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Today we're going to be doing some myth busting. Let's go .............
The other day we were scarifying this big garden.
Now, I have a trick to show you whenever you have a robot lawnmower
there's a cable around the outside of the garden and one up the middle
and this acts as a guide to show the lawnmower where to go.
So just before we start, we know that there's a cable runs around the outside here
so we're gonna just start a foot over and go around.
Just to have a quick look at this core, there's not a lot of thatch here.
This is predominantly a rye grass lawn.
Not expecting to see a lot.
Going to give a quick shout out to BEN SIMS over in Australia. Ben - I love your content!
A man after my own heart. So the customer here has a John Deere tractor.
It's going to help[ with the tidy up.
The bucket here, put all the waste into the bucket.
Now obviously the waste is going to have to be all tidied up anyway, and then we'll bring it over
and we'll put it in that, and then that's going to go in the customer's compost bin. So Happy Days!
So the customer just uses this here, because he's got fields all round him that he cuts
because these fields, and the fields ran up with a, with a John Deere.
The only thing I'm going to say about that tractor is, boys and their toys!
To have a quick look at the stuff that has come out of this, so this is what we would typically
expect to come out of a lawn, this is just an organic layer that builds up naturally in your
lawn, we call this "thatch", it's basically just dead growth, grass. Organic layer that just lives just
below the surface, in between the soil and the surface, and it's all about maintaining the thatch.
A lot of people think that your lawn shouldn't have any thatch. Thatch is actually natural, and you
want to have some, but it's about maintaining a healthy thatch layer, so that's what we're doing today
with the scarifying and aerating.
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Let's get on with it ...........
So as you see, there's the robot, and then we have our line,
so we've left plenty of space space either side.
Now the scarifyer shouldn't hit the cable, but it's always best to be safe than sorry.
That line is more for the aerator. Don't want to hit that cable
and then find out that the robot doesn't work! So for us that would be more hassle than it's worth.
The day after I do the scarifying I was intending to put down the Moss killer,
however the customer has just said to me not to be doing that, because they want to seed the lawn.
So, he watched one of my Videos, I did a Review on a tool a few years ago, and he bought one of my
recommendation let's have a look. You guys will be well familiar with it. So he has one of the
Landzie spreaders and he's putting on a product, so he's doing something that I
think is quite a good idea. He mixes up his compost in the Landzie spreader, and
he puts the seed in there, and then he rolls it on the lawn and the seed gets on the the
lawn with that. Jack's Magic, I know a lot of people swear by it, it has peat in it, I'm not
a big fan of using peat in your lawn. I think that they're about to phase peat out, but we'll see.
So I'm just going to let Danny get a wee bit ahead of me and
then I'm going to start getting the blower out, and we'll start getting this
tidied up because I'm not liking these - there's a lot of big dark clouds here.
It was meant to be dry this afternoon, but I always joke if you want to make God laugh, tell Him
your plans. If you're you're going to be scarifying in the wet, there's no fun at all. Nope.
Now it looks like it's gonna rain, there's a lot of really big dark clouds behind me here, so I'm
gonna have to get the camera away. We'll get on, we wanna get this scarified. Absolutely 100 per cent
don't want to be scarifying in the wet, or trying to clear this up - nightmare - this a big garden!
So - we've just had our lunch, it tried to rain, it hasn't rained thankfully. It's going to be a lot
easier to tidy this up. This is a trick we do to tidy up if we're just clearing up on our own.
I get a lot of questions from people that are maybe thinking about buying a robot lawnmower.
A lot of people that sell them will say to you, you don't need to scarify your lawn, you don't
need to aerate your lawn, lawn you don't need to feed your lawn.
I've heard all those stories before I thought this lawn will be a pretty good example
to show you guys whether or not you should scarify your lawn even if you have a robot lawnmower.
This lawn is cut nearly all the time with the robot lawn mower, two or three times a week,
and you can see that the debris the mess that's come out of it.
You still have the thatch in it that you would expect to have in the lawn, and this lawn is cut all the
time with the robot lawnmower, unless it's really wet, and you can still see we still have all that
lateral growth in the lawn and you can see all the mess that we've pulled out all round it.
I thought I would bring you back to the lawn, we did the renovation work a couple of
weeks ago, just to see how well the lawn's come on for a bit of a before and after. You can see
that the colors coming back into it really well. I'm happy how that lawn's progressing. There's
a good chance if you buy a robot lawnmower, the salesman will say to you, you don't need to do
any renovation work, you don't need to treat your lawn as the clippings return back down into the
lawn. While that is true and you are returning the goodness into the lawn, if you want to get the most
out of your lawn you still need to do the aeration, the scarification, the lawn treatments, as we've did
here. We've been looking after this lawn for a number of years, we have other customers that have robot
lawn mowers too, you still need to carry on with the normal garden maintenance if you want to get the most
out of your lawn so if you're looking to buy a robot lawnmower I'm not going to cover all the
pros and cons in this Video about having a robot lawnmower, and whether or not you should have them.
Yes, they are the future, and yes, as time goes by we're going to see a lot more of them. I'd say in
the next five years, you'll see robot lawnmowers where you don't have to put the cable round the lawn.
Whenever that happens they're going to get a lot more popular, but I'm not going to make this about
the pros and cons of having a robot lawnmower - but if you'd like me to cover that, leave me a Comment
down below. Thanks very much for watching - now watch this Video next and I'll see you over there now ;)