What about you- and welcome to a Premier Lawns Video. Today we're going to talk
about spoon-feeding liquid - feeding how to get the most out of liquid feeding, what it
is, benefits to your lawn and why you should be doing it. Before we begin let's get the grass cut.
All right guys now the grass is cut, the only downside is it's a really nice day and there's
a lot of passing traffic coming up down the road so I'm going to go and film around the
back of the house. We haven't filmed round there before. I'll see you around there.
Just to give you guys a brief overview of some of the products I use on the lawn. Now first-up, last
week we talked about the sulphate of ammonia. Says on the label actually to use it at 25 to
30 grams per square meter so the thing is, whenever you put sulphate of ammonia in the water it's the
plant's going to get it all in the one go and if you put it on at a really high rate the only
thing you would do is scorch your grass. This jar here have sulphate of iron, and we get a lot
of questions about this, and I see a lot of people probably overusing this. Sulphate of iron, I wouldn't
use on my lawn any more than four times a year. Really good to kill the moss whenever we're scarifying, whenever
we're aerating, we put that on to attack the moss, feed the lawn and for winter colour it's fantastic!
During the summer you maybe want a nice green-up, quick green-up
some iron. I wouldn't be putting iron in every mix as the worms don't like it. The
worms are a natural aerator in your soil whenever you put that on you're going to
take them away from your lawn they're not going to like to be in your lawn.
A question came up on my community group and guys were talking about seaweed so
somebody was saying that about seaweed for a couple of pounds off out of a cheap shop.
What I would like to sort of say is, it got me thinking about an orange and a and thios orange I wonder how much
vitamin c is in that and I wonder how much vitamin c is in that, so if you're buying a cheap seaweed
have a think to yourself how much good how much seaweed, much of those
good properties are you getting into the, into the liquid.
If you're going to buy seaweed, stick to some of the good stuff we have this Symbio stuff here
now I'll drop a Link for an Affiliate Link - where you can get 10 per cent off for that the Symbio Soup - the CMS
Shoot. This stuff's really good if you want to get the humic acid and everything onto your lawn.
Spring and autumn, these are the times you'd think about it or puting it into the Compost Tea.
The Compost Tea is definitely part of the, part of the puzzle as I call it so you can put the likes
of the CMS Shooot into it you can put the seaweed into it, there's a lot of products you put into it.
This is a wetting agent I picked up off Amazon - we did a Video, this featured in a Video. Wetting agents
are really good because they're going to stop the lawn from drying out in really dry spells.
As you get further into lawn care, if you want to really get the most out of it, you can work out
exactly how much kilograms of nitrogen etc you're putting in your lawn every year. Whenever you start
to use the liquid product you can build up a diary what you put in and how well it works and it can
be really effective for building up your own best lawn care program just for your own lawn
and you can get some really good results out of it. That's what a lot of green keepers and top green keepers
would do they would put stuff on they record it and they benchmark to see how well it's performed
Now you can do all that stuff yourself and it's really doing liquid feeds yourself if you're
prepared maybe get your hands dirty a little bit you can have an absolutely fantastic lawn,
that's what we've been doing out there and you can see the results from this. So
and people ask me how often you should spray the lawns like the compost tea you can nearly
put that on it every week you can't put on you can't actually put on enough of it or
you can't put on too much but the other products we would put on between every four and six weeks
and we can watch it going green every time you cut your grass you're literally cutting it off
but that's just a selection of some of the stuff we use out on the lawn there and you can
see the colour in it. It's all there for you we're going to show you now how we do the calculations.
A bag, one bag of sulphate of ammonia weighs 25 kilos
and that treats one hectare, which is ten thousand square meters.
So to work out exactly how much you need per square meter, we're going to put the noughts on
the end of the kilos. Just keep things to keep the decimal points right. So we're going to say 25 000
divided by our square meter rate which is 10 000. so we'll take our calculator and we'll go
25 1 2 3 five thousand divided by ten thousand which is our hectare equals two point five
grams per meter square. Now if your lawn measured 100 square meters you would multiply that figure
times 100 which is 250 grams so 2.5 grams times 100 square meters equals 250 grams.
If you want to get more into your lawn care and you really want to
work out how much nitrogen you're putting onto your lawn every year
this is a really good trick to learn we'll have our lawn measures 100 square meters and
we're putting on our 250 grams now the bag of nitrogen will have is 21
21 0 0 that's generally what sulfate of ammonia is it's 21 0 0 so if you want to work how much
nitrogen you're putting on on this visit because you might want to start tracking these numbers
to get the most out of it it's a really easy way to build up a really good program for your
own lawn so we're going to take our 250 grams and we're going to multiply that times 0.21 so
And that equals 52 grams point five grams so that equals 52.5 grams of nitrogen on this spray
Now not to be confused with that's not going into this
that's not going into the square what's going into the square for 100 square meters is 250
grams but that's the amount of actual nitrogen that you're putting under the lawn so that's just
a little bonus tip for you guys at 21 percent now there's another important part of the puzzle for
a 25 kilo bag was in the 600 litres of water so again folks that's pretty easy to
work out we're going to take our 600 and we're going to divide it by ten thousand
now if your lawn measured a hundred square meters you would multiply at times 100 you'd go times
100 and that will give you six litres so it will be six litres of water for a hundred meters
And that's a pretty easy guide to doing the water rate.