What about you! and welcome to another Premier Lawns video.
I'm Robbie from Premier Lawns, a lawn care company based in Belfast Northern Ireland.
Today, I'm going to show you five simple steps to a perfect lawn.
Welcome back, the five simple steps, the perfect lawn. Now, before we begin if I
can ask you to hit that like button and if you don't already subscribe make
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don't miss out any future videos. Step number one - Aerating. Aerating is the
single most important and it's the best thing you can do for your lawn .
Over time your long gets compacted. All the rain we get here in Ireland really
can pack down a lawn. Even cutting the lawn will compact it. If you want to get the best
out of your lawn, you need to be thinking about aerating it
every year. It's important as it keeps a soil profile open whenever the sweat
profiles open it encourages the grass to grow deeper roots and deeper roots means
the plant can store more nutrient and that leads to a healthier lawn.
That leads on to Step number two - Scarification. Scarification is used to remove thatch
and moss out of your lawn. To explain what thatch is - it's old, dead organic
material that's in your lawn. Whenever you cut your grass not all of it goes into the grass box
A lot of it goes back down into the lawn. Some lawns
create more thatch than other lawns. Just depends on the type of lawn and the type of
grass and what thatch will be in the lawn Thatch will also make your lawn very
spongy to walk on. Main trouble with thatch in your lawn,
is it stops the surface from drying out so if you get a lot of rain, the water sits on
the surface and it can't penetrate down into the roots so it sits on the surface
and because the water can't get anywhere this creates the perfect conditions for
the moss to grow. Here in Northern Ireland we know all about moss
'cause it's so damp all the time.
The only way to get rid of the moss and the thatch properly is to
scarify it out
and your lawn will absolutely love you for it. As long as you're scarifying at the right times
of year, spring and autumn.
Step number three to creating a perfect lawn
is mowing your lawn. Now, I know this is basic - there's so many people get
this bit wrong and their lawn suffers as a result
the golden rule never take more than a third off your lawn whenever you're cutting the grass.
The reason for this is simple every time you cut the lawn you
pull it under stress. If you take too much off the lawn
it's going to suffer, I recommend little and often that's the key.
it also pays to make sure that the blade is sharp on the lawn mower so you are
always getting a clean cut. I see lots of people cut their lawn to within an
inch of its life and then wonder why the lawn looks terrible. The only thing cutting
your grass short does is it encourages weeds like daisies and clover. Improve your lawn
if you just follow this one simple step raise the head of the cut of your lawn
mower to nearly its highest setting but not the highest and cut it on a regular
basis as you're not cutting any more than one-third of it in any one given cut.
Do this one thing and your lawn will dramatically improve and guess what's
the best thing about it it's free
I recommend that you should treat your lawn. for your lawn to look it's best,
it needs a good treatment program to be in place but I'm not really gonna get
into that in this video cuz that's a video in itself
step number five - creating stripes. I love nice stripes in a lawn and I'm gonna let you
guys into a trade secret and creating the perfect lawn stripes. Double
cut your lawn if you want those perfect stripes. What I mean by that is go over
the same stripes twice and this burns them in. After you cut the lawn they'll stay
visible for longer they'll start to show up for days after you mow the lawn.
If you do that's regularly they'll always show up even through winter. However it's really
important the don't just always go either up or down or left or right you
need to change the direction of your cut every other cut otherwise the grass
starts to lie over whenever it lies over it causes things likedisease and
it could even make your lawn lumpy. If you can spare the time
once you're cutting, your lawn will look a million dollars if you do it on a
regular basis. If you've enjoyed this video, if you could smash that like button
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for more content like this if you've enjoyed this video there's a couple of
other videos that I think you'll really enjoy - Moss Control of a small lawn and
Scarifying Area a Large Lawn so listen guys - thanks very much for watching
I'll see you next video goodbye