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Today we're going to talk about how to overseed your lawn for amazing results.
We're going to talk about how to get - we're going to talk about the best time to overseed your lawn,
how to get the best germination, and what fertiliser to use. So - stick around . . . . . . .
For anyone who's just joined us and new to the Channel, this is a lawn that we killed
off last September it was covered in weed grasses, and we've shown you every step of the way.
Today we're not going to be top dressing the lawn as we've just bought a new CYLINDER mower and
it's just been sharpened and that would blunt the blades on it.
However if you're planning to top dress your own lawn you can follow all the tips and tricks that we'll talk about in this video .
All right guys - so today we're not going to be top dressing or scarifying so you might wonder
how we're going to get a good contact with the soil - an easy way to describe it,
we're going to aerate the lawn. Now whenever we aerate the lawn
we're putting lots of little plant pots, holes into the ground.
If you think thousands of little holes in the ground and these are all going to act as
as little plant pots and it's going to give the seeds somewhere safe to germinate and then we're
going to show you a homemade drag mat that's going to get seeds down in there.
Why overseed your lawn to begin with?
You overseed your lawn because it helps improve the appearance of the lawn,
it also helps stop weed grasses and weeds coming in and invading your lawn and it really thickens up your lawn.
So our first job is to get the grass cut.
Now it doesn't matter if you have warm season grasses or cool season grasses.
These tips are going to work for you.
Or if you're in America, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the UK.
We're filming here today in Belfast Northern Ireland.
These tips are going to work no matter where you are. So - let's begin!
So when's the best time to over seed your lawn? Spring and autumn.
So, if you're early spring then you're going to risk frost
and if you're late autumn, then again you're going to risk frost
and that's just one of the chances you take.
Now depending on the grass seed, rye grass is fairly hard wearing grass seed
and it's going to grow and take in the lower temperatures
so the likes of smooth stalk annual meadow grass, or Kentucky Blue Grass,
the temperatures need to be a bit warmer
so I would say you're going to be wanting more towards late spring,
if you're wanting Kentucky Blue grass
or Bent and Fescue
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"What's the best type of grass seed ?"
That's something that I often get asked.
What I would say is that you have to have a think what's the lawn going to be used for,
what heights are going to be cut at, how much shade does it have - so some of the things that
maybe consider if it's going to be a hard wearing lawn, lots of kids playing on it - I would say to go for
a rye grass mix if there's going to be a lot of shade I'd specifically get a shaded grass seed mixture.
If it only has partial shade and you want a nice thick lawn we would use a lot of rye grass
and fescues together if you want an ornamental lawn then you're going to be thinking maybe
dwarf ryes and fescues, or if you're wanting to cut really short and you're looking for a short
lawn then you're going to be maybe looking at fescues and bents so there's a lot of different
things to play with there. A lot of it's going to come down to how you use the lawn and what
sort of height you're going to cut at and shade. So they're all just things to consider.
What's the best fertiliser for over seeding ? Now I reached out to Symbio.
Now Symbio are -
They make natural products that improve the soil biology.
So they sent me this seed coat and we have some Caviar, we have some CMS Shoot.
So this is a liquid version of this.
I'm gonna mix some of this up in a bucket, I'm going to show you how to mix it up, there's enough in this pack
to treat 250 square meters of seed but we're going to, we're going to use all of it you can't overdo this stuff.
So we'll coat the seed in this stuff here and the seed actually acts as a carrier and
it gets it into the ground and whenever the seed starts to germinate
then this stuff really kicks in
and it's going to make the seed grow a lot better and stronger and increase the the root mass
and do all these really lovely things here to your lawn -
so after we seed we're going to put on this Caviar
and I'm going to talk you through all the benefits to using that and there's also
a lot of you guys know don't like using granular fertilizer so they do a liquid version of it .
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All right guys. Now this stuff is quite dusty and it does recommend that
if you're if you're inside that you wear a mask we're outside but
we have a just a normal blue mask that we're going to put on.
so I have that stuff here. It is quite, it is quite dusty so we're going to mix . . . .
All right guys. So we have our the seed coat on on the seed
then we're going to put it into the fertilizer spreader now a lot of people
ask me about how much seed they use we're going on about 35 to 40 grams for every
square meter sometimes you're better putting on a little bit extra and thinking about just
putting on an extra few for the birds because they're always going to get some of them so -
All right guys so whenever you're over seeding
usually you would if you were scarifying and you were creating the lines in the soil it gives
the seed somewhere safe to grow or if you were top dressing the top dressing gives a safe
area for the seed to grow. Whenever you're aerating and you're over seeding, then it's really important
that you find a method to drag the seed down into those holes
so that's what we're going to be doing now.
All right guys. So this thing here is called a drag mat and it's just that.
It drags it drags the seed down into the holes. Now a lot of people say to me, "Robbie, we can't
afford to spend two or three hundred pounds on a drag mat! Is there anything else we can use?"
So I'm going to show you a couple of different ways that we can get the seed down into the holes.
One of them's really basic. I've also got - we're going to see if we can make a diy version
of this drag mat they'll cost you very very little to make so let's get on with that now . . . .
Now this method here is only really going to work if your grass is pretty short. You can use
a brush or stiff you use a brush preferably a stiff brush you actually brush the seed in, so . . . .
All right guys so I tried to think outside the box a little bit and I found these online. They're
actually - they go underneath kids play areas. They're, they're rubber protection mats now you can
find these in Amazon, they're - I bought two of them because I thought maybe one of them wouldn't have
enough weight but now I've got it here and in my hand and it, it's probably heavy enough and I got a
I got a brush shaft and a bit of rope so we're going to make a diy drag mat
for absolutely next to nothing so let's get on with that now !
So we're just going to, we're going to go with one and see how it goes.
This stuff is the Caviar and it's going to provide the building blocks for this grass seed.
Right guys - so I get asked a lot of questions about how you stop the birds from eating the seed
and they're always going to eat a certain amount of seed.
But if you get yourself some bamboo canes and
and a couple of plastic bags and tie to it or otherwise you could get a
a couple of bamboo canes, a bit of string and cds in between them and that will keep the birds away.
but it'll not the birds will still eat some of it so there you go that's our that's our our
Irish scarecrow.