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Today we're going to be
redoing this lawn, this lawn was covered in weed grasses. We killed it off a couple of weeks ago .
We're going to be stripping it right off. I'm going to show you everything you need.
We're going to be scarifying it right down away to nothing, aerating it, overseeding it.
top dressing it, fertilizing it. I'm going to show you every step of the way - stick around.......
So that's two passes over the lawn. We've stripped it back we've set the scarifyer down a bit below what
it would normally be. We still have a fair way to go, but I want to get all this cleaned off
and then we're going to go over it again.
Alright guys, so we've done three passes we've cleaned it up well I've just gone over it again. I've encountered a bit of a problem
along this edge here. Along this edge it sort of sits above, it sort of sits a little bit so
we've just got Danny going in here and taking that level, just taking that off with the spade.
That's the whole way along there so we're going to go along this edge just to make sure that
it's nice and smooth the whole way across and we're not going to leave a load of dead grass.
So then whenever we edge, whenever we put down the soil, the soil is going up to this edge here.
We've gone over this four or five times now you can really see how much has come
out - it's really stripped down to the bare - we're going to clean this off one more time.
All right guys - just to show you some of the cores here. Now Daniel's just been over this
one pass, so we'll have a look at the cores and see how we're getting on. So there's not
much thatch left in that core at all. It's all good soil. So we're pretty much ready to go.
So we have the lawn all cleared off, it's been aerated, it's been scarified.
We've done all that sort of work I'm going to show you the soil we're using. So today
we're using some 70 30. 70 sand and 30 soil so that's a really nice
sort of textured soil that's going to grow - now Danny's just putting it into the wheelbarrow there .
I'll take you over here. So we have our fertilizer spreader, that's how we're
going to put the seed out. So we're gonna put half the seed on now put the top dressing on
level it out and then put on the rest of the seed. So we have our rake and lawn level
shovels, grass seed, the mat, and our wee blower.
We're gonna get on with that now.
So just at the minute then Danny's now doing the seeding.
So we'll put this on, and then we'll put a layer of the top dressing on, and then we'll smooth it out.
All right guys, so now time for me to do a bit of work. Now I fell out of my loft a few years ago
and I have a really bad back, so I'm gonna actually labour for Danny, I'm going to fill the wheel barrow
and bring it to Danny, and Danny's going to spread it out for us. So we'll get back there in a minute.
All right guys - welcome back. Now we had to put the camera away because it started to rain.
Rain's really not what you want whenever you're top dressing! There was no rain forecast for today
- so bit unusual - but fortunately it didn't really come to too much so we were able to work
away. Now I got Danny to spread all this out. I have some dips in the lawn so the soil that
we have left, we're gonna fill in those dips and stand them down, and then we'll get on to
leveling the lawn. So I'll just show you what I mean here, just across here there's a dip
through here - so it's a really good opportunity obviously just to build that edge up there.
This section here, is the bit we just built up. You want to leave an area like this higher
than what you would usually do and then put it down with your feet and
then we'll put the level on the top of it - so we'll just do a wee dance along here.
But it is just starting to rain here so we need to be really quick just to show
you what I'm doing, then we'll get the camera away.
So we have most of the soil down, we just have a couple of patches left just to spread out
and then we're going to give it a rake off, and then we're going to seed it out again. But I want to show
you something else here. We have this edge along here. Now the customer originally had a little bit
of paving going along here. He's requested that we leave that which is pretty, I'm happy with that,
I don't need to dig all that out because he has this, if the lawn only comes up to here,
then he has this strip that he can just run the lawnmower straight up to, and not have to
worry about so whenever we seed this lawn the old lawn went to there, and we're going to go to there
too, and then this strip here, this is just going to be dead and the grass will eventually grow in
but that's the way he's requested it done. All right guys - so we've got all this raked off,
it's all lovely and tidy. We're going to put down a drop more seed because there's some places where
the seed will be really well buried, because we've leveled areas up. We're going to reseed it again,
we're going to stand it in and then we're going to give it one final rake. So let's do that now........
Usually w'ed take the mat over the top of it, the material we've got even though
it's 70 30 I found it to be quite stony today. I'm scared that if I
went over with this here I'd pull up a lot of stones, so what we're going to do,
we're going to stand it all in, do a little shuffle dance over the whole top of it and then we're going
to give it a really light rake and that should do it on that point. So let's get on with that now.......
Right guys - so just going to put the preseeder fertilizer on. This is the last step.
Now it's starting to rain so I need to be quick. I'm not going to do too much talking!