lawn's not gonna be old enough and
you're going to put too much strain on it. Now a lot of people say to me how many days why is
it before I cut my grass. It's not about days, it's always about the length. So look. Let's go
I'm not sure on the height my mower is cutting at
so I'm going to cut a small section, and then measure it.
This is too low.
Perfect!
I have some exciting news that I want to tell you guys - so
make sure you stick around to the end to see that!
So there's the first cut complete, and as you can see this part of the lawn is very sparse and I'm
not happy with it at all, but that's a high traffic area where you walk on and the ground must have
been very well compacted before we started so I'm going to show you guys how I'm m going to fix it. Now
this the rest of the lawn I'm happy with it the grass is lovely and thick on it as you can see here
So we're gonna use pencil tines on the aerator.
We're not taking out a core in this occasion and this means that we're causing very
little disruption to the surface and then we're going to seed it into it. So as you can see here
there's some dead seed on the surface but whenever we seed the fresh seed is going to find its way
down into those holes and that's going to give it somewhere safe to germinate
Now we are getting very late in the year, and some of this seed
may take and it may not take. Only time will tell. Now if you didn't have an aerator you could use
a garden fork to do this if you wanted to do this yourself.
So here's the lawn a couple of days on after the aerating . I'm really happy with how well it's come on. It still looks sparse in this area
but I know that it's going to thicken up and the rest alone looks absolutely mint.
You've probably seen a lot of Milwaukee stuff in the videos I'm getting sponsored by them now
what that means is I can carry on making content like this series here on the ugly lawns usually
I set up I set up the channel just to promote the business, and this year it's grown into
something else! But these types of videos take a lot of time and effort to film and they're made
just especially for the channel so getting a sponsorship deal with Milwaukee is really
good . Now I'm the only landscaper and gardener in the UK they're currently working with
So I have something else that I wanted to share with you. Since my channels now got up to over
10 000 subscribers we can start selling merchandise directly on the YouTube channel!
So I'm going to donate the money it makes to one of the three charities. I 'm going to put up a poll,
and get you guys to choose what charity that we're going to support and then we're going to
pick a slogan. But there's going to be more on that on the community page so make sure
you check that out. Again, I just want to thank Milwaukee for sending me all this cool stuff and
and helping making these videos possible. Listen, so thank you for watching always always SMASH
the LIKE button SUBSCRIBE for more content like this, and I'll see you in the next video. Goodbye!